The Grain That Built A Hemisphere (1943) | Disney's Corn Cartoon [CC]
Channel: Screen Prism
Date: 2024-01-18

THE GRAIN THAT BUILT A HEMISPHERE is a 1943 short animated WWII propaganda film about corn made by Walt Disney Studios and produced for the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA). It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary.

This short has fallen into the public domain before the 95 year limit, that's how it should be. It's not available on Disney+. The Walt Disney Company (along with other corporations) lobbied Congress to get the U.S. copyright laws extended by 20 years, twice! Because of that, it allows published works to be under copyright for almost a century and corporations to squeeze every last ounce of profit from them even long after the profitability has past. It keeps people from enjoying art, which is the purpose of art.

How Disney routinely exerted influence on the US copyright law: https://shorturl.at/nsERZ 

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