NEW YORK. July 3. – Walt Disney, famed animated cartoon producer, appeared on the March of Time radio program July 1 to tell of the tremendous strides made in training the armed forces and war workers thru the use of cartooned pictures. He told of the advantages of films associated with sound, declaring that the eye and the ear complemented each other in helping the viewer to assimilate the knowledge much faster than he would thru lectures and reading alone.
"Some of the pictures produced by Disney Studios," he declares, "would make Gone With the Wind seem about as long as a short comedy." The use of cartooned scenes allows the showing of internal workings of mechanical devices – something that would be impossible with ordinary pictures or actual people and machines, he said. 2Everyone gets a front seat in the classroom where movies are shown," Disney remarked, "and the boys really get training right in the classroom that it would take months to get under actual conditions."
Disney told of fledgling pilots who learn much about weather conditions and what they should do when encountering such conditions. This gives them invaluable "experience" when they do encounter such conditions.
Disney's studios are now working almost exclusively on training films.
