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The New Spirit
Animated documentary promoting timely filing and payment of Federal income taxes, demonstrated by Donald Duck's difficulties with his tax return.
- Original title
- The New Spirit
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- —
CinemaSerf
Jul 19, 2025 · via TMDB
I know that money isn’t what it was, but even in 1942 I’d have thought poor old “Donald” would be on more than $2,501 in an whole year! What does that matter? Well the slightly offbeat message for this wartime cartoon is “taxes against the axis”. Yep, it’s a rallying call for citizens of the USA to pay their income tax! With some rousing Yankee Doodle style cheerleading to start and some more traditional animations of the militarisation those dollars pay for at the end, this is a less frantic outing for the duck (who still sounds like Katharine Hepburn) and he does his bit to keep the payrolls of industry moving. The radio is quite a menacing looking gadget, like something from “Metropolis” (1927), but otherwise it’s all fairly standard stuff.
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Clarence Nash
Donald Duck (voice) (uncredited)
Fred Shields
Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Cliff Edwards
(voice) (uncredited)
Ben Sharpsteen
Director
Wilfred Jackson
Director
Walt Disney
Producer
Don Patterson
Animation
Dick Huemer
Story
Joe Grant
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