Communication

One of the key principles that stood out to me from class is that based on McCluhan’s quote that “the medium is the message.” With animation being the form, it can interlace itself in the message that the writers and or animators are trying to get across. An Example of this is seen in Walt Disney’s “Education for Death.” This film is used to highlight some of the most difficult times in history. This film uses a sensitive subject such as the Holocaust and incorporates the story of a young Boy who grows up and becomes less of an individual by attending Hitler’s school for young boys to breed into a Nazi Solider. In the end, Hans and the rest of the German soldiers march off to war. They fade into indistinguishable rows with nothing on them except a swastika and a helmet perched. This concludes Hans's “education for death."