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It's Your War Too

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It's Your War Too
Produced byUS War Department
Release date
  • April 20, 1944 (1944-04-20)
Running time
10 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

It's Your War Too is a 1944 short documentary film about the American Women's Army Corps and commissioned by the United States Government during World War II. It contains 1 minute of animation by the Walt Disney Studios.[1] This film, and others, were produced to combat some public backlash against women in the military.[2]

Archive

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The Academy Film Archive preserved “It's Your War Too” in 2009. The film is part of the Academy War Film Collection, one of the largest collections of World War II era short films held outside government archives.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ Shale, Richard. (1982). Donald Duck joins up: The Walt Disney Studio during World War II (Studies in cinema). Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press.
  2. ^ indianastatelibrary (October 13, 2015). "It's Our War, Too!: The WAC at Camp Atterbury during WWII". Indiana State Library. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  3. ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
  4. ^ "Academy War Film Collection". Academy Film Archive.

Bibliography

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  • Shale, Richard (1982). Donald Duck joins up: the Walt Disney Studio during World War II, Pages 80-3424 Volume 16 of Studies in cinema. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press. ISBN 978-0-8357-1310-8.
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