Igor Toronyi-Lalic

Under cover of absurdity

Igor Toronyi-Lalic on the power of animation to subvert and propagate ideas

issue 19 April 2008

Igor Toronyi-Lalic on the power of animation to subvert and propagate ideas

The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the American army, on one of its first assignments, requisitioned Disney Studios and remained there for eight months. It was the only studio to suffer that fate but Walt Disney, ever the patriot, was more than obliging.

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