Walt Disney’s Animated Art Quickly Teaches Soldiers Details of Caring for and Using Canada's MKI Rifle
A two-reel moving picture, produced by the Walt Disney studios as part of Mickey Mouse‘s war effort, is being used with great success in training soldiers to operate the famous Canadian antitank rifle, the Boys MKI. Combining both live action and cartoon animation, the film reveals every important detail of setting up, camouflaging, aiming, and firing the gun, with some sequences repeated for emphasis. Canadian military authorities say that a soldier can learn more from one showing of the picture, which runs about twenty minutes, than from a dozen lectures and demonstrations.
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