Interpreting an animated musical as war propaganda seems somewhat ludicrous. However, we must see the movie within its historical context to understand its real meaning. Walt Disney, as was discovered painfully in the HUAC and McCarthy hearings many years later, was a staunch conservative who loathed the very idea of communist ideology and its threat to the United States. Snow White was released in 1937, during the war in the Pacific which precipitated the second World War. Around this time the United States was nervous about walking into another global conflict, and the social climate was filled with anxiety and hesitation to join in the effort. Which leads us to the making of Disney’s first movie, Snow White, a virtual call-to-arms operating at the subconscious level of symbolic signification.