creator United States. Department of the Treasury 33 creator Walt Disney Productions 14346 <p>Animation is approximately 7 minutes 21 seconds.</p> videorecording War and the Economy 20 Treasury Department 243 World War II 4452 Income tax 4222 <p><em>The New Spirit</em> is a 1942 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and the <a href="https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/author/united-states-department-treasury">U.S. Department of the Treasury</a>, and released by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry. The cartoon, which stars Donald Duck, was the first film created as part of Walt Disney's World War II propaganda production. It was commissioned by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/author/morgenthau-henry-1891-1967">Henry Morgenthau, Jr.</a>, then Secretary of the Treasury, to encourage American citizens to pay their income tax in support of the war effort.</p> eng monographic 1942-01-01 1942 6283 2025-12-16 16:03:11 2021-05-17 16:40:03 title 6111 moving image http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ pages reformatted digital video/mp4 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/new-spirit-6283 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/images/record-thumbnail.jpg https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/api/title/6283 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/treasury/1942_newspirit.mp4 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/text/historical/treasury/1942_newspirit.mp4