The order comes in the summer of 1941 from propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels himself The best animators are summoned to Berlin Their task Producing featurelength cartoons in DisneyQuality with the newly founded Deutsche Zeichenfilm GmbH To get trained the Disney movie Snow White is retraced frame by frame After the final victory one new featurelength production of quality shall be released every year from 1947 onwards that is the plan Only in 1943 the first production is completed Armer Hansi a 17minutelong colour movie realized with the effortful Multiplanetechnology The second film by the Deutsche Zeichenfilm is only completed in 1946 by DEFA In the territories occupied by Germany cartoons are produced as well sometimes harmless ones sometimes propagandistic ones With excerpts from animated movies lifeaction film documents and witness reports by contemporaries this documentary draws a picture of the cartoon production in the third Reich
