1946 Post-War Racial Issue Cartoon-Brotherhood of Man-1 of 2

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, especially concerning its social commentary. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Cartoon Short Subject of 1946. The cartoon based its content upon a pamphlet, Races of Mankind, written in 1943 by Gene Weltfish and Ruth Benedict, anthropologists at the Columbia University. The United Automobile Workers-CIO commissioned this film to ease ethnic tensions at the union's integrated southern branches and, according to UPA animator Bill Hurtz, approved the film's storyboard. ...