Digital cinema expert Patrick Von Sychowski tells Boing Boing:
This short film, described as ‘[u]ndoubtedly the most obscure and esoteric animated film ever produced by the Disney empire”, recently re-surfaced on several P2P networks. I’m sure that it won’t be getting a two-disc Disney DVD Collector’s Edition treatment anytime soon.
Snip from description:
Walt Disney’s The Story Of Menstruation — Presenting the Story of Menstruation. A Walt Disney Production Through the Courtesy of Kotex Products — was originally delivered to the International Cellu-Cotton Company on October 18, 1946. It runs approximately ten minutes. It has been estimated that the film has been seen by approximately ninety-three million American women. Neither sexuality nor reproduction is mentioned in this influential film, and an emphasis on sanitation makes it, as Disney historian Jim Korkis has suggested: ‘a hygienic crisis rather than a maturational event.’
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Finally, someone who can explain my dirty, bloody period to me without using icky concepts like sexuality and reproduction . . . Thanks, Uncle Walt!
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