# Refurbishing the Image of Walt Disney? (Harlan Ellison and Mary Poppins).

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**Created:** [December 20, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refurbishing-the-image-of-walt-disney-harlan-ellison-and-mary-poppins/676785 "2013-12-20T01:42:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refurbishing-the-image-of-walt-disney-harlan-ellison-and-mary-poppins/676785/121 "2014-02-18T21:58:35Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> It’s been released numerous times on VHS and DVD – just not in the United States.
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> You also wouldn’t think it, but it was re-released to theaters after you saw it, in 1980 and 1986, according to Wikipedia. I could swear I last saw it theatrically in 1982 or 1983, not 1980.

I want to say I saw it in the theaters too, but it might have been in 1984 or 5. No later than 1986. I really remember watching it on VHS, but I might be misrembering that. I was really young when I saw it, that’s all I know.

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**Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refurbishing-the-image-of-walt-disney-harlan-ellison-and-mary-poppins/676785/122 "2014-02-19T22:46:55Z")

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> [@nevadaexile](#):
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> Several things:
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> [LIST=1][li] **Disney is trying to rehabilitate Wal** t - The task is so dofficult that they seem to being trying to do it by taking a circutious route like the Hank’s film. But you can see that they are attempting it. Unfortunately, he’s greedniess and anti-Semitism are really going make that a difficult task[/li]

Cecil and a lot of others have explored Disney’s alleged anti-semitism, and haven’t found much. On the whole, he wasn’t a particularly political man.

> **[Was Walt Disney a fascist?](https://www.straightdope.com/21342765/was-walt-disney-a-fascist)**
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> A STAFF REPORT FROM THE STRAIGHT DOPE SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD

His one and only political interest was fighting labor unions and communism, which to him were one and the same. To the extent that Jews are overrepresented among both union organizers and the far Left, his hostility toward those institutions may have seemed like antisemitism.

He certainly had many Jewish employees, and only a few of them have made accusations of antisemitism. Disney MIGHT have had antisemitic feelings, but the case is far from airtight. He wasn’t Henry Ford, certainly.

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