Newport Beach Film Festival Presents Disney Rarities
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In a new example of reuse, Hahn and Bossert then showed the premiere of a new short, �Mickey Gives Back,� a remake of the 1940 film, with Mickey Mouse digitally replacing Donald.

 
Don Hahn discusses �Mickey Gives Back� (2011) 

The next three shorts were released during World War II. The first, �Food Will Win the War� from 1942 was intended to illustrate the role of America�s farmers in the war effort. Hahn mentioned that the narrator of the film was noted newsreel announcer Fred Shields.

The Three Little Pigs and friends do their part to help win the war

After viewing �Food Will Win the War,� Hahn and Bossert pointed out animated farm sequences used in Silly Symphonies, as well as footage of the Three Little Pigs. They also had some fun with the many analogies that were used in the film to illustrate the output of America�s farmers. 

The next short was a �good neighbor� film from 1943. �The Grain That Built the Hemisphere� was a celebration of corn. It traced corn from its origins in prehistoric South America to its worldwide influence in the twentieth century.

 
Early man cultivates corn

In 1943, corn syrup was touted as an ideally digestible food for babies