Animated Version of ‘Animal Farm’ With Altered Ending Among Films Produced by the CIA
Animated Version of ‘Animal Farm’ With Altered Ending Among Films Produced by the CIA
The Memory Hole has acquired a list of films that were produced or used by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Among the films on the list is a 1955 animated version of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” with its “chilling finale in which the farm animals looked back and forth at the tyrannical pigs and the exploitative human farmers but found it ‘impossible to say which was which.’”
[The original] ending was altered in the 1955 animated version, which removed the humans, leaving only the nasty pigs. … The C.I.A., it seems, was worried that the public might be too influenced by Orwell’s pox-on-both-their-houses critique of the capitalist humans and Communist pigs. So after his death in 1950, agents were dispatched (by none other than E. Howard Hunt, later of Watergate fame) to buy the film rights to “Animal Farm” from his widow to make its message more overtly anti-Communist.
Some other notable films in the CIA’s library:
Brainwashing
Spying for Uncle Sam, Part I
Why Man Creates
How Free Should the Press Be?
CBS Reports: UFO: Friend, Foe or Fancy?
Mickey Mouse Cartoon-Squatter’s Rights
I Am a Soldier
Holograms — The First True 3-D Picture
Man and the Sea
Unidentified Flying Objects
Eye in the Sky
It Works, and That’s the Key
Operation Underground Network
He is a Mad Man
Rise of Labor Unions/Employee/Management
Hovercraft
Our Election Day Illusion/The Best Majority
Kidnap Executive Style
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[…] Think Progress The Memory Hole has acquired a list of films that were produced or used by the Central Intelligence Agency. […]
March 14th, 2006 at 12:06 pmYou could call it “Animal Farm: The CIA Director’s Cut.”
March 14th, 2006 at 12:15 pmJust what I would expect from ‘animals.’
March 14th, 2006 at 12:29 pm“Our election day illusion”, you gotta love that one!
March 14th, 2006 at 12:30 pmWow. That is a must see list! I bet that of all the horror films to date that that list is the scariest of all! I shudder to think… In the Name of God
March 14th, 2006 at 12:34 pmhttp://www.blurty.com/users/mr_ho/
The King George, Wolfowhizz and Klinton version of Animal Farm
March 14th, 2006 at 12:36 pmRenamed “Crazy Farm” Enjoy!! (free!)
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Bummer. I just bought the animated version of “1984.
At the end, they finally capture Emmanuel Goldstein and he confesses to everything.
March 14th, 2006 at 12:42 pmHow Free Should the Press Be?
I am truly speechless, and those of you who know me know that NEVER happens…
March 14th, 2006 at 12:43 pmthe fact that a ‘free society’ altered the ending of the movie kinda proves the point of the original ending, doesn’t it?
March 14th, 2006 at 12:44 pm#9 Got a problem with that, Comrade?
Your papers, please.
March 14th, 2006 at 12:48 pmI would like to know who “He is a mad man” is about.
March 14th, 2006 at 12:51 pmOUCH! http://cornyn.senate.gov/ index.asp?f=page&pid=233&lid=1
Russ was hang out to dry by Democrats. I was right - you radical morons were wrong. Democrats will USE you for money. They don’t really care about your agenda.
Notice the GOP listens to me. No Harriet Miers. No Dubai. The right-wing is influential force while liberals are tossed aside because no one thinks like them!!!!
March 14th, 2006 at 12:53 pmWTF? Why do this? Where are these films shown?
I’m babbling. I join you in your speechlessness, unbelievable, #8.
March 14th, 2006 at 12:56 pmWhat about “Face the Nation” and “Meet the Press”? They are on the list too. I wonder what the CIA had to do with those shows?
March 14th, 2006 at 12:58 pmwe have never been a free country since 1776 I think that was prolly the only time this was a free thinking and acting country.
the cia be damned!
March 14th, 2006 at 1:03 pmWhat about “Face the Nation†and “Meet the Press� They are on the list too. I wonder what the CIA had to do with those shows?
Tim Russert is an android.
March 14th, 2006 at 1:03 pmI’m babbling. I join you in your speechlessness, unbelievable, #8.
Comment by Zookeeper — March 14, 2006 @ 12:56 pm
Glad it’s not just me… Just when we think that they can’t surprise us with more Constitutional shredding, they sink to newer depths to brain wash the slaving masses.
March 14th, 2006 at 1:07 pmWatch for these forthcoming “remastered” videos:
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers”: Emotionless “pod-people” are actually healthier, put less strain on insurance companies and social service providers. American work productivity soars. Used pods convert readily to environmentally-friendly ethanol. Kevin McCarthy is captured and tortured at Guantanamo, where he confesses to mailing the anthrax letters.
“The Rocky Horror Picture Show”: Brad & Janet are seduced by the Transylvanians, contract AIDS and die. Emboldened by Dr. Frankenfurter’s degenerate, amoral lifestyle, radical Islamists storm the castle and behead Riff-Raff and Magenta. Dr. Scott survives the attack, and is appointed National Security Advisor to President Jeb Bush. A grateful world accepts abstinence as a way of life.
“Felix the Cat”: Jerry Falwell — with the help of the Professor, Rock Bottom and Pointdexter — discovers that Felix’s magic bag is satanically-powered. Falwell lures Felix to an ambush at the laboratory by pretending to be a horny teenager on MySpace. Felix walks into the trap, where his bag is stolen by a methadone addict. Powerless, Felix is beaten to death by Jack Bauer and the formerly-homosexual-but-now-cured TeleTubbies.
March 14th, 2006 at 1:13 pmhow long is that list!………damn..all this time they have been altering movies. 1952,Eisenhower/Nixon started their 8 year term. What comes after STUNNED….
March 14th, 2006 at 1:14 pmRDL, you crack me up every day!
March 14th, 2006 at 1:28 pmFunny, we just rented and watched this not three weeks ago - and i thought the ending seemed a bit one-sided! Now I will read the book, i am sure I will see the glaring differences.
Ah, this has been known for some time. I suggest those interested read Frances Stonor Saunders’ Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters for the rundown–including Jackson Pollock and the Museum of Modern Art, laundered through the Rockefeller Foundation (or the Rockefeller Brothers’–its been a couple of years since I read it).
March 14th, 2006 at 1:34 pm#17 - You slay me with your razor wit!
March 14th, 2006 at 1:38 pm#21 Thanks ZK.
Then again, I’m doing “poop” humor up on the “25%” thread…so it ain’t ALL gold. ;->
March 14th, 2006 at 1:42 pmPart of the culture war was carried out by congress in the 1950’s when they added “under God” to the pledge of allegiance. All to show the Godless Russians how virtuous we were.
March 14th, 2006 at 2:01 pmThe list is 2507 separate titles. That’s quite a list.
March 14th, 2006 at 2:20 pm#24 Notice that the “Zapruder Film” is on the list.
Just sayin’. ;->
March 14th, 2006 at 2:39 pm#23 - I refused to say the under god part in the 60s in school, having been raised by atheists, and got a lot of sh!t for it. Also got kicked out of the Girl Scouts for the same offense!
March 14th, 2006 at 2:42 pmGood thing I’m not a kid trying that now, I’d probably end up in Gitmo.
#2, too good. :-)
March 14th, 2006 at 2:50 pm#2. - perfect title! Available at Blockbuster & On Demand
March 14th, 2006 at 3:07 pmInterestingly enough, Orwell wrote Animal Farm after his experiences in the Spanish Civil War and it represents his disillusionment about Stalinism and its effect on the Republicans fighting against Franco. I guess the CIA were concerned that Orwell’s story cut both ways. Winston Smith would have appreciated the irony - doubleplusgood
March 14th, 2006 at 3:42 pmI guess some films’ endings are more equal than others.
March 14th, 2006 at 6:46 pmInterestingly enough, Orwell wrote Animal Farm after his experiences in the Spanish Civil War and it represents his disillusionment about Stalinism and its effect on the Republicans fighting against Franco. I guess the CIA were concerned that Orwell’s story cut both ways. Winston Smith would have appreciated the irony - doubleplusgood
Comment by TerrytheTurtle
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I was just going to post the same sentiments as you have so eloquently stated in your post.
Animal Farm is indeed about George Orwell’s experiences while fighting during Spanish Revolution, and is also thinly veiled critique and satire of Soviet totalitarianism. Please let’s remember this. It is a very important point when doing a synopsis of such a fine novel. If it is turned into the good free west against the evil of communism argument, then you’re not discussing the book Animal Farm. But are indeed arguing the case for the anti-communism propagandists, and falling into their well-set trap.
This should help those who have never had the pleasure to read the excellent Animal Farm. And should stop the hijacking of what George Orwell was portraying in the story, by the right-wing of America,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A5070269
It was with these words, in February 1944, that George Orwell himself described the release of his latest book, a more belittling statement could not have been chosen to describe what was to become a stalwart of English political literature and the bane of students to this day. To quote from the author, “There is a farm, and the animals get fed up with the way the farmer runs it, so they chuck him out and try to run it themselves. But they run it just as badly as the farmer and become tyrants like him.” It one respect that does suffice as a summary of the plot as read at face value. A fairy tale story, straight out of Aesops fables. But this is George Orwell and there is much more to the story surely that a simple moralistic tale? Well yes, whilst a younger reader will need only to read the tale as a cautionary story somewhat akin to Watership Down, when we know a bit more about the author we can begin to find the deeper message.
Although not the politically ridden author that legend has painted Orwell he was an ardent socialist who was prepared to fight for what he saw as the just cause, and with this in mind on Christmas Day 1936 he shipped out to fight for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War. The classless society that was being set up by socialists and anarchists in the part of Spain that they controlled heightened his beliefs even more and he knew that he was on the side of justice. However his clean cut black and white views of left versus right, worker against master were compromised when he experienced the Soviet effort to destroy the social revolution that he was part of. The fascism that he was fighting to overthrow was being replaced by fascism in a different name. The lot of the workers and fighters for social equality was being undermined and being replaced by a different set of masters masquerading as a new and enlightened system. It is these experiences that Animal Farm is drawn from.
The main thrust of the story is about a group of pigs who organise a revolution to take over Manor farm and after throwing out Jones, the owner, set themselves up as masters. Eventually it becomes apparent that their equal society is no better that the old system for most of the farm animals, and only the pigs themselves have benefited from the new regime. Whilst Orwell maintained that the parallels drawn in his book can be applied to almost any revolution, it is obvious to anyone who digs into its imagery that its is about the Russian Revolution and the development of the Soviet system. For the History buff the characters and incidents are there in full view. The Old Major, the pig who first puts the ideas in the minds of the younger pigs is Marx, the revolutionary leaders of the Manor Farm revolution, Napoleon and Snowball are Stalin and Trotsky and other political powers are represented in the form of Pilkington, as Britain and Frederick as Germany and the farm dogs who work as the minders for the new masters are the NKVD or secret police. The windmill that the farm animals try to build also is more than it seems. Whist the windmill itself represents the Soviet five year plan system, the battle for it represents the Nazi Invasion of 1941. The characters and events don’t always run in chronological order, but every facet of the Russian Revolution appears to be well represented.
Animal Farm and its ideas and particularly its imagery is a natural continuation of a line of writing that runs through such authors as Aristophanes, Hobbes, Swift, Conrad, T.S. Eliot and H.G.Wells. Some of his sources are laid out in the open, especially when it comes to the new politics of the farms new masters. Stalin had been described as “the class war Napoleon” my Malcolm Muggeridge, the alteration of new commandments of the farm, such as “no animal shall sleep in a bed” to “no animal shall sleep in a bed without sheets” is an indictment of the changes made by Russian Orthodox clerics to their own dogma. The most well known saying from the book, “all animals are equal” which later acquires “but some are more equal that others” combines Thomas Jeffersons “all men are created equal” and Eves musing in paradise lost.
The book has often been criticised for its unimaginative use of vocabulary, a standard by which classics are often measured. But here the repetition of words such as “said” instead of a variety of alternatives gives the book an almost mythic, fairy tale quality that I’m sure is intended. There is also a gentle humour running through the book, which seems at odds with the authors well known pessimism.
Orwell admitted that this was the first book where he had really tried to fuse political and artistic purpose into a whole, and followed that statement with “every book is a failure” It would have been easy for Orwell to have written a revolutionary pamphlet, but instead he gave us a superb satire of revolutions and their failings. It is a book that can be read on may levels, from the innocence of a farmyard yarn to an in depth analysis of revolutionary doctrine, and a number of levels in between. It is in a literary sense, all things to all men. Sixty years on it is a book that is on most school reading lists and is probably as relevant today as it ever was. For example in 2001 a serialisation by an opposition newspaper in Zimbabwe, had illustrations of Napoleon wearing Robert Mugabes unmistakable black spectacles.
I will end this with another quote, this time from Robert Pearce, editor of The History Review and the sayings of George Orwell. “All books are failures, it is true, but not all failures are equal. Some indeed are brilliant if flawed successes, and some little squibs are in fact quite remarkable rockets.”
March 14th, 2006 at 9:51 pmGah! Those damn communists… they will do anything to control their people. This just goes to show what a threat the communist Chinese government is to… uhm… err… wait a sec. You mean OUR government did this? The USA censored some media in an attempt to manipulate the people of this country? Ahh… well, uhm… I bet they had a good reason for it. Go USA!!! YEEHAWWW!!
March 15th, 2006 at 4:55 pm[…] Animated Version of ‘Animal Farm’ With Altered Ending Among Films Produced by the CIA “[The original] ending was altered in the 1955 animated version, which removed the humans [capitalists], leaving only the nasty pigs [Communists].” (tags: politics cartoons weird as_hell) […]
March 16th, 2006 at 12:25 amthats gay
March 16th, 2006 at 11:16 amBest of all: The CIA intervened in the Hollywood version of 1984. According to Frances Stonor Saunders’ boo, The Cultural Cold War, the CIA sent an operative to ensure that the film would have maximum propaganda value. It wasn’t enough that Winston Smith was crushed by the Party. Thanks to the CIA, Smith in the film version, but not the book, doesn’t “love Big Brother” but rather redoubles his determination to destroy him.
Orwelleian?
March 16th, 2006 at 4:40 pmAmerica is not free at all, never has been and never will be. The fight against terrorism and the fight for freedom will just allow the CIA to control all Americans in this very way.
Good luck
March 16th, 2006 at 8:28 pmHow is this news?
An article from 1983 says exactly the same thing:
http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/ctc/docs/cancrtcs.htm
also available by searching through here:
April 8th, 2006 at 5:13 pmhttp://www.orwellweb.com/
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