Get in the scrap!
Scrap-drive poster in cartoon form: Mickey Mouse and Pluto, credited to Walt Disney, gather scrap, rubber, paper, rags and fats into a star-covered container, above a banner reading 'Save scrap metal, save rubber, save paper, save rags, save fats and greases, save!' The technique is transfer, borrowing the appeal of well-known cartoon characters for a collection drive.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Walt Disney Productions, for the U.S. war effort (scrap campaign)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Walt Disney Productions. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-865 (NAID 514359).
Text on the object
GET IN THE SCRAP! Save SCRAP METAL Save RUBBER Save PAPER. Save RAGS Save FATS AND GREASES SAVE! FATS AND GREASES [signature: © Walt Disney] [imprint: illegible]
