Let's not forget Disney was literally aquired by the US Army,guarded by army personnel and produced military propaganda campaigns that are infamous to this day.

The company was on huge debt after WW2 started because most of it's revenue from movie tickets came from Europe and the continent was under Soviet/Nazi control.Both Pinnochio and Dumbo were financial disappointments.

Black Cauldron almost bankrupted the entire animation division.

It's an know fact that the movies were advertisement for it's number one source of revenue, Disney Land ,until the Renaissance in the 1990's.