Talk:Suicidemouse.avi/@comment-27910321-20160303215834

While  the creepypasta is fake, and  the video that circulates and its soundtrack are not genuine, authentic material was used: the loop (without all the fake damage and noise, and presumably the original was also in color) of Mickey walking past some city buildings, and the soundtrack of the first part are most probably from a real Disney production with an arguably more sinister (but less spectacular) background story than the creepypasta tells.

On January 19, 1947, Disney teamed up with a private firm that scrutinized individuals for signs of communist sympathies. Several suspects, mostly Disney employees that had been involved with union activities but also independent actors and producers, were exposed to a series of screenings of Disney cartoons that were presented as unauthorized artistic experiments and/or parodies, but were in fact intended as a litmus test: the audience of the screenings was secretly observed, and if a person did not express strong discomfort with the atonal cacophonic music and the distorted, senseless animations, he (or she) would be marked as 'susceptible to Anti-Americanism and communist disloyalty', and blacklisted (so, watching the original Mickey Mouse cartoon to the end might indeed have entailed a professional and often also social 'suicide'.)

At the end of the 1950s, anti-communist awareness started to decline. Signifying the Zeitgeist, in 1957 the private company was sued by an individual who claimed to be fired by a radiostation after being marked 'unfit' by the company, and it finally lost the case in 1962. The company went broke. This obviously ended the cooperation with Disney and his involvement in such projects. He remained a official SAC (Special Agent in Charge) for the FBI though, to his death in 1966.