“There's a great excerpt from the book The Animated Man by Michael Barrier. In the spring of 1941, under pressure from the Bank of America and holders of preferred stock, Walt Disney Productions agreed to scale back its production cost to about $15,000 a week.”
Why: Illustrates the financial and cost-cutting pressures that led to studio layoffs.
Ben Gilbert, Host on AcquiredThe Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio)