WI: Early Canadian animation

According to this Wikipedia page, Canada didn't really contribute much to the animation industry until maybe the seventies with Nelvana.

But what if during the forties, we got at least one Canadian animation studio producing full-quality hand-drawn animation on par with that of the American studios at the time? The Wikipedia page says that the National Film Board of Canada briefly teamed up with Disney to produce propaganda films. What if some Disney crew ended up starting a studio in Canada at this time? Something like this actually happened IOTL with the British Animaland shorts, which were produced by Snow White and Bambi director David Hand.

Would this have any sort of effect on TTL's animation history? Or would the forties Canadian animation just fall into obscurity like Animaland did?
 
Would this have any sort of effect on TTL's animation history? Or would the forties Canadian animation just fall into obscurity like Animaland did?
Honestly, I believe a key part in this would be how much cheaper Canadian animation is than US animation. Even then, that's not to say it will suffer some sort of bad reputation like most post-1990s Canadian animation from OTL does.

Not that Canadian animation deserves said reputation of course.
 
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Honestly, I believe a key part in this would be how much cheaper Canadian animation is than US animation.
Would that also have been the case in the forties and fifties?

Even then, that's not to say it will suffer some sort of bad reputation like most post-1990s Canadian animation from OTL does.
Considering this would have been long before the rise of Teletoon and the other stuff that gave Canadian animation a bad rap, I doubt this hypothetical early Canadian animation would.
 
Would that also have been the case in the forties and fifties?
Well considering how the Canadian film industry in general works, I can at least imagine animation there also being able to have some more budgets. At least assuming they had the tax breaks and even subsidies of OTL's Canadian film industry in general.

Considering this would have been long before the rise of Teletoon and the other stuff that gave Canadian animation a bad rap, I doubt this hypothetical early Canadian animation would.
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The biggest deterrent was the size if Canadian market vs US. In the 1980s Canadian television, movies and radio industry grew immensely due in large part to Canadian content rules.

So what we need is for a Canadian content in music, movies and printing such as cartoon to start in the 1930s to create jobs in Canada. While in beginning the quality will not be as good by 1940s and war it would be on par. If after war we continue with say 50% Canadian content you gave chance.

PS during war American comics were not imported and Canadian comics tarted being produced but they died out after the war again.
 
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