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Disney Subliminal Messages

The word subliminal means "below the threshold". It is below the threshold of your conscious perception. Subliminal messaging refers to the action of sending a suggestion directly into the subconcious mind.

Disney uses subliminal messages throughout its short animations, TV series, and movies. Many argue that subliminal messages are a tradition of the Walt Disney Studios. When new Disney films come out, hidden message hunters compete to find subliminal messages in these films to post them on YouTube and many blogs around the internet. 

Almost all of the Disney  films contain subliminal messages. It is stated decades ago, that Disney movies contained adult words and images as early as the Mickey Mouse short movie animations.

In the "Aladdin" Disney movie, people have believed to hear a part where Aladdin says "Good teenagers take off your clothes!" in one of the scenes. This is recorded as an intentionally hidden message.

In the film "The Little Mermaid", the scene in which Eric and Ursula are about to get married, the priest has an erection. In addition, on the cover art for the Little Mermaid, the artist intended for the tower to look like a penis. Although when he finished the cover, he realized it was a bit too obvious but was already too late to make any changes about it.

In "The Lion King", the word "sex" appears in nearly every scene in this film, all subliminally of course! The scene where Simba remembers his father on a cliff, the word "sex" forms in the clouds above his head.

"The Rescuers" Disney film features two frames of topless models. They're in the scene when Bianca and Bernard fly through the city; you can briefly see the model in a window in the background.

Walt Disney let many hidden messages go unchallenged in the cinema, but controversy soon built and the messages were found by the public. So they had to remove them from the DVD's and VHS releases.

Walt Disney was not too impress when this first happened, but having an eye for business he certainly didn't discourage this practice. He figured anything that got his films talked about were good bottom line. It became like a tradition for Disney movies, people actually expect it!