Gaining experience by it's experience producing World War 2 short, Disney also created quite a few commercial shorts for various companies, including Nabisco, General Electric, and Dow Chemical. The following is a list of all we've been able to find. It is assumed that most of these were animated, but specifics on most are unknown at this time.
- 1939
- Mickey's Surprise Party (produced for Nabisco)
- The Standard Parade (produced for the Standard Oil Company)
- 1940
- The Volunteer Worker (a trailer produced for the Community Chest)
- 1942
- Four Methods of Flush Riveting (produced for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, distributed by National Film Board of Canada)
- Comments
- From Jerry Edwards : The entire film is animated, showing how to rivet an airplane so that the rivets are flat to the surface to avoid turbulence caused by raised areas on the aircraft's skin. Created for Lockheed Aircraft and the National Film Board of Canada, this is very important historically as Walt Disney's "pilot" to show how effective animation could be used in training films.
- South of the Border with Disney (produced for the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs)
- 1943
- The Grain that Built a Hemisphere (commissioned by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs)
- Defense Against Invasion (sponsored by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs)
- 1944
- The Amazon Awakens (commissioned by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs)
- 1945
- The Right Spark Plug in the Right Place (commissioned by the Electric Auto-Lite Company)
- Portuguese Reading Films 1 and 2 (commissioned by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs)
- Prevention And Control of Distortion in Arc Welding (sponsored by the Lincoln Eletrical Company)
- The Dawn of Better Living (sponsored by Westinghouse Electric)
- Comments
- From Jerry Edwards : Educational animated commercial film created for Westinghouse Electric illstrating the development of improved lighting systems from the log cabin era up to the 1940s.
- Something You Didn't Eat (sponsored by the Cereal Institute (Office of War Information, War Food Administration))
- Insects as Carriers of Disease (commissioned by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs)
- Infant Care (commissioned by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs)
- Hold Your Horsepower (produced for The Texas Company)
- What is Disease? (commissioned by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs)
- The Human Body (commissioned by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs)
- Tuberculosis (commissioned by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs)
- Light is What You Make It (commissioned by the National Better Light Better Sight Bureau)
- 1946
- The ABC of Hand Tools (produced for General Motors)
- The Building of a Tire (sponsored by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company)
- Bathing Time for Baby (sponsored by Johnson & Johnson)
- Environmental Sanitation (commissioned by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs)
- A Feather in His Collar (Made for the Community Chests of America)
- Planning for Good Eating (commissioned by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs)
- Jet Propulsion (produced for General Electric Company)
- Treasure from the Sea (commissioned by the Dow Chemical Company)
- The Story of Menstruation (sponsored by the International Cello-Cotton Company)
- 1951
- How To Catch a Cold (commissioned by the Kleenex Comapny)
- 1965
- Steel and America (commissioned by The American Iron and Steel Institute)
- 1986
- Portraits of Canada (commissioned by Telecom Canada)