WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK
Declaring this dwelling to be “adorable – just like a doll’s house”, Snow White dashes up to it with a little skip in her step and all her new animal buddies follow her, last of all that green-shelled turtle which...
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PEE-IN-PANTS SCAREY
Without a moment’s relief from this attempted murder, the film proceeds into another spectacular sequence of terror, a kaleidoscope of ever more frightening images brilliantly illustrating how the young girl’s panicking mind transforms all surrounding forestry into tormenting demons –...
Staging a Cartoon Murder
Crossfade quickly out of the darkness to Queen Grimhilda (her name is never mentioned in the film) seated upon her magnificent throne with peacock feathers splayed behind it. She is addressing someone in front of her with instructions to take...
REINCARNATION AS CARTOON CHARACTERS
Well before his exploitation as that nine-year-old newspaper delivery boy in Kansas City Walt Disney’s revision of reality began during his earliest childhood when his family worked a farm in Marceline, Missouri. All those barnyard animals with whom Disney became...
WALT’S NIGHTMARE
Hours yet until dawn the day after Christmas, 1910, The Kansas City Times must be delivered to seven hundred subscribers before their breakfasts. Your part of the burden slung over your shoulder you trudge away into the blizzard foundering through...
ANIMATION = MIND-CONTROL
With this new emphasis on exploring and clearly defining personality in animated characters a more primitive “language” of cartooning gradually gave way to greater expressiveness in the drawing. Originally, character animators had done all of the effects in their own...
AMONG THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD
Although Disney’s creations share with other forms of cinema the telling of stories, the big difference is that originally everything on the screen was drawn or painted by hand, a fact which aligns them more closely with pictorial fine art....
WHAT MAKES A MASTERPIECE?
Walter Elias Disney died December 15, 1966, just 10 days after his 65th birthday. During his lifetime he directed the creation of thirteen full-length animated films nine of which are masterpieces unequaled in that art form: Snow White and the...
