Word: bosustow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beauty. In 1953 Walt Disney turned his camera from paper animals to some real ones and, in a series of natural-history films culminating in The Living Desert, dragged new kinds of beauty out of the depths of nature. In cartoons, Disney was challenged by Stephen Bosustow and a company of imaginative young artists. The Tell Tale Heart and The Unicorn in the Garden did their subjects from Poe and Thurber proud, and set new landmarks in the animator...
Walt Disney, finding that he cannot buck the new trend in cartoons started by Bosustow & Co. (TIME, Jan. 30, 1951), has apparently decided to join it. Two striking evidences of this intention are now on public view...
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, the first cartoon to be made in CinemaScope, purports to tell the history of the four main families of musical instruments (brass, woodwind, string and percussion). In style a clean steal from the Bosustow cartoons (which, in turn, borrowed tricks from such modern artists as Paul Klee), Toot takes Disney in one jump from the nursery to the intellectual cocktail party. There are moments-in the musical score especially-when the film does not seem quite sure how to behave...
Remembering the point, readers who have long treasured James Thurber's cold little classic may rest easy about the first attempt to animate on the screen the characters in Thurber's cartoons. The Unicorn in the Garden-directed by Bill Hurtz of Stephen Bosustow's gifted crew at U.P.A., which has in the last two years produced Gerald McBoing-Boing, Mr. Magoo and The Tell Tale Heart-is the subtlest of the lot. The Thurber Male looks just as he always does-browbeaten by the Thurber Female, and the unicorn is so attractive that he will make...
...addition to making cartoon films aimed primarily at grownups ("I'm not against children; we just like to do adult things"), Bosustow does training films for the armed forces, industrial films for such clients as Shell Oil Co. and Timken Roller Bearings, TV commercials and such specialized jobs as the supplying of cartoon "bridges" for the film The Four-Poster, starring Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer. He is eager to move on to full-length animated pictures, and hopes to rival Disney's Cinderella and Peter Pan with adult treatments of classic stories, such as Volpone and Helen...