Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disney's Folly. Wary Hollywood, which scoffed at sound ten years ago, scoffed at the idea of a seven-reel animated cartoon. The Snow White project was referred to as Disney's Folly. Rivals said he had bought a sweepstakes ticket. Shrewd older Brother Roy Disney, the business brain trust of the Disney enterprises, surveyed Snow White's final bill of $1,600,000, observed: "We've bought the whole damned sweepstakes." In the Disney film, Snow White, the delicate stepdaughter of the Queen, is a dark-haired girl with a doll's oval beauty...
...sort of embryonic Snow White. But the distributor collapsed. So did Walt's corporation. In return for movies of their children, Kansas City mothers paid him enough money to get him to Hollywood, where there were the twin attractions of a booming film industry and a Brother Roy with a steady...
...wife and his brother and his brother's wife own the business-the nepotist corporate structure which is another Hollywood characteristic. But neither the corporate structure, nor Mr. Disney's indefatigability, nor the 75 animators, nor the $75,000 camera, nor the $800,000 plant, nor the $2,000,000 gross explain the great Quality X in Walt Disney, Inc., the thing which in the past decade has sent thousands of feet of wonderful little animals and fairybook people dancing out into the world-people and animals whose appeal is so profound and so pervasive that they...
...jasmine bowers of the South, the curtains close. The orchestra plays Swanee River. The curtains then open on the squalid back yard of a New York tenement, showing the audience what Margo's childhood was really like. It was terrible. Her mother took in washing, and her younger brother (Charles Powers) was a budding thief...
...romantic meeting with a producer in a conservatory at a friend's coming out party. When the curtains close this time, a few keen minds in the audience suspect that the next scene will not be a conservatory. True enough, Margo is shown waiting for her brother in a tawdry night club...