Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last fortnight's issue went too far for Pentagon Building kibitzers. One cartoon showed a two-star general, breakfasting in bed. Another, in which an emaciated corporal pointed at a well-fed Army cook, had the caption: "He still insists he doesn't use saltpeter." The editorial gently poked a particularly sensitive sacred cow, the American Legion (". . . Men . . . joined the Legion to apply pressure to get things done politically...
...Hollywood last summer Walt Disney, restless creator of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and many another cinanimal, was playing mental tiddlywinks with the idea of putting together a monthly animated-cartoon digest, roughly analogous in the motion-picture field to the spectacularly successful Reader's Digest...
...cartoon digest notion never got out of swaddling clothes, but Disney's imagination had been kindled by Seversky's vivid word pictures of what air war could, and would, be like in the immediate future. He arranged a meeting with Sascha, and the two men set to work to translate the book into film. The resulting Disney-Seversky Victory Through Air Power will open in New York next week, then be distributed nationally by United Artists...
Disney Technique. Movie audiences will see in Victory an odd blending of 1) pure Disney cartoon fun, 2) the action, draughtsmanship and color of his feature-length films, 3) superbly contrived maps and animated diagrams, 4) perhaps too much of Seversky in a handsome office, driving home his arguments...
After a brief dedication to the late Brigadier General "Billy" Mitchell, evangelist and martyr of the air-power cause (who would have given his right arm for a movie like Victory to carry his message to the people), the film swings into a lighthearted cartoon history of aviation, starting in 1903 with the Wright Brothers' first powered flight (12 seconds...