Word: cartoonable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next few years Walt made a Mickey Mouse cartoon every month. His staff quickly grew from 20 to 50 to 150 (he now employs almost 1,000 people at his studio). Dozens of dazzling offers were dangled before him, but Walt declined to sell out; he knew he could not be happy except as his own boss. With a foresight remarkable in a man only 28 years old, Walt set about strengthening his organization for a long creative haul. He started the Silly Symphonies, even though there was every sign that they would not be very popular, because he felt...
...hands the laws of physics turned to taffy. Shadows walked away from bodies. Men got so angry they split in two. Trains ate cookies. Autos flirted. People stretched like rubber bands. But it became harder and harder to outwit the public. Disney gags got downright erudite. In one cartoon Donald Duck might walk over the edge of a cliff and fall down. In the next he would walk off the cliff and keep right on walking-on air. In the next he would keep walking, suddenly notice where he was-and then fall. In the next, he would run back...
...Flop. Three Little Pigs (1933) and The Country Cousin (1936), a technical masterpiece in the new Technicolor, proved that Disney was ready at last for the task he had set himself: to make a full-length cartoon feature. It had long been his heart's desire, but by this time it was a business necessity; cartoon costs had risen so high that it was no longer possible to make a profit with shorts. So he borrowed $1,500,000 and made Snow White. Released in 1937, it was one of the biggest hits that Hollywood had produced since...
...given his first pair of shoes. By 1935 he was fatter and sleeker, and his eyes had grown large and almost soulful. In 1938 he felt the pinch of rising costs: he lost his tail, thereby saving the studio a sizable sum of money on each cartoon. Next year, after Snow White, he got the tail back, only to lose it again during Walt's dark years in the '40s. But in 1952 Walt made up for everything by giving Mickey eyebrows...
...Madame Tussaud put him in her famous wax museum. The Encyclopaedia Britannica devoted a separate article to the little fellow. He was the Nizam of Hyderabad's favorite movie star. Jan Christian Smuts, Avila Camacho, Mackenzie King declared in his favor. Franklin D. Roosevelt never missed a Mickey cartoon. Mussolini adored him; Hitler hated him. The Russians called him a proletarian symbol; however, the line changed in time, and Mickey is now a "warmonger...