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Walt Disney did not father the animated cartoon, but he has been its outstanding foster parent. Disney's child, however, seemed no brighter or more grown-up in 1950's Cinderella than in igsy's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Last week a different kind of movie cartoon was being turned out by a onetime Disney hand named Stephen Bosustow and his bustling United Productions of America...
Painter Morris delights the eye with rich splashes of hot & cold color that shine with the clean light of the Southwest He tickles the fancy with such wryly original subject matter as Three Ghosts Beating a Ghost. He draws in a freewheeling, somewhat wobbly cartoon style but his figures are unerringly placed upon the canvas; they go together so naturally as to seem more concerned with themselves and each other than with being in somebody's picture. More important, his balloon-headed people and quaking landscapes convey a good deal of Morris' dominating idea: the insecurity and aloneness...
...Chosen Ones, men who resent standing in line to buy a coffee at the Bick, it will be the worst does you'll ever have to choke down. The life of the dogfact may be amusing in a Bill Mauldin cartoon, but, Buster, show me the Patriotic Young American who would trade a Beauty-rest and a blonde for a hole in the ground...
Written by U.S. Songwriters Alan Livingston and Billy May, who got their idea from Warner Brothers' nondescript cartoon canary, Tweetie Pie, the song was originally recorded for children. Last fall, Capitol's British distributors asked for permission to release the American record in their own standard popular series. BBC Disc Jockey Sam Costa heard it, liked it so well he played it for five programs in a row. When he dropped it from his sixth program, it had become such a hit with his audience that he "was snowed under with hundreds of letters" of complaint...
Though the show looked like entertainment to NBC, its sponsors and its audience, Walt Disney stoutly insisted that it was only "exploitation" for his forthcoming Alice in Wonderland movie. Perhaps to soothe his TV-frightened movie distributors, Disney professed to see no television future for his great backlog of cartoon films. Said he: "I think the movies are still my natural habitat. The detail we put in our pictures, you just can't get out on TV. I propose to use the medium only to enhance theatrical revenues...