Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Disney, the Artist, is nothing like as widely known as Mickey, the Mouse-or any of Mickey's score of charming fellow players in the Disney zoological stock company. In fact, when some art historian of the future sets out to chronicle the rise of the animated cartoon, the quest for original drawings by the man most responsible for it will be about as difficult as it is now to locate additional authentic Rembrandts. Walt Disney has not drawn his own pictures for nine years. To turn out the mass production issued nowadays under his name, he would have...
Process. Although it took a large part of the Disney staff three years to draw and photograph Snow White's 250,000 pictures, the process of making Snow White was exactly the same as used in making any recent Disney cartoon...
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...
...this TIME adds that ". . . after the film had played a week to 150,000 people at the Music Hall, the management deemed it advisable to substitute a Mickey Mouse cartoon." This is not untrue, but grossly unfair. The Music Hall has only twice run any one issue of M. O. T. for more than one week...
...score quickly a triumph of some sort, preferably in foreign affairs. It would not do to have Parliament convene for the winter with His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs actually cutting the figure he was shown cutting last week in a London Evening Standard cartoon by No. 1 British Cartoonist David Low. In this Mr. Anthony Eden, whose toe is being stepped on heavily by Il Duce, cries in anguish...