Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Animal Farm (Louis de Rochemont Associates). George Orwell's political fable, the famous animallegory about Communism, has been rendered as an animated cartoon, at feature length (75 minutes), by a team of 100 artists, working in Britain under the direction of John Halas, a Hungarian, and his wife Joy Batchelor. It was three years in the making-more than 300,000 colored drawings are assembled in the final print-and it has been made, in all technical respects, quite as good as good Disney. In every other sense the picture is about as remote from Mickey Mouse as Moscow...
...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...
Even after 26 years, the public eye has not wearied of watching Mickey Mouse. Of all the cartoon animals, only Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny are more popular today. In any event, Mickey is likely to be remembered, long after all the others are forgotten, for one decisive moment when he stood at the absolute center of human affairs. On June 6, 1944, the D-day of the Allied invasion of France, the code word for the entire Allied operation was "Mickey Mouse...