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...group calling itself the Brothers United for Action at the University of Rhode Island (URI) demanded last week that the editors of the campus newspaper resign, complaining that an editorial cartoon published last Wednesday was racist...
...cartoon depicts a white professor standing at a podium labeled "U.T. Law School." A black man, carrying books, enters the classroom, and the professor appears unclear whether the student is a custodian or a student...
...felt that the cartoon was clearly a worthwhile commentary in favor of affirmative action and minority rights," said Patrick R. Luce, the managing editor who selected the cartoon for publication...
Animation was as well a form that placed a premium on technical problem solving, which was absorbing but not emotionally demanding. Best of all, an animated cartoon constituted a little world all its own--something that, unlike life, a man could utterly control. "If he didn't like an actor, he could just tear him up," an envious Alfred Hitchcock would later remark...
Mickey owed a lot of his initial success, however, to Disney's technological acuity. For Disney was the first to add a music and effects track to a cartoon, and that, coupled with anarchically inventive animation, wowed audiences, especially in the early days of sound, when live-action films were hobbled to immobile microphones...