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Viacom Inc. and The Walt Disney Co. will pay $1 million and $500,000, respectively, for repeated violations of FCC regulations aimed to curb the commercial inundation of impressionable children. As it stands, the FCC has a host of regulations on programming intended for children age 12 and younger. For instance, the FCC limits the amount of commercial minutes allowed per hour—12 minutes on weekdays, 10 and a half on weekends. Also, to ensure that children don’t become automatonic advertisers for “SpongeBob SquarePants,” networks can?...
Viacom, which owns Nickelodeon, violated the commercial time-limits regulation roughly 600 times and breached the product placement rule on 145 occasions. Disney, via its ABC Family Channel subsidiary, faced similar, if less widespread, charges. But while both corporations offered predictable excuses for their transgressions—citing inadvertent errors resulting from computer and human lapses—the current culture of excessive commercialization is frightening, and the FCC was right to directly censure the companies...
...Everything about a human is organic. The audience looks in the mirror every day, so if you don't get it right, it's obvious to them." The solution: comically distort the subjects' features, make 'em cartoony. As Bird says, "You want them to be caricatured and believable. Disney used to call it 'the plausible impossible...
...Brad and I were in the first year of the character-animation program," recalls Lasseter, "and we bonded with our love of cartoons. At that time animation was thought of as something just for children. But Brad and I believed animation was for everybody. That's the way Walt Disney made his films. That's the way Chuck Jones made his cartoons...
...most naggingly catchy tunes in pop music--and, it turns out, one of the most controversial. The Lion Sleeps Tonight, featured in Disney blockbuster The Lion King, is based on the 1939 song Mbube, written by South African musician Solomon Linda. But Linda, a cleaner at a Johannesburg record company when he wrote the song, received virtually nothing for his work and died in 1962 with $25 in his bank account. His family is suing Disney for $1.5 million. Disney says it will fight the suit, but it's already paying off. Though not named in the suit, U.S. music...