Word: disneying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Disney always maintained that he made films not for children but for "honest adults." He was pleased when the enormously successful Disneyland was dubbed "Disney's Golden Cornfield," and said defiantly, "We're selling corn. And I like corn." Though most of his later "real-life" nature movies-The Living Desert, Beaver Valley, Water Birds-were imaginative documentary films, some critics protested that he spoiled them with gimmicks. And though historical pictures like Davey Crockett were also big hits, Disney was again criticized for sugar-coating his history...
...basic concern of the critics was always that Walt Disney refused to see life in the raw, to accept the end of innocence. He came from the Midwes-born in Chicago, reared there and in Missouri-and stubbornly adhered to the idea that wickedness was no subject for entertainment. In his work, children and animals were naturally good; nature, at least in his animated films, was not so red in tooth and claw as it was cuddly...
...literature ostensibly created for children-Huck Finn, Grimm's fairy tales-fantasy was mixed with social satire and cruelty beyond the comprehension of innocent minds. Mark Twain and Grimm succeeded by stressing the differences between the child's and the adult's world. Disney perhaps would have been incapable of tackling such subjects without diminishing in some measure-as he did with Mary Poppins-their hard bite of inner reality. He stressed the sameness of the two worlds, ignored or abolished the differences, reconciled the generations. If at times the results were mawkish, Disney scarcely gave...
...After Disney died last week, thousands of visitors poured through the gates of Disneyland as usual to drink in the fantasies that he had manufactured for them. Some went galumphing through the sparkling air atop elephants, others drifted down the Congo, past the snapping jaws of crocodiles and the whalelike surfacing of rhinos. Birds and flowers sang in one enchanted room; a land-fast 80-ft. rocket took off for the moon in simulated flight. Yet in all the gaiety and glare, in the whomp of bands and the bray of a calliope, only one elegiac sign reminded pleasure seekers...
...50th Street side of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, prepared to stand in numbing patience as long as necessary to see his latest film, Follow Me, Boys. Perhaps later there will be a special monument, but now not even a meditative ceremony-just the show going on. Disney was dead, but not his vision of innocence, nor the dreams he made...