Word: disneying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greyfriars Bobby. Walt Disney unleashes another muttinee idol in this film about the Skye terrier who, a century ago, won the freedom of the city of Edinburgh...
Greyfriars Bobby. Walt Disney unleashes another muttinee idol in this film about the little Skye terrier who, a century ago, won the freedom of the city of Edinburgh. Children will...
...true? No, the dear little beastie really lived, and in Edinburgh there stands a bronze statue of Bobby to prove it. In 1912 one Eleanor Atkinson made Bobby the dogtagonist of a novel, and now Walt Disney, who has released two other dog shows (101 Dalmatians and Nikki, Wild Dog of the North) so far in 1961, offers this glossy rebrush of the book. Children will do well to sit up and beg for the film, and even grown-up judges may affectionately award it a tear-soaked blue ribbon. Actor Mackenzie is wonderfully canty and touching as Auld Jock...
...regularly begins and ends with an episode from Bullwinkle's enduring struggle against an ineptomaniac called Boris Badenov, reserving the remaining time for such continuing side features as Peabody, the intellectual dog who reshapes history, and "Fractured Fairy Tales"; Sleeping Beauty, for example, stars a facsimile of Walt Disney as the handsome prince. Withholding his magic kiss, he lets the girl sleep, builds an amusement park around her and calls it Sleeping Beautyland...
CINEMA Nikki, Wild Dog of the North. Walt Disney's incessantly violent, incessantly beautiful adaptation of Nomads of the North, describing the early life and hard times of a Malemute pup that should delight young audiences...