Word: disneying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (Buena Vista). Disney in the raw is seldom mild, but the Dad-why-can't-I-have-a-hunting-knife set doesn't mind. This incessantly violent, incessantly beautiful adaptation of James Oliver Curwood's Nomads of the North will delight every ten-year-old who ever wrestled his pillow and pretended it was a grizzly bear...
Eventually, of course, familiarity breeds content-one night at bedtime the little darlings, like many well-trained Disney animals, exchange a nutter of ever-so-cute kisses that will probably make every little girl say ah and every little boy say ugh. Fortunately for the little boys, the cord is soon cut, and the pup runs off to bigger and bloodier adventures involving a vicious wolverine, a great big nasty old grizzly bear, a number of extraordinarily large and healthy timber wolves who have obviously had their teeth shined up by the studio dentist, and a peculiar vertical animal called...
...months after the death of Com poser Maurice Ravel in 1937, his brother Edouard saw Disney's feature-length cartoon Snow White and decided that "this is the way L'Enfant et les Sortileges should be presented. Ravel's second and last opera had for its locale the mind of a child. In its cast are teapots as big as a man, cats who talk of love, squirrels who ruminate on redemption. It calls for 18 principals and a chorus of tree frogs, and one of its climactic solo passages by a Chinese cup (mezzo-soprano) consists...
Alakazam the Great! (Toei-American International) is a wild, nonsensical, hack-chop-you're-dead fairy story, cartooned in Japan and dubbed in the U.S. It is not as well drawn as the cartoons Walt Disney used to do, but Disney has neglected the field for live films and amusement-park management, and six-year-olds should howl happily at the replacement. The hero is an emetic little monkey (U.S. adapters thoughtfully assigned Crooner Frankie Avalon to provide his voice) who sets "out to conquer the world. Along the way he collects some traveling companions, including a prince...
...Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Part of the show will be the film Nature's Half Acre, an Oscar-winning study of birds, plants and insects in their seasonal changes...