Word: disneyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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University of California at Los Angeles WALT ELIAS DISNEY D.F.A...
...Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). This one is about a quarter horse who nearly goes to the glue factory but ends up winning prizes. Repeat...
Then came Hitler. By 1945, when this Walt Disney picture begins, Allied bombs are bursting in the courtyard of the academy and Russian columns are rushing toward Vienna. The Lipizzan stallions stand in mortal peril, but the Führer refuses to let them leave the city-the move might be interpreted as an admission of defeat. Colonel Alois Podhajsky (Robert Taylor), commandant of the academy, rebelliously horsenaps his own herd, ships it to safety in an isolated village. So much for the stallions, but what about the Lipizzan mares? They are prancing through Bohemia like a bunch of damn...
...does, of course, and in the grand finale the stallions return to Vienna for a stunning display of dressage. Each of these magnificent animals is an equine Nijinsky, and each negotiates with elegance and passion the figures of the classical school. Producer Disney declares categorically: "These horses are human.'' They are at any rate more intelligent than most of the people connected with his picture. Any donkey could have written the script ("These horses are very unique in the world"). The supporting players (Lilli Palmer. Curt Jurgens. Eddie Albert) are obviously off their feed. And Actor Taylor-well...
...gramophone records I listen to in Parma," the 78-year-old professor explained. "I have been to America only in my dreams. I will be happy if my opera is performed again, but I must admit that my greatest ambition is to write music for the films of Walt Disney...