Word: disneyized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...different from most of the pap usually fed to the kiddies on Saturday mornings. Or to any age group at any time, for that matter. "We wanted a children's drama," explained Mike Dann, senior vice president for programming at CBS television. "But we didn't want Disney. We didn't want a story about a cat in Scotland, in other words...
...ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO, by C. Collodi, illustrated by Attilio Mussino (Macmillan; $9.95). A reissue of the 1925 classic blots out Walt Disney and half a dozen other abridged and syrupy substitutes that have intervened. Here Pinocchio can be seen again as what it is: a morality tale about the rewards of mendacity; cruel, fearful and utterly charming...
Sunday, November 2 WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar." Part 1 of a two-part story showing how being tamed as a pet dulls a cougar's instinct for survival...
Formidable Problems. Now the nation's rising awareness of ecology has moved scores of judges to listen. In the past summer alone, a federal judge delayed Walt Disney Productions' ski-resort scheme in California's Mineral King Valley until conservation groups can have their say in court. A six-lane highway planned to run along the Hudson River was stopped when conservationists cited an obscure law requiring congressional approval of any project involving a dike on an interstate navigable waterway...
...built his first closed-circuit TV system out of spare parts ten years ago, showed a 21-minute tape of classical and Beatles music accompanied by glowing visual abstractions that he dubs Psychedelevision in Color. Closer to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey than to Walt Disney's Fantasia, it is the sort of work that might well fill the extra channels on the cable antenna systems of the future. Eager to "take the waste out of the wasteland," Thomas Tadlock, 28, spent two years and a patron's $10,000 to create his Archetron...