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...valley could also have an adverse impact on nearby Sequoia National Park, which virtually surrounds Mineral King. For example, development could force wildlife out of the valley into the park. A prime candidate for such an exodus is the Mineral King deer herd, which now winters where Disney plans a parking lot, migrates along the planned route of a cog railway, and fawns in the middle of the village site...
...southern Sierra Nevada. Controversy erupts, fueled by the public's revived awareness of environmental abuse. Behind the contested $35-40 million project is not ITT but the corporation created by a childhood exemplar of the Leave-It-to-Beaver generation--the father of Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck, Walt Disney. Thus fell another idol of Maynard's generation...
Somehow, in spite of environmentalists' success in blocking the resort, Mineral King's transition from an issue pushed by public pressure to one backed by legal maneuvering is discouraging. Of course the controversy has had its good moments: for one, the Disney Corporation has learned its lesson, is letting the Forest Service handle the project, and is concentrating on its plans for a resort near Lake Tahoe with the advice of the Sierra Club...
...couple chatted with a king-sized Mickey Mouse and watched a Bicentennial parade. What interested the Emperor most? Disneyland's diorama of primeval life in the Grand Canyon, depicting a variety of prehistoric animals-all of which seemed far more familiar to Hirohito, an avid natural scientist, than Disney's creations...
...four animated shorts on the program are in the "minimal animation" style--vastly different from the controlled lushness of Disney fairy tales. A group of American animators who didn't have the money or eager apprentices of the Disney studios retained the same background in most of the frames of a sequence and concentrated on the movements, shapes, and colors of the central figures...