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Disneyland has always represented something more than a conventional amusement park. The intricacy of the animation of the robots, the college of Disney versions of basic American folklore, the reduction and recreation of American mythology in a world designed basically for preadolescents are all disturbing indications that Disneyland is too real to ignore, but too fanciful to take seriously. Disneyland often gives the impression of the good old American, fraud masked as something respectable. Its newest offspring is an amusement park in Orland, Florida ("Disney World") which has the tax status of a city, and is soon to receive...
...Walt Disney was something of an artist, also a sideshow barker, a Truly Great American, and eternal-youth tonic salesman. Richard Schickel, in his nasty biography of Disney. The Disney Version, casts the entire history of Disneyland in a pseudo-leftist critique of consumer oriented art. He sees Disney's fraudulent, regressive amusement-park kingdom as a typically American phenomenon, attributes Disney's right-wing politics to a sexual assault in his growth, and all in all is thoroughly at war with his subject matter. What distinguiuhes Disney from other "artists" is that he also was a businessman, and combined...
Died. Roy O. Disney, 78, co-founder with his younger brother Walt of the Disney entertainment empire; of a stroke; in Burbank, Calif. Walt was a young cartoonist and Roy had just left a tuberculosis sanatorium when they decided to start a Hollywood studio in 1923. For capital the two brothers pooled Walt's $40, Roy's $250 and $500 borrowed from an uncle. Roy's role as money manager was defined early: "I deal with the banks and give Walt a free hand." After Walt's death in 1966, Roy continued as president and board...
...jobs: there was a war and there would be another war. Losing Battles took place on a long, hot, August day, the day of Grannie Refro's birthday, and the family reunion. Jack was home from jail and the lovers were reunited. But it reads more like a Walt Disney script than a novel. The superbly animated, soulful characters are little dei ex machina without any sort of reality to descend into...
...usual, the Disney animators take the day. The cartoon sequences in Naboombu are frustratingly brief but charming. An interlude in a dance hall under the Naboombu Lagoon and an other of an uproarious soccer match between the animals are reminiscent of the days when the Disney people used to make really good movies...