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...greatness. They grew soft. They did not welcome the opportunity to continue to lead." The partisan duties of the evening were handed, as usual, to Vice President Agnew, who told a story about how the Democratic presidential hopefuls went to Miami, where they got lost and wound up in Disney World. "They really put a new look on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," said Agnew. "Now they are known as Grumpy, Sneezy, Dopey, Hubie, Lindsay, Muskie and Teddy...
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a present for the holiday season from the Disney studios. It's like getting a lump of coal in your Christmas stocking. Made in blatant imitation of Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks concerns the singularly unengaging adventures of an amateur witch named Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury) and her three cockney charges (Roy Snart, Ian Weighill and Cindy O'Callaghan) during the early days of England's involvement in the second World War. It must be the first movie in history to combine Nazis and singing fish...
They journey in the magic bed to the enchanted Isle of Naboombu, which is populated, in predictable Disney tradition, by anthropomorphic cartoon creatures. Professor Browne wrests the amulet from the lion king and the jolly group is off again, back to the cliffside cottage where they settle down to battle Germans with their sorcery...
...Paris at the Julian Academy, he was apprenticed to a Boston stainglass maker. Light in one of Mr. Feild's living room windows shines through a round stainglass of St. Francis, a gift of his employer. His sensitivity to light and color were further enhanced at the Disney studios in the late 1930s. Mr. Feild still contends animation is "the total aesthetic experience," the most "difficult art form" yet developed. Involving language, music, movement, controlled color, its potential was nearly unlimited. That in five years it developed in sophistication from "Mickey Mouse" to "Fantasia" suggested to Mr. Feild that, given...
Died. Paul H. Terry, 84, dean of animated film makers; in Manhattan. Walt Disney was still in grade school in 1915 when Terry began to create a barnyard full of animated characters for the silent screen. Operating from a converted Knights of Columbus hall in suburban New Rochelle, N.Y., he cranked out hundreds of "Terrytoons"-seven-minute mini-adventures starring such cartoon immortals as Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle...