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...Midsummer Night's Dream. The best puppet picture ever made: a feature-length version of Shakespeare's play put together by Czechoslovakia's Jiri Trnka, the Walt Disney of the Communist bloc...
...idea it can be fun. Indeed, when the trick is brought off as brilliantly as it is here, even the Shakespurists may indulge in a delighted suspension of disbelief. Dream was produced in Czechoslovakia by a 49-year-old gimcrack genius named Jiri Trnka (pronounced Trnka). the Walt Disney of the Communist bloc; it is incomparably the best puppet picture ever made, a shimmering translation of poetic fancy into technological fantasy, a planned delirium of light and color for the educated eye, and for literary innocents of whatever age the perfect introduction to Shakespeare...
...DALMATIANS. The yap-happiest curtoon fleature Walt Disney has ever whelped...
Suggested (though hardly inspired) by Victor Herbert's 1903 operetta, in which Mother Goose was overstuffed with theatrical goodies, Disney's nursery crhymes involve Tom Piper (Tommy Sands), Mary Contrary (Annette), Boy Blue, Bo Peep, Willie Winkie, Simple Simon, Jack and Jill, and Mother Goose herself, along with some ringers called Roderigo, Gonzorgo, Barnaby (Ray Bolger) and the Toymaker (Ed Wynn). Tom and Mary, the story goes, are about to be married, but that naughty old Barnaby, wielding a wicked snickersneer, does his worst to louse up the proceedings...
Still, Toyland has its charms. The March of the Toys is always fun to hear, and even more fun to see performed by brightly colored toys of all sorts and sizes, synchronized in what Disney & Co. call "animotion." Singer Sands, who most of the time is about as hard to swallow as a Vaseline sandwich, suddenly pulls on a fright wig and does a brilliant bughouse turn as a batty old bag who reads tea leaves and such. And Villain Bolger is granted at least one grand line. "Come!" he calls sepulchrally to his comic accomplices. "Let us lurk...