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...Delbert (Marty) Mann and a look at the history of U.S. musical comedy through the eyes, ears and expressive hands of Leonard Bernstein. Disneyland will document "The Great Cat Family" with an all-animated cartoon, make a study of the atom and recount man's efforts to fly. Disney will also launch a TV spectacular called Johnny Tremain, about "events leading up to the American Revolution." Afternoon Film Festival and Famous Film Festival will serve up 46 J. Arthur Rank films never seen on TV. including Hamlet, A Queen Is Crowned, Genevieve, Hungry Hill...
...stories." So reports Alice B. Toklas, 81, in introducing her translation of this small volume by Anne Bodart, 17. Anne, whose father is a poet and whose mother is a novelist-playwright, is a striking original. As a fabulist, she is slightly fabulous. From Aesop to Thurber and Disney, fable-spinners have produced tales that come to a point. Hers seldom do. Fragile and handled with care, they give off a mood, or shimmer with poetic refraction. Such sense as they make owes less to reason than to reasons of the heart. Anne's characters-a sensitive dog that...
Unlike many other natural history movies-especially some in the current Disney cycle-it is not flossed up with camera tricks or laff-riot editing. When Secrets' love-smitten pair of octopuses meet, they do not croon to each other Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey; they simply mate, an act whose essential mechanics are obscured by a romantic flailing of tentacles...
...making the film, Disney not only stuck fairly close to the facts but was even courageous enough to dispense with a love story. About the only women in sight are relegated to such menial jobs as waiting on table. Sturdy Fess (Davy Crockett) Parker trades in his coonskin cap for a felt hat as the federal spy; Jeffrey Hunter is the picture of keen-eyed implacability as the pursuing conductor; and a large group of native Georgians adequately re-create their Civil War ancestors. Since the raid involved a minimum of hand-to-hand fighting, Disney partially supplied the lack...
...meat of the film, however, is the chase. Disney dug up some fine period rolling stock and set it racing madly along a stretch of the antiquated Tallulah Falls Railroad in northern Georgia. The epic sight of the bright-colored, majestic eight-wheelers, belching smoke and spinning their drivers, is enough to make moviegoers thoroughly dissatisfied with the pallid diesel streamliners of today...