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...Vanishing Prairie. Walt Disney's cameramen catch some intimate glimpses (including the birth of a baby buffalo) of what animal life was like when the West was really wild (TIME...
...Vanishing Prairie. Walt Disney's cameramen catch some intimate glimpses (including the birth of a baby buffalo) of what animal life was like when the West was really wild (TIME...
...with a grave directness proper to an acolyte at a mystery, and even the incessant commentator seems to realize that the situation does not require cute remarks. In fact, if the average Hollywood picture had an approach to sex and life as healthy and honest as Producer Disney shows here, no parent would need think twice about sending his children to the movies...
...furor over this scene, though indeed it is the most impressive one in the film, is likely to distract attention from the picture as a whole; and the whole is an ambitious attempt to show what the American heartland was like when 60 million buffaloes roamed the plains. Disney fails-partly because of the smug, fatherly pats of approval he keeps giving the animal kingdom, as though he personally had founded it with Mickey Mouse. Here and there, however, the picture has a patch of beauty briary enough (as the nursery rhyme puts it) to scratch...
...usual, when Disney is being his lighthearted, heavy-footed self, there are a few real esthetic crashers to boggle at. The worst scene features a number of bighorn rams ramming each other tirelessly, in time with the Anvil Chorus...