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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...
...false buildings with real stores. This idealized version of Disney's hometown. Marceline, Kansas, was wrenched out of years of struggle in Disney's life. Disney was brought up on a farm, beaten by his father, and had a younger brother Roy, who continued to take care of Disneyland's financial side until his recent death. The family moved to Kansas City. Missouri, and Walt left home to try his hand at cartooning, in which he met little success, and then journalism. He worked for several of the same newspapers as Hemingway, but went West to Hollywood rather than East...
...have it, Jesus Christ [Oct. 25] in Disneyland. Salvation for 30 pieces of silver. We have a new high for the soul, as high indeed as all its glassy-eyed performers...
...which has been far more sensitively translated to TV by Creator Paul Sills in a syndicated commercial series. CRITIC-AT-LARGE is a quarter-hour with Berkeley Associate Professor of Journalism David Littlejohn, 34, putting his bite, or perhaps overbite, on subjects ranging from Stravinsky to TV Guide, Disneyland to Solzhenitsyn. Like so much of public TV, Critic-at-Large is just a video version of a show just as well left to radio...