Word: feild
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teacher Disney has not yet been welcomed as a colleague by professional pedagogues. Three years ago one of his greatest admirers, Harvard's Professor Robert D. Feild (author of The Art of Walt Disney), was dropped by Harvard's conservative art department because of too much enthusiasm for modern art, particularly Disney's. But Disney is by all odds the most successful cinema educator to date. Says FORTUNE: "Previous educational movies, with such rare exceptions as the MARCH OF TIME and Pare Lorentz films, have been dull as dishwater and often embarrassingly coy in the bargain. Disney...
Professor Robert D. Feild has done exactly that in a book called The Art of Walt Disney (Macmillan; $3.50), but he insists: "Hell, Doc [Walt himself holds several honorary degrees], this is art." Three years ago Professor Feild stuck his neck out for modern art, Disney's in particular, and his appointment to Harvard University's fine-arts department was "not renewed." Now he is at Tulane University. Professor Feild contends that comic strips and cavemen's scrawls were forerunners of the animated movie that Walt Disney has made into "the great art form that...
...taken one man to make that picture [Snow White]? I figured it out-just 250 years.'' But controlling the wheels-within-wheels is of paramount importance, and here Disney is the authentic master craftsman, indispensable and, so far, without a peer. "Without his stabilizing influence," writes Professor Feild. "the art form for which he is responsible would have long since disintegrated...
What, Already? Endless attention is given to big and little details in a studio where the slow evolution of a character sometimes starts with nothing more than a noise, and never stops until every possibility of color, curve, sound and dialogue has been considered. Professor Feild prints for the first time in book form many records of conferences in the Disney-gang. One caught this critical moment in the prenatal life of Jiminy Cricket...
...bookepper any way Cant read. Can write his Name but I al ready put that down My self Says he can Plough but dont look like it to Me. sent to Feild...