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...Dalmatians (Buena Vista) is one of the nicest things that have happened so far this year to dog's best friend: a full-length (80 minutes) animutted curtoon that should please just about everybody but cats and will probably make the youngsters yap-happy. It is the wittiest, most charming, least pretentious cartoon feature Walt Disney has ever made...
...BROWN Mar Vista, Calif...
Opening the Way. For the U.S. Northwest, the treaty broadened a vista that first opened in 1792, when Captain Robert Gray, fur trader from Boston, steered the schooner Columbia past the dangerous reefs at the river's mouth and named the mighty stream after his ship. John Boit, fifth mate of the Columbia, wrote prophetically that "This River in my opinion, wou'd be a fine place for to sett up a Factory." The Columbia became a vital artery of the region's fur trade, and then of the salmon-canning and lumber industries, but only...
...Swiss Family Robinson (Buena Vista), like most of Walt Disney's screen versions of the children's classics (17 to date), is good Disney and bad culture. Ostensibly, the film is based on the world-famed boy's book, published in 1812-13, by Johann Wyss, who was inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to produce his own castaway chronicle and give his principal characters the good old Swiss name of Robinson...
...mornings spent waiting for sunrise in some scenic spot. He tells of the melancholy overtones of classic ruins with a genuine excitement. He did not merely repeat the noble sentiment of the Romantics, he definitely experienced it himself. With his stirring prose, he makes the enjoyment of a grand vista a thrilling event and a worthy ideal...