Word: walt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operated not by strings like ordinary marionettes but by invisible human hands which change the puppets' positions and expressions between each film exposure. It took 25 separate shots, for example, to show a puppet raising his arm. This process gives their activities the staccato quality of a Walt Disney cartoon but it is by no means their principal claim to distinction. Representing the population of Lilliputia, the puppets in The New Gulliver are about three inches high. Their tiny faces, designed by Sarra Mokil, who spent two and a half years having them made, suggest Daumier drawings translated into...
Franklin Roosevelt countered by organizing the Jeffersonian Party. Republicans nominated Honest Walt Trowbridge who spoke well but promised little. But "Buzz" Windrip raved like a madman, assisted in his ravings by his creepy publicity agent and fixer, Lee Sarason. His followers got publicity by making speeches in strange places, such as copper mines, fishing fleets, sporting houses. His supporters were organized as the Forgotten Men, sang a goofy campaign song ("Buzz and buzz"), beat up Reds, Jeffersonians, innocent bystanders, lumping them together as the Antibuzz. His program, based on sharing the wealth, was as emphatic as it was meaningless...
...Gold Medal of the Italian Confederation of Professional Men & Artists, for the best animated cartoon: The Band Concert (Walt Disney...
Introduced for the first time to Mickey Mouse at a private showing of Walt Disney's The Band Concert in London, Arturo Toscanini exclaimed, "Surely it is impossible! It is magnificent!", had the film run over again. Hearing that Cine-man Disney planned a European tour, Conductor Toscanini announced: "I shall invite him to my Italian home at Lake Maggiore. Si, si, I shall insist...
...volume, such as "The Conflict" and "In me Two Worlds," which state the problems of the group almost as nicely as any prose manifesto, still want something in appeal to the moiling masses. It would be really a pity if Day Lewis and his colleagues turn out to be Walt Whitmans, rejected by the people whom they would serve. For one suspects that they have forgotten (or perhaps they have never known) the hard truth, "Nothing is further from the common people than the corrupt desire--to be common people," if one may amend Mr. Santayana's dictum...