Word: walt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Babes in Toyland (Hal Roach). With the notable exception of Walt Disney cartoons, fantasy is not a form of entertainment in which the cinema excels. Particularly in fantasy for children, there usually prevails a certain horrid condescension on the part of producers who, unwilling to risk inventing fantasies of their own, prefer to adapt classics. This fact makes it hard to believe that any adaptation of Victor Herbert's famed operetta would amount to more than a ridiculous calamity. Fortunately, Producer Hal Roach, well-versed in the art of gag comedies, saw fit to throw most of his original material...
...program is backed up by an excellent Walt Disney. "The Old China Shop," also by a not quite so excellent Geology-Matherism and an unforgettably display of "Percussion" . . . Also, a speech on adult education: presumably this does not apply to college students...
...vocabulary. Sennett distrusted such academic impedimenta as written scripts, insisted on his authors telling him their stories verbally. The post-War years 1924-26 were golden harvests for Mack Sennett. Then came the talkies and Sennett slapstick began to fade from public favor. The finishing touch was given by Walt Disney's ubiquitous Mickey Mouse...
...Even Walt Disney's "Three Little Pigs" are among the works of art that lend themselves to parody. For of "the three little pigs who went to the Big Three, the pig that was expelled from Yale was the happiest of the bunch...
...rival RKO's Little Women at the Exposition, MGM sent Viva Villa!, Fox The World Moves On, Paramount Death Takes a Holiday, Warner Brothers Wonder Bar, United Artists Affairs of Cellini, Universal The Invisible Man and Walt Disney an unnamed short. Though Extase had unquestionably stolen the show last week, the Exposition's first prize remained to be awarded, was expected to go to some less popular film...