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...animation, this is a Golden Age. Not since the 1940s -- with Pinocchio and Dumbo from Walt Disney and the great cartoon shorts by Tex Avery at MGM and by Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones at Warner Bros. -- has the form been so commercially successful and artistically exhilarating. Moreover, at a time when mass art is fragmented, even divisive -- when virtually no species of entertainment has universal appeal -- the hip, comic ingenuity and emotional breadth of the best cartoons reunite the consumers of popular culture with Hollywood's surest instinct to please in a vast Saturday matinee of the spirit...
...cartoon revival was dramatic on the big screen as well. Disney, which slumped after Walt Disney's death in 1966, regained its touch in the mid-'80s under the urging of Jeffrey Katzenberg, the new studio boss, and Walt's nephew Roy Disney, who godfathered a new generation of animators. The Little Mermaid (1989) not only proved that joy could again be a component of movie craftsmanship, it earned $84 million in its North American theatrical release. Last year's Beauty and the Beast outgrossed Mermaid by $50 million and was the first cartoon feature nominated for an Oscar...
...Beast. It all proves the difficulty of matching either Disney's financial commitment to animation (about $40 million a feature, compared with $12 million to $20 million for the others) or its artists' mastery of a storytelling form that the studio invented, misplaced and then, spectacularly, rediscovered. Walt meets Mickey; Disney loses touch; Katzenberg & Co. find Aladdin's lamp...
Keith Haring once said that Mickey Mouse is "ultimately a symbol of America more than anything else." Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Walt Disney is the manifestation of that idea. The show focuses on Haring, who was inspired by Walt Disney's and Andy Warhol's use of popular images and mass production...
...creation of Mickey Mouse in 1928 marked the entry of art into the mainstream of everyday life. The exhibition spans the history of the Walt Disney Company, from "Steamboat Willie" (the first animated film to feature Mickey Mouse and a synchronized soundtrack) to "The Prince and the Pauper," Disney's 1990 animation short. The exhibit includes preliminary drawings, movie posters, and frames of celluloid animation film ("cells"). The sequence of drawings for "The Prince and the Pauper" includes a story sketch, which captures the mood of the story; rough drawings of the extreme points of the character's movements; "clean...