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...wolf was still haunting Disney's door. Production costs on cartoons were rising so fast that they gobbled up the profit as it came in. Walt turned to another source of income. With funds blocked in Britain, he made four live-action features between 1950 and 1953: Treasure Island, Robin Hood, The Sword and the Rose, Rob Roy. They were all amazingly good in the same way. Each struck exactly the right note of wonder and make-believe. The mood of them all was lightsome, modest. Nobody was trying to make a great picture. The settings, in the British...
...with his intellectual pockets full of toads and baby bunnies and thousand-leggers, and plunges eagerly into every new thicket of ideas he comes across. Often enough he emerges, in radiant triumph, bearing the esthetic equivalent of a rusty beer can or an old suspender. They are treasures to Walt, and somehow his wonder and delight in the things he discovers make them treasures to millions who know how dearly come by are such things as wonder and delight. Besides, there is always the chance that, when he comes bursting out of the next bush, face all scratched and lumberjacket...
...Once, during the production of Fantasia, Walt sat through a screening of the centaur sequence set to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. When it was over he turned to one of his assistants and said earnestly: "Gee! This'll make Beethoven...
...little squeaker with matchstick legs, shoebutton eyes and a long, pointy nose. His teeth were sharp and fierce when he laughed, more like a real mouse's than they are today, and he staggered stiffly through the hasty animation. He had the same tiny, squeaky voice, however; usually, Walt himself speaks Mickey's lines...
...years went on, and Walt prospered, The Mouse got some of the benefits. In 1931 he was given his first pair of shoes. By 1935 he was fatter and sleeker, and his eyes had grown large and almost soulful. In 1938 he felt the pinch of rising costs: he lost his tail, thereby saving the studio a sizable sum of money on each cartoon. Next year, after Snow White, he got the tail back, only to lose it again during Walt's dark years in the '40s. But in 1952 Walt made up for everything by giving Mickey...