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Make Mine Music (Walt Disney-RKO Radio), which has been described by one wag as the poor man's Fantasia, is a Technicolored musical blue-plate special, prepared for the 18-to-2 y-year-old age group which has heretofore proved least responsive to Disney films...
...parody first lines of poems, and warming up bedroom scenes in a hack-written best-seller about two U.S. families who take part in every war since the Revolution. ("After all, I was the person who suggested the whole idea of having Nancy Gaylord be the mother of Walt Whitman's illegitimate child-it's terrific. He meets her at the Mardi Gras and lays her on a cotton bale-she realizes for the first time that the Yankees are not all as bad as she'd thought.") The satire is not intended to cut deep...
...issues and effort of the Civil War produced the moral writings of Emerson and Thoreau, Walt Whitman's best poetry, Abraham Lincoln's speeches, and Mark Twain's best book (Huckleberry Finn). They also proved that history's greatest democracy was not going the way of democratic Athens, for the war's dead were scarcely settled in their graves when the Robber Barons took over their country. They were able to do so because practically every American intensely admired them, and hoped to be a Robber Baron himself. The result of their enterprise...
Dumbo. Reissue of Walt Disney's famous baby elephant cartoon...
...biography (unfamiliar to most Americans) and over 400 superb Brady photographs, together with a number made by his assistants (at the height of his activities, he had 21). There are also some 200 Brady portrait photographs, some of them (notably Phineas T. Barnum, side-showman extraordinary-see cut-and Walt Whitman) never published before. Outstanding is the series of photographs of Lincoln taken by Brady in his studio...