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Saint Walt
The Greatest Artist the World has ever known, except for, possibly, Apolloius of Rhodos
John Gardner
"...Disney knew what he liked, felt absolutely certain that others were exactly like him, and went after it, cutting no corners..." A few years ago when you mentioned Walt Disney at a respectable party - or anyway this is how it was in Califomia, where l was then - the standard response was a headshake and a groan. Intellectuals spoke of how he butchered the classics-from Pinocchio to Winnie the Pooh-how his wildlife pictures were sadistic and coy, how the World’s Fair sculptures of hippopotamuses, etc., were a national if not international disgrace. A few crazies disagreed, and since crazies are always the people to watch, it began to be admitted that the early Pluto movies had a considerable measure je ne sais pas quoi, that the background animation in Snow White was “quite extraordinary,” that Fantasia did indeed have one great sequence (then it became two; now everyone says three, though there’s fierce disagreement on exactly which three). […]

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Source type Magazine
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Language en
Document type Feature
Media type text
Page count 7
Pages pp. 64-66,68-71

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Availability Free
Inserted 2015-06-03