Did Disney Create the Counterculture?
Just checked out this pretty cool book, FROM WALT TO WOODSTOCK: HOW DISNEY CREATED THE COUNTERCULTURE that is a look at how Disney's films created the 60's youth radical generation. From the above...
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Interesting. You could make the 'create the counterculture' argument about a lot of things in the 50s, and I have -- in my case Zacherley, Steve Allen, Soupy Sales, Paul Winchell, Chuck McCann, Mad...
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Good point about ol' Walt ususally presenting every side of the pyramid in an unbiased fashion. Sorry to take this off-topic, but David, but you went and let the cat outta the bag now....You were at...
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Never actually thought of Unca' Walt this way but, point taken. "Toby Tyler" certainly made me want to run away and find a convenient Circus where I could pal around with a chimp (and cavort with a...
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I'm going to quote a bit from the begining of the book, so you can get a bit of where he's going: Woodstock; Summer 1969. What follows is a modern urban legend that, if only apocryphal, remains true...
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Recall the classic "Ain't gonna work on Unca Walt's farm no more?" poster? (THAT one brought out the good ol Reactionary side of the Magic Kingdom!) -Craig W.
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'Twas "The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh" that played a part in my early counterculture-ing~
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Son of Street Worm wrote: 'Twas "The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh" that played a part in my early counterculture-ing~ Maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong about this but I'm pretty sure I read...
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The Scarecrow was serialized on Disney in December, 1963. The Beatles' first apearance on Sullivan wasn't until February, 1964. As I recall, Disney and Sullivan overlapped. You could catch the first...
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davlghry wrote: The Scarecrow was serialized on Disney in December, 1963. The Beatles' first apearance on Sullivan wasn't until February, 1964. As I recall, Disney and Sullivan overlapped. You could...
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I think what Disney did best was empower the underdog. And in many of his films, the underdogs were children. The Parent Trap, Pollyanna, The Shaggy Dog, even The Mickey Mouse Club--all of the kids...
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You're right. I went by the IMDb dates. I was wondering how I was able to see the Scarecrow AND The Beatles. I must have watched the first half of Scarecrow and then switched over to Sullivan.
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The Walt Disney Company definitely influenced my moral philosophy from an early age, as children and animals were represented as the innocent and often powerless victims of adult authority or just big...
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This book comes to the exact opposite conclusion: The Pirates and the Mouse: Disney's War Against The Counterculture In 1971, a group of underground cartoonists known as the Air Pirates put out a...
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I would say to look at the hippies in Moon Pilot, Super Dad and The Love Bug to see what the studio's attitude toward the counterculture was. Maybe there are more, but these are the ones that spring...
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I read somewhere that Disney was responsible for energizing the US animal rights movement thanks to Bambi (hunting), Dumbo (circuses), and Lady and the Tramp (pet population). I definitely think he...
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The alpha male Brom Bones is the good guy. No. "Brom Bones is the secondary antagonist in Disney's 1949 short The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Brom_Bones
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luditheyardfool wrote:The alpha male Brom Bones is the good guy. No. "Brom Bones is the secondary antagonist in Disney's 1949 short The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Brom_Bones...
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Well, I haven't seen Disney's SLEEPY HOLLOW in ages, but I certainly remember that I ALWAYS thought of Brom Bones as the bad guy. Slimy bad guy.
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