Peter Pan is the boy who never grew up and the lost boys. At the Roxy.The story of Peter Pan is the most wonderful stories in the history. Barrie's play directed by Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson produced by walt Disney and released by R. PETER PAN, an animated cartoon adaptation of J. It's a case of trick editing, but it's fun.No wonder the kiddies and their parents were beating down the doors yesterday.The stage show at the Roxy is another production of the "Ice Colorama," featuring the Roxy Skating Blades and Belles.
The most amusing sequence in the picture is a montage of bears scratching themselves, done to a deft bolero rhythm.
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Wendy and the other children, plus Nana, the nurse-maid dog, are merely good, pious Disney creations in a firstclass, feature-length "Disney cartoon."As for "Bear Country," it follows in the excellent series of nature films that have been produced by the Disney studio, such as "Seal Island" and "Water Birds." This one studies the environment and habits of American wild bears to reveal both the sturdiness and cunning of these amiable-looking animals. Tinker Bell is a bit of a vulgarity, with her bathing-beauty form and attitude, but even she-like Peter's harem of doting mermaids-is cleverly and expertly drawn. The colors, too, are more exciting and the technical features of the job, such as the synchronization of voices with the animation of lips, are very good.Such things as the innovation of a visit to the Indian Village by the Lost Boys (to the tune of a lively ditty, "Tee Dum, Tee Dee") and a powwow there with the Indians to "What Makes the Red Man Red" rollick with gleeful vitality, and one bit, wherein the pirate, Smee, shaves the tail of a seagull that has settled on Hook's face, is a cartoonist's gem.The music, too, is animated, from the opening "You Can Fly-You Can Fly" to a cheerfully flippant pirate ditty, "The Elegant Captain Hook."As we say, the characters are familiar, but none the less vigorously conceived, with Peter and Hook the most commanding and elastically contrived. This episode in the story has been worked out in a burst of violent farce, with Hook struggling frantically to stay out of the ferocious old Crocodile's pink maw. Disney's picture, which went on at the Roxy yesterday along with his True-Life film, "Bear Country," has the story but not the spirit of "Peter Pan" as it was plainly conceived by its author and is usually played on the stage.However, that's not to say it isn't a wholly amusing and engaging piece of work within the defined limitations of the aforementioned "Disney style." The Disney inventions are as skillful and clever as they have ever been-perhaps even more so, in some cases, as in the encounter of Captain Hook with the Crocodile.
Disney and his artists, for all their craft and skill, are still a wee bit unresponsive where the delicacies of whimsy are concerned.Anyhow, Mr. Perhaps they were due to some anxiety that the mention of pixiness in the modern American movie theatre might provoke some embarrassment. And he has dropped entirely the crisis that is the climax of the play, wherein the audience is begged to shout its belief in fairies to save the imprisoned Tinker Bell.Perhaps these eliminations were prompted by a belief that present-day adults and children are more literal than they were in Barrie's time. He gets into his story of the English children who are wafted away to Never Land by the eternally youthful Peter and his companion, Tinker Bell, by making it very obvious that the whole adventure is a dream and offering the helpful suggestion that adults take it as a token of the spirit of youth. Disney has completely eliminated from his film the spirit of guileless credulity in fairy magic that prevails in the play. Worthington Foulfellow in plumes and Peter himself is reminiscent of some of the boys in "Pinoccnio." As for the famous Barrie fairy, the crystalline and luminous Tinker Bell, she is as nubile and coquettish as the maiden centaurs in "Fantasia."What's more, Mr. Captain Hook, the horrendous villain, is J. Disney's animated cartoon of the widely loved children's fantasy is frankly and boldly created in what may best be described as "Disney style." The characters are drawn and animated in such a way that they readily recall not only the appearance but the behavior of familiars in other Disney films.That is to say, the well-bred Wendy is a virtual duplicate of the prim Snow White the pirate, Smee, is the same as the dwarf, Happy, and Baby Michael is a Dopey who talks. There may be some scrupulous objection to Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" on the ground that it does not hold precisely to the pristine spirit of the J.