The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-25
% M- Hollywood
By PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Stan Correspondent

HollyWood--The Threc LlLtle PlBs are returning to the screen.
 Walt Disney has shelved "Pinoc- chic" temporarily and "Bambi" will be his next feature-length cartoon.
 Ferdinand the Bull will be ready to stage his sitdown strike this sum mer.
 Leopold Stokowski will be billed above Mickey Mouse in "The Sor- cerer's Apprentice.
 These facts make more news than is to be found right now in all the rest of fear-stricken. stagnant Hol- lywood.
 Animal Demand
 The Disney outfit IS working full tilt and at full capacity. with 700 people thinking. sketching, painting tracing and photographing like mad.
 Even with the staff and equip ment assembled by Disney. and with q world market already pleading for another animated feature. there's scarcely chance tl,at "Bambi" can b ready until the spring of l930.
 Some time ago the report got about that "Pinocchio," the story of a puppet that wanted to be human. would be Disney's next full-length animation. This isn't true. In fact, world rights to the yarn have not yet been purchased. First published in 1904 "Pinocchio" Is in the public domain for America but foreign copyright laws would make neces- sary the purchase of the rights from dozens of the authors heirs Deer Additions
 "Bambi" was Disney's first and greatest enthusiasm anyway. This story of n deer written by Felix Salten, an Austrian, was translated into English in l03l. Director Sid- ncy Franklin read 1t and told Dis ney that he just had to make 1t. Dis ney read 1t and agreed. Preliminary work began long before Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was completed.
 For plot and characters 1t Is con- sidered perfect cartoon vehicle. Probably not single human being will be shown. although the princi- pal menace throughout the yarn is Man. And Bambi's deer little cousin gets shot.
 All the animals will talk, of course. Lately there have been additions for the voice of Bambi, and the studio has been besieged by hundreds of small boys conveyed by their moth- CTS. It has been agreed that a boy must speak for Bambi but some of the other animal characters will present tougher problems.
 Peace In the Afternoon
 The story of Ferdinand the paci- fist bull who'd rather smell flowers than fight. will be an eight-minute short. It's an adaptation of the short -short-short best-seller, writ ten by Munro Leaf and so mar velously Illustrated by Robert Law son.
 This is the first story ever pur- chased by Disney for n short. And the resulting film probably will be the first Disney production to be banned by censors of some of the more militant European countries.
 The animators have had a pretty tough time with Ferdinand. any way. He has big limpid brown eyes, and long, heavy eyelashes. When he walks he swishes. And in the bull ring he tries to eat the daisy that Is tattoed on the matadors chest.
 M. Mouse is working in couple of pictures now-"The Brave Little Tailor" one of the Grimm tales, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice" which was folk tale made into ballad by Goethe, and more recently into symphonic tone poem" by Paul Dukas.
 Both are shorts and the latter is the one for which StokoWski, at his own request. conducted the score, He did not as has been reported, use his Philadelphia Symphony for the chore. He used Q pickup or chestra of Hollywood musicians. The actual recording was done late one night in three hours.
 The billing will read: Walt Dls- ney present
 LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI AND
 MICKEY MOUSE in "rhe Sorcerer's Apprentice
 What with Snow White Bambi Donald Duck. Ferdinand and nssort- cd Silly Symphonies at work in the studio. Disney has been conscience stricken about his neglect of the famed Mouse. Mickey will ge his share of attention hereafter. but he'll have to step aside just once more for the second bow of the Three Little Pigs.
 This one will be called '"The Prnc- tical Pig" who build n lie detector and uses it on hte big. bad wolf When the wolf denies knowing the whereabouts of the Practical Pigs impractical brothers. couple of mechanical hands pop from the lie detector and wash out his mouth with soap.
 yousc." He brandished his gun. "Git up"
 It was clear that he meant business. Kelly and Joe got up.
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