Fifteen years ago a struggling American youth tried hard to sell his first animated cartoon comedy, "Alice." Scarcely anybody at that time could divine in the heap of ingenious drawings a foreshadow of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," the ink-pot drama which has started a new epoch in the history of graphic cinema. From a single-handed draftsman, Walt Disney has developed into a conductor of some sort of polyexpressive optical and accoustical orchestra. Under his inspirational guidance 600 enthusiastic young men and women have been orchestrating cinematic pantomime and color with the music of voice, instruments and sound into harmony, rhythm, and drama. […]
