[caricatures by A. Birnbaum]
Every once in a while there comes a movie that has been buzzed about and built up so much in advance that nothing in this world or the next one could be that good, and the sourpusses of the world get out their hammers and go to work. If Walter Disney still owns any boots and hasn't pawned them to pay for just one more little raccoon to put into Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, he must be quaking in those boots right now. The picture is out and the public is making up its mind about Disney's latest amazingly courageous venture into the field of the full-length feature. If you come right down to it, there isn't a live thing in the picture. Technicians can tell you how it is all done with ink, paint, photographs hooked one onto another and garnished up with sound effects.
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