Disney's Choice
The talk turns back to animation once more, and I would like to look at Disney’s works. Among the features are “Snow White,” “Cinderella,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Rapunzel,” and so on. Of course, the number of titles is far greater than that. Many of Disney’s works take their material from the collections of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and by Perrault, who gathered folk tales from Germany and, beyond it, from around Italy and France. The contents of the Grimms’ book are quite cruel; in the second edition some revision was made to the treatment of the mother, and it is said that with every edition after that, revisions here and there were unavoidable. And one often hears that when these became Disney animation, a great many more revisions were made on top of that. ...