That saves me. Thanks for being so snesible!

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Disney company always try to rewrite history with their cartoons and movies.
Don't me wrong Mr.Walt inspire me artistes talent,but after his death the devil took over.

You know what, how the heck could you say, that when you haven't met God? You don't even know our belief and our basis. And all I can do is pray for you soul to be saved by God. I am a Christian, I am for God and you have no basis. Just because you have taken cases doesn't mean you're a know it all and you're for sure that disney is fine. Are you kidding me. Men... women. Boy, girl. How in the heck else would you freaking get a kid. You wouldn't have been born if your mom and dad didn't make you. Did you think about that? You probably didn't. In the beginning, God made man and woman so that they can create children. There is good and evil. There is light and darkness. Gay marriage is evil. Think twice before posting stupid assuming comments going against my religion.

I think this is ridiculous, people are thinking way too much in depth! I am sure that the producers of movies such as Toy Story did not even intend to make Mr.Potato Head seem sexually obsessed and place the name Woody on the character for the sole idea that it is another name for a penis.

I thought the article was extremely well written and puts a kick in the face to the "pickers" of animation. I am a professional storyteller and I am currently studying law. First, of anybody wants to attack Disney animated movies, they should attack the creator of the tale. Folk tales are usually depressing and have violence and death throughout their stories. Most of these complainers have a 'Mother Goose' collection or nursery rhyme book in their house. If you actually pay attention to what is written, they are biased, sexual, violent and sexist. I say again, attack the authors if anybody. Most of the people that complain about Disney should equally complain about other studios. Warner Brothers create violent cartoons and endorse killing of animals through hunting, and their live-action movies aren't any better. Heck, Bugs Bunny cross dresses! Do you hear anything about that? How about video games? The complainers probably let their children play 'Mario Brothers' or any other game. If you want, Mario promotes sexist views because the princess always has to get saved, he is against the environment because you have to stomp on flowers and kill them, Mario also promotes violence for he also kills almost everything he comes up against! This is a family game? I could go on and on about every studio and every game. If my claims seem petty, well they are. Just like the Baptists and Christians. They are the biggest hypocrites if they have anything mentioned above in their house, or they watch anything of that nature. Plus I have fought for gay rights and have written many papers on Supreme court cases and the 14th ammendment pertaining to gay rights. I have gay friends who before the "gay day" at Disneyland had people tell them to stop holding hands because it was immoral. If anything, the Christians are pushing their beliefs onto society. The gay movement is a civil rights movement. Until the white christians have struggled and been beaten and have no rights, even in public are ridiculed, then they will get a parade and a special day. The African Americans have parades and movements, yet nothing is said to them because they are seen as equal, not lesser. This is a new era. Gays are a big part of our society, and people trying to sheild their children or rap on Disney for helping them in their fight for equality, (which they are denied simple rights) then those people live very small, closed lives. Disney brings to attention views and realities that people cannot deal with. Also, to those who say Disney has a "style" are wrong. If you look at their past nine movies, The animators have had a different look in all those movies. Look at the difference from 'Atlantis', 'Hercules', 'The Lion King', 'Lilo and Stitch'...... There is no "traditional Disney look" anymore. I am shocked that a beautiful man who's love for children and life has been ripped apart so. Disney's movies promote love, friendship, sharing, and consequences for your actions. They make you wish and laugh as well as question yourself in the situations that the characters are put in. Praise Disney for what they are trying to still accomplish in this anger, ego-driven world that we have to survive in. Disney rocks! And I will defend it until my dying day. Amanda

Dear Karl, Thank you very much for drawing my attention to your text WAS WALT DISNEY... in AWN. It is extremely interesting, especially for me, "the Disney boy" from the early '50s, and the member of the Zagreb School of Animated Film after 1958. Within satirical weekly Kerempuh in 1950, we started learning animation and making the first Croatian/Yugoslav cartoon film (The Big Meeting) - in Disney manner, of course. We didn't know for any other way in animation. In 1954 the group around Vukotic-Kostelac-Marks began to research new possibilities - in drawing, animation and content. The result was the stylized graphism, limited animation and new contents, assigned to adult audience. It was so called "anti-Disney" movement, what has been the fundamental characteristic of independent artistic films by different realizators, known as Zagreb School (named by George Sadoul and Andre Martin, 1958). Of course, similar movements happened in the US within UPA, and later in all Europe, with more or less mutual influences. Beside paying tribute for the grandious achievement in animation, this new movement has considered Disney's art as benign, petty bourgeois, conservative... As you see, everything opposite from what you mention in your text about AFA. We have heard about these American citizen's associations and their power in the society, but we've thought Disney was above suspicion. My God, what AFA says about Bakshi's "Fritz the Cat"?! And about all the films by Woody Allen? Poor Walt, I esteem him even more now! I had also very interesting experience with such people in the States. In the frame of the two months tour with my films on the US East Coast (1994), I was a guest of the University in Virginia Beach. Already during the screening I observed a strange reactions of the audience, especially to the film "One Day of Life", where there are several sexy sequences. Afterwards I was informed it was a Fundamental Christian University, with very strong puritan life and comprehensions. For them I was a man with a second wife, and a person who drinks wine during a dinner. (It was a fault of the organizers of the tour; who didn't previously acquainted me with that.) One memory about Disney. When we finished the first animated film "The Big Meeting" (1951), we got from the government a new, specialized company for producing animation. With big proud we sent to "our daddy" Walt Disney some photographs from our first film and asked him (pretty naive) for several photos from his famous Studios in order to see how the proper spaces for making animation have to look like. We received an answer from Disney's secretary: "Mr. Disney is recently in the Netherlands. Unfortunately we cannot send you the photographs of our studios". This short and cold answer hurt us a little. You must know that the big Disney's portrait was placed on the wall of the large conference room in the first animation company (Duga Film) - the president Tito's (smaller) picture was in the office of the general manager. More than forty years later, during the afore-said American tour I was also a special guest of Disney Studios in Orlando, Florida. After screening of some of my films, I talked to the younger colleagues animators about my/our beginnings on animation, and mentioned how we learned on Disney's films and made our first films in Disney manner. I felt there like at home Thanks, Karl, for your article once again. With friendly regards, B o r d o

The author seems to have a liberal left (the word often not used against 'conservative right') bias in reporting and analyzing the facts - which is okay, because there's always a room for different points of view. I only have a problem when one side of argument gets shoved down the throat (like in the ABC news - Peter Jennings and the gang are pitiful examples of biased reporting). The conservative right has an issue mostly with the Walt Disney as a corporation, not the founder himself. Granted, Disney makes conscious efforts to promote and support a certain social agenda such as homosexual rights. I don't see any problem with the homosexuals' 'rights' as citizens. They deserve all the rights of US citizenship just as much as anybody else. The problem occurs, however, when the lifestyle or moral values of certain group is preached as the 'right value' using the national media. A group as powerful as Disney can influence people via various means of media outlets and contents. In many ways, however, most of what we call 'media conglomertes' engage in similar practices so maybe it's not right just to target Disney as the only problematic company. The point that makes it an easy target, however, is the fact that they finance the objectionable contents from 'family' entertainment.

I have know about the "Clock Cleaners" swearing legend for some time, at least since the early 80's when I was first exposed to it. Always sounded like swearing to me, but I wouldn't attribute it to Walt, more the animators & voice over people. It was alledgedly edited out of some releases of Clock Cleaners, though the original video I had has it in there. Would be curious to see if it is intact in the DVD and how it is translated in the subtitles. There is also no mention of the infamous "Uncle Walt" short. Seems that at least a few people who were working for/close to Walt had something to say there. Take everything with a grain of salt. Realize that everyone does not have to have the same hero and that your hero may be flawed.

The supposed word SEX in the dust of The Lion King and in the clouds in Aladdin (check for yourself, it's there..) is actually SFX...the Special Effects animators stamping there mark in the films they have made. It's a shame that general public can't view these films for what they are...ENTERTAINMENT!...small minds looking for small things. If Disney upsets you so much...don't see the films.