Animated films - James Clarke

Clarke J, 2007, ‘Animated films’, VIRGIN BOOKS LTD, Thames Wharf Studios, Rainvillie Road, London, England.

‘Walt Disney is one of the most significant popular culture figures of all time, both as an artist and so on a movie maker induralist.’ P.26

‘His [Walt Disney ] story telling impulse has been criticised for homogenising the fairytale narrative, his studio adapted into features in 1937 with Snow White and the seven dwarfs.’ P. 26

‘What is most undeniable is his personal advancement of the medium of the classical or full animations inwhich drawn characters are animated against visually realistic background using ink and paint, it is perhaps the form of animation closest to the tradition of the picture book and certainly the illustrated fairytale’. P.26

‘In adapting fairytales and previsouoy existing stories, Disney (both the man and the collective effort of his titular studio) reframed them in the public imagination to the point they have become to be the thought of the definitive. 27

‘ if one where to read the orginal Pinocchio or snowwhite, tale recorded from the European oral traditions by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the difference in action and tone would be astonished.’ 27

‘Famously, he [Walt disney] stated that "until a character becomes personality, it cannot ring true to an audience’ 29

‘By the mid 1930’s  Mickey Mouse’s merchandising was vital to covering studios costs and it allowed the Disney narrative to become increasingly ingrained in the American and eventually global imagination and cinematic genetic code’ 30

‘Disney is often cited negatively as narrowing in audiences sense of what a fairytale can be.’ P.30


‘In Disney’s films the magic is often explained as being a mechanical process demgestifing royalty, empthasing the age group of between  children and parents’ 30

‘ ever since the little mermaid, the gently rebellious heroine is domesticated by love in Disney films. Disney hero’s search for happiness and accept responsibility.

Oxford companion to fairytales quoted by animated films; ‘ Disney’s version of the fairytale focus on the the ‘PRIVILEGED OF innoncence, the valorisation of sentiment ... a jovial disdain for ugliness or deformity, a luxuriant, infantelis cel eratipn of cute’ 31.