But the passion for imitation h; led other cartoonists into Disney's own fairyland with the result that the screen shows us time after time what are really no more than bad suggestions of Disney with flagrant adaptations of the Disney creatures: diluted Donalds, metricians Mickeys and pallid Plutos. There have been any amount of careful effort and boredom. The moral is that nobody else can walk in the shoes of the genius and nobody else should try.
Probably the expense of-a six-reel cartoon will be a deterrent save to the richest producing companies. "Snow White" is said to have cost £300,000 in the three years it took to make, The money will come back, but it is a lot to risk, One should do and say nothing to discourage the work of original artists for the screen. Probably the screen's future lies in a large measure in their hands. But. it is well to remember that it is easier to devise and direct an entertaining story for Myrna Loy and William Powell than to create and draw an actual picture which will move and live for one hour and- 20 minutes as "Snow White" moves and lives. character all that his persona' can demand. His quizzical humour will have full play; his easily borne heroism will find a score of opportunities. He will be the chevalier sans pour et sans reproche and very little of the criminal and dirty genius who had no conscience above robbing old and youn women of small coins and who would rather stab a m the dark and the back than dare him to his face.
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