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2C ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE Saturday, July 21, 1973 DISNEYISM Character development is not one of Mickey's attractions. In addition to the Disney cast of original, durable characters, reams of literary material has passed into visual form throughout the Disney organization. Fairy tales, classic literature, history, current events, nature itself they all come out Disneyish. Disney's Alice in Wonderland is distinguishable from his Snow White only because Alice is a blonde and wears Mary Jane shoes with white stockings, while Snow White has dark hair and what appear to be Dr. Scholl shoes.

Both like all Disney heroines have china doll faces topped by ribbons tied in bows centered in their boufant hair. THERE IS only one old-person face in Disney. Surrounded by cottony, hair, it has a round pink nose on which are perched wire-rim spectacles. Pinocchio's father, Geppetto, has it, as do all seven of Snow White's dwarfs. The female face of evil is Joan Crawford dressed by Charles Addams, while male evil, whether human or animal, is characterized by jaws in which you can almost hear the saliva sloshing.

(Sometimes you can see it, too, as it overflows the mouth when evil-doing gets hectic.) Adolf Hitler got this treatment for World War II cartoons. Animation had become, as Disney often said, the newest of the graphic arts. When his animators studied a raindrop's fall by filming it and then enlarging the film and playing it over and over in slow motion, they learned how to turn out a storm in which the tiniest details were perfect. After the contributions of technical proficiency in animation, and the spreading of a vision of a bright world populated by memorable animals, the most culturally significant contribution of Disneyism is probably the popularization of good music through animated illustrations. This started in 1929, with the first of the Silly Symphony shorts.

Some of these had famous music, some original hit songs (such as "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" from "The Three Little Pigs" of 1933); some had regular story lines, and some were pure fantasy. THE CULMINATION of this idea was the 1940 film From 1C to punctuate every 10 minutes of his life by tearing out his own head-feathers. Goofy, the slow-moving dimwit with the Mortimer Snerd voice, who contributed "duuuuuuuuh" to the language, and whom fate contrives to save in spite of himself. Pluto, the arch-shaped dog with the vivid imagination kept busy constant turning out schemes which don't work. Jiminy Crickett, the hopping philosopher, who offers his commentary on-the passing scene as he descends safely from a horrendous fall by opening his umbrella for a parachute.

Chip an' (the earliest versions pre-date the resourceful chipmunks who take on all comers of all sizes in their victorious efforts to store acorns for the winter. And the two lone women: Minnie Mouse, the shy giggler whose favorite posture is clasped hands, cross-eyed toes and a face decorated with a bashful smile and a blush, and Daisy Duck, the quarrelsome nag whose idea of heaven is the purchase of a new flowered hat. These are the characters who have captivated the world. In their old-fashioned clothes, with their white gloves, clunky shoes, flowered hats or sailor suits; with their often unintelligible speech; and their highly predictable antics. WHY, NOBODY has really explained.

There have been essays suggesting their universality, their indominability, their kick-in-the-pants freedom in a constricted world. Walt Disney himself, the man with the cheerfully lopsided circle dotting his once told the New York Times Magazine: "The best any of us have been able to come up with is the fact that Mickey is so simple and uncomplicated, so easy to understand, that you can't help liking him." And so Mickey, at the age of 45, is more popular than ever. (The first five years of Disneysim starred a live girl named Alice who romped in animated settings.) The only difference between the 1928 Mickey and the 1973 one is that the original character was formally named Mortimer, and he didn't wear white gloves and still sometimes had straps on his red rompers. tiplying like alley cats all over America, and "Mary Poppins," In the mid '50s, Disney got into television, with the shows often serving as promotions for the real-life Disney films. One award-winning program, for example, was entirely about the difficulties of the Disney company's filming Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under Sea" underwater.

The empire was constantly feeding back on itself, with programs feeding on films, feeding on comic books, feeding on commercial products. And, in recent decades, at the center of it all, was the synthesis of everything Disney represented fantasy, nature, adventure and box office success which was Disneyland. That opened in California in 1955, and the East Coast version, Disney World, opening in Florida in 1971. FROM THE beginning, part of Disney's success was based on the fact that it dominated the field of certified "children's entertainment" the kind of stuff that parents didn't have to worry about letting their children see. The Disney products have always meant "wholesome" entertainment.

But wholesomeness has meant different things and different times to different people, and there's a lot in Disneyism that will shock people if they revisit their favorites at the Lincoln Center festival. Things that seemed perfectly all right when the films first came out. The Disney products have always reflected the mores of their time, neither better nor worse than the prevailing thought. At various times, they went casually along with racism, sexism, materialism and violence. About all you can be sure ot, with the Disney trademark, is that there will be no unleashed sex.

As for violence, there are a lot of grown-ups around now who still bear the scars of watching an evil stepgirl's heart being brought to her in a box. What ever has aged about Disney, there is a lot that is here to stay. Its way of looking at the world has become a part of all of us. Its development of the graphic art of animation has taken a popular art into esthetic realms. And for some reason, which no one has ever satisfactorily explained, people love to wear.

"Fantasia," a movie that seems to increase in popularity with every comeback. Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky from the baton of Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra came not only their music but the pictures and colors they might evoke. Million of children were exposed to concerts when they went to the neighborhood movie theaters, and bently led into thinking about it by watching bright antics ranging from dancing ostriches and hippopotamuses to swirling flames of almost pure color. In some cases, it may also have been an introduction to abstract art. While many of the cartoons of the '30s had simple morals (mostly along the lines if-you-don't-work-you'll starve), Disney adapted his techniques to full war propaganda during the early '40s.

And the films reached a. wide audience in commercal theaters. In "Der Fuehrer's Face," Donald Duck dreams he is a German working in a munitions factory under intolerable conditions that finally drive him crazy. He wakes up, in his star-spangled pajamas, and kisses the Statue of Liberty. The final word is given a narrator, who announces "Der Fuehrer tells us not to love the food is a big disgrace" while pink cream pie hits Hitler in the face.

The educational films, which have blanketed high schools, taught everything from how to treat a cold (sponsored by a tissue company) to how menstruation works (sponsored by a sanitary napkin coippany). AFTER THE early decades of Silly Symphonies, miscellaneous shorts, propaganda and full-length cartoon features, Disney expanded to include real-life nature films, in which the coy Disney animated animals were mirrored in reality, and "adventure" films, in which historical and other figures were represented by live actors undergoing the Disney treatment. Looking at some of these impressive pictures, You wonder how the world came to look like Disney is used to, or we are all so used to seeing things in Disney terms that even transform nature, or that Disney is right, and that's the way the real world is. The real-people films include such hits as "Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier," which soon had coonskin caps mul- Pay Plagues United Presbyterians WHAT'S COOKING Inside Religion by Lester Kinsolving 1971, of more than two per cent of its entire membership the worst of any denomination) is surely more the fault of national headquarters than the missionaries. For the missionaries have to live down the actions of the national headquarters infinitely more than vice versa.

And while total giving to all local Presbyterian churches is up by eleven million, giving to the national headquarters is down by eight per cent, or two million. There is, however, some hope in sight. General Assembly elected to its highest post (Moderator) an apparently good man, the Rev. Clinton or Omaha. 2 tbsp.

confectioners' sugar Grated scmi-swect chocolate METHOD: Empty chocolate cake mix into a bowl. Measure amount of water the package directs, but substitute Vi cup cherry and fruit brandy for cup of the water. Prepare cake with eggs and liquid, mixing as package directs. Bake in two 8-inch layer cake pans. When layers are completely cool, split each in half crosswise (using a thin serrated knife) to make 4 layers.

Drain cherries well and reserve 12 cherries for the top of torte. Coarsely chop remaining cherries. Combine heavy cream with confectioners' sugar and whip until soft peaks form. Fold in remaining Vt cup cherry and fruit brandy. Spread three of the cake layers with the whipped cream and sprinkle with chopped cherries; assemble layers.

Top with fourth layer, spread with remaining cream and garnish with wJiole cherries and grated chocolate. Yields about 12 servings. Note: For a filling with less calories than whipped cream, prepare 2 envelopes (2 oz. each) whipped topping mix as package directs. Fold in cup cherry and fruit brandy and finish assembling torte as above i From 1C lightly in flour mixed with salt and pepper.

Heat oil in large skillet, add chicken and cook 5 minutes, stirring until pieces are light golden brown. Remove from skillet and set aside. Add sliced pepper to pan; cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add lemon and fruit brandy, syrup from pineapple, vinegar, soy sauce and garlic. Bring to boil.

Quarter pineapple slices and add to pan along with tomato and cucumber. Return chicken pieces to pan. Cook for 1 minute, stirring. Mix water and cornstarch and add to pan, stirring until sauce boils up and thickens. Turn into serving dish and garnish w.ith lemon slices.

Serve with rice. 4 servings. CHERRY-CHOCOLATE TORTE 1 pkg. (18 oz.) chocolate cake mix Water, see method below Eggs, as cake mix package directs Vi cup cherry and fruit brandy 1 can (about 1 lb.) dark sweet pitted cherries 1 pint heavy cream mushing in the Artie or sweltering in the jungle to know that upon the Biblical criterion the heart lies, there will lie the treasure he or she is worth only one fifth as much as McLeod. Moreover, the present desolation of the United Presbyterian Church (a loss, since headquarters' highly questionable attempt to conceal it) had to do with the United Presbyterian Church's present and desolate condition is conjectural.

IT MUST, however, be particularly galling to the missionary who is rWJELCOMI? This Week in Upstate THE BAPTIST TEMPLE Cor. Highland Clover 10:00 A.M. "EACH IN HIS OWN Rev. Robert C. Niwtll.

Mlnislar WEBSTER BIBLE CHURCH R.v. Harry I. Fletch.r, Pottor Lonct Sttrring, Youth Dir. 675 Holt Rd W.btttr. Y.

Sunday Strvicts 11 A I 7:00 P.M. Bible School, 9:45 P.M. Wed. Prnyer Service 7:00 P.M. Diol-AMtuoi.

171-52! MEGIDDO CHURCH Thuriteii Rood it Sewyer SUNDAY WOltMIP- A.M. f. Flew.rday, Pastor Wri.r. The li Hit uli nurc church iiejr. 3201 DEWEY AVE.

Si. Qj-ty SERVICES 8:30 end 11 A M. "The United Presbyterian Church pays a national mission employe as little as $6,000 per year base salary and a General Assembly employe as much as $37,500 per year," observed a petition to that denomination's recent General Assembly in Omaha. "All servants of the church are important and deserve to be equally treated on their dedication to Christ, as opposed to a secular system of values," contended this "overture," from Alabama's Birmingham Presbytery. A similar, if more conservative, overture came from the Presbytery of Philadelphia, which asked that headquarters salaries be limited to 250 per cent of median clergy income.

BOTH OF these provocative petitions were submitted for further study (virtually killed) by the General Assembly understandably, because it is rare indeed that anyone but headquarters staff and other high-paid personnel can afford to take ten days in May to attend General Assembly. Yet it is significant that this proposal for a 250 per cent limitation should come from the Philadelphia Presbytery, because this area is the residence of both of the denomination's men, Stated Clerk William P. Thompson and Mission Council Director Leon Fanniel. On a lower level, there are three men at H.Q. who are paid $32,500 including the Rev.

Oscar McLeod. The Rev. Mr. McLeod took a leading part in the $10,000 Presbyterian donation to the Angela Davis Defense Fund. Just how much this $10,000 gift (or, as the Presbytery of San Francisco concluded, the FIRST SPIRITUAL SCIENCE CHURCH 357 GREGORY STREET EVERY SUNDAY THE FIRST CHURCH OF THE ASCENSIONISTS OF ROCHESTER (Intirlaith) 1550 Empire Boulevard Hill Haven Nursing Home P.M.

P.M. Rev. Rebort I. Wagntr EMMANUEL EVANG. COVENANT CHURCH 319 Irowntroft St.

9:30 A.M.-C0MBINED WORSHIP "LONG DISTANCE CALLING" Marvin W. Jenien, Potter CHRIST CHURCH UNITY 55 Prince FOR WHAT DO YOU ASK Alice Martindale, Guest Speaker Dial-a-Prayer 471-2341 Gerald Belartqor, Minister 3 00 P.M. Afternoon Service 4 30 P.M. Menage Circlet P.M. Evening Service REV.

MAYMIE ROSENBAUM, Paitori FIRST BAP TIST CHURCH OF ROCHESTER 1 75 Allen's Creek Road at Clover 10:00 A.M. WORSHIP SERVICE Mr. Bettison, Preaching Nursery Core for preschool cmldren (luring the lummer LIVING FAITH CEMER 260 Beelovith Road ivjl B(iilru Ifrtt Henrietta. Christian Teet hing Cenlrr-Kallv Every P.M. MTXhr.H- I.AKKV tit' Htliiiitiltiii.

ill Hi'Ut Trlrulmnr I'raitr Born to be killed. That's the fate of thousands of puppies and kittens in tlia Upstate? area who are victims of the pet population crisis. This issue of Upstate explores this crisis and also looks an organization very much invoked. That's the Humane Society of Rochester, better known as l.ollypoji I arm. It's celebrating its 100th year, and it has some problems of its own.

Also this week: Willis retires and a little bit of Rochester history yoes with him. Floyd King, Upstate's Outdoorsman writes about strangers in the night. Mr aaejiaWMHiiiM. i we BETHEL FULL GOSPEL "Astemblieg of God" 321 EAST Rochester INDIAN LANDING LUTHERAN CHURCH 650 N. Landing Rood S.

Tjernagel, Ph.O Pallor Sunday School 9:1 5 Worship 10:30 "Faithful To The Inspired Scri.turei" The congregation will observe the 20th anniversary of its association with the Evangelical Lutheran Synod ot its morning services on July 22. The speaker will be the Rev. Norman Madson, Field Secretary (or Foreign missions, the EIS. Dinner will be served alter the service. Pastor Madson will conduct a mission service at 2 30 tM.

All friends and farmer members of the congregation ore welcome. 0 0 0 0 Sunday Services 9:45 A.M. Sunday School 11:00 A.M. MORNING WORSHIP Ptntcoital Calibration 7 00 P.M. EVENING SERVICE Missionary O.

Dobton of India Wed. 7:30 P.M. Charismatic Service Praver For The Sick Pester E. J. SCMOSSMACHfl 0 Christian Science Churches of Rochester Kir-i.

Mast Ave. Sun. 11.00 S.S. 11:00 Sccoiul. 1 Srnrca Pkvv.

Sun. 10:45 S.S. 10:43 Third. 23 Mars.li St. Sun.

10:00 S.S. 10:00 Kal Koclitrr. 1104 Main St. Sun. 10:00 S.S.

10:00 ALL ARE WELCOME "PARKMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN 2710 Chili A tat Pil.yj MINISTfRS Will.om ShoaHer Rtv. William Thompjun 9:30 A.M. SUMMER WORSHIP SERVICE "THE HOLE IN THE WHOLE" Mr. Thompion, Preaching Nuritry Core LAKE AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH Meeting At FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 101 Plymouth Avenue South 10:00 A.M. THE REV.

CLAUDE PULLIS "FAITH" Pro FJ.m.ntory Elemcntory Clonal Between 10 4 1 1 A M. Ministers The Rev. Roger H. Francis The Rev. Claude Pullis CHILD CARE PROVIDED ADJACENT PARKING NORTH BAPTIST CHURCH Bible Teaching Ministry 10:45 A.M.

7:00 P.M. Bible A.M. Prayer Meeting-Wed. ot 7:15 P.M. THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH WELCOMES YOU TeH I' ALL'S SUMMER SCHEDULE 9:00 BIBLE SCHOOL (Unit Studies) 10:00 MORNING WORSHIP 7:15 EVENING SERVICE BRIGHTON COMMUNITY CHURCH 420 North Winton Road A isle fellowship with fhe world on iff heart-' CHRIST CHURCH I Si T.

An Independent Regular Baptist Testimony 2052 St. Paul-Just North of Ridge Ralph E. Gruenberg, Pastor 266-7008 544-2061 HOME OF NORTH BAPTIST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, K-5, ml Art: A I irk I'm A Euchoriit 10:00 A.M. Euchoriit (13) Morning Tuei- noon Heeding Service CATHEDRAL In, iicnr Hrnnitti'iitf The Rev. Denelrf H.

Groti.t. S.T.D., Dion 8 00 A.M. Holy Euchoriit 1 1:00 A M. Choral Euchoriit Church School 00 A.M. F.nl Sunday-0 30 Tel.

T.ll-IHM ASBURf FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ST. THOMAS BRIGHTON Wintan ltd. S. A Ht.hlonJ A Tfi Rav. Jahri Biihop A Hi.

Miniitar: The Rev. Nickalai Kina ST. SIMON'S IN-THI4NNIR OTY Or 90 Street Canon St Jultfln Jr lor rvic! 8 OO A Holy Communion 9 30 AM Bctor 1 Hour and Church School 1 1 00 AM Holy Commumon Sung A Sermon) Vrti; Ar Afwoyi lArVmm Se FOUR DOWNTOWN CHURCHES FIRST, CENTRAL and BRICK PRESBYTERIAN and ST. LUKE'S EPISCOPAL WORSHIPING AT SUMMER WORSHIP (PRESBYTERIAN) 10:00 BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 121 N. FITZHUGH ST.

THE REV. THOMAS HEGER, PREACHING EPISCOPAL SERVICES 8:30 HOLY COMMUNION 10.45 MORNING PRAYER 1 7 S. FITZHUGH ST. THE REV. BRUCE HANSON, Preaching Th Liturgy of the Lord Supptr 8 OO A Evtry Sunday 9 15 A 11 05 A With Church School.

Firit. Third A Filth Sunday! Mormng Prayar 9.15 A 05 AM W.fh Church Srhrtot. $cond A Fourth Sundnv 1 0SO iot Ave. WORSHIP SERVICES 9 and 1 1 A.M. "TO BE OR NOT TO BE" REV.

RICHARD P. YULE Rev. Poul Fottoruso Church School For All Ages 10:00 LUTHERAN CHURCHES WELCOME YOU HKDCE.VIKK a featured part of your Sunday Outstanding Bible Teacher in Rochester! Hear MALCOLM SMITH Author of "Turn Your Back on Your Problem!" 2 Service Sunday, JULY 22 MORNING-1 1:00 A.M. P.M All Haaaaninf in tha laautlful, naw 1200 5totinf, fully Air-Canditiantd, 300 Car arkinf FAITH TEMPLE 1 876 ELMWOOD AVENUE, ROCHESTER "A placa a thrtllinfl prmht, warihip, and fht ward" Next Week: JACKCHINN NOTE: NEW YORK STATE TEACHING SEMINAR FAITH TEMPLE-AUGUST 15-19, 1973 JAMES l. BEALl, Detroit With Bill WILSON, Illinois lor furth.r informotion on oil meeting Coll 473 1600.

We would be delighted to LCA 1 549 Detway Ava at Avii IN COLOR Rochtitar, 14615 POWER OF CONCORD 458 Holmes Road fbehino long ftidg. Plata) lisoeee Paitor: Dovid Ho.cb.r Wor.h.p. 10 00 A Church School Adult forum I I 00 A Nurstrp Cort Provided i.MYXV. HOPE MO 3201 Dew.y Ave. Rochetter 14616 Potter Arthur ft Duecir.r S.rv.ci 1 30 ond 11 00 A M.

Church School 9 15AM Nnrir PtOvirifH Ol I I A S.rvrtf with Robert Schuller Sun. 10:30 a.m. WROC Ch. 8 An istant Pastor, John Schoerta! Sarvicas: MSond 10:00 A M. Church School: 10 00 A M.

Infant cor during both tarvicai unoim viio.n LCA 3 Grovt St Rochtll.r UnOS Wolltr I Eri.d. 0, Poitor Sunday Church Sfhool 10 30 AM Ih, S.rviC. II 30 AM. Ouiel Communion rti't nrinj 7h To start home-delivery, call 232-5550 today. h.or Irom vou1 PASTOR Kf NNFTH "Ol IN.