From: James Elliott <j_c_elliott>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:25:09 -0400

After the premier of the Disney version of "Bambi", sales of hunting licenses for deer hunting dropped something like 37%. An interesting article on the subject of Bambi and hunting can be found at:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0412/is_n2_v24/ai_18838468

I should also like to come to Disney's defense in terms of live action film versions of children's novels. Without the following I would never have sought out and read the book versions:

Polyanna (Haley Mills version) Toby Tyler (book title: Toby Tyler or ten weeks with the circus) Zorro (any film version is actually better than the Macually Johnson book) The Three lives of Thomasina

Granted that they were not truly faithful to the books, they did follow them closely and stayed true in spirit, much more than other studio's treatments of book screenplays. One of the Disney/Jim Henson projects that produced a much better film version of a book was "Muppet's Treasure Island". Having seen just about all the film versions of Treasure Island, I enjoyed this one the most,and it stayed closer to the novel than most versions!

I found on the web that Disney has secured the film rights to many of Judy Blume's novels. I wonder how they will turn out?

Jim Elliott Gadsden County (FL) Public Library


>From: Cassie Wilson <cassiewilson at comcast.net>
>To: "Barthelmess, Thom" <Thom.Barthelmess at ci.austin.tx.us>
>CC: ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu
>Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Mr. Disney
>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:45:00 -0400
>
>Good for you for having the courage to speak up in the face of these
>rather vicious outpourings! I wish that someone would take the time
>from the name calling to express more clearly what they don't like about
>Disney, aside from the changes to Pooh and the extension of the
>copyright time limit. I can remember receiving a great deal of pleasure
>from Disney films over the years, especially considering the music. And
>they are a treat for someone who loves color as much as I do. And
>honestly, I think you're giving the man too much credit for single
>handedly wrecking the American culture.
>
>And, as a child, I hated every version of Alice and Wonderland i saw,
>but as an adult, I enjoyed the movie.
>
>Consider that Mr. D did probably have a huge effect on building an
>audience for children's movies and literature. Furthermore, don't we
>applaud anything, including "GooseBumps" that gets kids to read, hoping
>that with practice, they'll read better and branch into something deeper
>or better?
>
>Finally, was the Disney movie or the original book that made the
>incidence of hunting and killing animals for fun drop dramatically? I
>really can't remember the answer, but I'm sure the movie had a huge effect.
>
>Just another humble Texas opinion,
>
> Cassie Wilson
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