>To John Thomas (and other Disney-interested folk): > >I guess the point of my earlier posting was that the studio >heads in the 1930s and 1940s, including Disney, had an >individualistic power that doesn't seem to apply today. >Thus, Disney himself had the ability to grab his creative >personnel at his whim (in the story John told, a good whim) >and make ad hoc changes in movie scripts and productions. > >How does the story go about the studio head who used the >"butt squirm" theory of movies -- if his butt squirmed too >much while he was watching a movie, it was a bad movie? > >And although many of the movies produced under the classic >studio system may have had a style all their own, I wonder >about the working conditions of such systems. Wasn't >Disney notorious about squelching individual recognition >among his artists? > >Matt McAllister, >Virginia Tech --------------------------------------------- The critical rear end belonged to Harry Cohn of Columbia. As for Disney squelching individual recognition among his artists, that depends on what you mean: his animators received appropriate screen credits for their work and for the time (i.e., the credits in Walt's time weren't as detailed/interminable as they are today), but in publicity about the studio Walt was usually the only one named. Richard Leskosky University of Illinois