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Article: A mixed bag of three new films.(SCREEN SCENE)
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- The Niagara Falls Reporter (Niagara Falls, NY)
- Article date:
- October 27, 2009
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As the winds of war swirled around the White House in early 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a lot on his mind. Not the least of it was his concern about a positive reaction of the people and their leaders in South American countries to the rise of Nazism.
Roosevelt decided to send a cultural ambassador to that continent, and he chose Walt Disney to lead this goodwill mission. At the time, Disney was already a household name and his 1937 animation success, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," had made his company wealthy--so rich, in fact, that Disney and his team were able to build a huge new movie studio in Burbank, Calif.
However, by the ...