Show Disney's Busy Making South American Film Dr By ROBBIN nOBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD AP Walt AP-Walt Walt Disney had his birthday the theother theother other ther day By the calendar that is i. He hadn't yet decided whether Walter Valter Pitkin was right All AU hed he'd decided he chuckled was that I no he ic C wasn't Wasn wasn't t going going to to 10 have nave any mui more 1 e birthdays LUU no he ic C wasn't Wasn wasn't t going going to to 10 have nave any mui But from everything he lie said there here in his studio office with its grand piano its well-lined well bookshelves bookshelves book- book shelves helves its multitude of tiny statuettes statuettes statuettes stat stat- from another and happier world world-a a Disney world of or make- make believe believe it it was clear that life was beginning for Walt again At 40 That was only a coincidence The South American way has hit Walt Valt Disney hard Gets In Mice Rut nut You keep on grinding out ducks and mice he said and land you get In n a rut You begin to get tired But this thing thing its its it's like a new lease ease on life liCe Walt Co recently toured South America Th They y sketched they hey took photographs and movies they talked to people they tried triM to o find out what was what Result Result Re Re- sult suit besides the regular annual production reduction of 18 Disney shorts therell there'll be half a dozen in the South American way I Sketches Begin to Appear Preliminary sketches already are appearing on studio desks Theres There's an Ar Argentine gaucho character character character char char- acter a cute little boy says Walt and a Brazilian parrot quite a favorite down there and a llama and Intriguing Disney Disney Disney Dis Dis- ney versions of Peruvian Indians The dramatis personae of another another another an an- other fantasy world is as- as s1 T. T In the i sketches Donald u u u u Duck is already packing to visit Bolivia as an American tourist That Brazilian parrot incidentally incidentally incidentally incident incident- ally is much smarter than Donald Duck chuckled Walt Valt Hollywood in the past year ambitious ambitious ambitious am am- to cultivate the Latin- Latin American market and spread the good neighbor gospel has usually usually usually usual usual- ly been more gauche than gaucho Some of our most ambitious films slanted in that direction have drawn titters or worse from the very audiences they were intended to fill with neighborly warmth Hollywood got the notion its Us good neighbors were tough audiences Thinks Think lie He Has Answer Walt thinks thinUs he has the answer to that one When you hear hea things like that he said its if usually one guys guy's opinion or th the result of some certain incident We Ve found the people nice friendly decidedly pro They like lik Hollywood pictures pictures our our good pictures pictures pictures pic pic- tures I mean mean but but they want their way of life portrayed accurately when we portray it at all They dont don't like Cuban music played in m Argentine settings for instance Not that Argentines dont don't like Cuban Cuban Cuban Cu Cu- ban music But on the screen they want it played in Cuban set set- tings When the setting is Argentine Argentine Argentine Ar Ar- gentine they like Argentine music Plans Plan Great Care Were Vere going t td remember things like that When we us usan use an ancient Peruvian village as a setting well we'll be careful to pom point out that it is just a little bit o of Peru far peru far removed from Perus Peru's fine modern modem cities Disney is sold cold on the idea o of 1 e LUU I sending ending films to to each country In Ins Its s own language It costs cost more I he e said but it is worth the price He Ie summed it up Give people something they feel Is their own and nd they will go for Cor it You know what I think This good neighbor thing is In the right movie hands hand at last You know what Disney thinks I r Im I'm getting restless he says want vant to go back to Rio for forie forthe the ie carnival |