| Show Mickey Mouse Returns To War-Torn War Countries I t 1 c B By ROBERT MYERS H HOLLYWOOD 0 L L Y YV V 0 0 D UP UPI UPI-In In 1910 when the nazi hordes swept down on Paris a French journalist sat at down and wrote a sorrowful farewell farewell farewell fare fare- well to Mickey Mouse It w was more than just an au revoir It was good-by good to the things Mickey represented represented light lighthearted light light- hearted amusement innocent mischief mischief mis ruts chief and nd above all else freedom The nazis threw the writer into jail ail Five years rolled by France was liberated and so was the jour jour- He wrote another column this one bidding Mickey Mouse a speedy return to France Walt Valt Disney has both columns and hes he's sending Mickey back as fast as his funny big shoes can scamper With him are the familiar Donald Duck and their friends of the Disney animal empire whom the French the thc Belgians the Italians Italians Italians Ital Ital- ians and yes the Germans will meet for the first time This time they'll be even better prepared to toI I entertain because Disney has taught his little creatures of the animated cartoon the languages of I mahy lands Ambassadors of ot good will What else when Minnie Mouse delights a Greek audience with dialog in their own tongue Or when Kalle Kalie Anka which is Donald Ducks Duck's name in Swedish appears on the screens of Stockholm and honks out his talk in the proper lingo Disney's Pinocchio offers an interesting case The French buried the film in a vault After Arter liberation liberation liberation libera libera- tion it was resurrected the sound soundtrack soundtrack soundtrack track sent to Hollywood and promptly recorded with French dialog This dubbing in of voices is not so easy as it sounds The biggest difficulty has been to find talent i ito to speak the foreign lines Few native Swedes for instance have come to this country since the war and those here for any length of or time unconsciously develop a faulty accent in their nat native nate e tongue Even such an accomplished linguist linguist linguist lin lin- guist as Ingrid Bergman was guilty of inaccuracies in her Swed Swed- ish when she did an 0 O W V WI I film A picture such as with 20 20 or more speaking parts increases IncreaSes A Athe the problem Disney has set up upa a chain of A American contracts ets by which the recordings are made for Brazil for example by native Brazilians The sound tracks are flown here and coordinated with the film print which is a knotty technical problem problem problem lem itself The Disney foreign market before before before be be- fore the war paid almost 50 of the total Disney revenue A major picture with live action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion seldom makes more than in South America Disney's Disney's Disney's Dis Dis- ney's The Three Caballeros earned and broke all an records American dollars Much of this profit will be spent In South America because Disney believes in a spend it where I make it policy |
