Cinema: Mouse & Man

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Not long ago an interviewer spoke of Snow White as a cartoon, and reported that Mr. Disney retorted: "It's no more a cartoon than a painting by Whistler is a cartoon." The remark, if made, sounds pompous, out of character. The Rembrandt conception fits better—the conception of an artist, single of purpose, utterly unselfconscious, superlatively good at and satisfied in his work, a thoroughgoing professional, just gagging it up and letting the professors tell him what he's done.