TIME
August 29, 1932 12:00 AM GMT-4
U. S. newspaper readers were indignant last week at a cable dispatch from England. To the Manchester Guardian a correspondent had addressed himself as follows : “The American robin redbreast (named mistakenly by the English settlers after the real robin in England) is a thrush. He is a large bird with a dull red breast and he struts across the lawns with the characteristic thrush walk. Read More...
Coming from a man who had already changed the entire field of animation, it was high praise — butWalt Disney was feeling confident about Bambi. It was, TIME quoted him saying, “the best picture I have ever made, and the best ever to come out of Hollywood.”
The film — which turns 75 on Tuesday, having premiered in the U.K. on Aug. 8, 1942, before opening in the U.S. later that month — was based on a book by the Austrian writer Felix Salten. Read More...
Canadians not only import more from the U.S. than anyone else, but chronically worry that they import far too much for their own good—from U.S. capital to U.S. television, movies and magazines. Is the Canadian national identity so undermined by U.S. influences that Canada runs the risk of cultural and economic absorption? In the current International Journal, the scholarly, influential quarterly of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Harry G. Johnson, 38, a Canadian professor of economics at the University of Chicago, answers a vigorous no. Read More...
