Word: crocketts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adults plant a child's garden of verse. Juvenile satire nourishes it. What British children did to The Ballad of Davy Crockett in 1956 should make Walt Disney shudder. Not a vestige remained of the 17 official verses. New versions ranged from "Born on a table top in Joe's café,/ The dirtiest place in the U.S.A." to "Born on a rooftop in Battersea/ Joined the Teds when he was only three...
...reach when it came time to meet the payroll. The Mad Cossack even bamboozled his social director out of a wardrobe, so that Hart was reduced to appearing in the dining hall dressed in the camp theater's flyblown, sweat-stained costumes, impersonating Robert E. Lee or Davy Crockett or Napoleon, telling jokes while his stomach curdled with rage and embarrassment...
Back at the farm, David bundled up in his new outdoor outfit, added a Davy Crockett hat (with tail) and a .410 shotgun, joined his genial grandfather in the fields for a brief try at rabbit hunting. All the rabbits got clean away, without a shot fired...
More than 5,000 cheering blacks, in headgear ranging from French army kepis to straw boaters and Davy Crockett caps, were at the Brazzaville airport to meet him, and even his wizened old mother, after performing a little weaving dance in his honor, fell on her knees before him. As he drove through the streets in his blue-grey Pontiac, his excited fans followed in trucks and jeeps, shooting into the air and shouting, "Olele! Olele! The Abbé has won!" The abbé-Brazzaville's round, smiling Mayor Fulbert Youlou, 41-had just returned from the French Middle...
...musical score of the film is everything a squirrel could ask for. When the animals sleep, a choir of angels breathes over them what sounds almost exactly like Brahms's Lullaby but turns out to be an original composition by George Bruns, the man who wrote Davy Crockett. When Perri sleeps, she dreams in a combination of live and animated effects, just like other movie stars, and the dream figures engage in the usual elaborate ballet-though of course they are not people, but dear little bunnies. Producer Disney has even provided Perri with a love interest: a bushy...