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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Narvik lies at the western forefoot of a mountainous promontory between two fjords. Last week a French general and General Fleischer of the Norse 6th Division superintended a 24-hour assault, begun at bright midnight. British warships' fire and French artillery covered landings by French Alpine troops across the north fjord to one side of the promontory. Polish troops pushed in from the other side. Bull Dietl and his few hundred remaining men retreated, but Norse troops blocked their escape from the promontory into Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Indestructible Dietl | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...Disney's Snow White; No. 2, Max Fleischer's Gulliver's Travels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Gulliver's Travels (Paramount). First and best full-length color cartoon was Walt Disney's Snow White. For a while it looked as if it would be the last unless No. 1 Movie Cartoonist Disney made another. But No. 2 Movie Cartoonist Max Fleischer had his own ideas about that. Eighteen months ago, he decided to challenge Snow White by making a full-length cartoon of his own, Gulliver's Travels. According to the publicity from Miami, he had 678 artists at his Florida studio, who turned out 665,280 drawings, used up 16 tons of paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...characters, Max Fleischer voted Gabby the most likely to succeed, planned a series of short cartoons for him if he caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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