Disney

That’s Thumper the Rabbit talking to Bambi’s mother in the beautiful opening sequence of Walt Disney’s 1942 film when all the gentle animals of the forest come to see the newborn deer.

We don’t usually think about the presence of ideas of race and racial supremacy even in apparently progressive animated movies.

It’s the anniversary this week of the premiere of Disney’s animated musical Mary Poppins, and Kevin Shortsleeve has some thoughts about the brothers who composed the score for that film.