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One of the cartoons from "Farmyard Symphony.”

success

of Disney. A be on the pinnacle ho is to-day. was followed by The seven films are "Ferdinand the Bull hailed in England must necessarily be quite largely favourite one is that Mickey But Mickey

as the devoted to Walt Disney, its su- does all the things which the Minnie, and in turn followed by and the United States

But Disney Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, greatest cartoon film Disney preme exponent. He has made humdrum citizen would like to a long line of livestock: Horace. has produced-"Donald's Golf cartoon films so popular that it but dare not do. Game", which introduces the is difficult to remember that the himself inclines to the former Clara Cluck, Donald Duck, and three cherubic Donald Duck first animated cartoon was pro- view. "It is all a question of a number of others. nephews already familiar to duced in 1911, more than 20 timing," is his own judgment on "Telegraph" readers who read years after a patent for the first the subject. the Donald Duck cartoon strip moving-picture camera had been published exclusively in this obtainal. newspaper each day;

"Brave "Colonel Heeza Liar," which IN ORDER

Little Tailor," "The Whalers," started in 1913, was the first

Then in 1929 he branched out into other work. "The Skeleton.

to achieve this Dance" set to music based on timing he introduced a tech- the Danse Macabre was the first

"The Fox Hunt", "Mickey's popular series and was rapidly nique which was entirely new. of the Silly Symphonies of which Parrot" and "Farmyard Sym followed by "Aesop's Fables," After the details of the action it has been well said that the of Max have been decided upon-but not only really silly people are those music is who think they are not gym- phony". The "Telegraph" fim "The Inkwell Imp,"

Melodies," and recorded. The phonics, "Monkey critic would place this latter Fleischer, and Pat Sullivan's photographed — the

"Felix the Cat." Felix was by written technicolour cartoon above even

then fitted to the "Frolicking Fish," "Arctic An- music to the ties," and films of the four sea- "Ferdinand the Bull" in enter- far the most popular of the actions are

silent cartoon creations and, music, not the tainment value.

In this way every sons of the year soon followed casily outstripping his rival actions. "Krazy Kut," continued in action is made to happen exactly and established their popularity. Still Disney was not content. IF, as a United Press message EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO a triumph until the advent of "on the beat." Thus the jokes

are timed by the music. An- Six years ago, while the studios on his other Disney characteristic-it were still dithering, Disney took

Broadcasting

indicated yesterday, Ameri- can engineers have solved the problem of utilising ultra-short wave-lengths of frequencies varying from 30 to 300 million cycles a second for ordinary broadcasting purposes a remark- able advance in broadcasting has been achieved.

It is interesting to recall that the late Marchese Marconi told the Hongkong Telegraph some years ago, during a visit to this Colony, that ultra-short waves, then regarded as being available for only quasi-optical ranges, would be used for world-wide communication within a decade, But no régulir short-wave stations have been able to go below wave-lengths of five metres except for experimental purposes, the B.B.C. television service in England being the only exception. In this latter case, the range of reception has been limited to approximately 50 miles, that is, a little further than the eye on see. There have been isolated instances of reception on the Continent and, a week or so ago, of reception in the United States and these have proved Marchese Marconi's claim that the path of waves of such terrific frequencies is not governed by the curvature of the earth.

mouse received Mortimer.

the name

success. Dis-

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young artist working on a Mickey Mouse. night shift watched the mice That Mickey should, creeping out of a hole in the first appearance, defeat his might almost be called his trade exclusive rights in the improved skirting. Every night they natural enemy, a cat, is no less mark-is his habit of capping Technicolour process and pro- used to come and eat the remains than one might have expected. each climax. If Mickey crashes duced "Trees And Flowers," the of this into an obstacle, exactly a bar first coloured Silly Symphony. in the Perhaps it is because of sandwich lunches

toons followed. wastemper basket. He tamed initial success that in his subse- later, as the laughter is dying Two years later, the other car- In the hands of Disney, colour several of them, and one would quent adventures he has always down, the chandelier will fall on

an unqualified Buccess. even sit on his drawing-board displayed such irrepressible im-, his head,

Disney has, of course, had was

Grimm and Andersen, mythology as he worked, so friendly had pudence. But the credit is not

Disney made many imitators. There are not- and the nursery were explored. they become. This bold young really Mickey's.

of two silent Mickeys. "Steam-boat ably "Betty Boop," "Pop-eye the for subjects. Disney then work- Willie" and "Plane Crazy," Sailor," and a number of cared on the problem of producing a

on the Silly

coloured Mickey Mouse. Disney Ten years ago, striking out which were not very successful; toons modelled

he had made no Symphonies. But none has ac- still was not content. His next on his own to make cartoon before that

experiment was longer cartoon films, Disney was in desperation fewer than 86 other films, which, hieved the same

Suddenly he however adequate, never rivalled ney's first films were a series of illms. For eighteen months his for a character.

cartoons called "Laugh atudios worked on a version of thought of his old friend: but the popularity of Felix.

It was not until his pictures O'Grams," illustrating topical "Snow White," which ran for an Mortimer was too long: ao it

were synchronised with sound events and commissioned by a hour and a quarter and cost £50,- became Mickey.

To-day Walt Disney makes that he obtained real success. In cinema owner in his home town 000 and netted £1,000,000.

September, 1928, he came to of Kansas City.

Walt Disney is only 37, what twenty-six pictures a year at a

He then made "Red Riding does there remain for him to do?... cost of £250,000. His profits New York with his first sound-

He cartoon, "The Op'ry House," Hood," which took him six Doubtless he will experiment are estimated at £150,000. employs three hundred men. and after many rebuffs succeed months, followed by six other with stereoscopy, but at present Artists are "cast" to draw the ed in placing it at a

fairy tale cartoons. The com- that is only on the distant hori- characters they can draw best, cinema. It was seen, and a few pany went bankrupt, and Disney zon. In England Len Lye is ex- like actors. But they only do days later it was playing at the then struck out to work on his perimenting with abstract car-.

the own. During the next four toons in pure colour. Perhaps key-sketches. The intermediate world's largest cinema, pictures are filled in by the rank Roxy, New York It seems years he made 60 cartoons; this Disney will try his hand at these. Disney's vision has enabled and file. Apprentices draw clear, therefore, that Disney's was followed by 26 pictures fea-

him to keep ahead of competitors whiskers, smoke or rain-drops. success was primarily due not to turing Oswald the Rabbit.

The reason for the continued hitherto, and to boast that over Dainey himself no longer draws the invention of Mickey but to

his brilliant use of sound.

(as opposed to the initial) suc- a million drawings have been a line.

At a time when the studios cess of Walt Disney is his con- made of Mickey Mouse, the most And Disney went to Holly- wood with £ in his pocket and were in a state of wild confusion stant endeavour to try new internationally popular hero the the new medium Disney ideas. If Mickey had remained world has ever known. Long a whole lot of debts.

stepped in with a sound tech-

over

GRIN AND BEAR IT

small

nique which was, and is, in ad- just Mickey, Disney, would not may it continue to do the same. to vance of anything the studios The promise held forth byT IS INTERESTING the discovery announced by the examine how the cartoon film, could do. Many theories have University of Columbia, if sub- which was once a poor and in- been put forward to account for stantiated, will revolutionise broadcasting. It will bring tele- vision and world broadcasting programmes to Hongkong with- out interference, man-made or otherwise. It will eliminate the confusion of a dozen broadcast- ing stations striving to emit programmes on frequency-bands on which there is only room for six.

Is Your Name By Lichty Smith or WHITE, OF BROWN)?

or JONES

If the claims are not sub- stantiated there seems little hope that the entertainment provided in Hongkong by this latest of sciences will change materially for many years to

come.

For instance, there is little hope that Hongkong will be pros vined with televis.on, despite the fact that the recent report of the Television Committee in England has, in the light of the experience gained at Alexandria Palace, planned the construction of additional stations through- out the United Kingdom.

Yet there is no apparent rea- Bon why Hongkong should not bo one of the first parts of the Empire, outside London, to enjoy television. The trans- mitting apparatus is not unduly expensive, and the receiving apparatus, which can be em-

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**This looks like that cheap cement we sold the Government be-

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or

The exact order of numerical

THOMAS, Jones, Davies, importance of the first 25 surnames Evans, and Williams, in England and Wales in as follows: Smith, Jones, Williams, Taylor, indeed!

Davica, Brown,

Evans, Thomas, Recently it was recorded that three Roberts, Jolinson, Robinson, Wilson, gentlemen named Robert. Thomas Wright, Wood, Hall, Walker, Hughes, have been elected as members of the Green, Lewis, Edwards, Thompson, Cowbridge (near Cardiff) Borough White, Jackson, Turner, and Hill.

We may be entitled to count the Council, and that in the Cardif telephone directory are to be found Whites also as of the Smith clan

060 because than

authorities some

derive Thomases, about 600 Jonesce, nearly, their name, not from the Anglo- 000 Davicses, and 500 each of the Saxon "hwit," meaning white, but Evanses and the Williamses.

from "hwita." meaning a sharpener, It is time that we Smiths asserted or swordsmith, which would make ourselves. We are the backbone of them of our tolem.

the

names

of

more

the nation. No one can beat us for Then, it we also allow among us numbers.

the the Smithsons, the Smyths, I have before me the results of a Smythes, and others who misspell careful analysis of the surnames of our distinguished patronymic,. the nation. It was compiled from a can probably muster even in this study of several hundred thousand country an army of at least a million. nomes occurring in the quarterly, very strong.

Wo

returns by the Registrar-General of Whenever we all combine into the births, marriages, and deaths, and one great Smith Society of the World establishes beyond question the what a League of Nations we may importance of the tribes.

make! The Smiltis say "No" would be an edit to make dictatora tremble Indeed.

Tot that i wish to sprak in any

First By Name

winners.

THE Smithu ars

One in every 73 of the way disparagingly of the Joneses. goniliye form of John, population is a Smith. But the most Jones, a

through Jolines, is common every- numerous after us are not, An you

moy

have belleved, the Browns where in England, and superabundant Joneses, and the Robinsons, but the in Wales. Next to John Smith, John Joneses fone in every 70 of the Jones is the most common combird- population), the Williamses (ona in Uon-of names in Britain, 115), the Taylors (one in 148), and The former Reg'stras-General, who compiled the flat front which I am the, Davloses (one in 182);

The Browns come next with one quoting, says in his commentary on In every 174, and the Robinsons are 1:This name of John Joals. It only eleventh with one in 270.

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