Walt Disney did not father the animated cartoon, but he has been its outstanding foster parent. Disney's child, however, seemed no brighter or more grown-up in 1950's Cinderella than in igsy's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Last week a different kind of movie cartoon was being turned out by a onetime Disney hand named Stephen Bosustow and his bustling United Productions of America.
For five years Bosustow's U.P.A. has been trying to break away from such familiar Disneyisms as animal slapstick for its own sake, careful airbrushing to give figures the illusion of three dimensions, painstaking imitation of live movement. In...
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