In UPA's garden, that is...
The cartoons done by this company were among the most cherished by Surrealist film critics Ado Kyrou and Robert Benayoun. The two rejected the realist approach and anthropomorphisms of Disney’s films. Kyrou thought that: "Disney and his studios, after their promising beginning quickly foundered, became facile and remainded mired in bourgeois sentiment. Disney has been called the ’La Fontaine of the cinema’ and he surely deserves this ignominious title." (Le Surréalisme au cinéma)
http://ombresblanches.wordpress.com/2007/03/06/storm-over-disneyland/
See videos: Unicorn in the Garden, Gerald McBoing-Boing, and Tell Tale Heart.
