What Is Walt Disney Doing To Me?

When I was a little kid in 1957 my mom and dad took me and our neighbor Connie (who they were babysitting) one Friday evening to a drive-in to see two Walt Disney movies.After getting our popcorn and root beer,  dusk  had began and a Mickey Mouse cartoon was just to begin.

 We were in country part of Columbus,Ohio loaded with quails especially the Bob Whites chirping "Bob, Bob, White, Bob, Bob, White" My mom always replied "Bob White is not home, sorry" 

The first movie was Bambi which I thought back then that it was not right to have a cartoon quail get shot. "Don't fly !!!" the other quails told her but she flew anyway and got shot , later in the film again /BANG !/ Bambi's mother got shot and died, I was devastated.One footnote it was the first death in a Walt Disney movie.

The second movie was Old Yeller  it was not a cartoon movie, so I  spent most of my time staring at Connie sleeping, since I was in the back seat with her, even at my very young age I thought Connie as a sleeping beauty.

Anyway, I thought the movie Old Yeller would have a happy ending, since Old Yeller saved her owners from a rabid wolf attack;  But not before  Old Yeller   himself had got bitten,  near the ending of the movie  /BANG !/ Old Yeller  got shot from a shotgun by his sad owner Travis and Old Yeller  died.

After those two movies were over we went home and at that time I thought I was safe from Walt Disney's unhappy endings but NO.

Walt Disney had a television show on Sundays, on one Sunday they showed a cartoon titled "Chicken Little" so I thought everything will turn out okay, but,again, NO !  See the Walt Disney Chicken Little cartoon by clicking below (end); 
              click here to see Chicken Little cartoon.