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"Oh no! No! I can't believe it! No! No! [runs to her room crying]"
"It holds up extraordinarily well. As a work of art it was kind of like the pinnacle for Walt. It was the last film of its kind, really. It ended an era, back in 1959. From then on films would be made differently. So Sleeping Beauty was, I like to say, Disney's last hand-made product, where everything in that motion picture was done by hand."
"Well I think the thing that a handmade film gives us is an artistic sensibility that is somewhat lost when technology is introduced. On the other hand, technology is amazing as it enables us to do incredible things. We had very distinct limitations on Sleeping Beauty. We were limited to five levels of cels. We could not go beyond five levels because then the image would become degraded. In the new digital technology there is no limit to how many levels you can have. So, there's a give and take. The technology enables us to do amazing things, yet the old hand drawn process brought a certain sensibility that I'm afraid we've lost because of that change."
"Now the magic moment! Full-length feature fantasy - Beautiful beyond belief"
"Wondrous to see... Glorious to hear... A magnificent new motion picture!"
"Ablaze With Wonder!"
"Awaken to a World of Wonders!"
"See It With Someone You Love."
"Mary Costa - Princess Aurora/Briar Rose (voice)"
"Bill Shirley - Prince Phillip (voice)"
"Eleanor Audley - Maleficent (voice)"
"Verna Felton - Flora/Queen Leah (voices)"
"Barbara Jo Allen - Fauna (voice)"
"Barbara Luddy - Merryweather (voice)"
"Taylor Holmes - King Stefan (voice)"
"Bill Thompson - King Hubert (voice)"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.