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That reminds me of something someone once said...

Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.



So the story of Mickey Mouse in Fantasia..


>So the story of Mickey Mouse in Fantasia..

Which, like essentially all Disney works, was based on existing folklore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer's_Apprentice


Yes, that's largely what Disney does, repackage existing folklore in a way that modern society wants to consume.

At least the American culture is well aware of Fantasia and the brooms with buckets scene. Whatever earlier work? Only someone with specialist knowledge could tell you which work it had been derived from.


Yeah, and then stamping a never ending copyright on it.




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