Wells Artical

Im having some trouble understanding the quote by William Moritz, it seems like a good quote in which he is showing his deep understanding of the subject. I’m confused with when he says that “this” represents freedom and “that” represents the police and then when he says “Donald Duck drives a car and mows his lawn just like an average American; he must represent the average irascible American” and say that that’s revelation is interesting as the first one. Is he being sarcastic or is he saying that symbol has deeper meaning than that? Couldn’t Donald Duck represent the average American? This quote wasn’t the only thing that stuck out to me in the article.
It was intriguing to read that the Disney and Warner Brothers have completely different approaches to dialogue in there cartoons. That Disney soundtrack, which Im guessing includes dialogue moves towards the symphonic while Warner Brothers’ soundtrack is cacophonic. I didn’t think you could categorize speech, much less, that Mickey’s high pitch voice had a poetic or operatic quality. I wish this article would have given examples of Disney’s so-called symphonic qualities, because other than Fantasia what proof is there that Disney strives for this?
I find it funny that this article states that experimental animation has a strong relationship to music, while it was Disney and the narrative form that coined the term “Mickey Mouseing” which is when all the characters on the screen move to the rhythm of the music.
This article is peaty clear that experimental and narrative forms are separate, but it doesn’t recognize the opportunities where one can become the other. I am reminded of a found footage film I saw last year called Light Is Calling. It was intentional footage to a 1930 nickelodeon picture. In which a young soldier along with a covered wagon is returning home as his young wife waits for him to return. The film cuts between his movement down the road and his wife impatiently looking for him, at the end they embrace and continue down the road into the sunset. The footage was warped and discolored due to its old degrading condition. A musical score was placed over it of a violin, clearly was not the original score which was most likely a piano and it was projected at a slower speed. These affect: warped discolored condition of the film, the replacement of its original score with a violin and being projected at a slow methodical speed required the view to look deeper at its content, what the artist is saying about life and the past. Its original intent was to serves as part of a narrative, just a sequence of events to move the story forward, but with it current condition and changes to the score and projection rate the same footage becomes an experimental film on life and the past. I guess the biggest difference that allows this footage to be both at different times would be perspective. It is perceivable that the footage in its old warped condition could still work in the narrative but then it would be an ugly warped narrative that I would not like to see.