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<P>Michael Schartau's comments from Sweden were interesting. I just wanted to add that it is too bad the Carl Barks Christmas stories, like <EM>A Christmas for Shacktown </EM>and <EM>A Letter to Santa </EM>were never animated so they could reach a larger audience world-wide.</P>
<P>Do we know if Walt Disney himself kept track of Barks' comic stories? Is it possible he did not know these stories? I have never had the opportunity to read much about Barks in a biography, but I have not read anything yet about Walt Disney himself following the Barks comic books.</P>
<P>I can understand the business descendants of Disney not recognizing greatness and an opportunity, since they have made some really bad decisions throughout the decades. I would find it odd that Disney himself, after reading some of Barks' stories, would not have used them for a movie or for cartoons. Of course, the TV era was changing things, and if he did know the stories, perhaps he thought they were not "big" enough in the "Sleeping Beauty" fashion to attract people into a theater. (<EM>Sleeping Beauty</EM> lost money when it first came out.)</P>
<P>On the other hand, with the 80's <EM>Duck Tales</EM> TV show much of this was rectified!</P></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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