Walt Disney

“ I said, what happened, what happened to me?
“You’re out of the ad-hoc,” he said. “You’re out of Whuffie. You’re bottomed-out,” he said.
This is how you hit bottom in Walt Disney World, in a hotel with the hissing of the monorail and the sun streaming through the window, the hooting of the steam engines on the railroad and the distant howl of the recorded wolves at the Haunted Mansion. The world drops away from you, recedes until you’re nothing but a speck, a mote in blackness. ”

“ Forget the 18th century, the 19th century, even at the birth of the 20th century. Here's my favorite example, here: 1928, my hero, Walt Disney, created this extraordinary work, the birth of Mickey Mouse in the form of Steamboat Willie. But what you probably don't recognize about Steamboat Willie and his emergence into Mickey Mouse is that in 1928, Walt Disney, to use the language of the Disney Corporation today, "stole" Willie from Buster Keaton's "Steamboat Bill".
It was a parody, a take-off; it was built upon Steamboat Bill. ”

“ With Steamboat Willie in 1928-a sound film with Disney's artwork and his own voice for the diminutive hero's-Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney had an instant hit, the first of many.
Achievements and awards followed in droves. Disney won 30 Academy Awards. He produced the first full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in 1937; launched numerous technical innovations in sound and color; produced the first television series in color in 1961; found new and effective ways of combining live actors with cartoon characters in films like Song of the South and Mary Poppins ”

“ And the meaning of this pattern is absolutely clear to those who pay to produce it. The meaning is: no one can do to the Disney Corporation what Walt Disney did to the Brothers Grimm, that though we had a culture where people could take and build upon what went before, that's over. There is no such thing as the public domain in the minds of those who have produced these 11 extensions these last 40 years because now culture is owned. ”

“ We are writing to inquire about The Walt Disney Company's cooperation with elements of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region's (XUAR) security and propaganda authorities in the production of Mulan. Disney's apparent cooperation with officials of the People's Republic of China (PRC) who are most responsible for committing atrocities—or for covering up those crimes—is profoundly disturbing. ”

“ THE BIG WASH. Walt Disney Productions, c1947. 1 reel, sd., color, 35mm. (A Walt Disney Goofy)
Credits: Director, Clyde Geronimi; story, Bill Berg, Milt Banta; animators, John Sibley, Cliff Nordberg, Hugh Fraser, George Rowley; music, Oliver Wallace. Technicolor.
© Walt Disney Productions; 21May47; LP1422.
THE BIGAMIST (QUATTRO PASSI FRA LE NUVOLE) . Produced in Italy, c1943. Released in the U. S., 1949. Presented by Pax Enterprise, Inc. 88 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. With English titles. ”

“ We met her up at Imagineering, a massive complex of prefab aluminum buildings painted Go-Away Green that had thronged with mad inventors since the Bitchun Society had come to Walt Disney World. The ad-hocs who had built an Imagineering department in Florida and now ran the thing were the least political in the Park, classic labcoat-and-clipboard types who would work for anyone so long as the ideas were cool. Not caring about Whuffie meant that they accumulated it in plenty on both the left and right hands. ”

“ Please identify regions, whether in the United States, or throughout the world, where The Walt Disney Company has refused to film or engage in production for reasons other than those based on economic/costs. The Walt Disney Company's website states, "We believe social responsibility is a long-term investment that serves to strengthen our operations and competitiveness in the marketplace, enhance risk management, attract and engage talented employees, and maintain our reputation." ”

“ Taking a guest around Disney World was like programming a playlist for a date or a car-trip. Sammy had done it three or four times for people he was trying to win over (mostly women he was trying to screw) and he refined his technique every time.
So he took her to the Carousel of Progress. It was the oldest untouched ride in the park, a replica of the one that Walt himself had built for GE at the 1964 World’s Fair. ”

“ The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of Social Protest is to be republished with modern additions. And A Personal Jesus, an attempt at a modern insight, is also being reissued.
Our Lady is being dramatized. Another Pamela is being converted into a musical comedy. Walt Disney is now setting out to make a movie of The Gnomobile, my story for children, which is also going to be reissued with gay illustrations from the French edition. And there is to be a TV series drawn from the Lanny Budd books. ”

“ Mickey presente: La cigale et la fourmi. Dessin d'apres le celebre film de Walt Disney Silly symphony. © 17Oct35; AF30703. Mme Auffay, nee Anne-Marie Charlotte Suzanne du Genestoux (C) ; 10Dec62; R306432.
Mickey presente Le lievre et la
tortue. SEE DISNEY (WALT) PRODUCTIONS.
Mickey presente Les jouets de Noel. ”

“ I’ve been talking to Debra, over at the Hall of Presidents, and she says she can pick up any people who can’t be used at the Mansion—we could even rotate back and forth!” She was clearly proud of her foresight.
My ears buzzed. Debra, one step ahead of me all along the way. She probably suggested that Kim do some extra recruiting in the first place. She’d take in the people who came down to work the Mansion, convince them they’d been hard done by the Liberty Square crew, and rope them into her little Whuffie ranch, the better to seize the Mansion, the Park, the whole of Walt Disney World. ”

“ And Roy said, ’You can’t have it and what’s a theme-park?’ Walt threatened to fire Roy, the way he always had, and Roy pointed out that Disney was now a public company with shareholders who weren’t going to let Walt cowboy around and piss away their money on his toys.”
“So how’d he get Disneyland built?”
“He quit. He started his own company, WED, for Walter Elias Disney. He poached all the geniuses away from the studios and turned them into his ’Imagineers’ and cashed in his life-insurance policy and raised his own dough and built the park, and then made Roy buy the company back from him. ”

“ By Walt Disney. (Pinocchio, model sheet F–3) © 29Apr38; G29108. Walter E. Disney (A) ; 21May65; R361918.
Pinocchio’s head no. 5. [Twelve drawings, head of puppet & 4 drawings showing details of construction] By Walt Disney. (Pinocchio, model sheet F–3) © Walter E. Disney (A) ; 21May65; R361917.
[Poses of Bartholemew, Slickero, Pinocchio & 1 pose of Stromboli] By Walt Disney. (Pinocchio, model sheet F–3) © 29Apr38; G28111. Walter E. Disney (A) ; 21May65; R361915.
[Rabbit, dwarfs, birds & Snow White] Pattern no. 510. By Walt Disney. From Snow White and the seven dwarfs. ”

“ Mickey Mouse and the magic lamp, by Walt Disney. (The Better little book, no. 1429) © 13Jan42; AA391608. Walt Disney Productions (PWH) ; 5Feb69; R454910.
Thumper; based on the character
created by Walt Disney for the
motion picture Bambi. By Walt
Disney. © 15May42; A164300.
Walt Disney Productions (PWH) ”

“ For cinema purposes, one of the earliest examples of “motion” still pictures is a representation of a boar trotting along, for some 10,000, 20,000 or 30,000 years, on a wall of the Font-de-Faune cave at Altamira near Santillana del Mar in Northern Spain. The artist tried to show the boar’s headlong pace by equipping the animal with two complete sets of legs. It was recognized a long while before Walt Disney that more than one still picture was necessary to portray natural motion.
For centuries artists continued to strive for the “illusion” of motion without “moving pictures.” ”

“ BOURNE, INC. SEE Folio of songs from Walt Disney's famous pictures, Mickey Mouse and Silly symphony.
BOUTELLEAU, JACQUES. La femme de Jean Barnery, par Jacques Chardonne, pseud. (Les destinees sentimentales) © 15Nov34; AF27083. Jacques Chardonne (A) ; 1Dec61; R286052.
Pauline, par Jacques Chardonne, pseud. (Les Destinees sentimentales, t.2) © 5Nov34; AF27084. Jacques Chardonne (A) ; 2Jan62; R287822.
BOVE, EMMANUEL. Le beau flls. © 1Nov34; AF27089. ”

“ Act alone and like it. By Mary Louise
Hickey. © 8Jun49; AA121333. Mary Louise
Hickey (A) ; 8Nov76; R645717.
R645718.
Projected scenery for the school stage.
By Louisa Santos. © 27Oct49; AA132114.
Louisa Santos (A) ; 8Nov76; R645718.
R645780.
Dialogue from Walt Disney's Cinderella.
© 12Sep49; AA129796. Walt Disney
Productions (PWH) ; 2Dec76; R645780.
R645817. Selected poems of John Oxenham. Editor: Charles Langworthy Wallis, biographical sketch: Erica Isobel Oxenham Dunkerley. © on 14 prev. unpub. poems, pref. & biographical sketch; 10Nov48 ”

“ DING, pseud. SEE Darling, J. N.
DINGLE, EDWIN J. The art of true living, by Edwin J. Dingle & Louis M. Grafe. (Treatise no.1) © 28Oct37; AA252722. Edwin J. Dingle (Ding Le Mei) (A) ; 16Feb65; R356215.

DIRECTORY OF SOCIAL AGENCIES OF THE
CITY OF NEW YORK, 1937-1938. Prepared
under the director of the Committee on
Information Services of the Welfare
Council, Anastasia H. Evans, editor.
© 22Sep37; A109874. Columbia
University Press (PWH) ; 31Mar65;
R358926.
DISNEY (WALT) PRODUCTIONS. The famous movie story of Walt Disney's
Snow White and the seven dwarfs. ”

“ Copyright law abroad tends to consider the following people authors of a film:
The principal director The screenwriter, and/or other writers of dialogue The composer/lyricist (if the film is accompanied by sound) The cinematographer By extension, the authors of any works that may serve as the basis for a film's plot The longest-living of these authors died in 1966, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 57 years or less. ”

“ There had been a time, those first days when they’d rebuilt Fantasyland, when he’d really felt like he was part of the magic. No, The Magic, with capital letters. Something about the shared experience of going to a place with people and having an experience with them, that was special. It must be why people went to church. Not that Disney had been a religion for him, exactly. But when he watched the park he’d grown up attending take on the trappings that adorned his favorite clubs, his favorite movies and games—man, it had been a piece of magic. ”

“ He believes in me. He believes in Disney—and Disney thinks he's her real grandfather, too. You can't shake that belief. I may have been weak and foolish, in the past, but that's all over now. I'm not going to play any game that 'll ever bring you a penny of his property!”
The professor leaped up, caught her swiftly by the wrist, and dragged her to her feet with cruel force. ”

“ Harry looked across with a surprised air; he seemed to wonder that she should be enjoying herself. Mina was annoyed, and set herself to be merry; a glance from Lady Flora converted vexation into rage. She turned back to Theo; somehow Mr Disney had taught her how to like him—often a valuable lesson, if people would keep their eyes open for it.
"Everybody else I've met has been horribly afraid of Mr Disney," she said in a half-whisper.
"Oh, you aren't in a funk of a man who's smacked your head!" ”