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Disney Legends: Makers of Magic, Volume 1
Whether informal or devoted, fans of the Disney brand and company understand that the world Walt created emanates from Burbank, Glendale and Anaheim, California, Orlando, Florida, Paris, France, Tokyo, Japan, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, China.
It takes the discipline and talent to achieve the lofty goals that Walt set for his company. Animators, illustrators, voice artists, singers and songwriters and under-the-radar executives to maintain and elevate the Disney level of quality that demonstrably grew, from animated shorts in the 1920’s to cutting edge, interactive theme park attractions in the 2020’s.
The direct result of Disney’s “best of the best” is the Disney Legends Program. The Walt Disney Company established the Legends program in 1987. To date, 304 men and women have been named Disney Legends.
This anthology collection is from a recurring column I write for Celebrations magazine. These biographies were originally written between 2012 and 2016.
Highlights Include:
· Muti-talented voice artists Paul Frees and Sterling Holloway, who respectively voiced the Haunted Mansion’s Ghost Host and Winnie the Pooh.
· Imagineering icons Marc and Alice Davis, for their work in animation, costume design and Disney theme park attractions.
· Musical artists such as Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman who collaborated on timeless songs from the Disney animation renaissance.
· Pixar co-founder Steve Jobs
· Television stars, in front of and behind the camera, that extended the Disney voice to television sets across the country.
· The talented men who brought Donald Duck to life, giving Disney an exciting new character that could explore personality dynamics that Mickey Mouse couldn’t do as the unofficial representation of the Disney company.
· Several members of Walt’s vaunted Nine Old Men, his prestigious collection of character animators that largely defined the Disney animation style.
Written for Disney fans, casual or captivated, this book brings many unknown facts of Disney personnel to light.
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Walt Goes to Washington: Finding Disney in DC
Whether Informal or devoted, fans of Disney understand that the world Walt created emanates from Burbank, Glendale and Anaheim, California, Orlando, Florida, Paris, France, Tokyo, Japan, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, China. But the Disney empire isn’t limited to its corporate and Imagineering headquarters, or its global collection of theme parks. Washington DC, our nation’s capital, hosts a vast array of Disney-related artifacts and ties to Disney history. Notable examples include:
- Nearly every President going back to Franklin Delano Roosevelt has a connection to Walt Disney, his theme parks, or both
- Walt’s multiple visits to Washington DC and his favorite hotel, the Mayflower
- Housed in the National Archives, the Library of congress, and the Smithsonian Institution is a plethora of Disney historical information
- Several critical cases involving Walt Disney Productions and Walt’s estate were argued before the Supreme court
- Walt Disney’s testimony in 1947 before the House Committee on Un-American Affairs
- Disney’s symbiotic relationship with NASA, boosting the concept of space travel in the American mindset and gaining NASA technology for space-themed attractions
- J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI file on Walt Disney and its peculiar entries
- A lawyer and ex-CIA agent who was involved with secret land purchases and dummy corporations when Disney was purchasing property in Florida
- The tiny government agency that sent Walt and a select team to South America to foster goodwill between the Americas, resulting in Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros
- Disney’s extensive involvement in working for the present-day Department of Defense, creating morale-boosting films, propaganda films and a trove of insignia for the Army, Navy and the Marine Corps during World War II
- Disney’s extensive collection of patents, trademarks and copyrights, all issued from their respective offices in Washington DC
- Disney’s ambitious theme park in northern Virginia, Disney’s America, which ultimately never came to be
Written for Disney fans, casual or captivated, this book brings many unknown facts to the general public. It’s also for Washington DC locals and visitors, present and future.
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