4. Marling, “Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks,” 87.
5. Price, Walt’s Revolution! 41.
6. Price, Walt’s Revolution! 42.
7. As quoted in Bright, Disneyland Inside Story, 29.
8. Excerpts from a transcript of the news conference were published on the Walt Disney Family Museum Web site in 2005.
9. Green and Green, Remembering Walt, 179.
10. John McDonald, “Now the Bankers Come to Disney,” Fortune, May 1966, 230.
11. Price, Walt’s Revolution! 46.
12. Price, Walt’s Revolution! 49.
13. Price, Walt’s Revolution! 50.
14. Brochure, “Walt Disney Plans for Mineral King,” 1966, BU/RH.
15. Ron Miller, interview with Hubler, May 28, 1968, BU/RH.
16. Davis, Hubler interview.
17. Lillian Disney, Martin interview.
18. “Disney Studio Sets Busy TV Schedule,” TV Key feature by Charles Whit-beck for release February 9–10, 1963, AC.
19. Lillian Disney, Martin interview.
20. Diane Disney Miller, Martin interview.
21. Wilck, Hubler interview.
22. Thomas, Building a Company, 253–62.
23. December 30, 1964, proxy statement (see ch. 8, n. 40).
24. “Planning the First Disney Parks . . . A Talk with Marvin Davis,” The “E” Ticket 28 (Winter 1997): 15–16.
25. WED’s directors approved the name change on November 20, 1964. An amendment to the articles of incorporation was filed with the California secretary of state on February 5, 1965.
26. Steve Mannheim, Walt Disney and the Quest for Community (Burlington, 2003), 93.
27. “Disneyland on Wheels . . . An Interview with Bob Gurr,” The “E” Ticket 27 (Summer 1997): 37–38.
28. Peter Bart, “The Golden Stuff of Disney Dreams,” New York Times, December 5, 1965, sec. 2, 13.
29. Anthony Haden-Guest, The Paradise Program (New York, 1973), 297.
30. Green and Green, Remembering Walt, 90–91.
31. Mannheim, Quest for Community, 11.
32. Victor Gruen, The Heart of Our Cities (New York, 1964). Gruen’s career and ideas are the subject of a harsh book-length critique by M. Jeffrey Hardwick, Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream (Philadelphia, 2004).
33. Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow (1902; reprint, Cambridge, 1965), 145.
34. Walt Disney to Roy Disney and Iwerks, September 11, 1928, WDA.
35. Haden-Guest, Paradise Program, 306.
36. Marling, “Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks,” 150.
37. The film itself was released on DVD in 2004, as part of a “Walt Disney Treasures” set called “Tomorrowland.” A complete transcript was published in 2003 on the Web site called Waltopia.
38. “Disneyland-Type Center for St. Louis Planned by Disney Productions,” Wall Street Journal, June 19, 1964, 18; “Plan for a Disneyland in Downtown St. Louis Is Said to Be Canceled,” Wall Street Journal, July 9, 1965, 13.
39. Mannheim, Quest for Community, 113.
40. Haden-Guest, Paradise Program, 309.
41. Correspondence between Disney and Eisenhower, much of it warm and personal, is part of the 1963–66 Principal Files, Post-Presidential Papers, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene. Disney’s activity on Murphy’s behalf is described in Herbert Gold, “Nobody’s Mad at Murphy,” New York Times Magazine, December 13, 1964, 52, 55–56.
42. Vernon Scott, “Walt Disney Has a Project—a Huge New Ski Resort,” Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock), September 26, 1965, 12E.
43. Peter Browning, “Mickey Mouse in the Mountains,” Harper’s, May 1972, 70.
44. 1966 Principal File, Post-Presidential Papers, Eisenhower Library.
45. Ron Miller, Hubler interview.
46. Robert Jackson, writing in response to Roy Disney’s request for anecdotes about Walt Disney for the Hubler biography, submitted several long and detailed accounts of incidents including his last press conference (on Mineral King) and the failure of the Lincoln robot to work when the New York World’s Fair opened, BU/RH.
47. Mark Kausler to author, e-mail, July 11, 2005.
48. Diane Disney Miller, Martin interview.
49. Green and Green, Remembering Walt, 200–201.
50. Johnston, 1973 Bob Thomas interview.
51. Thomas, Walt Disney, 349.
52. “Disney Gets Clean Bill from Doctors,” Daily Variety, November 23, 1966, AMPAS.
53. “Disney Undergoes Surgery on Lung,” Los Angeles Times, November 23, 1966, AMPAS.
54. Ron Miller, Hubler interview.
55. Milton Gray, “The Death of Walt Disney,” Well, Hallelujah, no. 57, privately published in APAtoons 114 (May–June 2001).
56. Green and Green, Remembering Walt, 196–97.
57. Probate File P516859, Walter E. Disney, Los Angeles Superior Court (1966).
58. Diane Disney Miller, 1968 Hubler interview.
59. Greene and Greene, Inside the Dream, 179–80 (see Preface, n. 1).
60. Bob Thomas, “Disney’s Brother Has Plans for Future,” Arkansas Democrat (Little Rock), January 9, 1967, 7.
AFTERWORD “Let’s Never Not Be a Silly Company”
1. “Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress,” The “E” Ticket 22 (Winter 1995): 36.
2. “Planning the First Disney Parks . . . A Talk with Marvin Davis,” The “E”Ticket 28 (Winter 1997): 17.
3. France, Window on Main Street, 83.
4. “Imagineering and the Disney Image . . . An Interview with Marty Sklar,” The “E” Ticket 30 (Fall 1998): 12.
5. Perine, Chouinard, 214; Herbert Gold, “Walt Disney Presents: Adventures in Collegeland!” Atlantic, November 1972, 49.
6. Peter Bart, “Art School Aims for New Campus,” New York Times, April 6, 1966, 40.
7. Winston Hibler, April 1968 interview.
8. Pamela Moreland, “Family Selling Rights to Walt Disney Firm,” Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1981, AMPAS.
9. Seth Schiesel, “For Disney’s Eisner, the Business Is Content, Not Conduits,” New York Times (online edition), July 2, 2001.
10. “ ‘Walt’s Happy Place’: An Interview with Michael Broggie,” 14 (see ch. 8, n. 66).
INDEX
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ABC of Hand Tools, The
Academy Awards
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Acting: The First Six Lessons (Boleslavsky)
Adamson, Joe
Adelquist, Hal
Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, The
Aesop’s Fables (series)
African Lion, The
Aircraft Production Methods (series)
Alaska, filming in
Algar, James
Alice Comedies (series)
Alice in Wonderland (feature)
difficulties in production of
in postwar plans
prewar work on
Alice Picks the Champ
Alice’s Balloon Race
Alice’s Brown Derby
Alice’s Day at Sea
Alice’s Fishy Story
Alice’s Orphan
Alice’s Wonderland
All in Fun. See Melody Time
American Ambulance Corps
American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Amos ’n Andy (radio program)
Anderson, Bill
Anderson, Kenneth
Andrews, Julie
Animated Cartoons: How They Are Made, Their Origins and Development (Lutz)
Annakin, Ken
Annakin, Pauline
Appeal to Reason (newspaper)
Arness, Jim
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company (the Santa Fe)
&n
bsp; Atlas Corporation
Atwell, Roy
Audio-Animatronics
Autumn
“Ave Maria” (segment of Fantasia)
Babbitt, Art
as leader of Disney unions
and life classes
as Pied Piper animator
after strike
Babes in the Woods
Baggage Buster
Bailey, Kelvin
“Ballad of Davy Crockett, The” (song)
Bambi
as feature subject
loss on initial release
production of
Bambi: A Life in the Woods (Salten)
Band Concert, The
Banner in the Sky (James Ramsey Ullman)
Bank of America
Barks, Carl
Barn Dance, The
Barnyard Olympics
bar sheet
Bart, Peter
Barton, Charles
Baskett, James
Beaudine, William
Beaumont, Kathryn
Beaver Valley
Becket, Welton
Beecher, Ruth Disney
Belcher, Marjorie. See Champion, Marge
Bell, Mary Hayley
Benchley, Robert
Benedict, Ed
Benton, Thomas Hart
Benton School (Kansas City)
Bergen, Edgar
“biff-sniff” (animation technique)
Big Bad Wolf, The
Bioff, Willie
Birds in the Spring
Birmingham, Steven
Blackburn, Tom
Blair, Lee
Blair, Mary
Blair, Preston
Blank, Dorothy Ann
Bodrero, James
Bogert, Frank
Boleslavsky, Richard
Bondi, Beulah
“Bongo” (segment of Fun and Fancy Free)
Bongo (unmade feature)
Borgfeldt, Geo., & Co.
Bosustow, Stephen
Bounds, Lillian (wife). See Disney, Lillian Bounds
Bounds, Phyllis (niece)
Boyd, Jack
Bradbury, Jack
Bray, John R.
Bressman, Earl
Bright, Randy
Bright Lights
Brightman, Homer
Bringing Up Father (comic strip)
Broadway Theatre (New York)
Broggie, Michael
Broggie, Roger
Broken Toys
Brown, Clarence
Brown, Governor Edmund G. “Pat”
Brown, John Mason
Brown, Robert (son-in-law)
Brown, Sharon Disney (daughter)
Browne, George E.
Bruns, George
Buena Vista Distribution
Building a Building
Burbank studio. See Disney, Walt, Productions
Burley, Fulton
Burnham, Don
Burns, Governor Haydon
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
Call, Flora (mother). See Disney, Flora Call
Campbell, Jack
Cannon, Johnny
Capra, Frank
Care, Ross
Carlson, Bob
Carlson, Joyce
Carolwood Pacific (miniature railroad)
Carr, Jack
Carthay Circle Theatre (Los Angeles)
casting by character
Cauger, A. Verne
cels
Center Theatre (New York)
Champion, Marge (Marjorie Belcher)
“Chanticleer” (proposed feature)
Chaplin, Charlie
Chicago, Disney homes at
Chicago Academy of Fine Arts
Chicago Railroad Fair of 1948
Children of the Covered Wagon
China Plate, The
Chouinard, Nelbert
Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles)
Churchill, Douglas
Churchill, Frank
Cinderella (feature)
Cinderella (Laugh-O-gram)
City of Tomorrow (Palm Beach, Florida)
Clark, Les
Clark, Marceil
Clark, Marguerite
Clark, Royal
Clopton, Ben
Coats, Claude
Cock o’the Walk
Codrick, Tom
Collins, Eddie
Collodi, Carlo
Colony Theatre (New York)
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Colvig, Pinto
commercial films
Conciliation Service
Conried, Hans
coordinator of inter-American affairs, office of the
Cottrell, Bill
Couch, Chuck
Cowles, J. V.
Crane, William E.
Creedon, Dick
Crump, Rolly
Cuban Carnival (unfinished feature)
Culhane, James
Cutting, Jack
DaGradi, Don
Dali, Salvador
“Dance of the Hours” (segment of Fantasia)
Darby O’Gill and the Little People
Davidson, Bill
Davis, Marc
and CalArts
and Disneyland
Davis, Margaret
Davis, Marjorie (niece)
Davis, Marvin
Davis, Virginia
“Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter” (Frontierland episode of Disneyland)
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Dawn of Better Living, The
Debs, Eugene V.
Dedini, Eldon
Depinet, Ned E.
“Destino” (unfinished film)
Devlin, Pat
Dewey, James F.
dialogue, recording of
Dickson, Gregory
Dike, Phil
Dinner Time
Disney, Diane Marie (daughter). See Miller, Diane Disney
Disney, Edna Francis (Mrs. Roy)
Disney, Elias (father)
accidental gas poisoning in new home
death of
as disciplinarian
loan to Walt and Roy
move back to Chicago
move to Portland, Oregon
as newspaper route owner in Kansas City
return to Kansas City from Chicago
socialist and Christian beliefs of
Disney, Flora Call (mother)
accidental death in new home
Disney, Herbert Arthur (brother)
Disney, Kepple (grandfather)
Disney, Lillian Bounds (wife)
birth of daughter
courtship and marriage
death
dinners in front of TV set
fall outside Annakin home
financial insecurity of
miscarriages
on origin of Mickey Mouse
possible strains in marriage
travels with Walt
and Walt’s miniature railroad
Disney, Margaret (aunt)
Disney, Mary Richardson (grandmother)
Disney, Raymond Arnold (brother)
Disney, Robert (uncle)
Disney, Roy Edward (nephew)
Disney, Roy Oliver (brother)
ABC, conflicts with
attitude toward employees
Chicago, memories of life in
conflict with Walt over WED
death
disagreement with Walt over features
Disney Brothers Studio
Disneyland, initial skepticism about
Florida project
hospitalization with tuberculosis
Iwerks and Stalling, break with
in Kansas City
Marceline, memories of life in
marriage to Edna Francis
move to home on Lyric Avenue
in navy
on 1935 European trip
&nbs
p; Powers settlement
search for financial aid
on Snow White screening for banker
during strike and aftermath
Technicolor for Silly Symphonies
TV networks, meetings with
unions, hostility toward
on Walt as “bear for work”
on Walt’s attire
Walt’s death
on Walt’s home on Woking Way
Walt’s 1931 “breakdown”
Disney, Ruth Flora (sister). See Beecher, Ruth Disney
Disney, Sharon Mae (daughter). See Brown, Sharon Disney
Disney, Walt (Walter Elias Disney): acceptance of conflict at studio
addenda to story outlines
Alice in Wonderland, frustration with
as amateur performer
anger at Iwerks
as animator for Kansas City Film Ad
anti-Semitism, charges of
arrangement of life classes for staff
attire
awareness of details
Bambi, role in production
birth
break with Powers and Iwerks
“caricature of life,” emphasis on
changing role in production
Cinderella, role in production
comedy, ideas about
as commercial artist
communism, opposition to
concerns with cost and appearance of animation
conflicts with Bill Peet
conflict with Roy over WED
control of postwar short cartoons
courtship and marriage to Lillian Bounds
cremation and memorial service
crisis in spring of 1940
critiques of animators’ work
diminishing role in animated features
disagreement with Roy over features
dislike of world’s fairs
at Disney Brothers Studio
Disneyland, anxiety during construction
Disneyland, conception of
Disneyland, passion for
Disneyland, scrutiny of operations
Disneyland’s limits as source of satisfaction
drinking
Dumbo, role in production
early ambitions for studio
eating habits
as editor of ideas
Elias Disney, memories of
enthusiasm for CalArts
EPCOT, promotion of
European filming and travel
exceptional memory
Fantasia, role in production
as father
February 10, 1941, speech to employees
filming in Britain
on films as interchangeable for TV, theaters
final illness and death
first new car
flying trip to Alaska
in France as ambulance driver
habits of command
heavy smoking and cigarette cough of
home in Holmby Hills
home on Woking Way
honorary degrees from Harvard and Yale
as host of television show
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