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46. 1960 Pollyanna (LA)
47. 1960 The Sign of Zorro (LA)
48. 1960 Ten Who Dared (LA)
49. 1960 Jungle Cat (TL)
50. 1960 Swiss Family Robinson (LA)
51. 1961 One Hundred and One Dalmatians (A) 52. 1961 The Absent-Minded Professor (LA) 53. 1961 The Parent Trap (LA)
54. 1961 Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (TLF) 55. 1961 Greyfriars Bobby (LA)
56. 1961 Babes in Toyland (LA)
57. 1962 Moon Pilot (LA)
58. 1962 Bon Voyage (LA)
59. 1962 Big Red (LA)
60. 1962 Almost Angels (LA)
61. 1962 The Legend of Lobo (TLF)
62. 1962 In Search of the Castaways (LA) 63. 1963 Son of Flubber (LA)
64. 1963 Miracle of the White Stallions (LA) 65. 1963 Savage Sam (LA)
66. 1963 Summer Magic (LA)
67. 1963 The Incredible Journey (LA)
68. 1963 The Sword in the Stone (A)
69. 1963 The Three Lives of Thomasina (LA) 70. 1964 The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (LA) 71. 1964 A Tiger Walks (LA)
72. 1964 The Moon-Spinners (LA)
73. 1964 Mary Poppins (C)
74. 1964 Emil and the Detectives (LA)
75. 1965 Those Calloways (LA)
76. 1965 The Monkey’s Uncle (LA)
77. 1965 That Darn Cat (LA)
78. 1966 The Ugly Dachshund (LA)
79. 1966 Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. (LA)
80. 1966 The Fighting Prince of Donegal (LA) 81. 1966 Follow Me, Boys! (LA)
82. 1967 Monkeys, Go Home (LA) *
83. 1967 The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (LA) *
84. 1967 The Happiest Millionaire (LA) *
85. 1967 The Gnome-Mobile (LA) *
86. 1967 The Jungle Book (A) *
87. 1967 Charlie, The Lonesome Cougar (LA) *
NOTES
INTRODUCTION
Source of freezing story. Bill Burnett, “Walt Disney Is Frozen: He’ll Be Back in 1975,” National Spotlite, n.d., Walt Disney Archive, Burbank, Calif. (hereinafter WDA).
Ici Paris. Pierre Grillet, “Disney In Deep Freeze Awaiting Resurrection,” National Tattler, Jun.?, 1969, WDA.
“obsessed.” Frank Cusimano, “Walt Disney Is Being Kept Alive in Deep Freeze,” Midnight, Oct. 4, 1971, WDA.
A writer for Mickey Mouse Club. Charles Shows, Walt: Backstage Adventures with Walt Disney (Huntington Beach, Calif.: Windsong Books International, 1979).
Ward Kimball…took some pride… Jim Korkis, “Ward Kimball,” in Walt’s People, Didier Ghez, ed. (Xlibris, 2006).
Posthumous Disney film. Jim Korkis, “The Final Days of Uncle Walt, “Persistence of Vision (hereinafter POV), Jul. 17, 1992. Apparently animator Eric Larson testified to the screening.
By one estimate… Richard Schickel, The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney, 3rd ed. (1968; reprint Chicago: Elephant Paperbacks, 1997).
By another estimate… Richard G. Hubler, Walt Disney, unpub. ms., Richard Hubler Collection, Special Collections, Mugar Library, Boston University (hereinafter RHC).
60 million visitors to Disneyland. Martin A. Sklar, Walt Disney’s Disneyland (New York: Disney Productions, 1964), n.p.
“world’s most celebrated entertainer…” Jack Alexander, “The Amazing Story of Walt Disney,” Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 31, 1953.
“probably the only man…” New York Times (hereinafter NYT), Dec. 16, 1966.
“[I]t happened…” Robert Hughes, “Disney: Mousebrow to Highbrow,” Time, Oct. 15, 1973.
“greatest piece of urban design…” Quoted in Randy Bright, Disneyland: The Inside Story (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987).
“[I]t seems unlikely…” Peter Blake, “The Lessons of the Parks,” in Christopher Finch, The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdom, rev. ed. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993).
“[H]is achievement became…” Hughes, “Mousebrow.”
“modern multimedia corporation.” Richard Schickel, “Ruler of the Magic Kingdom,” Time, Dec. 7, 1998.
“precise, clean, insipid, mechanical image.” Max Apple, “Uncle Walt,” Esquire, Dec. 1983.
Mickey Mouse’s circular shape. John Hench quoted in Steven Watts, The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997).
“sentimental populism.” Ibid..
“God has things well under control.” John Gardner, “Saint Walt: The Greatest Artist the World Has Ever Known, Except for Possibly, Apollonius of Rhodes,” New York, Nov. 12, 1973.
middle-class, Protestant ideal of childhood. Nicholas Sammond, Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005).
“primary creator of the counterculture…” Douglas Brode, From Walt to Woodstock: How Disney Created the Counterculture (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2004).
“makes dreams come true.” Adela Rogers St. John, “Walt Disney’s Gambles,” American Weekly, May 1, 1955.
“[H]e emerged from the very heart…” Robert D. Feild, The Art of Walt Disney (New York: Macmillan, 1942).
“[o]f all the activists…” John Bright, “Disney’s Fantasy Empire,” Nation Mar. 6, 1967.
“Walt Disney had the innate bad taste…” Art Babbitt quoted in Leonard Mosley, Disney’s World: A Biography (New York: Stein & Day, 1985).
“rallying point for the subliterates…” Schickel, Disney Version.
“A few years ago when you mentioned Walt Disney…” Gardner, “Saint Walt.”
“the illusion of life without any of the mess.” Apple, “Uncle Walt.”
“The borders of fantasy…” Robert Sklar, “The Making of Cultural Myths—Walt Disney,” in The American Animated Cartoon: A Critical Anthology, ed. Gerald Peary and Danny Peary (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1980).
“to a sickening blend of cheap formulas…” Julian Halevy, “Disneyland and Las Vegas,” Nation, Jun. 7, 1958.
“an illusion created by a vast machinery” Schickel, Disney Version.
“Disney was a callous man…” Edmund Carpenter, “Very, Very Happy; Very Happy,” New York Times Book Review, May 5, 1968.
Hollywood’s Dark Prince. Marc Eliot, Walt Disney: Hollywood’s Dark Prince (New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1993).
selling the name “Walt Disney.” Ken Anderson quoted in Bob Thomas, Walt Disney: An American Original (1976; reprint, New York: Hyperion, 1994).
“I’m not Walt Disney anymore.” Marty Sklar quoted in Bright, Disneyland.
“He was a difficult man to understand…” Ben Sharpsteen, interview by Richard Hubler, Oct. 29, 1968, WDA.
“I do believe I knew Walt…” Bill Peet, Bill Peet: An Autobiography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989).
“I’ve always said that if you get…” Amy Boothe Green and Howard E. Green, Remembering Walt: Favorite Memories of Walt Disney (New York: Hyperion, 1999).
ONE || Escape
“walking a straight and narrow path.” Roy Disney, interview by Richard Hubler, RHC, Box 14, Folder 51.
Disney family. Diane Disney Miller, as told to Pete Martin, The Story of Walt Disney (New York: Holt, 1956)
“classed among the intellectual…” Quoted in Richard G. Hubler, Walt Disney, unpub, ms., RHC.
Arundel Elias Disney. Sherry Foresman, The History of the Disney Family (Des Moines, Ia.: Foresman, 1979); District of New York—Port of New York Manifest, New Jersey, Oct. 3, 1834, Disney Family, Europe-Canada Documents, Box 2560, WDA.
Goderich. James Scott, Pioneer Times [Huron County] quoted in David Smith, Disney-Call Family History, Sept. 1971, WDA.
Mary Richardson. Goderich Township Families, n.d., Goderich Public Library.
“as handsome a man…” Peter Cantelon quoted in clipping, Stratford [Ontario] Daily, Jul. 15, 1938, Elias Disney Box, WDA.
reluctantly resumed farming. Victor Lauriston, “Walt Takes Snapshots of Huron Gravestones,” Chatham Daily News, Feb. 18, 1953
, Rob Roy file, Walt Disney Corr., 1953-1954, P-S, A1554, WDA.
set out in 1877. Bob Thomas, Building a Company: Roy O. Disney and the Creation of an Entertainment Empire (New York: Hyperion, 1998); Leon Cantelon, “Village of Bluevale Became Thriving Industrial Center,” no source, Jun. 25, 1960, Canada Photographs File, Disney Family, Europe-Canada Documents, A2560, WDA. Peter Cantelon says that the family traveled with Kepple. See “Disney Family Settled in Huron County in 1848,” Goderich Signal Star, July 7, 1999.
Purchased just over three hundred acres. Warranty Deed Record, Kepple Disney, Jun. 14, 1887, Register of Deeds, Ellis County, Kansas.
Indian massacres. Maureen Winter, ed., Indians to Industry (Ellis County Star, 1967).
one Indian scare. Will Disney quoted in Kittie Dale, “Disneyland, Ks., Had Its Historic, Exciting Moments,” Ellis Review, 1972, Ellis, Kansas, Folder, Disney Family: Genealogy, etc., A2382, WDA.
“Sodom of the Plains.” At Home in Ellis County, Kansas, 1867-1992 (Hays, Kan.: History Book Committee, 1991).
scavenged for buffalo bones. Ibid..
Winter of 1885-86. Dale, “Historic, Exciting Moments.”
Visit to Florida. Jessie Call Perkins, The History of the Call Family, unpub. ms., Dec. 1947, Perkins, Jessie, Folder, Walt Disney Corr., 1956, M-R, 1564, WDA.
the Calls. Ibid.
Leaving Ohio. David Smith, Call Family History, Sept. 1971, WDA.
Flora and Albertha. Ibid..
“howling wilderness.” David Smith to Irene Campbell, Feb. 23, 1972, Call Family Corr., Disney Family: Corr., A2379, WDA.
“beautiful.” Perkins, History of Call Family.
Pine Island. Call Family—Jessie Perkins Folder, Disney Family: Genealogy, Etc., A2382, WDA.
Seven families. Call Genealogy, compiled by Erma Campbell Statler, 1971, Call Family—Erma Statler Folder, Disney Family: Genealogy, Etc., A2383, WDA.
Teaching in Florida. Ibid.
Flora teaching in Paisley. David Smith, Notes on Call Family—Notes, Drafts, Etc. Folder, Disney Family: Genealogy, Etc. A2383, WDA.
Elias delivered mail. Ernest Belligio to Dave Smith, Aug. 11, 1980, Call Family—Jessie Perkins Folder, Disney Family: Genealogy, etc., WDA.
Bought an orange grove. Gainesville, Fla., Land Office, no. 9666, Oct. 30, 1888.
“Elias was very much…” “Disney Family Settled in Huron County in 1848,” Goderich Signal Star, Jul. 7, 1999.
“real dandy…” Walt to Clara McKenzie, May 7, 1958, Mc Folder, Walt Disney Corr., 1958, H-P, A1571, WDA.
Gold mines. Stock certificate, Dahlonega Gold Mine and Milling Co., Aug. 2, 1906, Disney Family Corr. Folder, Disney Family Corr., A2379, WDA.
Robert’s hotel. Peter Cantelon quoted in “Disney Family Settled in Huron County in 1848.”
3515 South Vernon. Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, Early Chicago Residences of the Elias Disney Family (1991).
Dollar a day. Walt Disney, interview by Pete Martin, Reels 3 & 4, A2361, WDA.
cottage for his family. Cook County Recorder of Deeds, Book 221A, 1249 Tripp Ave., Oct. 31, 1891; Record of Building Permits for Permanent Structures, Cook County, 2156 Tripp (formerly 1249 Tripp), Nov. 23, 1892.
two paved roads… “Way Back When,” clipping [no source], Sept. 13, 1950, Chicago Folder, Disney Family Genealogy, Etc., A2383, WDA.
“hammer and saw planks…” Walt quoted in Richard Schickel, The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney, 3rd ed. (1968; reprint Chicago: Elephant Paperbacks, 1997).
Seven dollars a week. Flora Disney in “Disney Biography, 50th Wedding Anniversary of Mr. & Mrs. Elias Disney,” WDA.
Two additional homes. Early Chicago Residences of the Elias Disney Family, Cook County Recorder, Book 6760, September 18, 1899.
“[H]e was a pretty good preacher…” “Disney Biography, 50th Wedding Anniversary of Mr. & Mrs. Elias Disney,” WDA.
the child’s name. Bob Thomas, Walt Disney: An American Original (1976; reprint New York: Hyperion; 1994).
Second son, Ray. Register of Births, Illinois, Dec. 30, 1890, Regional Archives Depository, Ronald Williams Library, Northeastern Illinois University.
Walter Elias Disney. Baptisms, St. Paul’s Congregational Church, Hammond Library, Chicago Theological Seminary.
Car-barn robbery. Roy Disney, interview by Richard Hubler, Nov. 17, 1967, RHC, Box 14, Folder 51.
Elias sold their house. Early Chicago Residences of the Elias Disney Family.
“[I]t sounded wonderful…” Roy Disney interview, RHC.
“Marceline was the most important…” Lillian Disney Truyens, interview by Bob Thomas, Apr. 19, 1973, Disney, Lillian, Folder, WDA.
“clearly remember every detail of it.” Walt quoted in Hubler.
First impression of Marceline. Walt Disney, “The Marceline I Knew,” Marceline News, Sept. 2, 1938.
It was a small farm. Elias Disney deed, Linn County, Mo., Recorder of Deeds, book 160.
Installments. Affidavit, Jean P. Taylor, Jan. 14, 1960, Marceline, Mo., Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri.
Teal and sprig. Jack Jungmeyer, “The Marceline Farm Days in the Boyhood of Walt Disney,” unpub. ms., Dec. 20, 1954, Disney Family, General Folder, Disney Family, Genealogy, Etc., A2383, WDA.
“We had every kind of apple…” Miller, Story of Disney.
“[I]t was just heaven…” Roy Disney interview by Hubler.
Mock orange trees… Affidavit, Marie Mercy Taylor, Jan. 14, 1960, Marceline, Mo., Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri.
“a very hansome place…” Mary Disney to granddaughter [unnamed], Jul. 2, 1907, Disney Family, General Folder, Disney Family, Genealogy, Etc., A2383, WDA.
“Everything connected with Marceline…” Disney, “The Marceline I Knew.”
“crowded, smoky.” Miller, Story of Disney.
Special feeling toward animals. Ibid.
Herding the pigs. Walt Disney, speech at Marceline, 1956, WDA; Miller, Story of Disney.
Charley. Hubler, Disney.
Maltese terrier. Walt Disney interview by Martin, Reels 3 & 4, WDA.
“It was the most embarrassing thing…” Walt Disney: An Intimate History of the Man and his Magic, CD-ROM, Pantheon Productions, 1998.
Barrel stave. Walt Disney, Autobiography, unpub. ms., 1939, 2nd installment, WDA.
Fishing. Clem Flickinger quoted in Katherine Greene and Richard Greene, The Man Behind the Magic: The Story of Walt Disney (New York: Viking, 1991); Frank Van Tiger to Walt, Jan. 26, 1947, V Folder, Walt Disney Corr., 1947-1948, T-Z, A1540, WDA.
sledding or skating. Ibid.; Disney, “The Marceline I Knew.”
“I don’t think he was ever in a battle…” Walt Disney: An Intimate History, CD-ROM.
Sundays. Don Taylor, Marceline, Mo., Aug. 6, 1971, WDA.
Marceline. Marceline, Missouri: Past and Present, Progress and Prosperity (1913; repr., Walsworth Publishing Co., 1975).
Name of town. James Aucoin, A History of Marceline, 1888-1988, Centennial Edition (Marceline Mo., 1988).
Coal mines. Marceline Past and Present; Marceline Mirror, Jul. 28, 1905.
“motley array of tents and shacks” Marceline Mirror, Jul. 28, 1905.
“dignified and sturdy.” Ibid.
“A stranger coming here…” Marceline Past and Present.
“more things of importance…” Disney, “The Marceline I Knew.”
Circus. Dick Williams, “Disney Maps New Frontier,” Los Angeles Times (hereinafter LAT), Dec. 10, 1961.
Peter Pan. Jim Korkis, “Disney’s Pre-Production Peter Pan,” POV 1, no. 2 (Winter 1992).
Buffalo Bill. Walt to Martin L. Wolf (editor in chief, Library Publishers), Wi Folder, Walt Disney Corr., 1955, S-Z, A1560, WDA.
First motion picture. Ruth Flora Disney Beecher, “Recollections of Marceline”; Ruth Disney, interview by David Smith, Nov. 4, 1974, Beecher, Ruth Folder, WDA.
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[E]verything was done…” Walt Disney interview by Martin, Reels 3 & 4.
“one of the prides of my life.” Disney, “The Marceline I Knew.”
Uncle Mike’s arrival. Walt Disney: An Intimate History CD-ROM.
Grandma Disney’s visits. Walt to Mrs. George Miles, May 21, 1965, Walt Disney—Personal Folder, Walt Disney Corr., 1965, Committees—Disney School, A1607, WDA.
“It’s me!” Ruth Disney interview by Smith.
Wonderful playmate. Lawrence Edward Watkin, Walt Disney, unpub. ms., WDA.
“Uncle Ed did everything…” Walt Disney interview by Martin, Reels 3 & 4.
In the woods with Uncle Ed. Miller, Story of Disney.
“To me he represented fun…” Ibid.
Uncle Robert’s visits. Jean P. Taylor affidavit; Interview with Don Taylor.
“auntie.” Walt Disney interview by Martin, Disc 3, CD.
Aunt Margaret’s gifts. Lowell Lawrance, “Mickey Mouse—Inspiration from Mouse in K.C. Studio,” Kansas City Journal-Post, Sept. 8, 1935, untitled folder, Kansas City Box, A2364, WDA.
“almost as soon as I could hold a pencil.” Walt to Jerome Tunney, Nov. 1, 1961, Mc Folder, Walt Disney Corr., 1961, M-Z, A1589, WDA.
“boy wonder,” “flattering tongue.” Walt Disney, Autobiography, unpub. ms., 1939, 2nd installment, WDA.
Doc Sherwood. Int with Don Taylor.
“Don’t be afraid…” Walt Disney, “The Best Advice I Ever Had,” unpub. ms., Walt Disney Folder, Walt Disney Corr., 1962, Committee-H (Misc.), A1591, WDA.
“The result was pretty terrible…” Phil Santora, “A Kid from Chicago,” New York Daily News, Sept. 30, 1964.
Nickel for the drawing. Miller, Story of Disney.
Uncharacteristic. Interview with Don Taylor.
Framed and hung. Walt Disney, Autobiography.
“the highlight of Walt’s life.” Quoted in Amy Boothe Green and Howard E. Green, Remembering Walt: Favorite Memories of Walt Disney (New York: Hyperion, 1990).
“I can remember an awful feeling…” Ruth Disney interview by Smith; Walt Disney: An Intimate History, CD-ROM; Roy O. Disney, interview by Richard Hubler, RHC, 14, Folder 51.
“He was old enough…” Richard H. Syring, “One of the Great Geniuses,” Silver Screen, Nov. 1932.