One of my favorite aspects of the Walt Disney Archives collection is the rich amount of material related to the Disney Studio’s early days, information which helps to shed light on how our very own studio’s “ghosts of Christmas past” interacted and what their “everyday life” was like.
One of the more enlightening in-house publications of olde (which were sometimes referred to as a “house organ”) is The Bulletin. While chronicling the daily issues and eccentricities of life on a bustling studio lot, the publication also features the sometimes over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek humor one would come to expect from the group who effortlessly brought a talking mouse and duck to magical life.
The holidays, of course, were no exception for such a chronicle. The excerpt in the image below comes from the December 23, 1939 issue of The Bulletin, and highlights just how outrageous holiday humor can be.
From all of us here in the Walt Disney Archives, to all of you at home, Happy Holidays!