Remembering Walt Peregoy

Walt Peregoy, a color stylist and background artist who was named a Disney Legend in 2008, passed away at his home in Encino, California, on January 16.

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Book cover for The Lost Notebook: Tales of Herman Schultheis

Herman J. Schultheis and His Lost (And Found) Notebook

In the late 1930s, Disney special-effects man Herman Schultheis documented in a personal notebook Disney’s special-effects wizardry during the golden age of animation. That notebook became the inspiration behind John Canemaker’s recently released book, The Lost Notebook: Herman Schultheis and the Secrets of Walt Disney’s Movie Magic.

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Winnie the Pooh Exhibition Opens in Japan

Winnie the Pooh Exhibition is currently touring select venues in Japan through 2015. The traveling exhibit presents the history of Winnie the Pooh and includes rare treasures from The Walt Disney Archives.

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Victoria, Granite Falls, Washington

Destino appears on the Fantasia and Fantasia/2000 4-disc Special Edition Blu-ray, released in 2010.

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Dennis, Buena Park, California

The only C.S. Lewis book on Walt’s office bookshelves was his Poems (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962). Other books there that were made into Disney movies include Sterling North’s Rascal (autographed to Walt), Robert Lewis Taylor’s A Journey to Matecumbe, A. A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh, Upton Sinclair’s The Gnomobile (autographed to Walt), P.L. Travers’ …

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Wild Ol’ Dan, New Orleans, Louisiana

James Baskett, who starred as Uncle Remus in Song of the South, has not yet received a Disney Legends award. There were no Legends awards presented in 2010. Baskett did win a special Oscar for his portrayal.

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animation frame from the movie Frozen

Jessica, Flagler Beach, Florida

Early concepts for an animated film based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen date back to the 1930s, even before Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was finished. The project was shelved until the 1990s, with a number of different story ideas proposed over the next decade, but none were viable. Finally, a script …

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Andrew, Northville, Michigan

There was a 1984 14k gold men’s wristwatch made by Baume and Mercier, a prominent watch firm from Geneva that was founded in 1830; that watch sold for $3,500, with a women’s version at $1,800. But perhaps the highest price was for a handmade 18k gold watch with mother of pearl dials, by Gerald Genta, …

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