Emily, Selden, New York

Thanks for your kind comments. There are no official names of the eras. From time to time for particular promotions, or DVD releases, a designation might be assigned. But for later promotions the name might change.

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Avi, Irvine, California

There is a Muppets archive in New York, which has original Muppets. The Walt Disney Archives has props and costumes from the two recent Muppet movies.

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Megan, Rome, Georgia

There were props created to represent props used in particular episodes of The Twilight Zone series, but no original props were included. The fortune telling machine you saw was one of them.

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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit at Disney Theme parlk

Dylan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

I know of no plans for a full-length Mickey Mouse film; Walt Disney had always thought that it would be hard for Mickey to sustain a complete feature. Regarding Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, you might be interested that now, for the first time, guests can meet the character at Tokyo DisneySea.

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Rosy, Charlottesville, Virginia

Heavily researched biographies include those by Neil Gabler (Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination) and Steven Watts (The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life), but the only one by someone who actually knew Walt Disney is Bob Thomas’s Walt Disney: An American Original. Diane Disney Miller’s early biography of …

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Karen, Mesa, Arizona

The Club 33 harpsichord is not an antique. The painting on the underside of the lid was by Disney Imagineer Collin Campbell. The phone booth was indeed a prop in The Happiest Millionaire, but the open elevator was simply a reconstruction based on early elevators. The vulture and other figures that were in the trophy …

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Mark, Los Angeles, California

It is not usually possible to determine which particular artist did which background for a film. The primary styling of the film was done by Eyvind Earle, and other artists, including Art Riley, Thelma Witmer, Frank Armitage, Walt Peregoy, Al Dempster, Dick Anthony, and Ralph Hulett, contributed backgrounds in his style.

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