Mackenzie, New Haven, Connecticut
Unfortunately, the Walt Disney Archives is not open for research by college students.
See moreCaleb, Foresthill, California
Walt joined a Boy Scout troop in 1914 formed from Sunday school classes in the Congregational church that the family attended in Kansas City, Missouri. He was not in the troop very long, reaching only the Tenderfoot level, but he maintained a great respect for the Boy Scouts throughout his lifetime.
See moreArthur, Mexico City, Federal District
There should be film negatives, including the original title frames for all of the Disney cartoons in the Disney vaults, though I am aware that sometimes when a film was rereleased (such as by a different distributor), changes were made. I would hope that the original title frame was saved when the revised one replaced …
See moreTim, Memphis, Tennessee
There have been hundreds of different cast nametags since they were first introduced in 1962. The shape has varied, depending on the needs and desires of the individual unit. I assume the Parks’ “bubble” at the top of the nametag provided a space for the cast member to place a years-of-service pin. Wearing a nametag …
See moreShelby, Dayton, Ohio
The Walt Disney Archives does not have any specific information on the Victory Theatre. It would take a tremendous amount of research to determine which Disney films might have played there.
See moreNicholas, Wyandotte, Michigan
Walt Disney had visited Greenfield Village, and the Henry Ford Museum, and it seems obvious that he remembered things he had seen there when designing his own park—Disneyland.
See moreDaniel, Washington
That section of the Pink Elephants sequence was animated by Howard Swift. The animator who worked on earlier segments of that sequence was Hicks Lokey.
See moreRandy, Santa Ana, CA
No, he was right-handed.
See moreLisa, Brooklyn, New York
Herb Ryman first worked at the Disney Studio in April 1939. The drawing does not seem to be related to any Disney project, so would not be of interest to the Walt Disney Archives.
See moreHannah, Brooksville, Florida
The Disney Studio in Burbank formerly used the (213) 560-4xxx phone numbers, though the area code changed to 818 in 1984. I do not know who might have had that particular extension back in the 1980s.
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