Mackenzie, New Haven, Connecticut

Unfortunately, the Walt Disney Archives is not open for research by college students.

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Caleb, 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.

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Arthur, 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 …

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Tim, 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 …

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Shelby, 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.

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Nicholas, 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.

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Daniel, 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.

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Randy, Santa Ana, CA

No, he was right-handed.

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Lisa, 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.

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