Margie, Midland, Virginia

The company’s first annual report was issued in 1940. The Disney Web site has the reports back to 1995. The earlier ones are harder to come by, though some research libraries have full sets. One Internet seller has a CD with the reports back to 1954.

Kenny, Lithonia, Georgia

Thank you. I have always enjoyed doing the Ask Dave answers, so I’ll keep it up as long as I can.

Austin, Ogden, Utah

You are thinking of Marsupilami, whose friend was Maurice, a gorilla. Maurice was indeed in a pink T-shirt. The animated shows aired back in 1993-’94. There were only 13 episodes—and were based on a European comic book character from the 1960s.

Sharon, North Port, Florida

You can check eBay. Many of the actual admission tickets from the old Walt Disney World ticket books are still good for admission today, and are thus worth at least today’s admission price. Individual A, B, C, D, and E tickets have little value.

Devin, Los Angeles, California

The Walt Disney Archives does not have any Jungle Cruise scripts from the 1950s. However, there is a part of the jungle tour shown in the People and Places film Disneyland, U.S.A. from 1956. That featurette was released on DVD in 2007 in the Walt Disney Treasures set Disneyland: Secrets, Stories, and Magic. Here is …

Sam, Los Angeles, California

There is a photo of the plan in Beth Dunlop’s book on Disney architecture, Building a Dream. Walt soon realized that there was not enough room on the six-acre plot of land to build all he wanted to build, so in 1953 he hired the Stanford Research Institute to find a larger site for Disneyland—their …

Shelly, Great Falls, Montana

Disney did not make the Lucky Luke films, but only obtained the rights to release them on videocassette in the United States. Besides the Daisy Town video, there is one titled The Ballad of the Daltons. They were originally released on VHS in 1984 and reissued in 1990 (when they were also released on laserdisc). …

Kenny, Lithonia, Georgia

The Muppets, Pixar, and Marvel have their own Archives; those archives have not been integrated into the Walt Disney Archives.

Ting, Baltimore, Maryland

There is no archive at Walt Disney World, though there is a research center for cast members. Contact the Walt Disney Archives at Disney.Archives@disney.com and they can provide more information.

Scott, Remlap, Alabama

That short film was first called Mickey’s Audition, then the name was changed to Mickey’s Big Break. It was made in 1991, and has been shown several places at the Walt Disney World Resort—in a temporary attraction in a soundstage at Disney-MGM Studios (now Disney’s Hollywood Studios), and in the Magic Kingdom in the Main …