Walt and the Great Comic Book Controversy
In April 1954, when the U.S. Senate held hearings on comic books—especially “horror” titles and their “impact upon adolescents”—Walt spoke out.
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Walt’s First Fairy Tales
By the time Walt Disney released Cinderella in 1950, the imaginative impresario was well known as the past master of the animated fairy tale. But few realized just how far back into the past—dating back to the Roaring Twenties in Kansas City, Missouri—Walt first used the relatively new medium of animation to retell the old …
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A First-Class Honor
There have been a whole series of Disney U.S. postage stamps recently, but the earliest Disney stamp was the commemorative issue honoring Walt himself in September 1968, less than two years after the great showman’s passing.
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The Case of the Missing Mustache
His toothbrush mustache became a permanent visage trademark starting in April 1925, when he first grew it on a bet.
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South American Artists Shine in Scrapbook from Walt Disney’s Offices
During the 1941 “Good Neighbor” trip Walt and his artists took to South America, the clan known as “El Grupo” received many a gift from the enchanted people they studied and learned from—Walt especially. One of the gifts Walt received during the trip was a scrapbook filled with original art from some of South America’s then-premier artists.
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Behind the Scenes of Walt’s Last Dream
In these rare photographs, you can see the filmmakers and Walt setting up for production of the “EPCOT Film.”
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Walt Disney’s Proposed Theme Park in Burbank
Years before Disneyland opened, Walt Disney and his staff considered building an amusement enterprise right across the street from their Burbank studio.
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Walt Through the Years
During a 43-year Hollywood career, which spanned the development of the motion picture medium as a modern American art, Walter Elias Disney, a modern Aesop, established himself and his product as a genuine part of Americana.
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How a Man Called Walt Became Disney
Becoming Walt Disney, an original D23 Studios short film, traces the path of a one-of-a-kind storyteller from his youth in Marceline, Missouri, and his apprenticeship in Kansas City, Missouri, all the way to his arrival Los Angeles, California, in 1923.
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Never-Before-Released, Exclusive Photos From Walt Disney’s Camera Found in the Walt Disney Archives
These extremely rare, exclusive photos, housed in the Walt Disney Archives, were taken by Walt Disney and his family. The photos show candid moments, rarely seen by the public, from Walt’s personal travels.
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