Laugh-O-grams

The Fairy Tales Walt Disney Produced in Kansas City

Before the Alice Comedies, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney produced one-minute shorts, known as the Newman Laugh-O-grams, for the local Newman cinema chain in Kansas City—a series of six modernized fairy-tale shorts, known as the Laugh-O-grams.

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Storytellers Statue

The Original Storytellers

As guests stroll down Buena Vista Street, a familiar face and mouse will be there to greet them—in the form of a bronze statue called Storytellers.

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black and white photo of a young Walt Disney at workbench wearing a full-length apron

Walt’s Wonder Years

D23 catches up with Timothy Susanin, the unlikely author who chronicled Walt Disney’s early life in the definitive biography, Walt Before Mickey

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