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...really interesting side was not the fabled rapport with children (from all accounts, he was about as innocent as Bobby Riggs and somewhat less likable) but the grip of organization-first in his art itself, and then in the area of business and social manipulation-which made Disneyland and Disney World possible. He turned himself from a cartoonist into the Old Master of masscult, and from there became a Utopian environmentalist...
...first flush of Snow White's astounding success in 1937. Until this spring, his office in the animation building at the corner of Mickey Boulevard and Dopey Drive was left exactly as it was the day he died. In April, it was dismantled and painstakingly reconstructed at Disneyland-the notes where he left them on the low black desk, the scripts he was reading tucked neatly in the rack behind. Disney executives reverentially continue to invoke Walt's philosophy; often in discussing projects or plans, they will offer the ultimate approval: "Walt would have liked...
...year-old small-family firm, launched on $40 and the scrawny figure of a four-fingered mouse, has grown to encompass two of the country's major tourist attractions-Disneyland and Disney World; motion-picture-and television-producing Buena Vista studios; WED Enterprises, an engineering and design group that is fondly known as the "imagineers" and is responsible for many of the technological wonders of Disneyland and Disney World; several hotels, a travel service, a record company, a music-publishing corporation and a touring company; toy-manufacturing and merchandising operations; the governments of two legally constituted municipalities within Disney...
Other young artists are unwilling to conform to the imperious (although recently somewhat modified) Disney dress and hair codes, or to go through the Mickey Mouse employee indoctrination at the "universities" at Disneyland and Disney World. At these "universities," most of the company's 20,000 clean, neat and good-looking employees are schooled in Traditions I, II, III and IV in the Way of Walt. (In the late 1950s, one of those employees was future Presidential Press...
...economy charter flight to the U.S. They set out, with a budget of $2,000 for fares, meals and hotels, on a whirlwind coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. During their 48-hour stay in Los Angeles, they sampled bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic, paid a visit to Disneyland, took a bus tour of Beverly Hills and a trip to the sprawling baroque mansion of Silent Film Star Harold Lloyd. Though pleased by the friendliness of Americans wherever they went, the Lafonts were perplexed by the lack of bidets in their hotel rooms and bothered by the transitoriness...