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"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

"Laughter is America's most important export."

"We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public."

—  Walt Disney

Walt Disney entry at Wikipedia

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Walt Disney Family Museum

Walt Disney received a record 64 Oscar® nominations [1932-1969], and won 22 Academy Awards and 4 Honorary Oscars® He also won 6 awards at the Venice Film Festival (1934-50) France's Légion d'Honneur (1935) the Academy's Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1942) D.G.A. Honorary Life Member Award (1955) an Emmy as producer of the "Disneyland" TV program (1956) 7 Golden Laurel Awards (1961-67) the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964) a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal (1968) a posthumous Winsor McCay Award (1975) and has two Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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listed #26 on Atlantic Monthly's "100 Most Influential Americans" (12/2006)

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at Magic Lantern's Animation Page
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Walt Disney credits at Internet Movie Database

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"Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs" animated feature [Disney/R.K.O. Dec 1937] Supervising director David Hand; Honorary Oscar to Walt Disney for 'significant screen innovation' (1939) in the form of one statuette and seven miniatures; listed on National Film Registry (1989); 'Snow White' has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; full credits from IMDb

"Pinocchio" animated feature
[Disney/R.K.O. Feb 1940; restored 1992]
Supervising directors Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen; won Oscars for Best Original Song & Best
Music Score; listed on National Film Registry (1994); full credits from IMDb

"Walt Disney's Fantasia" animated feature [Disney/R.K.O. Nov 1940; restored in 1990 & 2000] Animated musical sequences include abstract images set to J.S. Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"; Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite" ballet; Paul Dukas's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" with Mickey Mouse; dinosaurs & volcanoes in Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring"; Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony"; "Dance of the Hours" by Ponchielli with delightful dancing hippos, crocodiles, ostriches & elephants; and Mussorgsky's darkly apocalyptic "Night On Bald Mountain" which morphs into "Ave Maria" in the rain Narration by Deems Taylor (restoration narration by actor Corey Burton); Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; won Honorary Oscars to Walt Disney & Leopold Stokowski in 1942; listed on National Film Registry (1990); full credits from IMDb

"Fantasia 2000"animated sequel [Disney/Buena Vista Dec 1999] Animated musical sequences include Beethoveen's Fifth Symphony; whales at sea set to "The Pines of Rome"; 1930s New York City set to Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue"; "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" fairy tale set to Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto #2; a goofy flamingo set to the finale of "Carnival of The Animals"; the classic sequence from the original film, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" starring Mickey Mouse; "Pomp and Circumstance" starring Donald Duck; and a forest sequence set to "The Firebird"; released in IMAX format full credits from IMDb

"Dumbo"  [Disney Oct 1941]

The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo at the circus, but the newborn's enormous ears lead to ridicule and the nickmname 'Dumbo'; he performs as part of the clown acts until his only friend, a mouse, helps him achieve his full potential. Supervising director Ben Sharpsteen; adapted from a book by Helen Aberson & Harold Perl; voices of Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy & Verna Felton Disney 60th Anniv. color VHS [10/2001] for $20.99 Disney 60th Anniv. (Spanish) color VHS [10/2001] for $22.99 Disney 60th Anniv. color DVD [10/2001] for $23.99 Disney Records audio CD [3/2001] for $11.98 full credits from IMDb | play theme music "Dumbo March" [2min:16sec midi file]

The 'magic' black feather that Timothy Q. Mouse and the crows give to the mute, floppy-eared Dumbo stands for every religion, belief system and dogma of Mankind. When Dumbo loses the magic feather atop the diving tower, he must take action in the face of his fears on his own, just like humans must do each moment. see also "The Tao of Dumbo" essay at Working Minds Philosophy website

"Bambi" [1942]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034492/

"Cinderella" [1950]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042332/

"Treasure  Island"  [Disney July 1950]

	Directed by Byron Haskin; based on the 1893 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson; starring Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea. Finlay Currie, Geoffrey Keen & Geoffrey Wilkinson Disney color VHS [3/97] for $19.99 Disney color DVD [3/97] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb
	"Long John Silver: Return to Treasure Island" [TI/DCA Dec 1954 sequel] Directed by Byron Haskin; starring Robert Newton, Kit Taylor, Lloyd Berrell & Rod Taylor VCI color CinemaScope DVD [6/2006] for $9.99 Direct Source color VHS [6/99] for $3.99 Celebrity color VHS [1/87] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb
	1893 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-94] Signet pb [12/98] for $3.95 Penguin 7¾x5 hardcover [12/99] for $5.95 Bookcassette UNABR audio [6/93] for $12.57 Tantor UNABR audio CD [12/2002] for $39.00 book illustrated by N.C. Wyeth [1882-1945] Atheneum 9¼x7¼ hardcover [10/81] for $19.79

"The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men" [1952]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045197/

"Toot, Whistle, Plunk & Boom' [1953 short]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046442/

"Peter Pan" (1953)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046183/

"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" [1954]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046672/

"Lady and The Tramp" [1955]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048280/

"Davy Crockett, King of The Wild Frontier" [1955]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047977/

"Old Yeller" [1957]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050798/

"Sleeping Beauty" [1959]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053285/

"One Hundred and One Dalmatians" [1961]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055254/

"Mary Poppins" [1964]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058331/

"Winnie The Pooh and The Honey Tree" [1966]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061199/

"The Jungle Book" [1967]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061852/

"Winnie The Pooh and The Blustery Day" [1968]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063819/

"Beauty and The Beast"

"Destino" [Disney/Buena Vista Dec 2003]

A collaboration between Walt Disney and Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali; begun but abandoned in 1946; executive produced
by Roy E. Disney; directed by Dominique Monfery; Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short; full credits from IMDb

Selected  Disney  Characters

Works  About  Walt  Disney

browse biography books about Walt Disney

"The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney [Mar 20, 2008] by Michael Barrier  

"Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination" [Random House 2006]
by Neal Gabler 0-679-43822-X

"The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney & the American Way of Life" [2001]
by Steven Watts 0826213790

"Walt In Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney" [2000]
by Russell Merritt and J. B. Kaufman 0801864291

"Disney: The First 100 Years" [1999] by Dave Smith & Steven Clark Hyperion hardcover [rev 2/2003] for $17.50 Hyperion hardcover [10/99] for $28.00

"Disney's World: A Biography" [1985 & 2002] by Leonard Mosley 0-8128-8514-7

"The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art & Commerce of Walt Disney" [Ivan R. Dee 1967]
by Richard Schickel 1-56663-158-0

"Walt Disney: An American Original" [] by Bob Thomas 0786860278

"The Quotable Walt Disney" [] 0786853328

"Babes In Tomorrowland: Walt Disney & The Making of The American Child, 1930-1960"
by Nicholas Sammond 0822334631

"Walt Disney (Conversations With Comic Artists Series)" []
by Kathy Merlock Jackson 1578067138

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