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[Javey74]

I thought I would create a new thread for information and facts about the one and only Walt Elias Disney.  I would be grateful of any input from any of the fans on this Forum.  Your views and knowledge are very valuable.  :wink:

I just want to start of with a few facts that a few might already know, but a few might not.

Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse on a train, but was going to call him Mortimer, only his wife Lillian Disney stood firm and said Mickey would be a better name as Mortimer sounded too pompous.  Walt did not animate Mickey, this was down to a long time friend and partner Ub Iwerks.  Walt's main input was Mickey's personality and direction in each of the Mickey cartoon shorts, aswell as his voice for two decades.

Ub Iwerks


Mickey Mouse was actually modelled from a previous creation of Walt and Ub, a rabbit called Oswald.  You can see the similarities before a little re-designing which came the final creation, Mickey Mouse>>

Oswald turned into Mickey


If you notice Mickey at this point did not wear any gloves, these were added later to give more emphasis on his hand against body movements, aswell as defining his fingers better.

[Javey74]

For anyone interested in the biography of Walt Disney, I spotted something on Sky [The Biography Channel] about a couple of months ago, about Walt's biography.  I'm still awaiting a confirmation from them to the exact day and time it's to be screened, as it still says Coming Soon........, as it has been since 2 months ago.  :?

Anyway, here's the link, take a look>>

http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/bi ... Disney.htm

[RnRCj]

For anyone interested in the biography of Walt Disney, I spotted something on Sky [The Biography Channel] about a couple of months ago, about Walt's biography.  I'm still awaiting a confirmation from them to the exact day and time it's to be screened, as it still says Coming Soon........, as it has been since 2 months ago.  :?

Anyway, here's the link, take a look>>

http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/bi ... Disney.htm

I've seen a Walt Disney documentary before on TV, although it was so long ago I can hardly remember it. It could be a repeat of that one, or a completely new one.

[Javey74]

Here's some of Walt's Quotes - from the Disney Dreamer>>>>>>>>


"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing, that it was all started by a mouse."—Walt Disney

"Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end."—Walt Disney

"When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity."—Walt Disney

"He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood."—Walt Disney

"Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding."—Walt Disney

"We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little."—Walt Disney

"The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life."—Walt Disney

"It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown ."—Walt Disney


On Disneyland>>>>>>>>

"To all that come to this happy place: welcome. Disneyland is your land."—Walt Disney

"It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing and adding to."—Walt Disney

"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."—Walt Disney

"We believed in our idea, a family park where parents and children could have fun together."—Walt Disney

"Disneyland is the star. Everything else is in the supporting role."—Walt Disney

"It has that thing, the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement I knew when I was a kid."—Walt Disney

"Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun."—Walt Disney


On Animation>>>>>>>>

"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive."—Walt Disney

"Cartoon animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure."—Walt Disney

"In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy. "—Walt Disney

"I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions. "—Walt Disney

"Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. "—Walt Disney

"I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man."—Walt Disney


Various Topics>>>>>>>>

"Don't tell me about the problems - I make the problems."—Walt Disney

"I just make what I like, warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles."—Walt Disney

"Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life."—Walt Disney

"If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes."—Walt Disney

"The era we are living in today is a dream come true."—Walt Disney

"In this volatile business of ours, we can ill afford to rest on our laurels, even to pause in retrospect. Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future."—Walt Disney

"I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination."
—Walt Disney

"My business is making people, especially children, happy."—Walt Disney

"I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education."—Walt Disney

"I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life."—Walt Disney

"To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary and simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments."—Walt Disney

"Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse."—Walt Disney

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work it until it's done and done right."—Walt Disney

"My fun is working on a project and solving the problems."—Walt Disney

"People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working..."—Walt Disney

"Direct and easy communications, freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity."—Walt Disney

"Of all the things I've done, the most vital is co-ordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them toward a certain goal."
—Walt Disney

"A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater."—Walt Disney

"There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart. The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny, as long as people respond to it, I'm okay."—Walt Disney

"Fantasy and reality often overlap."—Walt Disney

"I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action."—Walt Disney

"Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals."—Walt Disney

"What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear."—Walt Disney

"Our part in things is to build along the lines we are known for, with happy family stories and comedies. I've never thought of this as art. It's part of show-business."—Walt Disney

"If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart..."—Walt Disney

"No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives."—Walt Disney

"There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests."—Walt Disney

"All right I am corny, you know? But I think there are just about 140 million people in this country who are just as corny as I am you know? I'm not a politician, I do it because I like it."—Walt Disney

"Part of the Disney success is our ability to create a believable world of dreams that appeals to all age groups. The kind of entertainment we create is meant to appeal to every member of the family."—Walt Disney

"You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them."—Walt Disney

"Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort. The organization must be with you or you don't get it done. In my organization there is respect for every individual, and we all have a keen respect for the public."—Walt Disney

On CalArts: "We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio..."—Walt Disney

"We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened."—Walt Disney

"I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained."—Walt Disney

"In this volatile business of ours, we can ill afford to rest on our laurels, even to pause in retrospect. Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future."—Walt Disney

"Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?"—Walt Disney

"You reach a point where you don't work for money."—Walt Disney

"Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others."—Walt Disney

"The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors."—Walt Disney

"I knew if this business was ever to get anywhere, if this business was ever to grow, it could never do it by having to answer to someone unsympathetic to its possibilities, by having to answer to someone with only one thought or interest, namely profits. For my idea of how to make profits has differed greatly from those who generally control businesses such as ours. I have blind faith in the policy that quality, tempered with good judgment and showmanship, will win against all odds."—Walt Disney

"You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers."—Walt Disney

"I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going..."—Walt Disney

"Anything that has the Disney name to it is something we feel responsible for."—Walt Disney

"The span of years has not much altered my fundamental views of mass amusement. Experience has merely perfected the style and method and the techniques of presentation. My entertainment credo has not changed a bit. Strong combat and soft satire are in our story cores. Virtue triumphs over wickedness in our fables. Tyrannical bullies are routed or conquered by our good little people, human or animal. Basic morality is always deeply implicit in our screen legends. But they are never sappy or namby-pamby, and they never prate or preach. All are pitched toward the happy and satisfactory ending. There is no cynicism in me and there is none allowed in our work."—Walt Disney


Walt Disney Said>>>>>>>>

"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

"All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable."

"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage."

"I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess."

"We allow no geniuses around our Studio."

"Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."

"I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."

"I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company."

"Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved."

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

"Laughter is America's most important export."

"People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph."

"Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought, sometimes it isn't much, either."

"The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true."

"There is more treasure n books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main, and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."

"You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway."

"Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards, the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings."

"I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it."

"Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource, the minds of our children."

"You reach a point where you don't work for money."

"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language."

"I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous."

"Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching."

"A man should never neglect his family for business."

"I believe in being a motivator."


On Mickey Mouse>>>>>>>>

"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing, that it was all started by a mouse."

"Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end."

"When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity."

"He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner."

"Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium cartoon animation towards new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us."

"We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin, a little fellow trying to do the best he could."

"The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him."


On Disneyland>>>>>>>>

"To all that come to this happy place: welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... with hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world."

"Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland, about seventeen million it took. And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance."

"It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment."

"I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world."

"When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it."

"We did it (Disneyland), in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster, closed and forgotten within the first year."

"I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land, no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships, just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees."

"We believed in our idea. A family park where parents and children could have fun together."

"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."

"Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role."

"Disneyland is a show."

"It has that thing, the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement I knew when I was a kid."


On Walt Disney World>>>>>>>>

"Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland, the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine."

"We've got to study the land. We've got to put Disneyland, which everybody will know, at the very upper end of the property because that will be the weenie."

"I've always said that there will never be another Disneyland, and I think it's going to work out that way. But it will be the equivalent of Disneyland. We know the basic things that have family appeal. There are many ways that you can use those certain basic things and give them a new decor, a new treatment. This concept here will have to be something that is unique, so there is a distinction between Disneyland in California and whatever Disney does in Florida."

"I'm doing this because I want to do it better"

"Believe me, it's the most exciting and challenging assignment we have ever tackled at Walt Disney Productions."


On EPCOT>>>>>>>>

(Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow)

"But the most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World...will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT."

"It's like the city of tomorrow ought to be. A city that caters to the people as a service function. It will be a planned, controlled community, a showcase for American industry and research, schools, cultural and educational opportunities.

"EPCOT will be an experimental prototype community of tomorrow that will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise."

"I don't believe there's a challenge anywhere in the world that's more important to people everywhere than finding solutions to the problems of our cities. But where do we begin, how do we start answering this great challenge? Well, we're convinced we must start answering the public need, and the need is for starting from scratch on virgin land and building a special kind of new community that will always be in a state of becoming. I will never cease to be a living blueprint of the future, where people actually live a life they can't find anywhere else in the world."


On Fantasia>>>>>>>>

"Fantasia, to me is a whole new opportunity. For my medium it opens up unlimited possibilities. Music has always played a very important part since sound came into the cartoon. Now, the full expression that comes from the new Fantasound opens up a whole new world for us."

"I was doing Sorcerer's Apprentice with Mickey Mouse and I happened to have dinner on the night with Leopold Stokowski. Stokowski said, 'Oh, I'd love to conduct that for you.' Well, that led to not only doing this one little short subject, but it got us involved to where I did all of Fantasia and before I knew it I ended up spending four hundred and some thousand dollars getting music with Stokowski. But we were in then and it was the point of no return. We went ahead and made it."


On Animation>>>>>>>>

"Animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world."

"I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things."

"We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us."

"Cartoon animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world."

"In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy. Every spoken word, whether uttered by a living person or by a cartoon character, has its facial grimace, emphasizing the meaning."

"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation."

"I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions which a few short years ago would have seemed impossible to secure with a cartoon character. Some of the action produced in the finished cartoon of today is more graceful than anything possible for a human to do."

"Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals."

"To think six years ahead, even two or three, in this business of making animated cartoon features, it takes calculated risk and much more than blind faith in the future of theatrical motion pictures. I see motion pictures as a family founded institution closely related to the life and labour of millions of people. Entertainment such as what our business provides has become a necessity, not a luxury. It is the part which offers us the greatest reassurance about the future in the animation field."

"I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters, to make them personalities."


On CALarts>>>>>>>>

(California Institute of the Arts)

"I want people to graduate from there really able to do things. I don't want a lot of theorists. I want to have a school that turns out people that know all the facts of filmmaking, I want them to be capable of doing anything needed to make a film,photograph it, direct it, design it, animate it, record it, whatever. That's what I want. Heck, I've hired theorists, and they don't have any knowledge I can use. I want to have everyone in that school come out capable of going in and doing a job. These dilettantes who come out with pseudo knowledge, they give me a pain. I want it so if an actor is needed, they can get an actor right out of school. If a musician is needed, they can go to the music department and find a musicians who can compose music."

"This is the thing I'm going to be remembered for."

"I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions."

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

"The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true."

"Tomorrow can be a wonderful age."

"You reach a point where you don't work for money."

"When we consider a project, we really study it, not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job."

"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."

"I'm doing this because I want to do it better."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

"I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy."

[Javey74]

Did you know, no-one has ever officially died on Disney Property.. :shock:  

According to legend, whenever there is a 'death' on a Disney park, the paramedics are not allowed to declare the person dead until they have left the Disney property.. :wink:  

Death to known Disney people can lead to you being a 'Legend', and how do you get that honour...Well...............>>

To be a Disney Legend:

Legends History:

The Disney Legends program was established in 1987 to acknowledge and honor the many individuals whose imagination, talents and dreams have created the Disney magic. The awards are given annually during a ceremony at The Walt Disney Studios.

The Legends are chosen by a selection committee chosen by Roy E. Disney. Since it's inception, the program has honored many gifted animators, Imagineers, songwriters, actors and business leaders as having made a significant impact on the Disney legacy.

In 1997, the Legends program was established in Europe with a ceremony held at Disneyland Paris, commemorating the 5th anniversary of the park and honoring those who established many of the Disney European businesses. During the ceremony, a 14-foot bronze enlargement of the Disney Legends award was unveiled as an enduring reminder of their contributions.

On October 16, 1998, the new Disney Legends Plaza was dedicated at The Walt Disney Studios to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the The Walt Disney Company. The Plaza features a second edition of the bronze sculpture first placed in Disneyland Paris, with bronze plaques representing the individual Legends lining the columns of the Plaza.

Each year, new Legends will join this celebrated group so that we may always remember the gifts of those people who know the secret of making dreams come true.

Legends Philosophy:

The Disney Legends award has three distinct elements that characterize the contributions made by each talented recipient.
The Spiral ... stands for imagination, the power of an idea.
The Hand ... holds the gifts of skill, discipline and craftsmanship.
The Wand and the Star ... represent magic: the spark that is ignited when imagination and skill combine to create a new dream.

Legend Award Details:

The Disney Legends award was created in 1987 by Andrea Favilli. The awards are cast in bronze and hand-crafted each year by the artist that characterize the contribution made by each talented recipient.

Finally, here's a link to the Disney Legends in year order>>

http://legends.disney.go.com/legends/di ... currPage=1

[burntsienna]

Mr Javey Sir you sure are a fountain or interesting and magnificent Walt facts!  :mrgreen:  =D>  :mrgreen:

[Javey74]

Mr Javey Sir you sure are a fountain or interesting and magnificent Walt facts!  :mrgreen:  =D>  :mrgreen:

Well thank you Miss burntsienna..I try

[-breeno-]

Great posts there javey, surely some of the best posts of the year =D>  =D>

Also;

For anyone interested in the biography of Walt Disney, I spotted something on Sky [The Biography Channel] about a couple of months ago, about Walt's biography. I'm still awaiting a confirmation from them to the exact day and time it's to be screened, as it still says Coming Soon........, as it has been since 2 months ago. :?

I seen a biography of Walt Disney on the Biography Channel a while back, must of been a few years ago so i can't really remember it, would love to see it again.

To be a Disney Legend:

... you must own a website and forum based on Disney and go by the name of Kristof

[Javey74]

Great posts there javey, surely some of the best posts of the year =D>  =D>

Also;

For anyone interested in the biography of Walt Disney, I spotted something on Sky [The Biography Channel] about a couple of months ago, about Walt's biography. I'm still awaiting a confirmation from them to the exact day and time it's to be screened, as it still says Coming Soon........, as it has been since 2 months ago. :?

I seen a biography of Walt Disney on the Biography Channel a while back, must of been a few years ago so i can't really remember it, would love to see it again.

To be a Disney Legend:

... you must own a website and forum based on Disney and go by the name of Kristof

Thanks for the comments breeno.. :wink:  

On the Legend issue...That's known as a Disney God Legend.. :lol:  :lol:  :mrgreen:

[Captain Pan]

Here's a wee little something for You Good Sir...

There is several myths that surround Disneyland... And Thanks to Virgin Media... These Myths have been released and declared True OR False...

From What I can Remember...

The Matterhorn has a Basketball Court inside its structure?

True. Walt Asked the CMs on the attraction (including the climbers) hat they would like to fill a very large Vacant Space... And Walt has constructed up the final 3rd of the Attraction and Mountain a Quarter Sized Court to keep his staff morale up!

Walt had an apartment in Disneyland?

True: Now I want everyone to think what does each Disneyland (World Included) Have in its 'Magic Kingdom'?
Main Street USA... Within every Main Street USA has a Fire Station...
And On the second floor of Disneyland Resort's Fire Station One Walt Disney Occupied its grounds!
It became Walt's home from Home, his way of Bringing his family into his work!
Look Close enough at California's Firehouse and in its upper window you shall See one Lamp...
Labelled since his Departure as 'The Spirit of Disney'
The Lamp's Illumination told CMs that 'The Boss' was home and I (if remembered correctly) believe that to this Day The Spirit of Disney is Illuminated in Anaheim on a regular basis!
Look Even Closer at The Firehouse and you will see that the pole comes from nowhere... you couldn't be upstairs and use it to descend... This is believed to be after a curious young boy climbed up the pole to see what was there... and quite luckily Walt was not at home!

[The Butlin Boy]

Here's a wee little something for You Good Sir...

There is several myths that surround Disneyland... And Thanks to Virgin Media... These Myths have been released and declared True OR False...

From What I can Remember...

The Matterhorn has a Basketball Court inside its structure?

True. Walt Asked the CMs on the attraction (including the climbers) hat they would like to fill a very large Vacant Space... And Walt has constructed up the final 3rd of the Attraction and Mountain a Quarter Sized Court to keep his staff morale up!

Walt had an apartment in Disneyland?

True: Now I want everyone to think what does each Disneyland (World Included) Have in its 'Magic Kingdom'?
Main Street USA... Within every Main Street USA has a Fire Station...
And On the second floor of Disneyland Resort's Fire Station One Walt Disney Occupied its grounds!
It became Walt's home from Home, his way of Bringing his family into his work!
Look Close enough at California's Firehouse and in its upper window you shall See one Lamp...
Labelled since his Departure as 'The Spirit of Disney'
The Lamp's Illumination told CMs that 'The Boss' was home and I (if remembered correctly) believe that to this Day The Spirit of Disney is Illuminated in Anaheim on a regular basis!
Look Even Closer at The Firehouse and you will see that the pole comes from nowhere... you couldn't be upstairs and use it to descend... This is believed to be after a curious young boy climbed up the pole to see what was there... and quite luckily Walt was not at home!

That's interesting, especially the Matterhorn basket ball court...who knew?  :wink: Thanks CP :mrgreen:

[Willow]

Walt is crygenically frozen to rise again in the future, probably one of the most famous myths about the great man.

[-breeno-]

Walt is crygenically frozen to rise again in the future, probably one of the most famous myths about the great man.

Yeah that is a very famous myth but it is completely and utterly false.  Walt was cremated i believe

[burntsienna]

Walt is crygenically frozen to rise again in the future, probably one of the most famous myths about the great man.

Yeah that is a very famous myth but it is completely and utterly false.  Walt was cremated i believe

Yeah I've read he was cremated too, can't remember who said it but it was the answer given by someone close to him when asked if he was frozen.

[Javey74]

Yes, Walt was definitely cremated, here's his death certificate>>

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc26 ... lt20dc.jpg

The cause of Disney's death was announced as acute circulatory collapse and was listed as cardiac arrest on his death certificate. The cancer in his lungs was probably considered to be of secondary importance.

Disney's funeral was held at the Little Church of the Flowers at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, CA at 5:00 PM on December 16. No announcements of his funeral were made after it had taken place and only close relatives were in attendance. Walt didn't like funerals and rarely attended one. During his life, he made it clear that he wished not to have a funeral. His daughter Diane once quoted her father as saying:

"When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive."

He was cremated instead and his ashes were interred in a vault at Forest Lawn.