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50
. Johnston, 1973 Bob Thomas interview.

51
. Thomas,
Walt Disney
, 349.

52
. “Disney Gets Clean Bill from Doctors,”
Daily Variety
, November 23, 1966, AMPAS.

53
. “Disney Undergoes Surgery on Lung,”
Los Angeles Times
, November 23, 1966, AMPAS.

54
. Ron Miller, Hubler interview.

55
. Milton Gray, “The Death of Walt Disney,”
Well, Hallelujah
, no. 57, privately published in
APAtoons
114 (May–June 2001).

56
. Green and Green,
Remembering Walt
, 196–97.

57
. Probate File P516859, Walter E. Disney, Los Angeles Superior Court (1966).

58
. Diane Disney Miller, 1968 Hubler interview.

59
. Greene and Greene,
Inside the Dream
, 179–80 (see Preface, n. 1).

60
. Bob Thomas, “Disney's Brother Has Plans for Future,”
Arkansas Democrat
(Little Rock), January 9, 1967, 7.

AFTERWORD
“Let's Never Not Be a Silly Company”

1
. “Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress,”
The “E” Ticket
22 (Winter 1995): 36.

2
. “Planning the First Disney Parks . . . A Talk with Marvin Davis,”
The “E”Ticket
28 (Winter 1997): 17.

3
. France,
Window on Main Street
, 83.

4
. “Imagineering and the Disney Image . . . An Interview with Marty Sklar,”
The “E” Ticket
30 (Fall 1998): 12.

5
. Perine,
Chouinard
, 214; Herbert Gold, “Walt Disney Presents: Adventures in Collegeland!”
Atlantic
, November 1972, 49.

6
. Peter Bart, “Art School Aims for New Campus,”
New York Times
, April 6, 1966, 40.

7
. Winston Hibler, April 1968 interview.

8
. Pamela Moreland, “Family Selling Rights to Walt Disney Firm,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 9, 1981, AMPAS.

9
. Seth Schiesel, “For Disney's Eisner, the Business Is Content, Not Conduits,”
New York Times
(online edition), July 2, 2001.

10
. “ ‘Walt's Happy Place': An Interview with Michael Broggie,” 14 (see ch. 8, n. 66).

INDEX

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ABC of Hand Tools, The

Academy Awards

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Acting: The First Six Lessons
(Boleslavsky)

Adamson, Joe

Adelquist, Hal

Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, The

Aesop's Fables
(series)

African Lion, The

Aircraft Production Methods
(series)

Alaska, filming in

Algar, James

Alice Comedies
(series)

Alice in Wonderland
(feature)

difficulties in production of

in postwar plans

prewar work on

Alice Picks the Champ

Alice's Balloon Race

Alice's Brown Derby

Alice's Day at Sea

Alice's Fishy Story

Alice's Orphan

Alice's Wonderland

All in Fun
. See
Melody Time

American Ambulance Corps

American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Amos 'n Andy
(radio program)

Anderson, Bill

Anderson, Kenneth

Andrews, Julie

Animated Cartoons: How They Are Made, Their Origins and Development
(Lutz)

Annakin, Ken

Annakin, Pauline

Appeal to Reason
(newspaper)

Arness, Jim

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company (the Santa Fe)

Atlas Corporation

Atwell, Roy

Audio-Animatronics

Autumn

“Ave Maria” (segment of
Fantasia
)

Babbitt, Art

as leader of Disney unions

and life classes

as
Pied Piper
animator

after strike

Babes in the Woods

Baggage Buster

Bailey, Kelvin

“Ballad of Davy Crockett, The” (song)

Bambi

as feature subject

loss on initial release

production of

Bambi: A Life in the Woods
(Salten)

Band Concert, The

Banner in the Sky
(James Ramsey Ullman)

Bank of America

Barks, Carl

Barn Dance, The

Barnyard Olympics

bar sheet

Bart, Peter

Barton, Charles

Baskett, James

Beaudine, William

Beaumont, Kathryn

Beaver Valley

Becket, Welton

Beecher, Ruth Disney

Belcher, Marjorie.
See
Champion, Marge

Bell, Mary Hayley

Benchley, Robert

Benedict, Ed

Benton, Thomas Hart

Benton School (Kansas City)

Bergen, Edgar

“biff-sniff” (animation technique)

Big Bad Wolf, The

Bioff, Willie

Birds in the Spring

Birmingham, Steven

Blackburn, Tom

Blair, Lee

Blair, Mary

Blair, Preston

Blank, Dorothy Ann

Bodrero, James

Bogert, Frank

Boleslavsky, Richard

Bondi, Beulah

“Bongo” (segment of
Fun and Fancy Free
)

Bongo
(unmade feature)

Borgfeldt, Geo., & Co.

Bosustow, Stephen

Bounds, Lillian (wife).
See
Disney, Lillian Bounds

Bounds, Phyllis (niece)

Boyd, Jack

Bradbury, Jack

Bray, John R.

Bressman, Earl

Bright, Randy

Bright Lights

Brightman, Homer

Bringing Up Father
(comic strip)

Broadway Theatre (New York)

Broggie, Michael

Broggie, Roger

Broken Toys

Brown, Clarence

Brown, Governor Edmund G. “Pat”

Brown, John Mason

Brown, Robert (son-in-law)

Brown, Sharon Disney (daughter)

Browne, George E.

Bruns, George

Buena Vista Distribution

Building a Building

Burbank studio.
See
Disney, Walt, Productions

Burley, Fulton

Burnham, Don

Burns, Governor Haydon

California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)

Call, Flora (mother).
See
Disney, Flora Call

Campbell, Jack

Cannon, Johnny

Capra, Frank

Care, Ross

Carlson, Bob

Carlson, Joyce

Carolwood Pacific (miniature railroad)

Carr, Jack

Carthay Circle Theatre (Los Angeles)

casting by character

Cauger, A. Verne

cels

Center Theatre (New York)

Champion, Marge (Marjorie Belcher)

“Chanticleer” (proposed feature)

Chaplin, Charlie

Chicago, Disney homes at

Chicago Academy of Fine Arts

Chicago Railroad Fair of 1948

Children of the Covered Wagon

China Plate, The

Chouinard, Nelbert

Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles)

Churchill, Douglas

Churchill, Frank

Cinderella
(feature)

Cinderella
(Laugh-O-gram)

City of Tomorrow (Palm Beach, Florida)

Clark, Les

Clark, Marceil

Clark, Marguerite

Clark, Royal

Clopton, Ben

Coats, Claude

Cock o'the Walk

Codrick, Tom

Collins, Eddie

Collodi, Carlo

Colony Theatre (New York)

Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Colvig, Pinto

commercial films

Conciliation Service

Conried, Hans

coordinator of inter-American affairs, office of the

Cottrell, Bill

Couch, Chuck

Cowles, J. V.

Crane, William E.

Creedon, Dick

Crump, Rolly

Cuban Carnival
(unfinished feature)

Culhane, James

Cutting, Jack

DaGradi, Don

Dali, Salvador

“Dance of the Hours” (segment of
Fantasia
)

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Davidson, Bill

Davis, Marc

and CalArts

and Disneyland

Davis, Margaret

Davis, Marjorie (niece)

Davis, Marvin

Davis, Virginia

“Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter” (
Frontierland
episode of
Disneyland
)

Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

Dawn of Better Living, The

Debs, Eugene V.

Dedini, Eldon

Depinet, Ned E.

“Destino” (unfinished film)

Devlin, Pat

Dewey, James F.

dialogue, recording of

Dickson, Gregory

Dike, Phil

Dinner Time

Disney, Diane Marie (daughter).
See
Miller, Diane Disney

Disney, Edna Francis (Mrs. Roy)

Disney, Elias (father)

accidental gas poisoning in new home

death of

as disciplinarian

loan to Walt
and Roy

move back to Chicago

move to Portland, Oregon

as newspaper route owner in Kansas City

return to Kansas City from Chicago

socialist and Christian beliefs of

Disney, Flora Call (mother)

accidental death in new home

Disney, Herbert Arthur (brother)

Disney, Kepple (grandfather)

Disney, Lillian Bounds (wife)

birth of daughter

courtship and marriage

death

dinners in front of TV set

fall outside Annakin home

financial insecurity of

miscarriages

on origin of Mickey Mouse

possible strains in marriage

travels with Walt

and Walt's miniature railroad

Disney, Margaret (aunt)

Disney, Mary Richardson (grandmother)

Disney, Raymond Arnold (brother)

Disney, Robert (uncle)

Disney, Roy Edward (nephew)

Disney, Roy Oliver (brother)

ABC, conflicts with

attitude toward employees

Chicago, memories of life in

conflict with Walt over WED

death

disagreement with Walt over features

Disney Brothers Studio

Disneyland, initial skepticism about

Florida project

hospitalization with tuberculosis

Iwerks and Stalling, break with

in Kansas City

Marceline, memories of life in

marriage to Edna Francis

move to home on Lyric Avenue

in navy

on 1935 European trip

Powers settlement

search for financial aid

on
Snow White
screening for banker

during strike and aftermath

Technicolor for Silly Symphonies

TV networks, meetings with

unions, hostility toward

on Walt as “bear for work”

on Walt's attire

Walt's death

on Walt's home on Woking Way

Walt's 1931 “breakdown”

Disney, Ruth Flora (sister).
See
Beecher, Ruth Disney

Disney, Sharon Mae (daughter).
See
Brown, Sharon Disney

Disney, Walt (Walter Elias Disney): acceptance of conflict at studio

addenda to story outlines

Alice in Wonderland
, frustration with

as amateur performer

anger at Iwerks

as animator for Kansas City Film Ad

anti-Semitism, charges of

arrangement of life classes for staff

attire

awareness of details

Bambi
, role in production

birth

break with Powers and Iwerks

“caricature of life,” emphasis on

changing role in production

Cinderella
, role in production

comedy, ideas about

as commercial artist

communism, opposition to

concerns with cost and appearance of animation

conflicts with Bill Peet

conflict with Roy over WED

control of postwar short cartoons

courtship and marriage to Lillian Bounds

cremation and memorial service

crisis in spring of 1940

critiques of animators' work

diminishing role in
animated features

disagreement with Roy over features

dislike of world's fairs

at Disney Brothers Studio

Disneyland, anxiety during construction

Disneyland, conception of

Disneyland, passion for

Disneyland, scrutiny of operations

Disneyland's limits as source of satisfaction

drinking

Dumbo
, role in production

early ambitions for studio

eating habits

as editor of ideas

Elias Disney, memories of

enthusiasm for CalArts

EPCOT, promotion of

European filming and travel

exceptional memory

Fantasia
, role in production

as father

February 10, 1941, speech to employees

filming in Britain

on films as interchangeable for TV, theaters

final illness and death

first new car

flying trip to Alaska

in France as ambulance driver

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