| Once Mickey Mouse became a hit, a
mountain of merchandise followed. |
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| This one looks a little sad. |
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| A Mickey Mouse phonograph, a Mickey
Mouse pull toy and a Mickey Mouse film projector. |
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| Walt's skis. |
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| A cell from Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs. |
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| The Disney Studio had a restaurant.
Don't know the year, but you could have gotten filet mignon for
$1.25 and a Schlitz for $0.20. |
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| The top of one of Disney's multiplane
cameras. |
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| There was a strike at the studio in
1941 that lasted five weeks. |
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| Walt considered the studio as family
and was personally hurt by the labor action. He suspected communists
for playing a part. |
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| The Walt Disney Studio was contracted
to WWII-related short animated films for the U.S. military. I
actually have a DVD box set of some of the films. |
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| The film that Disney will not
re-release, because reasons. I've seen it. It's not actually that
good. The best parts are the animated sections with Brer Rabbit. |
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| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
is my second-favorite Disney movie, behind Mary Poppins.
Encanto might be my third. |
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| Walt's lawn bowling bowls and bag. |
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| Walt won this saddle in a raffle in the
1930's. It was later used on Zorro's horse, Tornado, on close-up
shots for the Zorro television show. |
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| Walt had a model train called the
Carolwood Pacific that he famously used to run in his back yard. |
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| Another product of the brilliant Ub
Iwerks was the circarama camera. Disney asked him if he could build
a camera that would photograph a full circle. Ub came up with a
system that consisted of eleven 16mm cameras. |
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| A model of the Disneyland park. |
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| I have similar WDW attraction posters
on a wall in my office at Vanderbilt and several more at home that I
don't have displayed. |
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| A Disneyland Autopia car. |
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| Lots of Disneyland attraction tickets.
I have some old tickets from our early trips up to WDW. No 'E'
tickets of course. |
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| Disney artist John Hench designed the
1960 Olympic torch and it served as a model for future Olympic
torches. |
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| Walt Disney was very involved in the
1964-65 New York World's Fair. Some of his famous contributions
include Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, the Carousel of Progress and
It's a Small World. |
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| It's a barker bird that you can
control. There was a barker bird out in front of the Tiki Room at
WDW. |
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| And the museum had to end with Walt's
death on December 15, 1966 and the world's sad reaction. The Florida
Project that would become Walt Disney World had already begun and
Walt's big brother and partner Roy saw it to its opening on October
1, 1971. Roy died eighty days later. |
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| And here's the bottom of the multiplane
camera that is in the museum store. |
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