August 30, 2009
Walt Disney to be Remembered with Museum
Walt Disney. What does the name bring to mind for you? For millions of people across the world the Disney name is synonymous with children’s entertainment and theme parks. However, many people fail to remember that despite it all, Walt Disney was once a person before the name became synonymous with a major corporation. The Disney family wants to change all that by opening a new museum to tell the human side of the story of Wal Disney.
The family contends that Walt Disney’s actual life and accomplishments have been overshadowed by the corporate giant that shares his name. The Walt Disney Family Foundation, an organization started nearly twenty years ago, will open the doors at the Walt Disney Museum on October 1, 2009.
Because of the success of the Walt Disney brand, which releases scores of disney dvds each year, has never been more popular, the family believes that many overlook the story of the single man who started an entertainment empire. Who today knows much about this man, Walt Disney, and the things that moved and drove him to become an animation pioneer and one of the founders of Hollywood.
Through exhibits, the Walt Disney museum will replay the key moments in Walt Disney’s life, starting with his birth in Chicago and continuing through his childhood years in St. Louis. The museum will also chronicle his move to Los Angeles in the 1920s where Walt Disney’s personal career began to emerge as his Mickey Mouse cartoon gained popularity.
Many items from the early years of the Walt Disney company will be on display. Among the priceless artifacts that will be on exhibit include primitive animation sketches, bytes of film, rough drafts of movie scripts, and several of Walt Disney’s Academy Awards, including the one presented to him by the Academy for his first full length animated feature, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”
Also included will be a mock up of the theme park, later dubbed Disney land, as first imagined by Walt Disney. This theme park’s early designs ended up being quite different from the Walt Disney land that one can visit today. Also the museum will feature a model of the locomotive nick named Lilly Belle that encircled Disney’s home.
After passing away in 1966, Walt Disney left a legacy that has lived on without him. Among his biggest hits were “Sleeping Beauty,” “Fantasia,”
and “Cinderella.”
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