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[yeti]

No question that Walt Disney made the world a better place

And that's really what it's all about.

There has never been so much artistic and social wrangling over a person's pop culture footprint. People have their reasons for hating him...I think they overestimate him. Walt Disney made complex movies with simple motives: to bring families together in front of movie screens, living rooms, and theme parks; to get people to experience unambiguous depictions of fear, grief, and joy together as a unit; to provide children with formative morality lessons in a nurturing but compelling format that doesn't intimidate them or make them feel inferior; and to provide grown-ups with a reprieve from working their tails off, in and out of the household. To all age groups, Disney stories embolden folks to live the kind of life they want to lead in the simplest terms.

There are important, more intelligent things to do other than visit theme parks or watch cartoons. Walt Disney didn't make the world a better place. He just made it a lot more enjoyable.

 

[ChrisFL]

“It would take more time than anybody has around the daily news shops to think of the right thing to say about Walt Disney.

He was an original; not just an American original, but an original, period. He was a happy accident; one of the happiest this century has experienced; and judging by the way it’s been behaving in spite of all Disney tried to tell it about laughter, love, children, puppies and sunrises, the century hardly deserved him.

He probably did more to heal or at least to soothe troubled human spirits than all the psychiatrists in the world. There can’t be many adults in the allegedly civilized parts of the globe who did not inhabit Disney’s mind and imagination at least for a few hours and feel better for the visitation.

It may be true, as somebody said, that while there is no highbrow in a lowbrow, there is some lowbrow in every highbrow.

But what Walt Disney seemed to know was that while there is very little grown-up in a child, there is a lot of child in every grown-up. To a child this weary world is brand new, gift wrapped; Disney tried to keep it that way for adults…

By the conventional wisdom, mighty mice, flying elephants, Snow White and Happy, Grumpy, Sneezy and Dopey – all these were fantasy, escapism from reality. It’s a question of whether they are any less real, any more fantastic than intercontinental missiles, poisoned air, defoliated forests, and scraps from the moon. This is the age of fantasy, however you look at it, but Disney’s fantasy wasn’t lethal. People are saying we’ll never see his like again.”

Eric Sevareid

CBS Evening News

December, 1966

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

The last known footage of Walt is the introduction to his film "Follow Me Boys" filmed Oct 27th 1966

Two Months later.......Well........

 

[DznyGrlSD]

If you visit the Disney Family Museum, there is an entire exhibit that shows newspaper articles and tribute after the news of Walt's death.

Such as this one from the Bermingham News

Here's another one.

There a more illustrations responding to Walt's death when you are there in person. I heard it's more sobering once you leave the Disneyland model and you hear a news report announcing his death with some news footage.

this section of the WDFM killed me.

 

[DznyGrlSD]

The last known footage of Walt is the introduction to his film "Follow Me Boys" filmed Oct 27th 1966

Two Months later.......Well........

I've never seen this. who's cutting onions around here?

 

[rael ramone]

His E.P.C.O.T. film was recorded the same day. It appears as though he is even wearing the same outfit in both films.

I've currently got the 'Tomorrowland' Disney Treasures disc 2 in my bedroom DVD player... so I'll be seeing that film again, if not tonight, very very soon...

I

 

[ScoutN]

Here is the one that I have seen the most.

 

[Magenta Panther]

I once said here that I admire Walt Disney not so much for his characters, but for his character. Despite all of his stresses and successes, he remained true to his humble beliefs: faithfulness in marriage, devotion to family, supporting of charity, respecting all human beings regardless of race or sex, champion of children. He was progressive, yet he was also a traditionalist. And fearless! He suffered defeats and tragedies, but never gave up. I can only shake my head at people who try to degrade him, who slander him, who ignore the facts about him. What is it about him that threatens them so much?

Happy Birthday, Walt. If there's a heaven, I bet you're up there right now trying to think up ways to "plus" it.

 

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[Goofyernmost]

I couldn't watch it. All I could think about was the "door" and "glass wall". Was there any reason for that, I mean there must have been, but, I have no idea what it is about. Can anyone explain it for me? If so... thanks!

 

[admiral-ari-x]

Truly an inspiring man. I do tend to give this company a lot of guff, but only because he gave them such a high standard to live up to, and shoes much too large to fill. Walt took risks for what he created; he went into debt many a time focusing on making the animation industry more advanced and sophisticated than ever before. He brought the art form into the limelight that it deserved, and he did it all with a kindness and gentle spirit that even today brings joy to the hearts of all.

Walt has accomplished what he set out to do with Disney. He's still with the parks, in every magical moment provided by a cast member, in every new spectacle, and in the candle still burning in his room above the fire station. He gave this world a real gift simply by living and thriving in it.

(Sorry, I get a little hammy about Walt... a real hero in my eyes)