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To gain free access to my self-confidence video enter your email address and first name in the box below. Gain FREE access to my self-confidence video Read Modelling Genius and remember also to see where you can identify the talents of these people within yourself. Keep your eyes open for more Real Men of Genius as they are added to this site and also look at Real Women of Genius for further examples. Was cremated and my ashes interred at a memorial park in California. I suppose it was going to be stored beneath To restore life from death, your body could be, so to speak, resurrected? Answer It is said that you arranged for your body to beĬryonically frozen after death so that when science had advanced sufficiently I died a few weeks later just after my 65th So they removed the lung, but it was really too late. It was malignant and had spread very quickly When I was undergoing tests in respect of another matter. They discovered a tumour in one of my lungs Yes, I had been a smoker all my adult life. Then in 1966 you discovered you had contracted lung I do take comfort from that success, but I suspect youĭon’t fully appreciate the width and depth of my imagination! Question Realīut I am sure you can take some consolation from theįact that it is even larger now, over 50 years later, than probably even you could have imagined at the time. Unfortunately, I didn’t live to see it open. Magic Kingdom and include hotels and golf courses. I wanted it to include an even larger version Then some years later you envisaged a still largerĪh yes, Disney World, Orlando. World and, most of all, to be surrounded by a train. I wanted it to look like nothing else in the The employees to spend time with their children. I thought it would be a wonderful place for Observed real live animals close up so they could take in the subtleties ofĬould you explain a little about your idea for an
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Give life to the cartoon characters and I felt it was important that they What sort of personal involvement did you take with theĭuring the 1930s and 1940s I supervised all the teams of Men of Genius – personal involvement Question That was our most popular film in the 1960s. That it taught young children about animals, the environment and the world in The one that stands out for me was The Living Desert in 1953 which educationally had a great impact in
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QuestionĪt the end of the 1940s didn’t you also direct a series Shelve Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan during the war, but we wereĪble to start work on the very popular Cinderella. RealĪfter the war there were still more cartoon films? Answer Would not, in my opinion, have been possible before we had colour cartoons. Interpreted some great musical works and included Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Schubert’sĪve Maria and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. What do you consider as your best achievement in those Men of Genius – best achievement Question I think that enabled you to set up in new studios andĭumbo, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp and Sleeping
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It was the most successful motion picture in 1938 and earned over $8 Questionīut it turned out to be a great success. Through the production and had to borrow. Then came the time when you produced your firstĬourse, the doubters were very rude about the idea and said it would never Three years after that we adopted Sharon Mae. Pregnancy resulted in the birth of our daughter, Diane Marie, in 1933. Would you tell us something of your family life? Answer Yes, but Donald Duck was a very good second, and by 1949 Mickey was your most popular cartoon character at that Then followed Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto. I had already received a special Academy Award for Mickey in 1932. When did Mickey first appear in colour? Answer Provided the voice for Mickey’s character myself until 1947. That led to me setting up with my brother,Īll the details, I lost the rights to one of my principal characters and had toįirst appeared in the black and white cartoon, Steamboat Willie, in 1928. Tell us something about your early ventures into theįor a time I was involved in a studio called Laugh-O-gram which produced cartoons,īut overheads were so high that we were eventually bankrupted. Obtaining paid employment as a cartoonist and for a while created advertising I started to draw pictures of horses when I was pretty young.
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When you were a young man I think you worked as a You were a Chicago man, I believe? Answer Played by human actors, as well as a film studio which became a majorĮducational influence in the world. Genius because, among his many other great achievements, he created cartoon heroes to replace the roles Walt Disney features in this interview with Real Men of