history has a funny way about things. usually, when people hear walt disney's name thrown around, they instantly think mickey mouse, and therefore think it's only for kids, babies or in the case of my dad, "cartoons". and sadly tunes out.
i just finished reading a character biography on walt disney, and my favorite quote in that book is, "i have one foot in the past & one foot in the future." i guess you should have an appreciation for disneyland resort and history to understand what walt disney meant by that.
in a nutshell, it's about how he came upon the idea to build the different themes inside of disney park. fantasyland inside the magic kingdom (disneyland) was inspired by his own childhood days. snow white and the 7 dwarfs was a classic book walt disney had read as a child and was his favorite story, so he turned it into the first disney cartoon (without mickey) around dec. 21, 1937. it is why as you enter fantasyland, you enter through sleeping beauty's castle, and the architecture of fantasyland looks like the snow white & 7 dwarfs movie comes to life.
tomorrowland, inside disneyland, is constantly being updated based on the future and the present is always catching up to the future, so tomorrowland seems to never be completed. it's just interesting. his ideas, inspiration, his morals tied in with his dreams.
steve & i were intrigued to read walt disney's biography because we were hoping to find the answer to why we still lOve disneyland-even as adults! guess it's one of the things which keeps us mentally aged forever 9.
anyway, now there's closure. i know now. it's in the book. it's the history, an era frozen in time...a place of nostalgia.
1937 mickey sketch & movie cell
pinocchio sketch & movie cell
snow white sketch & movie cell
pinocchio sketch & movie cell
