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Description of Pictures: 1966
Gallery 10
Remembering Walt Disney

December 15, 1966:
Walt’s untimely death occurred 10 days after his 65th birthday. His accomplishments were countless, his contributions extraordinary, and his legacy a source of joy and inspiration to the world. All from a man who once hoped that we never lose sight of one thing—that it all started with a mouse.

“The greatest wealth a man may acquire is the wisdom he gains from living. And sometimes, out of the small beginnings, come the forces that shape a whole life.”
— John Tucker Battle, screenwriter, So Dear to My Heart

“Walt never lost it… that wonderful fascination you have with things when you’re a child… the sense of wonder that there’s always more to learn, always more to see and do. And, Walt certainly had that, and he passed that on to all of us.”
-- Floyd Norman, animator

“He was just an ordinary man, with the most extraordinary talent of making you feel that you were important, whereas in actual fact he was the one. He was the driving force that made you come alive.”
-- Peter Ellenshaw, matte artist

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. WDFM10_180714_007.JPG: The Final Days
2. WDFM10_180714_015.JPG: Death Of Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney died on December 15, 1966, ten days after his sixty-fifth birthday, in St. Joseph's Hospital -- directly across the street from the studio that he and his brother had built in Burbank, California. The nation and the world reacted in grief and disbelief, and condolences came to his family and his company from all over. His brother Roy led the family and the company in continuing the projects Walt had begun. The Mineral King project, which had been enthusiastically approved at the time of Walt's death, was defeated by the Sierra Club in a lawsuit that went as far as the Supreme Court. The concept of EPCOT, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, was revised to World Showcase and Future World. The acronym was kept, however, and EPCOT Center became Epcot. The California Institute of the Arts was built in 1969 on a hill overlooking California's Interstate 5. The School of Animation was added by the Walt Disney Studio in 1978, staffed entirely by veterans of the Disney Animation Department, and its first class produced such stellar graduates as John Lasseter. Roy Disney declared that "Disney World," the Florida project so important to Walt, would be named Walt Disney World, so that everyone would know it was his creation. The park opened in 1971, and Roy himself died soon afterward -- but not before ensuring that Walt's legacy would be carried on.
3. WDFM10_180714_017.JPG: Gene Basset
4. WDFM10_180714_020.JPG: Walt Disney, R.I.P.
5. WDFM10_180714_023.JPG: Walter Elias Disney 1901-1966
6. WDFM10_180714_026.JPG: Bob Taylor Dallas Times Herald
7. WDFM10_180714_028.JPG: Wayne Stayskal Chicago Tribune
8. WDFM10_180714_050.JPG: from Werner Von Braun
9. WDFM10_180714_052.JPG: Eddie Germano
10. WDFM10_180714_071.JPG: from Frank Capra
11. WDFM10_180714_075.JPG: from Roy Disney to Walt Disney Productions in Paris
12. WDFM10_180714_079.JPG: from Eric Sevareid
13. WDFM10_180714_089.JPG: from Jascha Heifetz
14. WDFM10_180714_090.JPG: Ken Crook
15. WDFM10_180714_092.JPG: Bill Sanders The Kansas City Star
16. WDFM10_180714_094.JPG: from Jack Warner
17. WDFM10_180714_100.JPG: Shaw McCutcheon The Spokesman-Review
18. WDFM10_180714_104.JPG: Charlie Daniel The Knoxville Journal
19. WDFM10_180714_105.JPG: from Edmund G. Brown
20. WDFM10_180714_115.JPG: Edward D. Kuekes The Plain Dealer
21. WDFM10_180714_121.JPG: from Sam Goldwyn
22. WDFM10_180714_126.JPG: Dick Wallmeyer Long Beach Press Telegram
23. WDFM10_180714_131.JPG: from Haydon Burns
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Wikipedia Description: The Walt Disney Family Museum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Walt Disney Family Museum is an American museum that features the life and legacy of Walt Disney. The museum is located in The Presidio of San Francisco, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco. The Museum retrofitted and expanded three existing historic buildings on the Presidio’s Main Post. The principal building, at 104 Montgomery Street, faces the Parade Ground, and opened on October 1, 2009.

The Walt Disney Family Museum, LLC is owned, operated and funded by the Walt Disney Family Foundation, a non-profit organization established by Disney's heirs (including Diane Marie Disney, co-founder of the Museum). It is not formally associated with The Walt Disney Company, the media and entertainment enterprise. Museum co-founders are Diane Disney Miller, Walter E.D. Miller, and Joanna Miller Runeare; executive director is Richard Benefield.

Exhibits:

Exhibits in the museum focus on Walt Disney's life and career. The lobby displays 248 awards that Disney won during his career, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and many Academy Awards.

There are ten permanent galleries:
1. Beginnings -- Material on Disney's ancestors, childhood and early adulthood. Included are early cartoon drawings and a replica of the ambulance he drove in France after World War I. The beginnings of his animation career are explained.

2. Hollywood -- Disney's California partnership with his brother Roy led to the success of Mickey Mouse.

3. New Horizons in the 1930s. -- Disney's success led to fame and significant improvement in animation techniques.

4. The move to features -- Original art from the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is on diplay.

5. "We were in a new business" -- Additional animated features follow, including Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi. Disney builds a new studio in Burbank.

6. "The toughest period in my life" -- Labor unrest and Disney's response to World War II.

7. Postwar production -- Disney moves into live action feature films, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

8. Walt + the natural world -- Disney concentrates on nature documentary films.

9. The 1950s + 1960s: The big screen and beyond -- Disney branches out into television and theme parks.

10. December 15, 1966 -- Worldwide response to Disney's death and his legacy.

Artifacts on display include Walt's original 1/8 scale Lilly Belle train (formerly on display at the Disneyland Railroad's Main Street Station), a series of still drawings demonstrating one-minute footage of Steamboat Willie and an underwater camera used for filming 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. An early conceptual scale model of Disneyland is another feature.

Critical reception:

"It's a collection of ideas and documents, a diverse array of archival, filmic, and pop-cultural texts that historicizes Disney's work and compels us to think twice about how we appraise it. The museum energizes the fascinatingly charged scholarly debate that the Disney phenomenon has provoked, shaking the worn, staid, sometimes cynical images we have of Disney and his empire, bringing to them renewed color and motion."

"Given the heritage of the place, you expect to see a ride at the Walt Disney Family Museum . . . And in a way, there is one, since the museum does just what Disney thought a ride should do when he created Disneyland more than half a century ago: it tells a story. And while the museum is almost leisurely in relating its narrative, only here and there veering into uncharted terrain, and while children will quickly pass by many sections that will fascinate their elders, there are more than enough thrills for everyone."
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