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Post War Production
"I said, by hook or by crook we've got to get going. We've got to get back in the business that we were in before the war. . . . I wanted to set up so that all my eggs were not in that cartoon basket. I wanted different types of things that I could do so that I could fall on my nose with one of these pictures but I had another one right behind it. So we finally got together...we decided to go ahead." -- Walt
"Our re-conversion job consists of reorganizing our staff to include the experienced men whom we lost and who have now returned, of training others to provide for increased production, and to build up our inventory of stories in preparation and of pictures in work. I believe it can be done quickly and efficiently in proportion to the enthusiasm and the teamwork we can apply to it. All these qualities mean good pictures, and good pictures mean that our future is assured. We have a clear road ahead. Let's get on our way." -- Walt in Annual Report, December 31, 1945
Walt and Roy met the challenge of the postwar years by diversifying their production. The animation department channeled its efforts into new and creative directions, and eventually revived some feature-length projects that had been started before the war. And -- more than twenty years after his arrival in Hollywood -- Walt finally realized his ambition to become a producer of live-action films. |