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Walt Disney’s “Seal Island”-precursor to today’s Nature Documentaries
Today, the proliferation of nature and animal series programs on cable and regular TV could fill Seven Seas Lagoon. Everywhere you turn, shows like “Planet Earth”, “The Blue Planet”, “Wild Africa”, “The Life of Birds” and countless others are attracting more and more viewers. The beauty and scope of these modern “Nature Documentaries” about our planet enthrall millions. But I wonder how many viewers know that Walt Disney, the animation and storytelling genius was the first to pave the way for these nature programs we all love? So how did Walt, who created Mickey Mouse, and produced so many beloved full-length animation feature films, become involved in live-action educational films? …
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Alice, Oswald, Mickey All Walt Disney’s Triumphants
Walt Disney did not invent animation. He was not the first to put sound to his cartoons or even give personality to a cartoon character. But Walt did take the idea of moving drawings, barely understood by the artists who drew them and an audience who did not take them seriously, into a sophisticated highly refined art form that today because of Walt’s innovations and creativity are as popular as live films and are a multi-million dollar business today.
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Walt Disney Also Thought “Small”
Every Disney fan acknowledges that throughout his lifetime, Walt Disney always thought on a grandiose scale. But Walt Disney was also a man who thought outside the proverbial box. Walt Disney, early on became infatuated with the world of miniaturization!
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Walt Disney and DeMolay
Most Disney fans and historians know that Walt Disney was perhaps one of the 20th Centuries most successful and innovative animation and entertainment pioneers. Walt prospered and achieved phenomenal success in conceivably one of the most brutal and competitive business’ around. One had to be somewhat “Worldly” so to speak to succeed. But Walt’s early life and upbringing by his Father Elias and Mother Flora, solid, down-home stoic Midwesterners who installed in Walt, solid work habits, strong religious beliefs, and a belief in simple staples, one would think Walt would turn out to be the naive “Country Boy” from the sticks. But Walt was always a dreamer and fighter, and…