Posts Tagged ‘Walt Disney’
Walt Disney’s Giant Golden Book: Uncle Remus Stories (1949)
These illustrations of the Uncle Remus Golden Book are a delight. Thank you, International Animated Film Society.
It’s a Disney book, but instead of having 3 stories like Song of the South, it’s got twelve.
Coincidentally, this particular illustration reminds me of Fantastic Mr. Fox too. Oh! And look: compare this picture from Disney to this one from Sid and Marty Krofft(!).
Categories: Brer Rabbit, Disney, Song of the South | Tags: brer fox, Brer Rabbit, Golden Books, Song of the South, Walt Disney,
Capitalizing on History — Mark Twain and Walt Disney Boyhood Homes
Keith Eggener of Design Observer gives us this thoughtful post on capitalizing on the historic homes of the famous, focusing on the Missouri homes of Mark Twain and Walt Disney –
“People go to Hannibal to walk the streets where the real children who inspired Huck and Becky walked; they go there ready to believe that an otherwise unexceptional white wood fence is the one Tom painted, or, at least, the one that inspired Twain to invent his story. Disney’s stories, on the other hand, are pure fantasy….”
Items discussed: history’s exploitation vs. its preservation, marketing dead public figures vs. live ones, how the Mark Twain Boyhood Home is like a snow globe.
Items not discussed: how Walt Disney’s recreated boyhood home — called “The Happy Place” — is not all so different from the story, “Brother Rabbit’s Laughing-Place.” Coincidence?
Last Thanksgiving I had the opportunity visit several great historic homes in Missouri (1, 2, 3, 4) on a
house museum road trip. I’m sorry I missed these two, especially given their unique relationships with Joel Chandler Harris (Twain, Disney).
Photo: Keith Eggener
Categories: Disney, Historic Preservation, Mark Twain, Road Trips | Tags: Brer Rabbit, Hannibal, Joel Chandler Harris, Laughing Place, Mark Twain, Missouri, Uncle Remus, Walt Disney,