This article was conceived as a critique of a man, his works and organization. The recent death of Walt Disney necessitated not only changes in tense but a look at the Fantasy Empire's future. No other revisions of fact, opinion or judgment are deemed imperative. -The Author Walt Disney, grand vizer of fantasy, possessed the world's largest collection of personal honoraria-praise emblazoned on plaques, ...

For all the natural grandeur of the west, its greatest tourist attraction is a synthetic creation: Disneyland-the subject, along with Disney's films and Disney himself, of Richard Schickel's The Disney Version (Simon and Schuster, $6.50). Those who remember Disney fondly may find this book discomforting or worse. Schickel's view is critical and frequently provocative, though not a diatribe of the sort that ...

It was an unusual stockholders' meeting for a great far-flung enterprise. Many of the stockholders were children, and they whooped with glee at films in which Blackbeard's ghost played havoc with crooks, or Baloo the bear, from Kipling's Jungle Books. cavorted through a dance. The company, of course, was Walt Disney Productions, and the films were previews of its movies. But no laughter greeted the ...

Not long before he died, Walt Disney was asked to name the most rewarding experience of his life. The response was blunt and brief: "The whole damn thing. The fact that I was able to build an organization and hold it." His words may seem surprising. To the public at large he was an avuncular Horatio Alger character, a spinner of sweet tales for children, a man whose taste and morality comfortably reflected ...

Family recreational facilities for use every day in the year, a completely self-contained village nestled in an alpine setting, and a sublevel automobile reception center that keeps cars out of sight and out of the valley are among the highlights of Walt Disney Productions' Master Plan for the development of Mineral King, California. The alpine terrain of Mineral King, similar to the ...

It's been a good year. Well over 1,000,000 of you signed up for membership in 1967. New Chapters were opened in the San Francisco Bay area and north. Now, Magic Kingdom Club membership privileges are available in most communities and Disneyland is becoming ever mow popular with our neighbors "up north." Mail has doubled, and your many letters indicate a growing interest in ...

Did you know Walt Disney planned a ski resort and year-round recreation complex in California called the Mineral King? Sadly, that Disney ski resort was never built, but a new book titled Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was tells its story. Walt 's plan was for a vacation destination - like “Disneyland at the top of a mountain” - where ...