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29
. Philip K. Scheuer, “Realist Disney Kept His Dreams,”
Los Angeles Times
, June 26, 1960, AMPAS.

30
. Murray Schumach, “Films by Disney Work Two Ways,”
New York Times
, November 13, 1961, 40.

31
. Walt Disney Productions, 1960 annual report, 3, AC; 1957 annual report, 3, Baker; and 1961 annual report, 4, Baker.

32
. Cleveland Amory, “Cleveland Amory's Headliners,”
This Week
, June 18, 1967, 2.

33
. Walt Disney Productions, Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders, January 15, 1966, BU/RH.

34
. Tytle,
One of “Walt's Boys,”
159, 169, 172, 183, 226.

35
. Diane Disney Miller, Martin interview.

36
. Hedda Hopper, “Walt Disney Studio Enchanted Kingdom,”
Los Angeles Times
, June 18, 1963, AMPAS.

37
. Swift's comments are part of his audio commentary (shared with Hayley Mills) for the DVD release of
Pollyanna
in 2002.

38
. Jack Hamilton, “Hayley Mills,”
Look
, May 28, 1968, 102.

39
. Pauline Annakin made those comments after joining her husband toward the end of the 2005 interview, during discussion of Lillian Disney's fall and its consequences.

40
. Annakin,
So You Wanna Be a Director?
123.

41
. Annakin interview.

42
. Dee Vaughan Taylor, telephone interview, June 1, 2004.

43
. Norman interview.

44
. Card Walker, 1968 Hubler interview.

45
. Frank Thomas, Bob Thomas interview.

46
. Thomas,
Walt Disney
, 321.

47
. John E. Fitzgerald, “The Controversial Kingdom of Walt Disney,”
U.S. Catholic
, August 1964, 18, AMPAS.

48
. Gereon Zimmerman, “Walt Disney, Giant at the Fair,”
Look
, February 11, 1964, 32.

49
. Arthur Millier, “Citizen Disney,”
Los Angeles Magazine
, November 1964, 34, AMPAS.

50
. Diane Disney Miller, Hubler interview.

51
. Bill Davidson, “The Latter-Day Aesop,”
TV Guide
, May 13, 1961, 9, AMPAS.

52
. Menen, “Dazzled in Disneyland,” 75.

53
. Birmingham, “Once Upon a Time . . . ,” 100 (see ch. 7, n. 124).

54
. Edith Efron, “Still Attacking His Ancient Enemy—Conformity,”
TV Guide
, July 17, 1965, 10.

55
. Dwain Houser, quoted in Perine,
Chouinard
, 165 (see ch. 6, n. 65).

56
. Wade H. Mosby, “Everything Works for Walt,”
Milwaukee Journal
, February 10, 1963, AMPAS.

57
. Tommie Wilck, interview with Hubler, August 13, 1968, BU/RH.

58
. Price interview.

59
. “The Wide World of Walt Disney,”
Newsweek
, December 31, 1962, 51, AMPAS.

60
. “Remarks Made by Tommie Wilck”; Milt Kahl, interview with Hubler, February 27, 1968, BU/RH.

61
. Price interview.

62
. Joyce Carlson, interviewed by Jim Korkis in 1998 and 2000, in Didier Ghez, ed.,
Walt's People: Talking Disney with the Artists Who Knew Him
(2005), 1:242.

63
. Cutting interview.

64
. Bart, “Golden Stuff.”

65
. Zimmerman, “Walt Disney, Giant at the Fair,” 32.

66
. “ ‘Walt's Happy Place': An Interview with Michael Broggie,” 5. Broggie spoke of Disney's “going to Club 33 or back to his apartment”—Club 33 is a private restaurant at Disneyland's New Orleans Square—but Club 33 did not open until 1967, after Disney's death.

67
. “Designing Disneyland with Marc Davis,”
The “E” Ticket
7 (Summer 1989): 8.

68
. Davis, interviewed by John Province in 1991 and 1992, in
Walt's People
, 1:197.

69
. “Designing Disneyland with Marc Davis,” 8.

70
. “Marc Davis and the Haunted Mansion,”
The “E” Ticket
16 (Summer 1993): 27.

71
. Davis, interview with Bob Thomas, May 25, 1973, WDA.

72
. “Designing Disneyland with Marc Davis,” 12.

73
. “Jungle Cruise Journeys,”
The “E”Ticket
23 (Spring 1996): 32; “Alice in Wonderland,”
The “E” Ticket
31 (Spring 1999): 27.

74
. Green and Green,
Remembering Walt
, 165 (see ch. 7, n. 48).

75
. “Wathel Rogers and Audio-Animatronics,”
The “E” Ticket
25 (Winter 1996): 27.

76
. Norris Leap, “Disney Has One Success Secret: He Makes Daydreams Come True,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 25, 1960, AMPAS.

77
. Menen, “Dazzled in Disneyland,” 106.

78
. “Disney's Mechanized Magic,”
The “E” Ticket
25 (Winter 1996): 16–18.

79
. For a book-length account of Disney's involvement in the fair, see Paul F. Anderson, “A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow,”
Persistence of Vision
6–7 (1995): 27–130.

80
. Bob Thomas, “Walt Disney Tries a New One: Action Animatronics,”
Arkansas Gazette
(Little Rock), May 19, 1963, 8E.

81
. “Disneyland on Wheels . . . An Interview with Bob Gurr,”
The “E” Ticket
27 (Summer 1997): 34.

82
. Bright,
Disneyland Inside Story
, 176.

83
. Bright,
Disneyland Inside Story
, 175.

84
. John Gardner, “Saint Walt: The Greatest Artist the World has Ever Known, Except for, Possibly, Apollonius of Rhodes,”
New York
, November 17, 1973, 70.

85
. Welton Becket, interview with Hubler, July 30, 1968, BU/RH.

86
. Millier, “Citizen Disney,” 34.

87
. “Imagineering and the Disney Image . . . An Interview with Marty Sklar,”
The “E” Ticket
30 (Fall 1998): 9.

88
. Sklar to Hubler, June 13, 1968, BU/RH.

89
. “Disney's Live-Action Profits,”
Business Week
, July 24, 1965, 81.

90
. “Designing Disneyland with Marc Davis,” 14.

91
. “Pirates of the Caribbean . . . More Gems from This Disney Treasure,”
The “E” Ticket
32 (Fall 1999): 26–27.

92
. “Sign on & Set Sail with the . . . Pirates of the Caribbean,”
The “E” Ticket
21 (Spring 1995): 32–33.

93
. “Pirates of the Caribbean . . . More Gems,” 33.

94
. “A Marc Davis Pirates Sketchbook,”
The “E” Ticket
32 (Fall 1999): 14.

95
. “Walt Disney's Sculptor Blaine Gibson,”
The “E” Ticket
21 (Spring 1995): 24.

96
. These comments are from an undated sheet headed only “Jackson,” but its content identifies Wilfred Jackson as the source, BU/RH.

97
. France,
Window on Main Street
, 79. A somewhat different version of that speech, apparently edited from a transcript similar to France's, is in Thomas,
Walt Disney
, 326–27.

98
. Perine,
Chouinard
, 155–58.

99
. Davis, 1968 Hubler interview.

100
. Perine,
Chouinard
, 161.

101
. Perine,
Chouinard
, 194.

102
. Perine,
Chouinard
, 167.

103
. Millier, “Citizen Disney,” 62, AMPAS.

104
. Davis, Hubler interview.

105
. Walt Disney, preface of “To enrich the lives of all people,” California Institute of the Arts, undated, BU/RH.

106
. “Jim Algar's notes of call from Walt,” August 16, 1966, BU/RH.

107
. Price,
Walt's Revolution!
61.

108
. Richard Rodgers,
Musical Stages: An Autobiography
(New York, 1975), 256.

109
. Perine,
Chouinard
, 195.

CHAPTER 10
: “He Drove Himself Right Up to the End”

1
. From a teletype copy of a Bob Thomas article the Associated Press distributed for publication on May 8, 1955, AC.

2
. Price,
Walt's Revolution!
36, 39–40.

3
. A copy of the report is part of the Harrison Price Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando.

4
. Marling, “Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks,” 87.

5
. Price,
Walt's Revolution!
41.

6
. Price,
Walt's Revolution!
42.

7
. As quoted in Bright,
Disneyland Inside Story
, 29.

8
. Excerpts from a transcript of the news conference were published on the Walt Disney Family Museum Web site in 2005.

9
. Green and Green,
Remembering Walt
, 179.

10
. John McDonald, “Now the Bankers Come to Disney,”
Fortune
, May 1966, 230.

11
. Price,
Walt's Revolution!
46.

12
. Price,
Walt's Revolution!
49.

13
. Price,
Walt's Revolution!
50.

14
. Brochure, “Walt Disney Plans for Mineral King,” 1966, BU/RH.

15
. Ron Miller, interview with Hubler, May 28, 1968, BU/RH.

16
. Davis, Hubler interview.

17
. Lillian Disney, Martin interview.

18
. “Disney Studio Sets Busy TV Schedule,” TV Key feature by Charles Whit-beck for release February 9–10, 1963, AC.

19
. Lillian Disney, Martin interview.

20
. Diane Disney Miller, Martin interview.

21
. Wilck, Hubler interview.

22
. Thomas,
Building a Company
, 253–62.

23
. December 30, 1964, proxy statement (see ch. 8, n. 40).

24
. “Planning the First Disney Parks . . . A Talk with Marvin Davis,”
The “E” Ticket
28 (Winter 1997): 15–16.

25
. WED's directors approved the name change on November 20, 1964. An amendment to the articles of incorporation was filed with the California secretary of state on February 5, 1965.

26
. Steve Mannheim,
Walt Disney and the Quest for Community
(Burlington, 2003), 93.

27
. “Disneyland on Wheels . . . An Interview with Bob Gurr,”
The “E” Ticket
27 (Summer 1997): 37–38.

28
. Peter Bart, “The Golden Stuff of Disney Dreams,”
New York Times
, December 5, 1965, sec. 2, 13.

29
. Anthony Haden-Guest,
The Paradise Program
(New York, 1973), 297.

30
. Green and Green,
Remembering Walt
, 90–91.

31
. Mannheim,
Quest for Community
, 11.

32
. Victor Gruen,
The Heart of Our Cities
(New York, 1964). Gruen's career and ideas are the subject of a harsh book-length critique by M. Jeffrey Hardwick,
Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream
(Philadelphia, 2004).

33
. Ebenezer Howard,
Garden Cities of To-morrow
(1902; reprint, Cambridge, 1965), 145.

34
. Walt Disney to Roy Disney and Iwerks, September 11, 1928, WDA.

35
. Haden-Guest,
Paradise Program
, 306.

36
. Marling, “Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks,” 150.

37
. The film itself was released on DVD in 2004, as part of a “Walt Disney Treasures” set called “Tomorrowland.” A complete transcript was published in 2003 on the Web site called Waltopia.

38
. “Disneyland-Type Center for St. Louis Planned by Disney Productions,”
Wall Street Journal
, June 19, 1964, 18; “Plan for a Disneyland in Downtown St. Louis Is Said to Be Canceled,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 9, 1965, 13.

39
. Mannheim,
Quest for Community
, 113.

40
. Haden-Guest,
Paradise Program
, 309.

41
. Correspondence between Disney and Eisenhower, much of it warm and personal, is part of the 1963–66 Principal Files, Post-Presidential Papers, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene. Disney's activity on Murphy's behalf is described in Herbert Gold, “Nobody's Mad at Murphy,”
New York Times Magazine
, December 13, 1964, 52, 55–56.

42
. Vernon Scott, “Walt Disney Has a Project—a Huge New Ski Resort,”
Arkansas Gazette
(Little Rock), September 26, 1965, 12E.

43
. Peter Browning, “Mickey Mouse in the Mountains,”
Harper's
, May 1972, 70.

44
. 1966 Principal File, Post-Presidential Papers, Eisenhower Library.

45
. Ron Miller, Hubler interview.

46
. Robert Jackson, writing in response to Roy Disney's request for anecdotes about Walt Disney for the Hubler biography, submitted several long and detailed accounts of incidents including his last press conference (on Mineral King) and the failure of the Lincoln robot to work when the New York World's Fair opened, BU/RH.

47
. Mark Kausler to author, e-mail, July 11, 2005.

48
. Diane Disney Miller, Martin interview.

49
. Green and Green,
Remembering Walt
, 200–201.

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