mowgli clip

This is an amazing glimpse at the animation process; a pencil test of Mowgli climbing the tree from Disney’s Jungle Book. Drawn by one of the masters from Disney, Milt Kahl. Wrapping it up Since a picture is worth a thousand words, this video is priceless....

the disney keepsakes

I love books. I owned a bookstore, with my brothers, years ago yet my love for them goes back to my childhood; as does my love for all things Disney. So, when Disney Editions releases a wonderful collection of material from the Disney Archives, The Disney Keepsakes,...

the studios III

Over the years I have collected lots of things. Most of them had gone on to become expensive hobbies so I moved to downscale my interests. One of the things that has been consistent is my love for pins. From concert pins to several Olympic items to my favorite Disney...

the studios II

While I was a castmember at The Walt Disney Co. I had the great pleasure of always having my office in one of the parks. First it was Epcot, but for the final portion of my tenure my office was the TV and film production studio on the backlot at Disney’s...

the studios I

With the celebration of the 20th anniversay of Disney’s Hollywood Studios, I have been looking in the archives to see what I could pull out, scan/photograph and post here on the site. The first thing that I found were some old maps. Maps This was one of the...

new world fantasy

EPCOT’s (notice the spelling, it was still an acronym at this time) second night-time fireworks display was named New World Fantasy. As I was going through my archives I discovered a cache of original animation cels used to produce portions of the show....