Walt Disney to be Remembered with Museum
Walt Disney. What does the name bring to mind for you? For millions of people across the world the Disney name is synonymous with children's entertainment and theme parks. Lost in all the fame, however, is the fact that Walt Dinsey was once just a humble animator and a regular person. Today Disney's family wants to refocus the public attention back on the person of Walt Disney and they intend to do so by opening a new museum to tell his life's story.
The family contends that Walt Disney's actual life and accomplishments have been overshadowed by the corporate giant that shares his name. Therefore the family, through the Walt Disney Family Foundation, a not for profit group started in the 1990s and which usually focuses on Walt Disney education and giving out scholarships, will open the Walt Disney museum in Northern California on the first of October, 2009.
The Walt Disney company films a slate of movies and releases them as Disney DVDs each year and as such, the Disney empire as has never been larger. But do the people know anything about the man, Walt Disney. In the current climate, with millions getting entertainment from the Disney brand, do people realize that there was an early pioneer who started it all?
With priceless items from his life, the Walt Disney Museum will endeavor to tell the story of Walt Disney through his early years in the mid west. The main focus of the museum will be on his life after his move to the embryonic Hollywood of the 1920s and the launch of his Mickey Mouse cartoon which launched his career.
The Walt Dinsey museum will feature many relics from Walt Disney's past. Among the priceless artifacts that will be on exhibit include primitive animation sketches, bytes of film, rough drafts of movie scripts, and several of Walt Disney's Academy Awards, including the one presented to him by the Academy for his first full length animated feature, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
Also included will be a mock up of the theme park, later dubbed Disney land, as first imagined by Walt Disney. This theme park's early designs ended up being quite different from the Walt Disney land that one can visit today. Also the museum will feature a model of the locomotive nick named Lilly Belle that encircled Disney's home.
After passing away in 1966, Walt Disney left a legacy that has lived on without him. The studio he created has continued to produce hits and today is one of the largest media conglomerates in the world.
