Walt Disney to Get Museum in San Francisco
The name Walt Disney carries with it a great deal of meaning. It is equated with majesty and children's entertainment, movies and theme parks. However, many people fail to remember that despite it all, Walt Disney was once a person before the name became synonymous with a major corporation. 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.
Walt Disney the man, believes the Disney family, has been lost before Walt Disney the company. The Walt Disney Family Foundation, an organization started nearly twenty years ago, will open the doors at the Walt Disney Museum on October 1, 2009.
Because of the success of the Walt Disney brand, which releases scores of disney dvds each year, has never been more popular, the family believes that many overlook the story of the single man who started an entertainment empire. Who today knows much about this man, Walt Disney, and the things that moved and drove him to become an animation pioneer and one of the founders of Hollywood.
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 museum will also chronicle his move to Los Angeles in the 1920s where Walt Disney's personal career began to emerge as his Mickey Mouse cartoon gained popularity.
Many items from the early years of the Walt Disney company will be on display. 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. It will be interesting for individuals to see how varied the original plans were as compared to the finished product that debuted in the 1950s. The museum will feature a working model of the train which ran around the Dinsey estate.
Walt Disney, who passed away in 1966, created many movies that live on in children's minds to this day. The studio he created has continued to produce hits and today is one of the largest media conglomerates in the world.
