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His brother Roy runs the .^business end, But Walt's up to his mustache in every live action movie, every cartoon, every nature feature, every short subject, every weekly TV program „ every complicated Disneyland project that rolls out of the Disney idea mill.“In the last 10 years we’ve gone into three big businesses —the feature field, the amusement park field and TV. It it were just animated cartoons, it’d be a cinch.momentary depression, but with me more of a determination to lick it came. I was naive enough never to know I was licked ... it made me mad just sticktoitivity, I • J* • ’* • * „What does he advise youngTOP-HEAYY SUCCESS—Backed by 4 panorama ofDisneyland, Waff Disney discusses his entertainment empire, in his Hollywood office. Stil) dreaming up. new ideas at 60, Disney worries about the fact that his many faceted organization centers on him. He hasn't figured out how to unload some of His key fob* to insure that h« empire could function without him,shirts and coat sweaters. Toss him a question and he’s off.there's Disneyland.“GET IN a business they ac-tually can love. It may, take jflllft some hit and miss for a while, but eventually they should settle down. If they really enjoy the business they're, in, they should be a success eventually if they have anything on the ball.11And, he adds, whatever the field, imagination’s important.“There are so many things you can dot I respect a well-run restaurant. Shucks, I respect a well-run service station!He and Roy now are making another $6 million worthpicture that when I come out it makes me feel everything's dirty around me — because I know it isn’t that way - and I don’tTw^nt anybody telling me it is.” •• ■ ■ :;.V:Disney builds in one of hisgreatest assets, making his features - so they can be' presented every seven years when, he figures, a new potential audience of 25 million persons is waiting to be tapped.“I think good solid family entertainment. is a producer's responsibility — entertainment the whole family can enjoy, he says. “I never did make films just for children.^AN iJNUSUAL notice appeared prominently in the October magazine of the Cal-Itifornia Parent-Teacher.said:. :'v’'Thank you, Mr^ Disney — for your confidence in the good taste and ethical standards of the people who go to motion pictures . : . wherever parents are gathered and talk about films, your praises are sung VRemarked Walt with a rueful grin: “I wish they’d come out for my pictures more/’play with his railroad. * . • '; Disney’s is the only major studio in Hollywood that revolves around one. man. 'His tens of millions of fans may find; theh, that they share the one. problem he y has so far found insoluble:'-' The irrevocable v fact that there is—and always will be— Just one Walt Disney.T* «H W h—m *M w! Wa wish vm tk« «M«i«ft «fCAirt^niata*/ al««f wiffc m« w«m ■ Hwaki Hr fmmr |Mtlt;DISNEY LIVES in exclusiveHolmby Hills with his wife, Lillian, who married him in 1923. They’re often at their Burnt Tree ranch near Palm! Springs. He used to play golf, now bowls on the green. A grandfather, five times over, he likes to work with stools,HOSPITAL PATIENT.CEDAR FALLS (CNS) — Mrs. Wayne Kenoyer, 1927 Park Dr.j- is a medical patient at Sartori Memorial Hospital here. She is expected to be confined there over Christmas.A long time ago, Disney gottsensation, goes on hauling tour-V if I I . * . • I . I I J vHIS MONORIAL, another 9f changes. at Disneyland“THIS organization can’t retire with me! I’ve gotta get it going so that il won’t need me.”A competitor once thought herd buy off the Disney talent. He asked an ex-employe then working for Disney:“Who is Disney’s key man?” • It’s Walt, the man said.“You donft understand,” the rival persisted. 'I know there is somebody over there who really thinks up those ide*as for Disney. Who is. he?”to chatting with a guy on a cross-country train.“He asked me what I did,” Walt says. “I’m in the motion picture business,” I said.“He perked up. What do you do in motion pictures?1 he asked.lt;1 MAKE CARTOONS.“ 'Oh/ ”“That’s all he said—just oh. But his tone was enough. I still think about that guy. Things like that used to get my goat!Like a spark touching off a forest fire, that disappointed *oh” helped rile the unsung, struggling young Disney to the point where he;Went to .work with a vengeance and came up with Mickey Mouse, most popular cartoon character ever to hop off the drawing boards: gave life to a host of other personalities; was first with a full length cartoon and color cartoons; became first major Hollywood producer in TV; made true-life nature pictures an art in themselves. And thenists — while cities go on making feasibility studies.He had his box office defeats, still does. Some said his films were too rosy. KA magazine said Disney had no sense of humor.But today (he’s the world’s No. 1 creator of entertainment, known from Galesburg, Ohio to Outer Mongolia, Walt Disney productions earnings in 1961 were the highest in history. The $37 million Disneyland made even Khrushchev pout because he couldn’t go.The world literally beats a path to his door. Why don’t more folks get on top of the heap? .SOME OF them never stay with it long enough, forgone thing,” he says. “They quit too quick. Like Disneyland — they throw money into things without studying what’s back of them, or having any . conception of such an operation,“There’s a whole chain offlops that tried to copy Disneyland ...“Every setback caused aalone. They turn out six feature length movies a year and a weekly TV show. They’re building two exhibits for the 1364 New York World's fair.DISNEY HAS no use forthe “adult1' - entertainment flooding the theaters nowadays. He says: *“1 hate to see a downbeatPIZZAFree De//very .CHICKEN ON WHEELS1400 Fall a Av«.DIAL AD 4-4841‘TM: TELLING you honestly.” the Disney worker said, “it’s wait,” . .“My artists,” . says Disney, “come to me and say they want to take;four months off. And they can. But I can't.“Sure, I went to Europe for six weeks last year/’ Then almost as an afterthought: “I was working on three pictures there, though.”You enter Disney’s Burbank office — at the corner of his studio’s Dopey Drive and Mickey Ave. — past his unprecedented 29 Oscars, plus 650 awards from many lands. It has overstuffed sofas, a hi-fi and treasured mementoes such as outsize six-shooters that give it a denlike feeling.HE HAS no airs, is Walt tof •his employes, inclines toward casual wTear such as westernPhtm* AD 4-9468CLOSED TUESDAYS and WEDNESDAYS For PRIVATE PARTIESHlt;ck?ry Smoked Bar-~QuedRIBS, HAM and BEEFCHICKEN « STEAKS ... SEA FOODS ~ -r1OPEN CHRISTMAS EVEIa:'■+■4 #»»#######»»#### * +CLOSED CHRISTMAS!December 25• Chickenon2■*aMERRY 1CHRISTMAS .• ...' ■ V.. ■ ' IClosedThis Afternoon and EveningI The Black Hawk |I Rollerdrome a!.SstaitCEDAR FALLS *Dial CO 6-9988 -mt iSaturday or SundayDm. 30 or 31OPEN SUNDAY NIGHT—7 P. 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Waterloo Daily Courier
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Sun, Dec 24, 1961
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