Please stay on topic. Please don't be asses.
Neither Walt Disney nor any members of his surviving family have any direct control on the current leadership of Disney, either within the heirarchy or on the board. I think dragging Walt into this is bad taste and unnecessary
If dems can get back in they should revise copyright laws in such a way as to put major Disney characters such Mickey and Donald into the public domain (as they should have been some time back; their copyrights would have lapsed already if Disney hadn't got special legislation passed to protect them).
Just as a thank you for this Path to 9/11 business.
I love Digby's prose and logic, but SNL did you one better on this topic.
The Disney Vault:
Let's see if it's on YouTube...
OMG...it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_...h?
v=_NDICsV1Bio
Or do a YouTube search on "Disney Vault."
Walt was filth. Boohoo about tarnishing his legacy. All of his movies were saccharine crap, too. Cry me a river.
Ub Iwerks invented mickey.
Talk about begging the question! So the Disney family is no longer in direct control of the Mouse. It's not like they couldn't choose who would take over for them...
Oh, right. They could.
Roy Edward Disney, KCSG, (born January 10, 1930) was a longtime senior executive for the Walt Disney Company, which his father Roy Oliver and his uncle Walt founded. He is still a major shareholder, and currently serves as a consultant for the company with the title Director Emeritus. He is perhaps best known for organizing the ouster of two top Disney executives: first, Ron Miller in 1984, and then Michael Eisner in 2005
I went digging, too, and there's certainly a fine tradition of Disney propaganda.
This little gem (now banned) is a fascinating study in historical relativism (to say nothing of faux credibility and squishy fact-checking).
Original at YouTube.
Enjoy. (Or, uh, whatever.)
Disney also invented the myth that lemmings turn suicidal, when his cameramen pushed lemmings off a cliff for a 'documentary':
Lemming populations go through rapid growths and subsequent crashes that have entered pop-culture as a supposedly "widespread" phenomenon, largely because of the Walt Disney Pictures film, White Wilderness, which was produced in 1958 and reappeared on television at regular intervals for many years afterwards. White Wilderness popularized, using staged footage, the myth that during population booms Norway lemmings become suicidal and leap en masse off cliffs into the sea. For this reason, the term "lemming" is often used in slang to denote those who mindlessly follow the crowd, even if destruction is the result.
from wikipedia
White Wilderness famously contains a scene supposedly depicting a mass lemming migration, which ended with the lemmings leaping to their death into the Arctic Ocean; however, the entire sequence was staged. The lemmings were not even local (there are no lemmings in Alberta); the film makers arranged to buy wild-trapped lemmings from Inuit school children in Manitoba and transported them to the set. A few dozen lemmings, placed on a large, snow covered turntable and filmed from a variety of angles, became a mass migration. As a grand finale, the captive lemmings were herded over a cliff into a river (in the film, this was the "sea", and the herded lemmings were on a "suicide drive").
Generations of TV watching schoolchildren grew up on the Disney nature films, and the myth of lemming suicide persists to this day.
Strategy suggestion: Reality-based folks living in or near Anaheim start regular picketing suggesting "Disney Shames 9/11 Victims - Lies About Terrorism Defense."
Various re-castings of the above, with images of WTC ruins, will commence public-mind questions of Disney in negative light.
The Kingdom of the Mouse will forever flee political propaganda if we can simply taint it with the stain of Bush (who is mis/dis-trusted by the majority of Americans).
Remember what Disney did/does re Gay Day in Orlando.
Yes, I'm calling for use of propaganda techniques, but based on truth.
That cartoon was awesome.
OK, here the names, titles and email addresses for a number of key senior Disney decision makers I found, starting at the top
with the CEO and board of directors are at the bottom.
Let's make our voices heard and see if we can get these guy to pull this blatantly obvious Bush propaganda. ABC may profit from the predictable controversy but airing a film designed to obfuscate Bush's responsibility for 9/11 will cause ABC to suffer greatly in the estimation of serious people.
Disney and ABC should leave the RNC propaganda to Fox, it's not ABC's demographic.
Robert Iger - CEO - robert.a.iger@disney.com
Rich Ross - President of Disney Channel Worldwide - rich.ross@disney.com
Sean Cocchia - VP/Business Development, Disney Channel Worldwide- sean.cocchia@disney.com
Gary Marsh - Disney Channel Worldwide President of Entertainment - gary.marsh@disney.com
Sarah Shelton - Assistant to Gary Marshsarah - shelton@disney.com
Scott Garner - SVP/Programming, Disney Channel - scott.garner@disney.com
Karen Myer - Assistant to Scott Garner - karen.myer@disney.com
Meredith Metz - Senior Vice President, Creative Affairs, Walt Disney Television Animation - meredith.metz@disney.com
Lisa Salamone - The Head of Animation Production, Disney Channel - lisa.salamone@disney.com
Joanna Spak - The Head of Finance, Planning, etc., Disney Channel - joanna.spak@disney.com
Mark Kenchelian - The Head of Business and Legal Affairs, Disney Channel -mark.kenchelian@disney.com
Jewell Engstrom - CFO and Executive VP for Disney-ABC Cable Group - jewell.engstrom@disney.com
Olivia Stafford - Assistant to Jewell Engstrom - olivia.stafford@disney.com
Albert Cheng - EVP/Digital Media, Disney-ABC Television Group - albert.cheng@disney.com
Karen Hobson - Digital Media Communications Office, Disney-ABC Television Group - karen.hobson@disney.com
George Bodenheimer - Co-Chairman Media Networks Group - george.bodenheimer@disney.com
Nicole Nichols - Senior VP of Entertainment Communications, Disney-ABC Television Group - nicole.nichols@disney.com
Aime Wolfe - Assistant to Nicole Nichols - aime.wolfe@disney.com
Patti McTeague - VP of Kids Communications - patti.mcteague@disney.com
Siobhan Kenny - Acting Head of International Communications - siobhan.kenny@disney.com
Paul Lee - ABC Family Channel - paul.lee@disney.com
Annie Fort - ABC Family Media Relations - annie.fort@disney.com
Alex Wallau - President of Network Operations & Administration - alex.wallau@disney.com
David Westin - ABC News President - david.westin@disney.com
Mike Shaw - ABC Sales and Marketing President - mike.shaw@disney.com
Fred Kuperberg - Disney/ABC Executive VP of Business and Legal Affairs - fred.kuperberg@disney.com
Kara Rousseau - VP of Ad Sales Marketing for Disney/ABC Kids Networks - kara.rousseau@disney.com
Kim Harbin - Buena Vista Media Relations - kim.harbin@disney.com
Anne Gates - Disney Consumer Products Executive VP & CFO - anne.gates@disney.com
James Fielding - Senior VP, Retail Sales and Marketing for DCP - james.fielding@disney.com
Deborah Dugan - President of Disney Publishing - deborah.dugan@disney.com
Graham Hopper - Senior VP and General Manager of Buena Vista Games - graham.hopper@disney.com
Angela Emery - Director of Public Relations, Buena Vista Games - angela.emery@disney.com
Chris Bess - Buena Vista Home Entertainment - chris.bess@disney.com
Peter Murphy - Senior Adviser to Mr. Iger - peter.murphy@disney.com
Judy Estrin - Board of Directors - jestrin@packetdesign.com
John Bryson - Board of Directors - john.bryson@edisonintl.com
Monica Lozano - Board of Directors - monica.lozano@laopinion.com
John Chen - Board of Directors - john.chen@sybase.com
Gary Wilson - Board of Directors - gary.wilson@nwa.com
Leo Odonova - Board of Directors - leo.odonovan@mbna.com
Thomas Staggs - CFO/Senior V.P. - tom.staggs@disney.com
David K. Thompson - Senior Vice President - David.K.Thompson@disney.com
Very good rundown, digs. I never that about Disney. After reading this, I wouldn;t be surprised if Mickey Mouse in "Steamboat Willie" was actually transporting slaves down the Mississippi River.
Anyway, gooooooood morning, Left Blogostaaaaan!
"Twenty Bucks, Same as in Town", blogwhoring at its finest. Included is the All Spin Zone's journey tracking down the lowdown on Scholastic's sudden refusal to catapult ABC's foray into alternate history and a secret $450,000,000 slush fund given to George Bush from the Canadian gov't. All this and much, much more.
I've never found rodents cute. But, I wish I did so that I could quit buying said products in a boycott.
add to the mix carl hiassen's
expose TEAM RODENT about how disney
is further ruining florida.
but a question: a corporation this large will not get this far out in front unless there is either a huge threat or a huge bribe. so what is disney's motivation? it has to be major.
To the best of my knowledge, the "Hitler's Children" Disney cartoon linked above has never been banned anywhere. As its opening shots suggest, it was based on (and cashing in on) the bestselling non-fiction account of birth, childrearing, and educational policy in Nazi Germany Education for Death by Gregor Ziemer, which was also the (even looser) basis for the Hollywood film Hitler's Children, which was incidentally directed by Edward Dmytryk, who as one of the Hollywood 10 was on the opposite side of the Red Scare from Walt Disney.
Whatever the current relationship of the Disney family to the corporation that bears Walt's name, it's worth remembering that in recent decades, like most of the entertainment industry, Disney has given much more money to Democrats than Republicans. They've done so because the Democratic Party has been if anything an even more enthusiastic supporter of media concentration and restrictive intellectual property laws than has the GOP, though both have broadly supported these legislative agendas.
If you look at those donation figures I've linked to above, note in particular the huge among of soft money Disney gave to the Democrats in 1996, when Clinton was pushing for the Telecommunications Act that has done so much to encourage media concentration.
Walt Disney was a sick, twisted mofo and anyone who wants to cling to the infantile idea that the Disney product is somehow wholesome and life affirming deserves the ridicule that they get and should be spit on and shamed for their childish idiocy.
Disney is perversion writ large.
Tinkerbelle is teh hott!
Totally secks!
Digby - as the paragraph you reprinted says - Roy is no longer on the board
Wow. Hitler's Children was terrific. Walt got that one right.
Let's unwrap the flag, and see what Uncle Walt and co were really fighting for, the right to profit in perpetuity, at the expense of the commonwealth (aka Public Domain)
THE MOUSE THAT ATE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN:
Disney and The Copyright Term Extension Act
As an aside, what the article reallly made me think of was CIA agent Gus Aravosis answer, when asked what his goals were, in Charlie Wilson's War:
"To kill communists and get pussy."
Whenever I see one of these 'superpatriots,' I always have the above quote in mind, with the knowledge that the former is really a cover for the latter (substitute 'money' and 'power,' if needed).
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