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u/runtheplacered · 9 pointsr/todayilearned

It's in the Wikipedia article that is being linked everywhere in this thread, which is sourced in a book, written by the first person to ever gain access to the Disney Archives and a historian on Disney.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney#Accusations_of_antisemitism_and_racism

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http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-Triumph-American-Imagination/dp/0679757473

Page 611

Interestingly, he isn't afraid to criticize him in the book, and it's a tough read because it's basically a database in plain English. More facts than you'd ever need.

u/IcarusGoodman · 8 pointsr/The_Donald

Walt Disney is exactly the kind of great American that we need to Make America Great Again. It's the absence of men like him that has led to the decline we're currently in.

Do yourself a favor and read Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination great book, very inspirational.

u/ragamuffi · 6 pointsr/argentina

Estoy leyendo 'The Triumph of the American Imagination', super recomendable para los que quieran leer la biografía de un tipo que por su perfeccionismo y obsesión por lo mejor construyó un monstruo de empresa: https://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-Triumph-American-Imagination/dp/0679757473

u/CityofCrom · 5 pointsr/kansascity

According to this book Walt was a ham who loved playing with younger kids so it sounds plausible. He also had a grueling paper route and sold the KC Times on the trolley so there were probably a lot of old-timers who had run into him at some point.

u/Babytrix · 4 pointsr/Disneyland

Well, it isn't solely on Disneyland, but I've read 'Walt Disney: The Triumph of Imagination' by Neal Gabler and recall that the construction of the park was covered very extensively in it. The book itself was a great read too!

u/TheFloetrist · 3 pointsr/ENFP

Walt Disney was an ENFP. There are a lot of biographies about him and much of his adult life was documented. If you want a good read, this book is a great place to start.

Hope that helps. Marty McFly from Back to the Future and JD from Scrubs are also both ENFPs.

u/underpressure221 · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

I'd love to see what sort of movies Buster Keaton could make using today's technology... and, thinking along that vein, I'd be really excited to see where Walt Disney could take Disney Co. were he in his prime (side note: before I read this book i used to think that Walt Disney would've hated the way Disney has moved toward, but it really opened my view of him... apparently he was a huge proponent of "pushing the medium" which if I had taken some time to think about it I probably could have seen myself. Steamboat Willie was great, but soon the Silly Symphonies wasn't enough, and eventually he couldn't care less about them. He had moved on to full length cartoon movies. Snow White blew audiences minds... eventually that wasn't enough, and he kept pushing and pushing... leading him to movies like Mary Poppins. So I think he would've embraced digital animation)

u/materia7 · 2 pointsr/WaltDisneyWorld

It's been a few years - I took this picture in August of 2012. I had just finished a really great Disney biography which helped me appreciate the attraction all the more

u/SadPandaOuch · 1 pointr/disney

this book is massive and amazing.

u/Voodoobones · 1 pointr/todayilearned

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination is a great biography that talks about the artist at Warner Brothers and how they use to take jabs at Walt Disney. It's a great read.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0679757473?pc_redir=1408113454&robot_redir=1

u/JohnsonArms · 1 pointr/disney

I just finished the Walt Disney biography by Neal Gabler..well, the audio book actually. This list was fun to look at with the stories behind each of the films still fresh in my head. Here's a link to the book if anyone's interested. http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-Triumph-American-Imagination/dp/0679757473. This was my second time going through to book and I highly suggest it to anyone interested in the life of Walt. Thanks again for the compilation OP!

u/purrImacatpurpur · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

MY FAVORITE IS ALADDIN AND THE KING OF THIEVES BECAUSE ALADDIN'S DAD IS AWESOME! OK... sorry... moving on...

You might like this...

See ya real soon!

I am 100% OK with used items :)

My favorite memory of Disney World was when my sister was wearing a mud shirt and there was a talking garbage can wheeling around, it said to her, "You got mud on your shirt, lots of mud!" It was funny...

u/ThreadbareHalo · 1 pointr/politics

Interestingly enough, to the best of one of his biographer's ability to tell (see here for a really worthwhile read), Walt Disney wasn't, as said below, any more anti-Semitic or racist than most at the time (not forgiving it but it appears he actually was relatively tolerant for the day, even attempting pretty hard to be understanding with "Song of the South" though that ended up going pretty badly in the public eye). Funnily enough for the present conversation though, his strong right wing leanings came about because he hated Communists and Russia so much because he perceived them (probably wrongly) as trying to destroy his studio.