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Episode 70: Scott Wolf
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On this week's episode we had a wonderful conversation with Scott Wolf. Scott has worked in Disney animation on "DuckTales" and on "TailSpin" as a producer. His interest in photography has led to an amazing journey chronically many amazing Disney moments. The "Disney Archaeologist" has also moved into the YouTube realm sharing amazing videos of his stories.
Be sure to check out Scott's YouTube channel HERE and his website HERE
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Introduction to 'Sharing the Magic'
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Welcome to Sharing the Magic, the podcast that takes you on a journey through the enchanting worlds of Disney. Each week, we're joined by a special guest, whether they're a magician creating moments of astonishment or a Disney expert sharing the secrets behind the magic of the happiest place on Earth. Together we'll uncover the stories, inspirations, and behind the scenes tales that bring these worlds to life. So, get ready to be spellbound and transported to a place where dreams come true.
Meet the Hosts: Barry, Brian, Dawn, and Rachel
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Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Sharing the Magic. I'm your host Barry and tonight we have another fantastic interview coming up. I'm always kind of blown away by the guests that we have here. And this is going to be another truly edutainment episode where our education and entertainment intertwine. So I am really, really excited about this. But before we introduce him, let's introduce our co-host and we'll start tonight with Brian. Brian, how you doing?
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I'm doing great. I'm waiting. I'm all excited to be educated. Looking forward to this. It's going to be a good one. All right. And we have Dawn. Dawn, how are you doing tonight? Hi. Good to be here. Nice to meet you. All the way from Houston, Texas. Nice to meet you too. Thank you. All right. And we have Rachel. Rachel, how are you doing tonight? I'm doing well in Florida area, recovering from my kids first week of school last week. um ah Looking forward to our interview tonight.
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Awesome. Yeah. And last but not least is the man of
Introducing Disney Expert Scott Wolf
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the hour. I like to call him that every week and he's the moth, the man of the hour. And it's Jeff. Jeff, how you doing tonight? I'm doing good. Okay. So for our guest, I wrote, I wrote this out, you know, to introduce them as in Goofy's voice.
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This is, I'm stretching myself a bit, so I haven't done this at all. But here he goes. go gosh yeah oh Welcome to sharing the magic. Today, we have a very special guest. but Another canine pal, Scott Wolf. Scott's got all the tips and tricks to make sure your dreams stay magical.
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labr yeah and Welcome. Thank you. I am another canine pal. yeah Awesome. So gonna be a character them I mean, and it's great, especially when he's wearing a shirt or goofy too. So like yeah so our are good day I've got a boring shirt. Jeff has good feeling. Yeah. Our guest tonight is Scott Wolf. Scott, thank you for being here. Sure. Thanks.
Scott's Childhood Love for Disney
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Yeah, so Scott, the question I ask every single guest that we have on here is tell us about your love of Disney and how you got into it and all that good stuff. um My first visit to Disneyland was when I was two months old. ah So it probably has something to do with it. I've always loved Disney as far back as I can remember. And in particular, Disneyland, and I'm not saying I don't love a lot of the movies and everything I do, but Disneyland is where I i kind of grew up. I grew up being in California, Southern California. I remember in fourth grade doing an article. It was the the assignment was
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If aliens came down to our planet and you met them, how would you describe what they see? And my whole thing was Disneyland. And look at and Mr. Lincoln. And I cut up this National Geographic. And it's like, and they're they're robots inside. And it really like, probably not what aliens would be looking for or whatever. But it proved to me, even in fourth grade, it was something I just loved, you know.
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I remember very early on, my parents bought Disney stock and I was very young, so I didn't know what it meant. And they said, it means you own a little part of Disney. And I remember being at Disneyland and looking at a ah Dumbo vehicle and thinking, I wonder if that's the part we own because I knew we owned a part of Disney.
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ah So I just loved it. Then I started reading about Disney. i learned I didn't know yet that some of the books that were out there just have misinformation, which is something I just despise. There's so much misinformation. And this one book talked about how everything was computerized. all the even I think it even said Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are all computerized. And this was in the 80s. And then someone invited me to go to Disney Feature Animation And that nothing was computerized except there were they were working on the great mouse detective and there was like a vehicle like a bicycle or something under the characters road. And then also there's like a big clock that was computers were involved in. And like, well, that book was wrong. And that might I don't know if that got me my stardom.
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kind of seeing that maybe not everything is true. And then the Disney Channel came on in 83 and they had shows like the Disney Family album, which was so fantastic. And you were learning this firsthand history and that really got me inspired. So I've kind of loved Disney my whole life. I i i could tell you some of my earliest Disneyland memories.
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I loved Carousel Progress. I loved the Golden Horse to Review. um I remember the day I went to Carousel Progress. This was like 1972, I think. I don't know if one of you remember when it went away. I went there and they said they took away the Carousel Progress for good. And I didn't think that could happen in Disneyland. Everything was there forever. And they said, but a new thing, America Sings is coming. And I was so disappointed, but I fell in love with America Sings too. but ah I don't know. Do any of you know when that was? I was at 72 or something when Carousel of Progress left. Yeah, but it was early 70s and I wasn't that old. So pretty early memories. But yeah, I've always loved it. Did something just walk to this day walking in Disneyland or any Disney park? Really? I i still love it just like you did back then. So that's how I got my love of Disney anyway. Awesome.
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Yeah. You can tell how, how informed we are. You ask, ask us a question. We're just all mesmerized by what you're saying. So, so, so Scott, so you said your, um, earlier days are, um, Disneyland and things like that. So what, what were some of the things you mentioned carousel progress and it's like that walking walking around, what, what, what were some of the things that caught your eyes that you were like, you know, and I'm hooked on this. this is This is something that, you know, you mentioned Disney Channel, but I can imagine there's a difference between watching something on Disney Channel and actually walking through a park when you're young and being like, oh, there's a Dumbo ride. There's X, Y and Z over here, the ride, things like that. What were some of the things that caught your eye that really really got you hooked?
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I remember in middle school going on a trip to Disney, even end and that was the first time I remember thinking about the inner workings. I was in the Haunted Mansion and I was just thinking, how do they do this? This is amazing. And i went in years to follow, I started thinking, if I ever found out, would it ruin it? And then um I remember i I was working for Disney at the time and they had their I was at the studio at the Disney Studios and we could get into that. But but this part of the story was I had the chance to walk through the Haunted Mansion for the first time and see how it was all done. And you know what? I loved it even more. I couldn't believe that this technology from the 60s was created and so believable still. But to answer your question, that's kind of jumping ahead. I remember, I mean, I loved the Tiki Room. um I love music. I still love music to this day. And I would get records, my first record,
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There were two records I got. I don't know which was first, but they were 45. So you had one song. They could play one song two or three minutes. One was the Tiki Room song and one was a great, big, beautiful tomorrow from the Care Self Progress. And it was like having a piece of Disneyland in my home because it was the actual soundtrack.
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I got really into soundtracks at that time. I started collecting them. Then actually when I was working for Disney and had access to some, I got into collecting rare and unheard soundtracks that were written for the parks or written for the films that were cut.
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and never used. But i I just kind of fell in love with the music. um Early on, like I said, I was probably five when I got that first record. Well, it had to be pretty young because again, it was Carousel of Progress left pretty early before being moved to Disney World. And that was just like I said, having a part of Disneyland in my house. The Golden Horse Review really made an impact. I don't know if you know what that was, but The show started, it actually started in 1955, but before Disneyland's opening day, it started on July 13th for walt's Walt Disney's ah anniversary what wedding anniversary. He invited friends and family to come to Disneyland, which was not quite open. They rode the Mark Twain. They went to the Golden Horseshoe and saw the very first performance of the Golden Horse review.
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Now, I didn't know in those days that ah the cast, some of the cast you could hear. I learned Betty Taylor, one of the singers, the female role in the Golden Horse Review was in America Sings. She was a pig singing Bill Bailey. And I remember seeing her and like, wow, that that is just the same voice that was in in one of the attractions. Later, I don't even know when I learned that Wally Bogan, Fulton Burley, two of the show's stars,
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were in the Tiki Room. So Wally is Jose and Fulton is Michael. And I love the Golden Horse review, but I was afraid because Wally would pull people up onto the stage. And um I was very young and I didn't want to be pulled up onto the stage. Then Betty would come out and talk to people in the audience and she would I was again, I remember grabbing my mom's hand. So I was very to be doing this, but it's like I'd love this show, but I don't want her to come talk to me. But I love that. And I know you had Don Payne on here. Don was one of Wally Polk's subs because, you know, Wally, Betty and everyone couldn't do it every single day, you know, seven days a week. But yeah, I just loved that. Love loves. I still have small world to this day. And yeah, does that answer your question? Yeah. Cool. Now, when did the Golden Worship go away?
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The last performance was October of 1986. So that was the review. That one went away. And Fulton Burley had been with the show since 1962. The first one, before Fulton, was Don
Admiration for Golden Horseshoe Review
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Novus. And Don, you have heard, if you've ever seen like Bambi, he sings Love is a Song. And he was a popular singer in the 30s and 40s. And then Fulton came in 1962. And Fulton was with the show till the last show.
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And Betty started the second year in 1956. Actually, yeah after six months, she took over and she was with it till the end. So she was there for 30 years, almost 31 years. And um I actually have a trophy that was hers that I don't know. Do I have it in here? I have so much stuff I always rotate. It's a golden horse who was given to her at the end of the after the last show for 30 years with the show. And like I said, she was a pig in America Sings. yeah I mean, she was the character, the voice of the pig, just to be clear.
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But yeah, she she did that and she was with the Sons of the Pioneers, which was a great ah western group. I don't know. That goes back to like the 40s. I don't know if you know them, but they did Cool Water and just a lot of old west songs. In fact, one of her sons of the pioneers, co singers, if you will, whatever, was also in America Sing, singing Home on the Range in that show at Disneyland.
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But I love that. Yeah, that was I loved the Golden Horse review. I became just really fascinated with it. And then when I started doing interviews of people, i well, the one of the first ones I went to was Wally Bogue. And this was in 2007 and Fulton had just passed away.
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And then someone at the studio invited me over at the Disney Studios invited me to to come and help produce a tribute to Fulton, which was just an amazing experience because I met so many people, people who with one lady, Ricky Lugo was with the show in the fifties before they even had air conditioning. And she would go and she would dance in the Golden Horse you review. And then either she went and would swim with the mermaids literally in tomorrow and swim to cool off because it was so hot. So but I just met so many great people. Jay Meyer, he was a Fulton's sub in the show. And to this day, you could see Jay in the Haunted Mansion. He's one of the singing statues that you see. I got to know a couple. of I knew Jay and I knew Thor Ravenscroft. But um Jay is, I think, second from the right in Disneyland. But I know he's in all the parks that have a version of the Haunted Mansion.
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And he was one of Fulton's subs. So I just became so fascinated with the Golden Horse Review and started collecting things and trying to preserve the history of that show. I have costumes from Wally. I have his jacket that he wore on TV in the wonderful world of color for the 10,000th performance. And then I have Betty's dress and Fulton's jacket and vest. So but the Golden Horse Review is just a ah huge thing to me. I just love that show. Yeah.
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part of history. Oh, my goodness. Now, I love ah you got a great YouTube page. It is. It is your your channels. Great. And you have so many educational videos and and they're so diverse from each other. You know, you'll look you'll have one video. I know it's a sort of switching gears, but I got to get off my chest. no Your channel is great. And I'm just like, thank you so much for that. That's true.
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Well, and i I'm like, ooh, this video. And then like, I'll go down, I'll be like, ooh, but do I like this one or this one next? And it it does, it's not this. So here's here's my question. How'd you get your page started? Your channel started? What was your inspiration for that? And ah and then and then here's here's my question. Of all the videos you've posted, which one's your favorite but of that that you've posted?
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Oh, wow. That's a good question. I got to think about that. I'll put a pin in that. I'll bring it. I won't forget. I promise. I'm actually working on one right now about Wally Bogue. I've got a few the works right now. I'm doing one about Wally. I'm doing one and about the Star Wars jet, which is in Japan. And I was coming. I was visiting Japan. Well, I was in Japan flying from I think it was Osaka back to Tokyo. And it we just happened to be on this jet that's a Star Wars jet painted like Star Wars like C3P.
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I'm doing that. I'm doing one about the show, Big Bands at Disneyland. And um Peter Marshall was a friend of mine. He was a great guy, passed away, I think it was just two days ago. We worked on a game show together called All Star Blitz. He was the original host of the Hollywood Squares. Hollywood Squares, yes. Oh, yeah. No, Peter Marshall. No way. Wow. Yeah. 98. And later that we passed away. That's so sad. Yeah, two days ago. And he hosted a Disney Channel show called Big Bands at Disneyland. So I'm doing a video about that right now. And I had sat down with Peter and we talked about it and everything. But Peter was the big band singer. And the show Big Bands of Disneyland took place at Disneyland at Carnation Plaza Gardens, which was another thing I loved was the big bands where they would have real big band, you know big name big bands. ah None of them are around anymore. you know But
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I go I'd love going to Carnation and and hearing those. So i'm I'm doing this one about big bands at Disneyland and Peter. um So the way that to answer your question, I ramble a lot. Sorry. No, you're good. Question. um The way I got started doing it, I'll back up even before the YouTube videos. ah See, I started working for Disney in 1988. I was in TV animation. I was actually brought on to do a show called Magic Kingdom, which would have been Mickey, Donald and Goofy. And it would take place in kind of a a ah Disney World's Magic Kingdom and Disneyland together kind of a mix. And they would go on an attraction like Space Mountain, but then it would become real. And they're in in this real space adventure or a real pirate adventure. And then that idea was set aside and I ended up working on a second season of DuckTales. I was a production assistant to begin with.
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you yeah i don't i here oh Now I'm starstruck. Okay. I know. I know. I know. You got a lot of fanboys here. like Oh, DuckTales. We were talking a little bit. I know before the but podcast, you and I were talking about Wayne and Lucy. And that's why I first met Lucy. She was on DuckTales. She was She was? Oh, that's right.
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And she did all those voices. And um though that was a lot of fun to go to. I love the voice recordings. I loved working and being a part of Disney. But in 1988, and then I became an assistant producer on a show called Tailspin, but which was also there.
00:17:13
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So your reactions are great. Oh, my gosh. I know. I know. This is greats what's so great about it. You know, ah real quick, I want to say that when I'm speaking, it seems to cut off your voices. So I am apologizing if I cutting if you're saying something or asking me a question. Oh, go go over yours. But one of the great things about Disney in the late eighties was you would still have, first of all, a smaller. And when I mean what I mean by that is they didn't own ABC and ESPN and all the different things that they own. So you could be on the lot. And most likely the people around you worked for Disney. And I love meeting people. I didn't care from where. I mean, there were people in marketing and consumer products marketing. There was I remember meeting someone from home video and I just loved
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going around and saying, what do
Meeting Disney Legends
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you do? You know, show me, show me in your department, show me what you do. But you had people that were coming into the studio who worked with Walt and in 88 or eight, I think it was 89, but the very first ah real Disney Legends Awards took place, and it was honoring the remaining nine old men. So it was Mark Davis, who was my favorite artist. I had seen him on the Disney Family album and everything, and I loved his work. He had done so much that I just love.
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and I wanted to meet them. So um I didn't know we'd become friends. I met him that day. i had him so I have something on the wall here that it was Haunted Mansion, the changing portraits of the the lady. And and he the day I met him, he signed that for me. you know But I didn't know I'd be friends with him. But you could just go up to these people, even at the legend ceremonies, because it was so small. It wasn't a big event. It was just on the studio lot. The press was invited. But other than that, it was employees, studio employees.
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And it was Ward Kimball, it was Frank and Ollie, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. And then another one which was huge for me was the Sherman Brothers and I met them and Bob Sherman became such a good friend. I know you had Robbie on here. I just went to England and we got together in England and I made Robbie ah sit on the steps of St. Paul's, you know, at Cathedral where this bird lady sat. We got a picture of us there.
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But I mean, Bob was such a great, great guy. And these people had just come to the studio. You know, I remember seeing Bob and Dick at one point on the lot. I don't even know why they were with Mickey Dolan's from The Monkees. And I know I think Mickey was appearing on Boy Meets World at the time.
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But anyways, you'd just be there and you would see these people. And because I knew I had such an interest and love for Disney, I had the chance to talk to them and people would tell me stories. m And then in 2007, I said, you know, I don't have these stories saved. I just they're in my mind and they're great stories. I got to start kind of what you guys are doing.
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but start talking to them. So one of the first I went to was Wally Bogue. I'm Catherine Beaumont, who was the voice of Alice in Alice in Wonderland, and Wendy and Peter Pam, and Exotencio. And Ex was a writer for Imagineering Wed, as it was called, but he started as an animator in the 30s.
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And Walt just sensed that he can be this writer. And X wanted to be a writer, but he didn't even know that Walt knew this. And he ended up ah writing the scripts for Haunted Mansion, all the dialogue you hear in Pirates of the Caribbean and the submarine voyage. And as you go through the Pirates of the Caribbean and you hear the sculling crossbones saying it vast, there you come seeking an adventure. That's X. Or when you're in the Haunted Mansion, listen closely to the coffin. It's saying, let me out of here. Let me out of here. That's X.
00:20:46
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and Blaine Gibson, who sculpted. And I'll tell you one of my favorites, um not to choose favorites, but I don't know if you all know the name Harriet Burns, but Harriet was an extraordinary woman. And ah I met her because Mark Davis's wife, Alice, introduced me. Alice designed all the costumes for Small World. And um I was writing an article about Pirates of the Caribbean and Alice did all the costumes for Pirates also.
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And so she put she put me in touch with Harriet. She said you're going to love her. You've got to talk to her. She worked on pirates. She put all the hair in the legs of the pirates one by one. the Actually, the one with the the the knee the leg hanging over or the bridge that you go under your leg. They're like she placed the air one by one. Every time I would talk to her, there was something new that she worked on. And whenever we would talk, she'd say, how are your boys? Because they have two sons. And I'd say, oh, we all just watch Babes on Toyland. And she says, you know, I worked on that Mother Goose puppet. And I operated that in the movie because the actress who operated her hand was a little too big to get the emotions for the close up shots for all the close up shots. That's to me. And any time I talked to Harriet, she had these stories, you know,
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she One time it was the Haunted Mansion and she said, I was supposed to be in the crystal ball and they filmed me. She said, I have pictures. I'll send them to you. And she was all made up to be in the crystal ball. And then because this was computers and everything was so crude and everything was so new in those days, they couldn't stretch her face and her facial features were too narrow.
00:22:19
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And so they went to her assistant, Leota Tombs, and that's Madame Leota. So ah but Harriet worked on the Tiki room birds. And ah in fact, she I remember her talking to my boys. They were like five years old and I guess five and. and nine. And she said, what's your favorite attraction? And they said, Tiki Room and Small World. And she told them about creating the Small World Dolls, dressing up the Small World Dolls, the prototypes. And they had three prototypes to present to Walt. And they it turned out the one that Walt liked best was the one that she and Blaine who sculpted them all liked best. and But these this is
00:23:00
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the way it was for me in the 80s was getting the chance to meet these people. So in 2007, I just started to record the stories and Harriet's stories, Blaine, all these people. And in 2020, I was I did some talks for a travel agency about Walt, and it's pretty much I love firsthand information. So I would convey stories just like it did to you today. But it was how like the secret to Walt's success.
00:23:26
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through these people. So like I said, Blaine was a sculptor. X was a writer. He started as an animator. And Walt said, I want you to be a writer. Blaine started in 1939 in animation. And Walt happened to see some sculptures he did for fun.
00:23:43
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And Walt said, I want you to be a sculptor for Disneyland. And he had this uncanny sense that it's seeing what people love. and if it's something And if you're doing what you love, you're going to get the best work. So Blaine ended up sculpting. Well, you've seen the partner statue. That was after Walt. But he sculpted the partner statue, which is Walt and Mickey. ah He sculpted all the presidents for Hall of Presidents, all the characters in American Adventure. He sculpted all the pirates and pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion.
00:24:12
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So I was doing this talk and it's basically taking you through people who worked with Walt and telling a story, playing some audio that they've told me. And I did this talk for this travel agent and she would send us to Disney World and give us rooms and everything. So it was was fun for me.
00:24:27
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So she's the one who said, you've got to start doing videos. Now, I happen to love audio editing and video recording. So I just started video editing, rather, and I just started doing these videos. And it's ah it's called Keeping the Magic Alive. And the main thing is to preserve these histories. I pride myself on being as accurate as possible.
00:24:52
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And I have one, which is about the slogan, if you can dream it, you can do it. And so many people say that Walt Disney said that, but it was actually used in Horizons in Epcot. 83, I believe, is when that attraction opened. I don't believe that opened the first year. And in there, they used that slogan, if if we can dream it, we can do it. And it's even part of this song.
00:25:16
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But General ah Motors was the sponsor for Horizons, and they had a slogan written, and I believe in 1981, by Sherrilyn Silverstein, who I also so interviewed, and she wrote it for them. If you can dream it, you can do it. So she was the one who wrote that long after Walt passed away. There's so many quotes that are attributed to Walt that are not his. But I just started doing these videos. They started with people you know trying to convey the stories of Walt Disney or their stories or their contributions.
00:25:50
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And then I kind of do a few other things. So like Cheryl is a newer one. And then I got into collecting artifacts of Disney. And so I share those in a historical way because I'd love to know the histories behind whatever I
Disney Artifacts and Memorabilia Collection
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have. The you know early 1930 Mickey Mouse doll by Charlotte Clark. And um you You know, just different artifacts. I have a lot from the Mickey Mouse Club, the original. I think some of the original Mickey Mouse Club. um I don't know if you could see behind me, but there's a there's a thing yeah there's a badge that I'm sorry, this is audio, not video, but what there's a badge here. Yeah, we can see it. All right. For our listeners, well the mouseketeers would wear these on the old Mickey Mouse Club in 1955. And so I did a video about Cubby and Cubby. We love Cubby. Yeah.
00:26:40
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Yeah, he's great. It's such a great drummer too. But it just evolved into kind of like what you're doing, just the people involved in Disney and their stories. And and then I also love photography. So I started putting my photos into my videos.
00:26:55
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I started doing Disney photography about 1989, I would say. So I was working in animation. But again, talking to everybody and just and I always brought my camera around. Every legend ceremony I went to, I had my camera. Eventually they started giving me press passes so I could get better photos. And also because areas in the company started to use my photos. So. so Actually, a a weird one was the carl ah well the Disney Comics called me because Karl Barks had been honored and they knew I took photos and they wanted to know if they could use one and of when he was honored as a Disney legend on the studio lot. And so they published my photo in Disney Comics, which I love because I'm i'm not an artist. and
00:27:43
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ah Yet I'm in Disney Comics. So the photography was something I just really fell in love with. And I went to Rose Parade because Disney would have floats in the Rose Parade. And the studio newsreel or different departments would say, would you go take a picture?
00:28:00
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that we had there was ah an executive Tim Wolf, so many wolves in Disney, but because I know you have several other wolves on your. The more wolves, the better. We'll just have a work pack. How about that? there go So Tim Wolf was leaving Disney and he was ah I don't remember, but I think finance, but very high up. And I got a call. Would you come take pictures of his retirement party at the rotunda, which was the executive dining room?
00:28:26
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And Frank Wells was there who was the president of Disney at the time. and And I said, I just have and they knew I would do it for free. I said, I just have one question. Can I come before the party and take pictures on the road to Sunday? So I was getting this fun going to the event. Disney had the American Teacher Awards and I would go and take pictures there. And they had what Betty White was a presenter and all these great people. Ronald Reagan was No, that was a different Disney event, but Arnold Schwarzenegger and all these people would you know present to the teachers like it was the Academy Awards, but Disney had their American Teacher Awards. So I would get these press passes. And so now I'm using a lot of these photos in my videos as well. And one one video I'm proud of, i don't know I know you asked my favorite, I don't know if it's my favorite, but I did fun facts about every Disneyland attraction that's there today.
00:29:20
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no And a little bit more like the Golden Horseshoe, even though that's not yeah maybe not considered an attraction, but I threw in a few other things. So like there was the, when the monorails were, during the opening of Cars Land, they put eyes on the monorails to be like cars. And then then the soundtrack changed inside. And so I just used some of my photos that I took back then, because I have photos, every new attraction, every new thing, I take pictures. And I did, with the monorail, I happened in those days to have a video where I recorded the ah spiel inside. So I put a little clip of that.
00:29:55
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And every photo that you see is my photo. In 1994, I was still working for Disney, so I was in TV animation. Then they did a little bit at Disney Computer Software in the early days of computer software. And I think we were talking just a little bit about one little treat I had was I got to Voice Direct. Wayne and Rusey, Wayne Allwine was the voice.
00:30:18
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It was have tell us that story every day, every detail. Don't buy him is no. Yeah, we stay up till the night. We were doing some video games, Mickey and Minnie and when Brucey, who had already worked with DuckTales, was the they were the voice of Mickey and I remember when the two of them got together and at first it was like, don't say anything, but did you know Wayne and Bruce here like dating and then they married and they were there spirit just. got all And yeah, I got to voice direct them for it was a software game that we had but this was 1990 I was there was starting 90 actually I was there for quite a few years and They create we didn't have sound on computers to show you how crazy You know, even in the 90s, Disney created something called the sound source. And it was you plug it into your printer port of your computer and you could get sound. A few sound bites out of it. It wasn't full blown sound, but we could have Mickey and Minnie. So I got to record them or direct them in ah in that. And that that's one of my proud moments. You know.
00:31:24
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That was the story with that. But I was it was a part of consumer products and Bo Boyd was the head of Disney Consumer Products. Now, Bo was ah ah honored as a Disney legend after he passed away.
00:31:37
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but So when you when you got to to be in that directing situation, what was it like? And and you know how were how were they ah in response to directing? you know what you direct like which I don't know, just what was that what was that experience like? were they Were they really difficult to work with? or were No, I'm sure they weren't. I had two people, two sessions that I directed. The other one's really weird, and I'll tell you about that too.
00:32:02
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And with Wayne and Rusey, I had done what I've seen in animation. Well, what's great about TV animation when I was there is things were done in a group. Now they bring in the character and they do it line by line. But anyway, so we had Wayne and Rusey there and, you know, they were just wonderful. They were the most delightful people. I was friends with Rusey when Wayne passed away. I was asked to produce his memorial tribute that we did on the studio lot at Disney. And I love doing tribute, not that people pass away. But you learn so much. Oh, my gosh. Sitting with Rusey and hearing the stories of Wayne was so wonderful and then pouring through videos and Disney family albums and outtakes from Disney family album and all these things and and learning and getting gathering all of their their photos and videos. You learned so much. And then we had Bill Farmer and we had Tony and and different people come in and talk about Wayne. And it was really I think it was a very special night. But they were so wonderful. I have to say that just real people and directing them like just kind of did what I had seen, whether I was a good director or not. It doesn't matter because we got what we needed. you know Yeah.
00:33:10
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um Which means you're probably your director. hopefully but But that was for Mickey's computer games. They were educational. We did Mickey's ABCs, Mickey's 123s, and I think colors and shapes. And I was an assistant producer on those. um So I don't know which of the three it was for, you know, but yeah i was it was for that. And the other time I got to Voice Direct,
00:33:32
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was a project I was doing on my own. I was working at Hanna-Barbera, which is where I got started in animation. I was very naive or or stupid or young or whatever you want to call it. And I wanted a job and I called up Hanna-Barbera. I called Disney. They said, I said, do you have any jobs? I don't I'm not an artist or anything. I'd love to work in animation. And they said no. And I did the same thing with Hanna-Barbera. And they said, well, can you come in for an interview today? And I'm like, no, I got so scared. And no, no, I could come in tomorrow.
00:34:01
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And after I hung up, I, you know, recomposed myself on my well, yeah, I'll go today. And so they said, we have an opening in employee benefits. And if you're they talked to me and they said, if you want to start tomorrow, it's a temp job for three days, but you could come in tomorrow. I said, yeah, I'd love to. And they'd like to me and they said, OK, here's the truth. It's not three days, but we were just testing you. And if you want to stay, um this guy who you're going to replace is sick and he's going to be out for at least a few weeks, if not months.
00:34:28
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And I replaced him and and a side job of his was he would type storyboards for the Smurfs. There was a an artist, Ron and Campbell, and Ron didn't like to hand write the notes in his storyboards. and ah So he had someone typing them. and So i I put him in the electric typewriter and I would type the direction and and the dialogue that he would circle in the script. And so I knew what to do. And then I developed a way to do computer. I printed everything on labels and put them onto the storyboard. So out there and in my garage, I have a few Popeye and Son and Smurfs storyboards with this computer type on it in those days. But
00:35:10
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the The reason that I brought up Hannah Barbera, I became a production assistant. And that was where I first saw the recording sessions. So I was working on this project and it was called Computer Storybooks. And it would have been where, like the old Disney storybooks, because I loved those, that was something else growing up I loved, where you read along with a tape that was playing and you know to a Disney story. You put in the tape and you know it's time to turn the page when Tinkerbell rings her little bell, it used to say.
00:35:38
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So I was creating like an animated version and I created a whole story and I wrote it. And the person who I had two characters, one was an old prospector and one was an old burrow. And the burrow was someone I became friends with. She was the first the voice of Smurfette on the Smurfs, Lucille Bliss.
00:35:56
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So Lucille Bliss, I didn't even know at the time. Here I am voice directing her. She was the voice of Anastasia in Disney's Cinderella. And I knew she was smurfed. I knew a lot of her Hanna-Barbera work, but I didn't even know that yet at that time. And she also was in a hundred and one Dalmatians singing a commercial on the TV that the Dalmatians are watching about canine crunchies.
00:36:17
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And I just had so much fun directing them. I just remember both sessions. I remember a lot of laughs, ah you know, but, you know, in a lot of the voice sessions, I remember like going into even DuckTales and everything. I remember people just having fun. I remember on the smurfs. I know that's not Disney, but I remember on the smurfs. I was just there at the copy machine ah making copies. And I hear all these smurfs voices.
00:36:44
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like they were just like you know yeah So ah yeah, that was that was a lot of fun for me to be able to to actually voice direct well and and you got to see you know a lot of camaraderie in those days a lot of you know that when we interview or just when I watch interviews of of You know voice actors and and people that exactly like you that got to be in that app atmosphere, especially in the 80s and the 90s. I mean, that's exactly what you hear. Number one, people just they love it. They love the camaraderie. They love the laughs. And then that's the first thing they lament now, you know, is, you know, we got amazing technology, but the the process of.
00:37:26
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of voice acting has become a lot more just cold and kind of, okay, here you go. you know We all just piece it together, just send it in, submit it. And um that's something a lot of people that we talk to, they that's the first thing they say is they miss that that camaraderie, they miss that friendship, they miss the laughs, you know all those things. So that's so cool. you got to You got to not just be a fly on the wall, but you got to actually get your hands dirty in that process. So how cool.
00:37:53
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Now, aren't you impressed? I went way off topic and never answered your question, but I don't care. well I don't even remember my question. So jokes on you. I don't even remember. I have a question that's a little off topic. So I'm interested in your stuff that you're collecting. That is just fascinating to me because I'm also I like Disney Anna. But the picture behind you on your wall with the contemporary. Yeah.
00:38:19
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Can you talk about that? And then what is your favorite ah collector piece that you have or ah probably the Walt Disney autograph, I'm guessing. But I would love to hear some of your collection items. So yeah, that what you see behind me, it's the logo of the contemporary resort in Walt Disney World. ah That was actually a welcome mat.
00:38:41
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And I have a picture of my boys standing on one of the welcome mats, because we love Disney World. We love all the Disney parks. We just got back from Disneyland Paris, actually. But the ah it was a welcome mat. It's clean, luckily. It's been cleaned. And ah I brought it to our framer. And that was the most unusual thing he was asked to do, because it's pretty large. I think it's it got to be at least five feet wide. you know When you go to the park, take a look at the hotel. They're a pretty big welcome mat.
00:39:10
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So I've seen that before. I knew I had stepped on. But what I love is in your proof, you don't know what's a welcome mat. It's just kind of cool and contemporary and I think still contemporary today. It's got the logo and kind of a very stylized version of the monorail coming out of the hotel. So, yeah, I love that. um You mentioned my Walt Disney autograph. And I always wanted I did buy the autograph. I always wanted a Walt autograph. Now, I'm not into autographs. I I. have been around a lot of celebrities. I used to work in TV. I used to do cue cards. I worked on Wheel of Fortune. I used to work on Days of Our Lives, all kinds of shows. But Walt Disney is a little bit different. But I always thought if I ever have the chance to get a Walt autograph, one, I really want to make sure it's authentic because there's a lot of fakes out there. And two, I really wanted to have something that meant something. And when I saw this one, I'm like, I have to buy this. I have to. I'm going to show you, and I know that people can't see it, but... So what it is, it's the program from the opening of the Walt Disney Elementary School. Oh, that's so cool. And I love Marceline, Missouri. I went to Marceline. My friend Kaye lives in Walt Disney's house that he grew up in. She is an incredible spokesperson for Marceline. She brought us through the house, but she also started the Walt Disney Hometown Museum.
00:40:33
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and you get to see such real great insight into Walt's childhood life. So much of Disneyland, and consequently, all the other parks are because of Marceline. The trains that go by all the time around Marceline, you used you stand there, the trains go by. That's where he got his love of trains. and There's a bandstand, and I got a picture of me on the bandstand, and it's the bandstand where Walt's dad, Elias Disney, would play the the violin.
00:41:03
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And so there was a bandstand in Disneyland that was originally right in Town Square. on ah But then they moved it. at the opening, they moved it to where Carnation Plaza Gardens is. Then it became kind of a more established stage, which is where going back to the big bands at Disneyland. But so much of Disneyland was inspired by Marceline and a lot of the movies, Lady and the Tramp, and and so dear to my heart. So when they were going to do the Walt Disney name, the elementary school, Walt Disney Elementary, after their most famous resident,
00:41:38
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Walt was so honored. he They invited him to come down. He did come down to the grand opening. And a boy named Phil, well, it doesn't matter, Philip, Philip Timmons, he, I found out was the one who got this signed. He was a student at the school. And I love to know the history. So I know the story behind this is the program. There's Walt's signature, his real true signature. And yeah you I know I'm sorry for anyone who's just listening, but it's cool. it's Just imagine that.
00:42:06
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It's wonderful. It's cool, everyone. It's cool. I did a YouTube video about the Marceline Elementary School because Kay did bring us through that. And Walt did. He had Bob Moore, the artist Bob Moore, do artwork for the school and that artwork is still in there. And you have all these Disney characters in the school.
00:42:24
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So to for me, it was so personal because I fell in love with Marceline. It's just the town itself, they still have the Main Street that inspired Disneyland's Main Street, which is much bigger and grander. But the Main Street, and I love old history like that, the the live history where you go and you see old buildings. and But when you're there, I mean, I saw the building that used to be the Opera House.
00:42:47
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And one of the Marceline residents just was walking around and I told her how much I loved it. And she said, look, I'm going to show you something. She brings me to the back of the opera house and said, do you see, this is the coal chute. And they would put coal in here and they would heat the opera house.
00:43:03
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And she she reached in and got a lump of coal and gave it to me. So I have this Marceline lump of coal. But why is there an opera house in on Main Street in Disneyland? Well, because Walt liked the opera house in Marceline. so you you know And the opera house, for anyone who doesn't know, is where great moments with Mr. Lincoln is. and And soon, which I'm very excited about, the new Walt Disney is going to be talking inside the opera house.
00:43:27
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But, yeah, so that's one of my prized artifacts is that um I'll show you another. I'll talk about another. Yes. um for You know, I'll do a video about this sometime. This is carved by another sculptor named R.L. Blair. And this is a bear and I call him R.L. Bear. But when you go through Disney Parks worldwide, you'll see R.L. Sculptures. And I think did he sign this?
00:43:53
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That's a beautiful film. He signed one of them for me. Yeah. but But R.L. Blair was a sculptor. He didn't work for Disney. He was a foul mouth kind of. I don't know. just I never heard anyone with who would talk like this. And then he would sculpt.
00:44:11
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And it was incredible. So when you see the bears around Splash Mountain, the Critter Country sign in Disneyland, with all of the animals around it, R.L. sculpted that. There was a bear rabbit, bear fox, and bre bear bear carving in front of splash the Splash Mountains. It still exists in Tokyo. But he did these sculptures. And he was just, like I said, crude. He had a book about his sculptures.
00:44:38
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and it kind of about him and it has a warning on the front that you're going to be reading a lot of bad language. He hated artists, so you don't say you're a good artist. He hated artists, he thinks they're poets. And yet, like I said, he just had this beauty come out of it. So I have that artifact. I have ah behind me, just in this room, my my wife, Shaney, she decorates, so we're always rotating all the different artwork. But ah there's a 1938 puppet, Ferdinand the Bull.
00:45:10
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And I was at an antique shop. I just happened to see this. And it's from the year that Ferdinand the Bull came out. And it was just a hand puppet. There's an opening day Disneyland ticket behind me. The other set of mouse years where to see that I have back there are from 1972. And they did eight a Mickey Mouse Club show at Disneyland. So the original Mickey Mouse Club was 1955. But then there was an idea. Why don't we revive it as a stage show at Disneyland?
00:45:37
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And Larry Billman was a writer at of of life entertainment, and I have a great interview with him. And he told me about this show and then he gave me this big stack of photos of ah the this stage show. And the one of them was Connie Newton, who went on to be Elizabeth and eight is enough. if Anyone old enough to remember the TV show eight is enough was very popular in the 70s.
00:46:01
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And then Chante was in the stage version. Chante went on to be in the 1977 TV version because there was a new Mickey Mouse Club. So those years were from the stage version. And then I have a pair in the other room from ah the 1977 TV version. There's so many different everything just connects, you know. And so it's, you know, the the stage show inspired that TV version, the 77 TV version.
00:46:30
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ah The other sign behind me is from Carnation Plaza Gardens and it was a welcome or exit sign and my wife used to work there also so she just stole that one day. no So no judgment here is fine. Right. But nobody has it because he did work there and they got rid of it because ah the Carnation was no longer the sponsor. And you could even see they etched off the word Carnation because it was still up for a little bit after Carnation left the sponsorship, but it was still Carnation Plaza gardens. So those are just some of the artifacts, one of them that I truly love.
00:47:05
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It was from America Sings because I loved America Sings. And a friend of mine was working at Disney and he said, Scott, you're not hearing this from me, but there are some America Sings props in our trash can here. I'll get you in, you know. But I went and they weren't in great shape, but the drum that it's in the finale scene, the porcupine would play it in the finale in Splash Mountain, the porcupine right after you went down the porcupine, the porcupine was playing a turtle in Splash Mountain. Yeah, absolutely. that just as you went down the big drop and then you enter the zipper, you do that. So it's that porcupine, but he would play a drum and it's in postcards and it was in books and everything. And that drum was in the trash can. And I saw there were kids playing in the trash can. And I don't know how they got in there. Maybe the trash can was right outside of the gate, but his kid takes the drum. And I knew what it was because I loved America Sings. And he was in pieces and shattered. And my wife jumped out of the car, get away from there. And I ran and gathered all the pieces. And then just a year or two ago, I actually had someone restore it. So it looks like it used to. Oh, that's so cool. So, yeah. But I love the artifacts with some sort of history, you know. Yeah. That's my thing. I love that. Great stuff.
00:48:22
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What um photo, going back to your photo history, I'm also a shutterbug, and but not near the talent you are. What would you say has garnered you the most attention um or has used the most or maybe made you the most money? I don't know when entity but or has been published the most?
00:48:43
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Well, a lot of
Creating Disneyland Photo Books
00:48:45
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them made it in books. um I have a Wally Bogue photo, which was in a book that they did about him. um But I did two books on my own and they were sold at Disneyland. So my first book is called Where in Disneyland Park. And now this was when I was working, I was probably on this, I was talking about Bo Boyd before, this was probably the path I was going to, but I veer off onto many paths when I talk. But I was working and at computer software and Bo Boyd was the head of consumer products.
00:49:11
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And I I really loved Bo and I said, I have an idea. I left photography and I want to do a book about the details, because I think it's so amazing to see the artwork, the details, the sculptures, the painting. And a lot of things people may walk by and not notice. And um I want to show it and Bo and then then so turn the page and you're going to see where it is.
00:49:33
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And Bo said, you know, we'll let you do that. We'll get you a contract because when you work for Disney, you sign something, all your ideas are owned by Disney. He said, we'll get you your a special contract and we're going to let you do that. And I again, very naive. I didn't know. And so I didn't know that every photo you take, even though they're my photos, Disney owns the copyright. You know, I can't make a poster of the Sleeping Beauty Castle, even though it's my photo. You know, I can't sell it on Etsy. It's they own the copyright.
00:50:02
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he said we're going to get you a contract and you can but we'll publish all these pictures and without any royalties. and It's just unheard of. I mean, I had, you know, I went around Disneyland while the park was open and I would take pictures of all these things. I have some R.L. Blair sculptures. I didn't even know R.L. at the time. But, you know, there's a little mouse in the critter country. So the sign. So I have a close up of the mouse. Well, where is it? Then you go, you see the wide shot. And a few things that
00:50:34
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were really cool that i aren't even there anymore. So I love that book for that reason. And Bo made calls. He called Paul Pressler, who was not the president of Disneyland yet. He was the president of the Disney stores. And Bo said, I want these in the Disney stores.
00:50:47
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And in the Walt Disney Gallery, they called it, which were a few stores and malls. And it was more artwork rather than just Disney store merchandise. And Bo got them in the all over. I went to Japan and I saw my book into the Disney stores in in in Tokyo.
00:51:06
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Wow. So it was crazy. And those books really got me to know a lot of people. ah There's people to this day who will come up to me and say, I had that book. I mean, it's crazy how many people knew it. And I was a horrible photographer. I just went with a camera and shot. So maybe I knew framing and stuff. And I I didn't have Photoshop. It was so long ago. So it's bird poop on the matter inside. I could have done so much better or a white sky. But still, I do feel that at least preserved ah some of the details and some that aren aren't there anymore. I want to find that book. It was just in an auction. It was really funny. Oh, I want to. I got to track it down. I want it. I think it sold for 25 bucks or something. And it was signed by the author. So, hey.
00:51:52
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I'm going to find it. You watch. I sent you for a friend request on Facebook. I'm actually looking right now. when i When I find it, I'm going to send you a photo. I'm going to be like, I found it. Now, I'll tell you the funny thing that happened after that. Oh, actually, it was funny. Well, there's a few stories. So with that, there was I wanted a picture in Adventureland, but I wanted an overcast day because I felt the shadows were a little too harsh.
00:52:13
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And so I was working at Disney Software. I went in, I said hi to my boss. I saw the vice president of our department, went and said hi to her, went back to my car without anyone knowing, drove down to Disneyland because it was an overcast day and got my picture in Adventureland, went got back in my car, went back to work and no one knew I was gone.
00:52:33
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But for the second book, I have a video I did to you about my friend Katsumi Kigaya, and he was the Tokyo Disneyland cast member I met over 30 years ago. He was just visiting Disneyland. We became great friends. He's like family to me. So whenever we go to Japan, we stay with him and his family.
00:52:51
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And he had just been visiting and he gave us these glow in the dark shirts, literally glow in the dark when you turn out the lights. And they were for a Tokyo parade called Fantaloosian. And it was a beautiful Mickey and this you know kind of neon color because it would glow in the dark. So now Paul Pressler was the president of Disneyland at this time. And this was a few years after my first book.
00:53:13
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So he, my wife and I had just stopped off at Disneyland wearing, we had dropped off some of our wear in Disneyland park books. And it was really crowded. and He said, let's go in the park and just play because there's too much traffic. We'll wait till it dies down, then we'll go home. So we're in the park just sitting on the curb and a man with a name tag comes by. His name tag said, Paul. And he said, you know, are you having a nice day here today? He didn't know us from anyone.
00:53:39
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And we got to talking and say, oh, wait, you're Paul Pressler. I'm Scott Wolf. I did the book. You're the one who put them in the Disney store. So thank you very much for that. And he said, did you ever want to do another book? Do you have any other ideas? I said, yeah, I want to walk through the attractions. I want to do the same book, but inside attractions. And he said, here's the name of somebody. You give them a call. You could walk through any Disney attraction you want after hours and you do a second book and we're going to sell it in Disneyland.
00:54:06
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So we did wear in Disneyland attractions, and that was just the most fun. We'd go get there maybe three in the morning and go through pirates or go through a mansion or go through splash and just walk through slowly looking for various things that were cool. One of my answer your question, it didn't get me money or anything, one I love, and I used it in my video about every Disneyland attraction. If you're in the Mr. Toad's Wild Ride scene where you see the statue of Toad and and the horse,
00:54:34
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There's there's the courtroom and Lady Justice is there. Lady Justice generally is at court courts, you know, and she's blindfolded to represent Blind Justice and she's holding scales. But if you go in Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, you'll see she her blindfold is lifted up and she's peeking out under her blindfold. And you can go through the ride a hundred times. I never see that Blind Justice is peeking out through the blindfold. It's just one of those details that, you know, the Disney artists did.
00:55:03
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Or I shouldn't even say artist, maybe an idea person or something, whoever came up with it. ah But yeah, we walked through every attraction and um they were sold in Disneyland for quite a few years. Also, again, I would say new Photoshop. I mean, I was in the attractions with my tripod and yet I didn't know photography like today. Now I go through and I with my camera, I.
00:55:23
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I'm very proud of my photos today. You could get photos in anything. you know i mean I have one I love in the Matterhorn, where you know of of the Yeti and the Matterhorn. You're going so fast. and i I chose what I thought was the right shutter speed and then everything, the right aperture. I'm zoomed by and you know I put it on continuous. A little tip for any photographer, you know put it on continuous, shoot mode. and just and one of them was just centered and and perfect, you know? So, but some of the photos, they were in newspapers, they were in, like I said, and in books and things, but I don't know if I have a favorite one, but so to answer your question, but so many bringing me joy, you know, especially not necessarily the best photos, but the events. There was one where Bob Sherman,
00:56:10
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Bob was a friend of mine by this point, ah Bob of the Sherman Brothers, and so Roy Disney, Roy E. Disney, so Walt's nephew was on the lot and was during a Legends Award ceremony and Joe Fowler was there. And Joe Fowler, if you see Fowler's in Fowler's Harbor. There's a Joe Fowler boat in Disney World. ah This is all Joe Fowler. He was a retired admiral and Walt Disney hired him and he worked on the Mark Twain and a lot of things and he was one of the driving forces behind Walt Disney World. So here I am in the studio a lot after the award ceremony and I hear and I have my camera because I always had my camera and Roy said Roy Disney says, does anyone have a camera? I want a picture of me and Joe.
00:56:52
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And I had been talking to Bob Sherman. So I actually he said, I have a camera and I have a picture of Bob and Joe Fowler and Roy Disney. And the the story that followed that was I called the secretary and I said, I've got this photo. And she said, you can just inter office it to Roy.
00:57:09
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And I said, well, is there any way I could present it to him personally? I'd love to meet him. And she said, come on down. And he they actually set aside time for me. And I spent about 15 minutes or so with Roy in his office, just chatting Disney and about his boat. He loved sailing and everything. I wish he was doing interviews. Can you imagine?
00:57:29
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I have another photo I love. What was that? I said, what a great opportunity. It was with your camera ready. and That presented itself perfectly. There were so many times where people, other employees would ask me if I would take a picture because we had a lot of events on the studio lot. And, you know, when I say events, maybe it was just a recycling day and environmentality, but you'd have Jiminy Cricket walking around and I would just always bring my camera and then.
00:57:57
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They had photo opportunities. A lot of times they would give us a Polaroid. Back in those days, they would take your Polaroid picture and and give it to you. But I had people from different departments who would say, would you take my picture? And um I was happy to because I would then meet them and say, what do you do? You know, what department are you in and want to have lunch and tell me about it? So that camera gave me so many opportunities. I can't tell you, you know,
00:58:22
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I have one of my favorites is it's just three people, but it's thorough Raven's Croft. For anyone who doesn't know, when you go in the Haunted Mansion, a lot of people think it's Walt Disney singing the statue. You know, it's a broken statue. It's thorough and thorough was the longtime voice of Tony the Tiger. They're great. You know, and yeah But he did so much for Disney, so much that I mean, he was on the train. You hear him, the Tiki Room. He spritz in the Tiki Room, but he's also in Tongaro outside. And ah he was buff in the Country Bear Jamboree. And anyways, it was a photo I took of.
00:58:59
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Thoreau and Pete Renaday, who's still a friend of mine. He's the voice. He was the voice of Henry in the Country Bear Jamboree, and he's done a ton. If you go to the parks, you'll still hear him. I mean, he was Lincoln and in Walt Disney World's Hall of Presidents. He was he out here. You could hear him in Winnie the Pooh. He's the narrator, which is really cool because he was Henry the Bear and he's still in that attraction as the narrator um and on the Columbia. He's the narrator on the Columbia out here.
00:59:25
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He was in a Flight to the Moon, but it's Pete and Thoreau and then Bob Sermon, because like I said, I was friends with Bob, so it's kind of like Bob was, but I don't know, I was with him a lot, I guess, at the ceremonies. And it's just the three of them, but I just happen to love that photo. Whatever reason, that one just really stands out. And Thoreau, I never interviewed or anything. So the only thing I have from Thoreau was a phone call when And my answering machine picked up and he says, you know, hi, Scott, this is thorough, just checking in. And that's all I have. But that photo, you know, it just means so much to me. So what a great story and how one photo can bring all these stories.
01:00:07
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all these stories from just, you know, doing the work, getting in a ah camera and snapping some pictures and before you know it. I mean, that's awesome. Just how cool. Yeah, I love it. I mean, I take thousands. um I mean, over the years in Japan, ah Tokyo Disneyland is just one of the most beautiful parks to me. I think it's just so gorgeous. And they decorate. So it's not owned by Disney. I don't know if you know that. Tokyo Disneyland is owned by the Oriental Land Company.
01:00:32
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m they really just put in so much money. I'm not saying i'm anything bad or that the other parks don't, but and maybe it's the culture, but they put so much in and it is just so beautiful. I mean, for the 35th anniversary they had, which is just a few years ago, they had this, I don't know, sculpture or whatever, but it's all these golden mickeys and this beautiful sculpture. and And then at night it lit up in the entire main, their main street, which is called World Bazaar. And it's covered all lit up with all these lights. And then you have your projection mapping and everything. So
01:01:03
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Yeah, I've got like you know a bunch of photos of that, too. Next time you're there, ah it makes me mad. Every time I go on eBay, I type in goofy movie merchandise, whatever it is. It's always like Tokyo has so much more goofy. Oh, gosh. Oh, the merchandise makes me I know. I'm like.
01:01:21
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yeah Well, I know why they buy, buy, buy how I have godve got so much Tokyo. And my friend would send me things. And it is kind of funny, too. Again, how many different things? Oh, there's always Disney relations, you know, and he sent me these great dolls from one of their parades because they have incredible praise. And it was Mickey and Goofy and everybody and in these great costumes. And then I became friends with the lady who designed them, Ali Konich. And I love her video. I did do a video about her. And if you remember the Lion King celebration or if you've seen videos or anything, ah she designed that whole all those ah costumes and everything for that whole parade. um It was a groundbreaking parade and just gorgeous. It wasn't just like a character of a gazelle or an elk, but there were these form fitting costumes, you know, Broadway style. I mean, it was just.
01:02:11
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Yeah, amazing. So just so talented. And I was photographed again and all the world's collide. So I and I had been introduced to her by someone to interview her, but we became friends. And I said, you know, because I do photography, if you want, I'll set up all your artwork, all your concept art that you did for everything. I'll take pictures so you have them digitally.
01:02:32
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And I presented her a disc with everything. And she said, I want you to choose one piece of artwork that you like and you can keep it. And it's so perfect in our houses from 77. And she it was a royal prince and princess from the Cinderella unit of the Main Street electrical parade. And she designed that. And so and it's kind of cool because it's a darker background because it was the electrical parade. So it's If for the electrical preach, she didn't just do things on white because it takes place at night to use darker background. So that's you know, and that in a way is even because of my photography. So even I'll tell you one other thing again that all the Disney worlds collide. Right. So I I love music. I love old music. And the older the better of music from the 1800s and early 1900s. And I was at a concert once and I there was a guy who was a special guest, the page Cavanaugh trio. And they said he's this was he sings it in Burbank.
01:03:26
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And it was right by the studio. And so I would go at night and I'd listen to Paige Cavanaugh performing and we became great friends and Paige performed. He's in movies. You'll see him with ah Louis Armstrong and and Danny Kay and all these people. And Frank Sinatra would hire Paige to come and perform at his anniversary parties, wedding anniversary parties.
01:03:44
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And it wasn't for and Page and I became such good friends. He actually came and sang at our wedding, but nothing to do with Disney, except it turned out um Page actually provided Page and his trio provided the vocals for a Disney animated short. And it was called The Truth About Mother Goose. And there's a little animated page and the other two and ah singing. And ah it was at probably the 40s. I wish I knew that date. I'm so bad with dates. But yeah, so everything connects the photography and the music and everything.
01:04:14
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So it all connects. I love it. I love it. It does. It really does. All those things. In fact, i I got to also produce a tribute to Paige. And that was really a neat thing. I don't even remember why, but Catherine Beaumont came out and and and Dick Sherman came out. And um we had Peter Marshall sang. And like I said, Peter had his connections. And Peter sang at Disneyland in Tomorrowland. And Peter also sang at the top of the world at the Contemporary Resort.
01:04:40
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And then we had Miriam Nelson because Miriam worked with Paige on a movie called Law by Broadway. And Miriam was the choreographer for the opening day of Disneyland. You know, she did all the dances and everything that you saw in that opening day live broadcast. And she had great stories. I mean, there were there was supposed to have a little boy dancing in New Orleans Square. And moments before they're going live live TV, he was nowhere to be found. And they finally found him down. He was just playing by the river, you know,
01:05:09
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Uh, but it was a lot of chaos and everything and she had great stories. I didn't even, I don't even know if I included her in any of my videos yet, but everything connects, you know? yeah I think that, I think you discovered your next video.
01:05:22
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Yeah, i read so I apologize. i No, you're no man. This is great. I love it. I'm not letting you ask. I'm tracking. I'm tracking. I'm tracking. This is great. Everyone six degrees of Walt Disney instead of six degrees of Kevin Bacon. See, this makes sense to me. umm No, I am. And i I like I'm a I'm a dot connector. Like that's how my brain thinks. I think of dots and I for me, I'm I connect things. And so this I'm i'm enjoying this a lot. And this has been cool. but Cool.
01:05:50
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yeah So Scott, i I have a question before we jump over to Brian and Rachel for whatever they have. um My question is, now when you you collect everything, is there is there something that you are dying to get your hands on that you haven't been able to find, haven't been able to locate? Is there something that it's like every time, I mean, is there something that you're just you just can't wait to get your hands on?
01:06:20
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And it's going to sound weird because it's kind of really obscure. There's one thing I want. There was a show at Disneyland called Fun with Music, and I did do a video about this, and it was put together by Disney's top talent. and Jim Adams, who was one of Wally Bogue's subs in the Golden Horse Review, was father music. And then ah a lady named Terry Robinson, who was Betty Taylor's longtime sub in the show, she was It was either Melody or Harmony or one of those. But what it was was ah schools on field trips would come to Disneyland and go into the Fantasyland Theater, which in those days was not the one that it is
Exploration of Rare Disney Memorabilia
01:06:58
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now. It was a little indoor theater now. It's like where Pinocchio and Village House is. And it was written by Larry Billman, who I got to know. He wrote the show and it taught music m and I had learned so much about it. I have some pictures. I have some Disneyland employee newsletters about it.
01:07:14
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And it just became fascinated with and I got a little button that they would give out to the students and it says I had fun with music. And then I want there was a film strip that I learned about. And this film strip back in the day in the 70s, and I'm old enough to remember these film strips, you would watch there were like slides, you would watch a still picture, it would be and you advance this film, you know, an actual film to the next still picture, ah while a record or a tape was playing. And they had this whole film strip about fun with music and the whole it was a six film strip thing so each one brings you through Disneyland, and it's really odd because
01:07:51
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the The point of the class was to teach music and harmony and melody and rhythm. And then they would send you off, I mean, imagine this field trip, then they'd send you off in Disneyland to go see the Country Ridge Amboree, America the Beautiful, It's a Small World, America Sings, and pay attention to the music. I mean, that's like my dream field trip. I never got to do the field trip, but I just became fascinated with it.
01:08:14
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And out there somewhere is a teacher's guide. It's just strange and obscure. I did get to copy one at the archives, but that is something. It was in an auction recently and I bid and it just went for way more. I couldn't believe anyone else would even want this. So I'm still on the lookout and I have an eBay. I have my saved search if that ever comes up again.
01:08:39
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There's certain that I don't know what else I'm in particular that I am looking for. But every now and you see something and you fall in love with it. Or I'm really lucky that people give me things. I mean, it's it's crazy. I mean, I'll tell you, I didn't even mention this, but or maybe I did. I I have the costumes from Wally, Betty and fton from the Golden Horse review. And and I and that may have been before the show, I was telling you that. But um the families gave them to me.
01:09:07
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I mean, wow it's incredible. you know it it And I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. And when I get certain artifacts, if they're given to me in in a manner like that, I feel I have a responsibility to share those and tell the story. If people are trusting me with their story, if people are trusting me with the artifacts,
01:09:26
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I have to, you know, it's it's up to me to keep their story alive. So I am working on a whole video about Wally, which was in the works for so long because he did so much. But I do have one about Fulton and I'll do one about Betty one day as well. But yeah, I love getting them. And then some I just like I have, you know, some that are just fun. I love it's a small world. So I have a a flower that used to be on the front of it's a small world, you know, of the building. So, yeah.
01:09:56
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What's your favorite ride? Is it? It's a small world. You know, i it's hard to say I do. I still love that. I've been on a lot of them. I've been to all the tea, and not a ride, but, you know, so I've been to all the Tiki rooms. So I've seen it in in the different versions they had in Disney World. I've been to all the versions they had in Tokyo. They had the original. They had the get the fever, which is very odd. And now they have stitch in the Tiki room. So when you go to the Tiki room,
01:10:23
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and There's an actual audio animatronic of stitch that appears and I love it. I wouldn't want it here because I love the original, but I love the tiki room. I know a lot of people who worked on and I know Blaine sculpted on it. I know that Harriet literally glued on the feathers and she told me how they had to have left and right feathers. And they would like shave the ends of the feathers to apply to the birds. It was so much detail. And know Bob and Dick, they were both friends. Like I said, i was I happened to get together more with Bob and everything, but they wrote the Tiki Room song. And yeah you have the voices. And ah and it was and Walt Disney loved it.
01:10:58
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And Harriet Burns told me stories of how he would show off his bird when he was that that sounds so horrible, but a tiki room bird to people who would visit the studio and she would operate it. and So I still love that. I love Storybook Land. I have a little piece of Storybook Land, a little sign that said Big Bad Wolf. But I love that. I know Walt loved the miniatures. I got to finally see the French version of Storybook Land, which I won't destroy by saying the French name because I can't say it too well.
01:11:28
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um So yeah, Storybook Land, Small World for sure, Haunted Mansion, um and Tiki Room are the ones that definitely come to mind first, but I loved America Sings 2 and the Golden Horseshoe Review. um Scott, I just love all of your stories. I'm totally amazed by the photography aspect of it, especially the We're in Disneyland Parks portion. um Do you have a favorite picture that you took for those books?
01:11:56
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And where would
Photography and Artistry at Disneyland
01:11:57
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that be? my My son would be very interested in this. And I love photography. I have over 16,000 pictures on my phone right now, which is crazy. My kids think I'm crazy. But when you move beyond... Well, I do. i do Actually, I have them all in files. When you move beyond that castle picture to the side where there's other things, it's just amazing. You learn so much about the parks.
01:12:22
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Oh, yeah. What better place to learn about photography than the Disney parks? And that's one thing I've learned. I just, whether you want to do time exposures, whether you want to do nighttime, you know, whether you would you know dar just start our photography. ah You know, going through a ride, bumping around, like I said, with the Matterhorn, whatever. ah What better place to learn photography and then you just have such beauty everywhere. And the books, and my favorite photos are really from the wear and Disneyland attractions because I got to walk through them. And I like close ups. And there's just a pig that I love.
01:13:01
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I've repaired it on my digital computer, but in the book, it has a chip on its nose. It could have happened that night, whatever, but yeah there was a little paint chip on the pig, and it's in the book that way because the day I walked through, it had the the chip on it. But it doesn't matter because it's just gorgeous. and you know Mark Davis designed it, and I loved Mark.
01:13:20
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He it said that I didn't realize at the time that the pigs are supposed to be drunk, just like the um it just like the pirate. So a little little bit of a story. The thing with Mark Davis is he could draw any scene. You know, he did the pirates and mansion and and so much.
01:13:39
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He would do a single scene on paper and it was funny like he didn't need to use words or anything. I have one piece that I did just get. I have a couple of things. Actually, al Alice, I also left his wife, Alice, and I have pictures of us that I haven't forgotten your question, by the way. I'll get back to that. but I have a photo of my family my ah with Alice and she was showing us, you she had brown lines of the designs that she did. for It's a small world for the costumes that she drew and brown lines were these high-quality, imagineering ah images ah that she used when working there. So they would draw and they're pretty much like a photocopy but ah in the 60s, you know,
01:14:15
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it was this brown line was this high quality copy and she showed us all these great it's a small world costume and I actually just acquired about 22 of those that were hers so I mean this is so special and Mark I just acquired a an original he gave me some things I used to get his Christmas cards and I used to get He gave me a book of Chanticleer, which was a proposal for an animated film that he wanted to do for Disney. And he drew all this concept art and then they ended up they didn't do the film, but they published a lot of his artwork in a book. He gave me the book and signed it to me. I mean, a copy of the book.
01:14:52
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And I just loved them. And so the the thing I just acquired is he did for World of Motion, which was in Epcot. And it's a scene where it's a a guy doing this shell game with you know where you put a P under the shell and you switch them around and then the spectator get for money and puts down money and they try and guess which shell the P is under. And um what's interesting is I was just in in Europe recently and I saw someone doing this.
01:15:20
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And I was behind the person. This relates, I promise. I was behind the person. I could see as he's mixing the shells, yeah you're supposed to keep your eye on the shell where the P is. He was passing the P from one shell to the other. So it's impossible to follow which walnut shell the P is under. So in this Mark Davis artwork of of World of Motion, you see a man doing the shell game And a person, another person, ah who's watching and behind them is a kid. And I felt like this kid, and the kid has a surprise face like, oh my gosh, because he must see the man passing the shells or the pee. And the one doing the shell game is holding his hand up to the little boy like, shut your mouth. you know
01:16:04
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I mean, I don't know if that described it well, but it's an original pencil drawing by Mark and didn't make it in the right book. A single drawing just showed so much. And I love that pig to answer your question in my book. I think that pig is probably my favorite because it was designed by Mark and it was, you know.
01:16:21
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It's just a lot of expression. Mark knew how to get expression out of animals. Like if you go through the Jungle Cruise, the angry rhino where the the safari is up the pole. And if you look closely at the rhino, it's got the eyebrows down a little bit. Or if you look at the elephants, they're smiling a little bit. But you know it it's so realistic. Mark was ah an expert in in anatomy. So they're very realistic, but they're kind of caricatures.
01:16:50
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And in
Mark Davis's Artistic Influence
01:16:51
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Pirates, everything's a bit of a caricature. ah Blaine, I had some conversations with the Blaine about sculpting the Pirates because he based them. There's long time rumors that they were based on Disney employees, which is not true, but he would see people in restaurants or whatever. And he told me his wife would literally kick him under the table because he'd be staring at people because they had fantastic faces and they were great to use for sculptures. So he looked for people with kind of I don't know, cartoonish faces or unique faces, but then he would exaggerate. When you go through pirates, you'll see they exaggerate the eyes and the mouth a little bit, even though they're very human. Well, the same thing with the pig. It looks like a pig, but it's this caricature and that even so it's sculpted that way. But it also goes back to Mark's original drawings.
01:17:34
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So, you know, just that that's why, you know, for me, that those kinds of details, you know, seeing that pig in there, and it just tells so much. And then with that book, the Disney merchandise people had asked me to include stories of the attractions. They thought every attraction had like a storyline, which is not true. And I didn't know that yet. So I said, sure, i I'll do that. And so I called up Mark and I said, can we get together and you just tell me the storylines?
01:17:59
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I turned on a really bad tape recorder, which ended up screeching. This is a man who worked on Snow White. And he he started telling me his whole history starting with Snow White. This was in 1997. And he tells me his whole history and how Walt had him work on the mind train and all these things. And I had no idea that the tape recorder had this horrible screechy sound, but that was like my first real interview.
01:18:20
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um But it was really doing it for my book because I wanted to record the stories and include them in the book. And I said, for example, what's the storyline in Pirates of the Caribbean? Because yeah everything has a storyline. And he said, no, he said, Walt and I didn't believe in that. It says pirates or Haunted Mansion says ghosts.
01:18:38
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and they're they're funny scenes, but there's no story. So I don't really know where it came today that everything, every restaurant, everything had a storyline, but I'm sitting there with Mark and it's like, oh, there goes that. You know, Disney wants me to include these storylines and Mark's, yeah and he knows better than anyone, there is one. And so it became, you know, he was just like,
01:19:00
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I showed him pictures and he said, yeah, those were the drunken pigs that I did. And I didn't know they were supposed to be drunk. So it became I just kind of added trivia for each one. And then I called up a couple of more people because now it's no longer storyline. It's like just some sort of trivia or something. And that was my earliest that I did any kind of research up until then.
01:19:21
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I was just having fun taking pictures or interviewing people or not even interviewing people and recording it, but just meeting people or whatever. And so each one is a little bit of of trivia. I don't know how good it is, but that's how that book evolved. And that was my prized, prized conversation with Mark. And Alice was there and she talked about some of the stuff she did. She wanted to be you know, Alice wanted to be an animator. as She went to the Bernard Art Institute Art art art Institute.
01:19:51
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You know, and that's where so many of the Disney artists came out of. But in those days, Walt would have probably let her be an animator. Walt didn't care. That's why Harriet Burns did things that men would do. Harriet was doing. But the school said Alice couldn't be an animator because women can't be animators. And so they put her into costuming and she did that. And She ended up doing the costumes for Carousel of Progress and and Small World and Pirates. And a few, she did Toby Tyler, the movie Toby Tyler. But the they the school let her, again, I have these recordings, her telling me this. And it's so fascinating when you think back, women couldn't be animators. So the school let her take Mark Davis's art class. She didn't know Mark. And anyway, she ended up marrying her professor.
01:20:44
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She got to at least take the class, you know, and and and do that. But yeah,
Opinions on Changes at Disney Parks
01:20:49
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really cool. Really cool. I don't know how I got there on that story. You guys are so nice. You just shut up and let me talk. So I have a quick question. um As far as I know, you said carousel to progress when that moved the way you you were upset.
01:21:04
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And I know there's been some recent changes, like I know I'm very upset about Thompson Island, but what do you think? What would be the one ride or attraction that would but it would upset you if it for some reason got changed or moved or I think change is hot because I know sometimes they change. So something changed fundamentally. Like you said, Storybookland, that would be a tough one because that's so great the way it is. Yeah.
01:21:27
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the You know, there I think that what's really cool with Disney, I think right now, at least this is what I sense, is that they they do have an appreciation for the history. And I definitely, I'll tell you a real quick story to prove to prove this. Wally Bogue has a window, you know, a lot of people have windows on Main Street, for anyone who doesn't know, there's names of people on the Main Streets who had a big yeah part of Disneyland or Disney World history.
01:21:53
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And Wally Bogue has his window there. And years ago, I was at Wally's house and he showed me a picture of his window and or actually it was a replica because they they would give the person a replica of the window when they would. consent So Wally got his window at his retirement party. And I'm looking, I'm like, that's really weird. It's it's the faces, you know, the faces of comedy and tragedy in drama.
01:22:19
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It's the faces of comedy and comedy because he was a comedian. He did. kind He was a funny, funny person. But when I was at Disney, I'd say, I think it you know I had remembered. I think it's comedy and tragedy. And I went to Disneyland. I said, why is it wrong? You know, it's just it's supposed to be comedy and comedy. It's funny. And I think someone along the way probably thought it was a mistake and changed it to comedy and tragedy.
01:22:43
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So a year or two ago, I finally got in touch with someone and I said, it it really bothers me that it's supposed to be the comedy and comedy. And he said, will you write me a letter and give me pictures and and prove it to me? And I did. And he said, I'm going to bring it to someone I think it was Kim Irvine. I know Kim really cares. Of course, her mother was Liotta and her father was a part of a big part of Disney as well. And I think it was her. She had to approve it. And so if you go to Disney that today, you're going to see they restored the window and it's comedy and comedy. and And my point here is they do care. I think if they didn't care, I don't think the tiki room would be there today. Let's face it. And to answer your question, I'm i'm good with changes. I love Honda Mansion Holiday. I love that. But I'm really glad that I could go see the original, too. So I love that they do that kind of stuff.
01:23:34
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I will admit I was really disappointed when they put the Disney characters in Small World because I love Small World. And I think there's ways you can plus it, you know, without doing that. I think, you know, technology and all kinds of things. However, now when I go through and I see a kid and it's like, look, Ariel.
01:23:52
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And they get excited if it's something that's exciting someone and you still have the message, you still have the Sherman Brothers Wonderful song and you still have Mary Blair's designs and all the dolls ah that they did, all the Disney characters are in their style of Mary Blair, who I wish I got to meet. I never did. But, you know, they stay true to it. And so I'm good with that. But if they took away Small World, yeah, I'd i'd be really disappointed with that.
01:24:20
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I was disappointed when they changed the soundtrack for a while. They were using the Disney and Paris soundtrack, and at least they still had the attraction. and But now they have the original World's Fair version again. And you know again, that proves so someone cares. And
Closing Remarks and Mouse Clubhouse Promotion
01:24:36
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yeah, they tried it, but.
01:24:37
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You know, it's not just change things. I love Storybookland to me. I know that they updated it with Aladdin. I think that's fantastic. I love seeing that. And um they did Frozen recently, and I'm not opposed to that. um I think they did a beautiful job adding the Frozen scene to Storybookland.
01:24:58
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So, you know, I don't I would be disappointed if they took it away or at least didn't stay true to it on a mansion. I'd be disappointed if it was strictly on a mansion holiday. OK. Great. answer and Thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah. I know that, um you know, taking away America's things, that was hard for me, though. Yeah, I can see that. I can I can tell that it was hard for you. Yeah. Yeah. So I have my drum, at least, you know, I would add on a couple of their little things.
01:25:29
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All right. Well, we can be talking all night, but I think we're going to wrap up stuff. So ah Scott, we definitely have to have you back because I'm pretty pretty sure, you know, we're not even scratching the surface. I think we've got to get you back. I think I think there's so much more of that we need to hear from you. And but hopefully the next time you'll have like a thousand more other things you can show us and tell us how that you have you have acquired. But before we we let you go, why don't you go ahead and tell our listeners where they can find you and tell them about your YouTube channel again and other things like that.
01:26:10
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Um, first of all, before I do that, I want to thank you all. I mean, you've been so nice. I really appreciate thank you them and everything. And I know we've been chatted before the broadcast and you guys are this this is not this was an honor. Thank an honor yeah very much thank you. I mean, i I, there's so many people who've done so much more than me and I appreciate that. And I realized that, but it's really fun. It's just kind of.
01:26:33
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convey stories and just tell a little bit of my own Disney history. So thank you all. I mean, I really do appreciate that. ah my I don't really have a place. I have a website I don't update or anything um called Mouse Clubhouse, but so it's mouseclubhouse.com. um There's some interviews I've put on there and things, but the big thing is i I love doing the videos. I love doing the YouTube videos because I can show you things and you can see it and I can share that way and play the audio of people.
01:27:02
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So that's keeping the magic alive. And it sounds like it may be a marriage counselor or something, but ah you'll see a picture of me and Mickey Mouse and you'll know it's the right one. So that's my my favorite thing I'm doing right now is sharing those my the stories through those videos. Yeah. And definitely keep that up. So your your YouTube page is great. I love it. Yeah. i forget Yeah, everybody. Please, please go there, everybody. Yeah.
01:27:29
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Hey, Facebook, I mean, uh, YouTube and keeping up with that stuff is that's, that's work. So the fact that you have such great production, that quality, awesome, fun videos to watch, to deep dive, like, Hey, anyone that's listening, do it and just go on, go on YouTube. And cause it's, I had a good time. So I gotta hire you. I really, really appreciate that. Thank you. No problem.
01:27:56
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Yeah. And, and this Scott Wolf, uh, he was not on party of five. So if if you, if you're talking right now, you just yeah Gen X is showing very well. Well, the thing is that when, when I was first doing research and then I was like, wait, oh this isn't the right guy. So I had to to locate this, but yes, definitely go to, and go to his, go to his YouTube page, support it, like it.
01:28:22
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no And tell your friends about it. You keep the magic alive, then you share. Connecting dots. Yes. Thank you for joining us for another enchanting episode of Sharing the Magic. We are the Thinking Fans podcast, an entertainment show where education and entertainment collide each week. We bring you whimsical interviews with Disney guests who share their magical experiences and reveal how they are woven into the Disney fabric. Don't forget to hit that follow button to stay updated on our latest episodes.
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