Wednesday, March 13, 2024


I can't wait to put my hands on the upcoming book Walt Disney Treasures: Personal Art and Artifacts from The Walt Disney Family Museum which is now available for pre-order on Amazon!

(The above is Walt's hat cast in bronze and gifted to Lilly.)

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Reposting this

I suspect that one of you picked up those exceptional documents pertaining to Bill Tytla in the the auction by Heritage back in December. 

If that is the case, could you please, please email me at didier.ghez@gmail.com? I would love to get access to some of the info they contain and have some incentives that you may like to motivate you. Thanks in advance.

 

Sunday, February 11, 2024


Most of you may already be aware of this but I just realized that the new Disney documentary, "Nai Nai & Wai Po," which has been nominated for the Academy Awards has been officially released by Disney under the "People and Places" header.

I find this to be absolutely fascinating.

Tuesday, January 23, 2024


 Do not miss Kamden Spies's wonderful article om CartoonResearch, "Mort Walker’s Bambi!"

Thursday, January 18, 2024


I am scanning the Larry Lansburgh collection as part of the preservation efforts of the Hyperion Historical Alliance. At the top of the best discoveries of the month: some new never-seen-before photographs of the 1946 trip to Ireland for the making of "Darby O'Gill and the Little People," and the diary of Larry Lansburgh from that trip (the pages were hidden in a totally unrelated folder!). 

All this trip-related material will be included in the monograph about "The Making of Darby O'Gill and the Little People" that Jim Hollifield and I are writing at the moment for release by the Hyperion Historical Alliance Press in 2025.

As a reminder, if you want to support financially the efforts of the HHA, you can do it at this link

Friday, January 12, 2024


The other book I am very much looking forward to this year is the autobiography of Bob Weis, Dream Chasing: My Four Decades of Success and Failure with Walt Disney Imagineering.