Expert advice is given to Disney (center) by Captain John Phillips (left) and Lieutenant J.C. Hutchison who are discussing sketches for The Rules of the Nautical Road.
In his office, Disney is surrounded by pictures of his two daughters and a big gold Oscar with seven little Oscars. He won these for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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ON HIS WALLS IS DISNEY’S FUTURE
The shape of things to come for Walt Disney is pretty well forecast by the drawings on his walls. As you see here, sketches from his future films are tacked to story boards which are the focal point of his famous story-board conferences. These are the heart and soul of Disney’s work. For here his artists get together, pitch in their suggestions and criticisms, carry on their peculiarly democratic art.
Right now Disney is most excited about his new full-length film based on Major Alexander De Seversky’s Victory Through Air Power. Some time ago Disney planned to film a history of aviation from its legendary beginnings to its fantastic future. Seversky’s book spurred him on. Now he has hired Seversky to appear in the film, which will be released in November. Also in the fall he will release a delightful cartoon travel picture, based on his trip to South America.
Walt Disney is the first to admit that the medium he is still perfecting is greater than himself. The possibilities of it are limitless. But Disney will go a long way toward exploring them because it is characteristic of the man who started with a mouse that he has never stood still.
The shape of things to come for Walt Disney is pretty well forecast by the drawings on his walls. As you see here, sketches from his future films are tacked to story boards which are the focal point of his famous story-board conferences. These are the heart and soul of Disney’s work. For here his artists get together, pitch in their suggestions and criticisms, carry on their peculiarly democratic art.
Right now Disney is most excited about his new full-length film based on Major Alexander De Seversky’s Victory Through Air Power. Some time ago Disney planned to film a history of aviation from its legendary beginnings to its fantastic future. Seversky’s book spurred him on. Now he has hired Seversky to appear in the film, which will be released in November. Also in the fall he will release a delightful cartoon travel picture, based on his trip to South America.
Walt Disney is the first to admit that the medium he is still perfecting is greater than himself. The possibilities of it are limitless. But Disney will go a long way toward exploring them because it is characteristic of the man who started with a mouse that he has never stood still.
Life August 31, 1942
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