Is Mickey wearing a dress?
Many years ago someone on FR said, "if one could harness the energy of Walt rolling in his grave, one could power Los Angeles for years.
RIP Walt.
Posted on 10/16/2023 11:03:55 AM PDT by DallasBiff
This Oct. 16 marks the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company. With over 200,000 employees and a market capitalization exceeding $150 billion, it is one of most successful and influential media conglomerates in the world. But that good fortune was not a foregone conclusion. Indeed, 40 years ago, Disney almost fell apart. It would be easy to credit its survival to savvy business executives, including the company’s legendary namesake. But its longevity is due in no small part to its storytellers: animators, actors, writers, songwriters, directors, and producers, among them
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Is Mickey wearing a dress?
Many years ago someone on FR said, "if one could harness the energy of Walt rolling in his grave, one could power Los Angeles for years.
RIP Walt.
Momentum. Nothing else.
It looks like he’s covered with a shredded “pride” flag. Must have been taken during a “pride” parade.
The “M She U” is killing it
Dean Jones?
The key to their success? Buying enough members of Congress to change the copyright laws.
Without buying the change in 1976, copyright would have expired on everything made prior to 1966 by now.
The Walt Disney Company died years ago, replaced by “The Walt Disney Company”, which is a cheap and weirdly demented knockoff.
Well for 90 of those years they cared about making entertainment for the sake of entertainment. Turns out your brand struggles when you cater to 1% of the population pushing unnatural behavior.
Disney died when Walt died. This is just some hideous Marxist child-molesting zombie now. Much like the installed occupant of the White House.
It was started by brothers, initially called Disney Brothers. Walt worked on creative side and Roy on the financial.
They also had a partner named Ub Iwerks who left in the early thirties.
They were all from Kansas City originally.
Walt died in 1966 and Roy in 1971.
Walt’s son in-law, a former pro quarterback for the Rams took over but was later ousted by the Hollywood vultures who started the changes.
Hayley Mills.
They stopped programing for kids and started aiming at stunted adults.
H.L. Mencken long ago described another crucial factor in the survival of all institutions of Disney's ilk:
"No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." (Baltimore Evening Sun Sept 18,1926)
Of course, Disney has lost money on specific projects; but the stupidity of a majority of America will keep it going indefinitely.
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