Walt Disney : Conversations

• Introduction
• Chronology
• How Silly Symphonies and Mickey Mouse Hit the Up Grade Florabel Muir
• Snow White's Daddy George Kent
• Interview of Walt Disney by Cecil B. DeMille Cecil B. DeMille
• Talk Given by Walt to All Disney Employees Walt Disney
• Mr. and Mrs. Disney Ladies' Home Journal
• That Million-Dollar Mouse Frank Nugent
• The Testimony of Walter E. Disney Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities Robert E. Stripling and H. A. Smith
• The Amazing Secret of Walt Disney Don Eddy
• Walt Disney : World's Most Successful Showman Paul Molloy
• Interview by Tony Thomas Tony Thomas
• Interview by David Griffiths David Griffiths
• A Visit with Walt Disney Lee Edson
• Interview with Stan Hellenk Stan Hellenk
• The Wide World of Walt Disney Newsweek
• Interview with Fletcher Markle Fletcher Markle
• Interview with Hooper Fowler Hooper Fowler
• 80 Million a Year from Fantasy Frank Rasky
• The Fantastic Walt Disney Bill Davidson
• The Wonderful World of Walt Disney Bill Ballantine
• Index

Walt Disney's imagination is still seen in theme parks throughout the world bearing his name, on numerous live-action films and television specials, on toys and assorted merchandise, and on an international corporation known both for the high quality of its creative output and its ubiquity. During his lifetime, Disney (1901-1966) appeared on the covers of Time, Look, Newsweek, TV Guide, and the Saturday Evening Post, and he was featured on hundreds of radio and television talk shows.

Walt Disney : Conversations collects interviews and profiles of the man who created Mickey Mouse, developed a multinational creative corporation, and produced such full-length animated classics as Snow White, Cinderella, Fantasia, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp, Dumbo, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, and Pinocchio, along with countless short cartoons.

Bringing together over twenty pieces from the late 1920s to the late 1960s, this book traces Disney's entire career and shows how Disney saw his productions as shapers of popular culture. Walt Disney : Conversations features an interview conducted by producer Cecil B. DeMille, Disney's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and rarely seen pieces from the Disney corporation's archives. The collection reveals a complex visionary whose impact on animation, live-action film, television, and theme parks has never been equaled.

KATHY MERLOCK JACKSON is professor and coordinator of communications at Virginia Wesleyan College. She lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia.