This just in from Christian Svenningsen:

[I have two more questions that's troubling me:

The first one is, who pitched the idea of doing Beauty and the Beast in the late '80s?

We know that Ron Clements pitched The Little Mermaid, Howard Ashman pitched Aladdin and Jeffrey Katzenberg pitched his original idea that became The Lion King, but what about Beauty and the Beast?

The second one is, who pitched the idea of doing Tarzan? In the production notes here on the internet, Disney only gave the project to Kevin Lima.]

Two questions today:

Jeremie Noyer asks:

[Do you know if the Disney photographs by Annie Leibowitz have been collected in a book or any other printed document?]

Mark Sonntag asks if anyone would have any information about a fascinating "Disney" project from 1944. (see post below)

Productions numbers

Bob Cowan sent me the following question:

[I was writing up some background on a few items I have that have only production numbers on them and I can't seem to find my reference document. Is there a site or do you have anything that matches the cartoon title with the Disney production number?]

Disney and the Sears Towers

Here is a question I received from Eleonora from Brazil and that I found interesting:

[Do you have any idea Walt Disney's name is not on the Sears Towers, along with the important people they put there that were born in Chicago?]

Any idea?

Question from a reader of the blog:

[Do you know if Walt visited the Cote d'Azur while in Europe? I'm sure he must have-I was recently drawing in Eze near Monaco & a friend informed me Disney was known to have visited the village. Can you verify that?]

Two requests for help today:

- Would anyone have access to the article Why I Did Peter Pan by Walt Disney published in the magazine Brief? (A friend of mine is looking for a copy of it).

- Would anyone know how to contact the wife of the late Jack Speirs or one of his heirs?