The manuscript of Walt's People - Volume 12 is now complete and has been sent to the contributors for a final review. I am hoping to get it released at some point in June this year.

Here is the table of contents:

Foreword: Paul F. Anderson
Dave Smith: Alice Disney Allen
Dave Smith: Jack Kloepper
Jim Korkis: Betsy Goodspeed about her father Gordon "Felix" Mills' work on the radio show Mickey Mouse Theater Of The Air
John Culhane: Les Clark
John Culhane: Al Eugster
Didier Ghez: Piercing the Perce Pearce Mystery
Alan Coats: Evelyn Coats
Alan Coats: Marge Hudson and Evelyn Coats
Paul F. Anderson: Mel Shaw
EMC West: Mel Shaw
Didier Ghez: Theo Halladay
David Tietyen: Sammy Fain
Edle Bakke: My Family Disney Dynasty
Didier Ghez: Olive Bosché
Dave Smith: Bill Bosché
Steve Hulett: Charlie Downs
Amid Amidi: John Dunn
Alberto Becattini: Del Connell
Wayne DeWald: Paul Murry
Donald Ault: Paul Murry
George Sherman: Paul Murry
Walt Disney: The Lurking Camera
James Algar: Film Music and Its Use in Beaver Valley
Tom McHugh: Animals Are Like Other People
Didier Ghez: Warren Garst
Didier Ghez: Jack Couffer
Didier Ghez and Jim Korkis: Lloyd Beebe
Brian Shoemaker: Lloyd Beebe
Didier Ghez: Milt Albright
Michael Mallory: Milt Albright
Lou Mongello: Ralph Kent
John Culhane: Larry Clemmons
Michael Barrier: Milt Kahl
Charles Solomon: John Pomeroy
NFFC: Leota Toombs Thomas
Didier Ghez: Kim Irvine
Didier Ghez: Burny Mattinson

Walt's People - Volume 12 has just been released! As always it is first available on the Xlibris web site and you will be able to get it on Amazon in a few weeks.

I truly believe this is the strongest volume in the series, to date. It is 584-page long and contains a few interviews which I had been dreaming to release since the start of the project, among which: Mel Shaw by Paul F. Anderson, Paul Murry by Donald Ault, Bill Bosché by Dave Smith and the conference of Leota Toombs Thomas.

Here is the full table of contents:

Foreword: Paul F. Anderson

Dave Smith: Alice Disney Allen
Dave Smith: Jack Kloepper
Jim Korkis: Betsy Goodspeed about her father Gordon "Felix" Mills' work on the radio show Mickey Mouse Theater Of The Air
John Culhane: Les Clark
John Culhane: Al Eugster
Didier Ghez: Piercing the Perce Pearce Mystery
Alan Coats: Evelyn Coats
Alan Coats: Marge Hudson and Evelyn Coats
Paul F. Anderson: Mel Shaw
EMC West: Mel Shaw
Didier Ghez: Theo Halladay
David Tietyen: Sammy Fain
Edle Bakke: My Family Disney Dynasty
Didier Ghez: Olive Bosché
Dave Smith: Bill Bosché
Steve Hulett: Charlie Downs
Amid Amidi: John Dunn
Alberto Becattini: Del Connell
Wayne DeWald: Paul Murry
Donald Ault: Paul Murry
George Sherman: Paul Murry
Walt Disney: The Lurking Camera
James Algar: Film Music and Its Use in Beaver Valley
Tom McHugh: Animals Are Like Other People
Didier Ghez: Warren Garst
Didier Ghez: Jack Couffer
Didier Ghez and Jim Korkis: Lloyd Beebe
Brian Shoemaker: Lloyd Beebe
Didier Ghez: Milt Albright
Michael Mallory: Milt Albright
Lou Mongello: Ralph Kent
John Culhane: Larry Clemmons
Michael Barrier: Milt Kahl
Charles Solomon: John Pomeroy
NFFC: Leota Toombs Thomas
Didier Ghez: Kim Irvine
Didier Ghez: Burny Mattinson

Two weeks ago I mentioned the autobiography of Lloyd Beebe, Wilderness Trails and a Dream. I have now received it and can confirm that if you care at all about the history of Disney's True-Life Adventures and other nature-related movies, this is a "must-have."

Speaking of Lloyd Beebe, I also stumbled last week upon an exceptional interview with him conducted by Brian Shoemaker in 2000, that I believe you will all enjoy.

Someone asked me this morning to post a list of the table of contents of all the volumes of Walt's People. Here it is.

Volume 1

JB Kaufman : Rudy Ising

Mike Barrier : Dave Hand

George Sherman : Bill Tytla

Paul Anderson : Ken Anderson

Robin Allan : Milt Kahl

John Province : Marc Davis

Mike Lyons : Marc Davis

Jim Korkis : Jack Hannah

Alain Littaye : John Hench

Didier Ghez : John Hench

Robin Allan : Harper Goff

Jim Korkis : Joyce Carlson

Peter Emslie : Cover art

Volume 2

JB Kaufman: Friz Freleng

John Province : Grim Natwick

Mike Barrier : Frank Tashlin

Jim Korkis : Ward Kimball

Mike Barrier : Ward Kimball

Arn Saba : Floyd Gottfredson

Robin Allan : Herb Ryman

Christian Renaut : Frank Thomas

Wes Sullivan : Dale Oliver

Robin Allan : Eric Larson

Thorkil Rasmussen : Eric Larson

Thorkil Rasmussen : Woolie Reitherman

Christian Renaut : Richard Rich

Didier Ghez : Richard Rich

Mike Lyons : Glen Keane

Didier Ghez : Glen Keane

Peter Emslie : Cover art

Volume 3

Dave Smith: Ben Sharpsteen

Thorkil Rasmussen : Ward Kimball

Klaus Strzyz : Ward Kimball

Klaus Strzyz : Art Babbitt

Mike Barrier : Art Babbitt

Mike Lyons: Joe Grant

Jim Korkis : Bill Justice

Wes Sullivan : Volus Jones

John Province : Bill Peet

Robin Allan : Lee Blair

Robin Allan : James Algar

Klaus Strzyz : Jack Bradbury

Klaus Strzyz : Tony Strobl

Celbi Pegoraro : Floyd Norman

Christian Renaut : Burny Mattinson

Christian Renaut : Andreas Deja and Phil Nibbelink

Didier Ghez: Andreas Deja

Christian Ziebarth: Andreas Deja

Peter Emslie: Cover art

Volume 4

JB Kaufman: Virginia Davis

Grim Natwick: Homage to a Star

Joe Adamson: Dick Huemer

Brian Sibley: Dick Huemer

Dick Huemer: Huemeresque 1 and 2

Mike Barrier: Joe Grant

Jim Korkis: Peter Ellenshaw

Armand Eisen: John Hench

Armand Eisen: Marc Davis

Dave Smith: Lou Debney

Charles Solomon: Stan Green

Charles Solomon: Leo Salkin

Christian Renaut: Dale Oliver

Alberto Becattini: Dick Moores

Alberto Becattini: Roger Armstrong

Don Peri: Roy Williams

Didier Ghez: Brian Sibley

Christian Renaut: Ted Berman

Floyd Norman: The Other Fred

Floyd Norman: The Bullpen

Celbi Pegoraro: Floyd Norman

Christian Ziebarth: Eric Goldberg

Pete Emslie: Cover Art

Volume 5

Michael Barrier: Hugh Harman

Dave Smith: Nadine Missakian

Richard Shale: Ward Kimball

Dave Smith and Richard Shale: Erwin Verity

Richard Hubler: James Algar

Richard Hubler: Winston Hibler

Richard Hubler: Bill Anderson

Richard Hubler: Bill Walsh

Christopher Finch and Linda Rosenkrantz: Bill Walsh

Richard Hubler: George Bruns

John Burlingame: Buddy Baker

Jérémie Noyer: Buddy Baker

Mike Barrier: Fess Parker

Christian Renaut: Walt Stanchfield

Richard Hubler: Marc Davis

Dave Oneil: Alice Davis

Richard Hubler: T. Hee

Harry McCracken: Maurice Noble

Christopher Finch and Linda Rosenkrantz: Al Dempster

Bob Miller: Walt Peregoy

Floyd Norman: Windwagon Smith

Floyd Norman: The Making of The Jungle Book

Jim Korkis: Bill Evans

Alberto Becattini: Jack Bradbury

Alberto Becattini: Lynn Karp

Didier Ghez: Dave Michener

John Musker: In Memory of Vance Gerry

Charles Solomon : Vance Gerry

Christian Renaut: Vance Gerry

Clay Kaytis: Ron Clements and John Musker

Pete Emslie: Cover Art

Volume 6

Michael Barrier: Carl Stalling

I. Klein: The Disney Studio in the ‘30s

I. Klein: Some Close-Up Shots of Walt Disney during the “Golden Years”

I. Klein: Golden Age Animator Vladimir (Bill) Tytla

I. Klein: Walt Disney Took Another Giant Step!

Steve Hulett: Wilfred Jackson

Steve Hulett: Eric Larson

Steve Hulett: Ward Kimball

Steve Hulett: Ken Anderson

Steve Hulett: Ken O'Connor

Steve Hulett: Claude Coats

Robin Allan: Claude Coats

Christopher Finch: Frank Thomas

Christopher Finch: Ollie Johnston

Christopher Finch: Milt Kahl

JB Kaufman: Maurice Rapf

Richard Hubler: Lillian Disney

Richard Hubler: Roy O. Disney

Richard Hubler: Edna Disney

Richard Hubler: Sharon Disney

Richard Hubler: Diane Disney Miller

Richard Hubler: Ron Miller

Richard Hubler: Dick Irvine

Richard Hubler: Marvin Davis

Richard Hubler: Joe Fowler

Richard Hubler: Roger Broggie

Dave Smith: Fred Joerger

Jim Korkis: Ken Anderson

Richard Hubler: Frank Reilly

Frank Reilly: The Walt Disney Comic Strips

Jim Davis and Alberto Becattini: Ken Hultgren

Wes Sullivan: Bud Hester

Wes Sullivan: Iwao Takamoto

Gabe Essoe: Larry Clemmons

Christian Renaut: Joe Hale

Didier Ghez: Steve Hulett

Volume 7

David Lesjak: William Rast

Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston: Wilfred Jackson

Richard Hubler: Wilfred Jackson

Wilfred Jackson: The New Spirit

Grim Natwick: The Goldfish Caper

Grim Natwick: Bill Tytla

Grim Natwick: The Three-Fingered Hand

Grim Natwick: Analysis

Grim Natwick: Soundtracks

Grim Natwick: Hobbies

Brian Sibley: Adriana Caselotti

Milt Gray: Clarence Nash

Milt Gray and Michael Barrier: Billy Bletcher

Milt Gray: Jim Macdonald

Richard Hubler: Jim Macdonald

David Tietyen: Paul Smith and Hazel George

Christian Renaut: Carl Fallberg

Dave Smith: George Goepper

Rick Shale: Harry Tytle

Richard Hubler: Milt Kahl

Darrell Van Citters: Milt Kahl

Darrell Van Citters: Ollie Johnston

Richard Hubler: Ward Kimball

Richard Hubler: Frank Thomas and Ken Anderson

Christopher Finch and Linda Rosenkrantz: Grace Turner

Jérémie Noyer: X. Atencio

Scott Weitz: X. Atencio

Didier Ghez: Bob Kurtz

Richard Hubler: John Hench

Jim Korkis: Marc Davis

Charles Solomon: Marc Davis and Andreas Deja

Alberto Becattini: Tom McKimson

Alberto Becattini: John Carey

Didier Ghez: John Ewing

Pete Docter: Art Stevens

Volume 8

Dave Smith: Ruth Disney Beecher

Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston: Les Clark

Richard Hubler: Harry Tytle

Milt Gray: James Bodrero

Robin Allan: Theo Halladay about Sylvia Holland

Robin Allan: Retta Scott

Jim Korkis: Retta Davidson

Floyd Norman : Retta Davidson

Steve Hulett: Mark Kirkland about Moe Gollub

Richard Hubler: Ben Sharpsteen

David Tietyen: Lou Debney

David Tietyen: Jim Macdonald

David Tietyen: Charles Wolcott

Richard Hubler: Bill Cottrell

Richard Hubler: Herb Ryman

Richard Hubler: Donn Tatum

Richard Hubler: Card Walker

Richard Hubler: Bob Sherman

Richard Hubler: Dolores Voght

Richard Hubler: Tommie Wilck

Richard Hubler: Welton Becket

John G. West: Bill Anderson

Richard Hubler: Robert Stevenson

Christopher Finch and Linda Rosenkrantz: Don Griffith

Jim Korkis: Floyd Gottfredson

Tony Fischier: Floyd Gottfredson

Jim Korkis: Al Taliaferro

Jim Korkis: Jack Hannah

Jim Fanning: Carl Barks

Paul F. Anderson: Blaine Gibson

Scott Wolf: Harriet Burns

Charles Solomon: Roy E. Disney

Göran Broling: Correspondence with Frank Thomas

Didier Ghez: Bud Hester

Didier Ghez: Ken Southworth

Didier Ghez: Dale Baer

Volume 9

Dave Smith: Thurston Harper

Ray Pointer: Berny Wolf

John Canemaker: Fanny Rabin about Art Babbitt

John Culhane: Art Babbitt

Tom Sito: Bill Melendez

Mark Langer: Ken O’Connor

John Canemaker: Thor Putman

John Culhane: Art Scott

Dave Smith: Ken Anderson

Christopher Finch and Linda Rosenkrantz: Ken Anderson

Christopher Finch and Linda Rosenkrantz: Les Clark

Christopher Finch and Linda Rosenkrantz: Jack Cutting

Robin Allan: Jack Cutting

Robin Allan: Bob Jones

Robin Allan: Joe and Jennie Grant

Floyd Norman: Three Disney Story Guys (Pete Young, Fred Lucky and Vance Gerry)

Jim Korkis: Margaret Kerry

Paul F. Anderson: Jack Ferges

Paul F. Anderson: Fred Joerger

Jim Korkis: The Secret Walt Disney Commercials

Michael Mallory: Paul Carlson

Didier Ghez: Paul Carlson

Floyd Norman: Just Finish that Darned Thing!

Didier Ghez: Victor Haboush

Julie Svendsen: Walt Peregoy

Floyd Norman: Disney’s “B” Movie

Alberto Becattini: Frank McSavage

Klaus Strzyz: Jack Bradbury + Mary Jim Carp

Klaus Strzyz: Bob Foster

Alberto Becattini: Bob Foster

Didier Ghez: Julie Svendsen

Göran Broling: Correspondence with Ollie Johnston

Clay Kaytis: Burny Mattinson

Didier Ghez: Tom Sito

Volume 10

Jim Korkis: A history of the Walt Disney biography by Bob Thomas

Didier Ghez: Bob Thomas

Paul F. Anderson: Bob Thomas

Bob Thomas: Walt Disney

Bob Thomas: Walt Pfeiffer

Bob Thomas: Lillian Disney

Bob Thomas: Edna Disney

Bob Thomas: Ub Iwerks

Bob Thomas: Wilfred Jackson

Bob Thomas: Bill Cottrell

Bob Thomas: Herb Ryman

Jim Korkis: Walt’s secretaries

Bob Thomas: Dolores Voght Scott

Bob Thomas: Ham Luske

Bob Thomas: Woolie Reitherman

Bob Thomas: John Lounsbery

Bob Thomas: Ward Kimball

Bob Thomas: Frank Thomas

Bob Thomas: Milt Kahl

Bob Thomas: Hazel George

Bob Thomas: Marc Davis

Bob Thomas: Dick Huemer

Bob Thomas: Ollie Johnston

Bob Thomas: Ken Anderson

Bob Thomas: George Bruns

Bob Thomas: Larry Clemmons

Bob Thomas: Bill Anderson

Bob Thomas: Robert Stevenson

Bob Thomas: Bill Walsh

Bob Thomas: Roy E. Disney

Bob Thomas: Winston Hibler

Bob Thomas: James Algar

Bob Thomas: John Hench

Bob Thomas: Harper Goff

Bob Thomas: Dick Irvine

Bob Thomas: Card Walker

Bob Thomas: Donn Tatum

Bob Thomas: Wathel Rogers

Bob Thomas: Roger Broggie

Bob Thomas: Marvin Davis

Bob Thomas: Joe Potter

Bob Thomas: Robert Foster

Bob Thomas: Joe Fowler

Volume 11

Didier Ghez: Ruthie Tompson

Christopher Finch & Linda Rosenkrantz: Walt Pfeiffer

John Culhane: Shirley Temple

John Culhane: I. Klein

Peter Hansen: Basil Reynolds

Christopher Finch & Linda Rosenkrantz: Eric Larson

John Culhane: John Hubley

Robin Allan: Jules Engel

Darrell Van Citters: Ed Love

Darrell Van Citters: Mike Lah

JB Kaufman: Frank Thomas

Dave Smith: Carl Nater

John Culhane: John Hench

John Canemaker: Ward Kimball

Dave Smith: Ward Kimball

Didier Ghez: Frank Armitage

Robin Allan: Ray Aragon

Didier Ghez: Ray Aragon

Gord Wilson: Jacques Rupp

David Tietyen: George Bruns

John Canemaker: Dale Oliver

John Canemaker: Iwao Takamoto

John Canemaker: Richard Williams

Charles Solomon: Brad Bird

Alberto Becattini: Don R. Christensen

Jim Korkis: Tom Nabbe

Dave Smith: Roger Broggie

Didier Ghez: David Snyder

Didier Ghez: Carl Bongirno

John Culhane: Daniel MacManus

John Culhane: Ted Kierscey

John Canemaker: Glen Keane

Didier Ghez: Joe Hale

Jérémie Noyer: Mark Henn

Christian Ziebarth: Andreas Deja and Mark Henn

Didier Ghez: Ed Catmull

Volume 12

Dave Smith: Alice Disney Allen

Dave Smith: Jack Kloepper

Jim Korkis: Betsy Goodspeed about her father Gordon "Felix" Mills' work on the radio show Mickey Mouse Theater Of The Air

John Culhane: Les Clark

John Culhane: Al Eugster

Didier Ghez: Piercing the Perce Pearce Mystery

Alan Coats: Evelyn Coats

Alan Coats: Marge Hudson and Evelyn Coats

Paul F. Anderson: Mel Shaw

EMC West: Mel Shaw

Didier Ghez: Theo Halladay

David Tietyen: Sammy Fain

Edle Bakke: My Family Disney Dynasty

Didier Ghez: Olive Bosché

Dave Smith: Bill Bosché

Steve Hulett: Charlie Downs

Amid Amidi: John Dunn

Alberto Becattini: Del Connell

Wayne DeWald: Paul Murry

Donald Ault: Paul Murry

George Sherman: Paul Murry

Walt Disney: The Lurking Camera

James Algar: Film Music and Its Use in Beaver Valley

Tom McHugh: Animals Are Like Other People

Didier Ghez: Warren Garst

Didier Ghez: Jack Couffer

Didier Ghez and Jim Korkis: Lloyd Beebe

Brian Shoemaker: Lloyd Beebe

Didier Ghez: Milt Albright

Michael Mallory: Milt Albright

Lou Mongello: Ralph Kent

John Culhane: Larry Clemmons

Michael Barrier: Milt Kahl

Charles Solomon: John Pomeroy

NFFC: Leota Toombs Thomas

Didier Ghez: Kim Irvine

Didier Ghez: Burny Mattinson

Volume 13

Jim Korkis: Virginia Davis

John Culhane: Reg Massie

John Canemaker: George Bakes

Paul F. Anderson: Milt Neil

John Culhane: Al Dempster

John Culhane: Joe Grant

John Culhane: Woolie Reitherman

Michael Broggie: Becky and Carla Fallberg

Dave Smith: Jean Erwin

John Canemaker: John P. Miller

Milton Zolotow and Lawrence Weschler: Jules Engel

Michael Barrier: Fred Kopietz

Dave Smith: Don Duckwall

Pete Docter: John Sibley

Malcolm Willits: George Sherman

Malcolm Willits: Floyd Gottfredson

Robin Allan: Richard Todd

Les Perkins: Roy E. Disney

Les Perkins: Stormy Palmer

Les Perkins: Paul Kenworthy

Les Perkins: Hunt and Chris Hibler

Jim Korkis & Didier Ghez: Boyd Shaffer

Paul F. Anderson: Fess Parker

Didier Ghez: Dave Spafford

Alberto Becattini: Bob Moore

Didier Ghez: Blaine Gibson

Jay Horan: X. Atencio

Michael Broggie: Don Iwerks

Didier Ghez: Tony Baxter

Volume 14

Bob Thomas: Carman Maxwell

Mark Mayerson: Dick Lundy

Leonard Maltin: Dick Lundy

Leonard Maltin: Phil Klein

Leonard Maltin: Zack Schwartz

John Culhane: Ray Patterson

Didier Ghez: Marge Champion

John Canemaker: Joe Grant

Dave Smith: Bob Jones

Jim Korkis & Didier Ghez: Bob Baker

Vincent Randle: A Life Rendering: The Unrealized Art of Richmond “Dick” Kelsey

David Culbert: Eric Knight at Disney

The Holling C. Holling letters

John Culhane: Bill Justice

John Culhane: Irvin Graham

Michael Broggie: Lillian Disney

Alberto Becattini: Carson Van Osten

George Sherman: Bruce Bushman

George Sherman: Bob Mattey

Dave Smith: Chris Mueller

John G. West: Arthur Vitarelli

Charles Solomon: Alice Davis

Didier Ghez: Lucile Bosché

Harry Wessel: Joe Fowler

Didier Ghez: Eddie Sotto

Volume 15

Dave Smith: Bob Cook

John Culhane: Grim Natwick

Michael Barrier: Clair Weeks

Bob Casino: Willis Pyle

Didier Ghez: Charlene Sundblad about Helen and Hugh Hennesy

Göran Broling: Preston Blair

Cartoonist PROfiles: Preston Blair

Steven Hartley: Cy Young

Michael Barrier: Lynn Karp

Autobiography of Basil Reynolds

Alberto Becattini: The Life and Times of Riley Thomson

John Culhane: Ward Kimball

John Culhane: Wilfred Jackson

Jim Korkis: Ham Luske’s children

Michael Broggie: Stormy Palmer

EMC West: Guy Williams Jr.

EMC West: Buddy Van Horn

EMC West: Suzanne Lloyd

George Sherman: Roger Broggie

Jim Korkis: Karl Bacon & Ed Morgan

Dave Smith: Bill Martin

Jay Horan: Bill Evans

John Culhane: Card Walker

Didier Ghez: Mike Peraza

Do not miss today:

- Walt Disney - February 9, 1939 by Mark Sonntag
- Walt Disney - January 22, 1937 by Mark Sonntag
- United China Relief - part 2 by David Lesjak
- Disney trainer Lloyd Beebe created Olympic Game Farm in Sequim
- Beebes remembered in Sequim, beyond

I have good news! Walt's People - Volume 19 was finally released this week.

This is really an exceptional addition to the series. Some of the best pieces in the volume include: a short autobiography of Don Graham, the letters that Disney publicist Janet Martin sent from Latin America while traveling with "El Grupo" in 1941, a long and fascinating interview with "True-Life Adventures" cinematographer Lloyd Beebe, and an in-depth interview with Alan Coats.