Wonderful auction from Heritage Auctions coming up August 21-23.

Would anyone of you have a good collection of the Swedish "Musse Pigg Tidningen" or a copy of this special issue of the British "Mickey Mouse Weekly"?

If so could you email me at didier.ghez@gmail.com? I am trying to get high resolution scans of these two covers and a lot more information about the contents of "Musse Pigg Tidningen."

 

This book only contains a few pages about Disney but for anyone who cares about classic animation, this is a must-have and an absolute treasure trove.

It will be available via Stuart NG Books starting on Saturday.

I just discovered this exhibition that is taking place right now in Germany at the Kreissparkasse Heilbronn. and that a catalog has been released.

I will tell you more about it when I get it.

Over the past few weeks, while resuming my research about Disney's international expansion in the 1930s and 1940s, I was reminded of how fun it is to dig up new documents that have been sitting for years in untapped physical archives or in the collections of the families of the persons who worked for Disney.

At times, I am able to visit those archives and collections in person. But more often than not, I need to rely on a huge network of volunteers all around the world.

For this current project, my wife and I counted yesterday more than 15 volunteers based in France, the UK, Serbia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Knoxville and New York (and I am certain I am forgetting a few locations).

One of the subject matters that I a researching right now is the Swedish Children Day, which saw Disney's official participation in 1937. In this context, I just dug up these two documents online. One (non-authorized) from 1934 (Three Little Pigs and Mickey Mouse) and one from 1937.

In the Swedish National Archives there is a lot more and I am hoping to get access to that material in a few weeks thanks to a local volunteer.

 

 An excellent book coming up early next year.

CHALLENGE FOR RUSSIAN SPEAKER / RESEARCHER

In 1936 a version of the Blue Ribbon book "Three Little Pigs" was released in Russia.

What makes this version very special is the fact that the story was translated and adapted by the famous Russian poet Sergei Mikhalkov (based on the French version of the book, by the way).

Here is the challenge for a Russian speaker / researcher who also enjoys Disney history...

Mikhalkov wrote a memoir about his life, "От и до..." ("From Start to Finish...") It would be great to locate a library that carries a physical copy of it (using worldcat.org for example) and to find out if it contains any relevant information about Mikhalkov work on the book.

Any volunteer??