It contains material about John Basmajian, Eric Cleworth, Anne Del Valle, Roy E. Disney, Eyvind Earle, Robert Foster, Andy Gaskill, Floyd Gottfredson, Michael Graves, Earl Hurd, David Inglish, Un Iwerks, Evelyn Kennedy, Gordon Legg, Ron Miller, Leslie Nielsen, Bill Peet, Parry Ray, Herb Ryman, Steve Segal, Lucy Wheaton Taliaferro and Al Taliaferro, Don Taylor, Larry Tryon, and Linda Woolverton.
I think you will all really enjoy it.
I recently bought the newly released book by historian Nozomi Naoi, The Land of Happiness, about Japanese department stores in the 1930s.
In it, I found this fantastic photo of Mickey Mouse in a Japanese store window in the 1930s.
It comes from the National Diet Library.
I would like to explore the collections of that famous library to try and find more Disney-related photos. However, without speaking Japanese, it appears to be incredibly difficult to achieve.
Anyone willing to help? If so, could you please email me at didier.ghez@gmail.com ?
Research for my future book about Disney's international expansion in the world in the 1930s and 1940s has really been progressing by leaps and bounds over the past few weeks thanks to volunteers all around the world.
The project at the British Library is larger than I originally thought, though, and I would welcome a second volunteer to help me with the research.
If you are in London and are able and willing to conduct two days of research at the British Library over the next few days / weeks, could you please email me at didier.ghez@gmail.com ?
