My friend Sebastien Durand just sent me the following email and I am wondering if some of you might help.

Sebastien has all the Disney Annual Reports from the '60s to 2007, and a few from the '50s and the '40s (1945 and 1947). He is wondering if one of you would be willing to make photocopies of the other ones that exist from the '40s. He is also sending me the questions:

[Was the first Annual Report published in 1940 or in 1941 ?

Were the Annual Reports to employees the same as those to shareholders in the '40s?

In the 1945 Annual Report, Grand Canyon and Latin Rhapsody were mentioned among the projects "in story" stage. Were these projects ever completed? I suspect Blame It on the Samba could be the definite title for Latin Rhapsody but what about Grand Canyon?]

Final pages of the 1951 annual report.

A few more pages from the 1951 annual report...

Thanks to Sébastien Durand, here are the first 8 pages of the 1951 Annual Report.

Here is the second part of the 1945 Annual Report.

Here is the first half of the 1945 Disney Annual Report that was kindly sent to me by Sébastien Durand. I will post the second part tomorrow. The resolution is just high enough to be able to read the text. I wish I could post something in higher resolution, but I have to care about Blogger's limited available space.