Disney History

Didier Ghez: How did you get the idea to write this book? Amid Amidi: The seed was planted when I interviewed Ward in 2000 abou...

Do not miss today: - Clarice by Andreas Deja - The Birth of Disney Fandom Part 3: The Disney Fanzines by Jim Korkis

The Disney Books Network was updated this weekend.

  Garry Apgar was kind enough to write the essay below for the Disney History blog. Walt and Lilly´s "Gypsy Jaunt"...

I had no idea that artist John Fawcett had released many years ago a collection of his Disney-related art and was therefore delighted whe...

This just in from the Carolwood Pacific Historical Society, via Jennifer Hendrickson: [We are excited to announce that -- for the first t...

This extremely obscure book by Kent Durden includes two Disney-related chapters focusing on the eagle Lady and her role in several Disney p...

This just in from Ross Anderson: [In additon to the attactions that Jim Korkis mentioned - Pete's voice is in many other places in t...

Help needed! I need new transcribers. Too many interesting interviews, too few transcribers. If you are able to help, please email me at ...

If, like me, you are fascinated by cartoons from the '50s since you read Amid Amidi's masterpiece, Cartoon Modern , there are two p...

Do not miss today: - Disneyland '59 - The Rarest Parade of Them All by Todd James Pierce - Walt Disney World History Books, a Bib...

This just in from Jim Korkis: [ On that Roger Rabbit clip you posted today, the actor playing Eddie Valiant is Pete Renoudet, a Disney v...

A good friend and reader of the blog, Ross Anderson is writing the definite history of the making of Roger Rabbit. Ross just sent me the f...

Jake Friedman, who is currently writing a biography of Art Babbitt has launched a blog , complete with rare photos of the Lake Norconian p...

Do not miss today: - Happy Birthday, Snow White by Jim Korkis - Disney Plots A ‘Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride’ Movie by Mike Fleming - Disney m...

Disney Historian Jim Korkis has just finished interviewing Susan (Musfelt) Hoose who is seventy-one years old. However, when she was seve...

The table of contents of the Summer 2012 issue of the magazine Twenty-Three has just been announced. I was glad to be asked to write an in-...

This just in from Jim Korkis: [That version of Walt looks exactly the way Roy Williams drew Walt in "A Day With Walt" in the Di...

This just in from Gunnar Andreassen: [Up for auction at Heritage, this sketch, see enclosure. From description: An original sketch is inclu...

Russia´s 1968 Little Mermaid This just in from Sébastien Durand: [Astonishing how part of this short recalls Kay Nielsen's concept sketc...