Make no mistake, that’s what Disney was dealing with in that carnival of animal dancers, appearance and reality. That’s one of the major themes in cartoons. It is central, for example, in that most austere of cartoon premises, the Roadrunner and Coyote cartoons of Chuck Jones. To deny it of Disney in the film he planned as a showcase for this new medium, a film in which, among other things, he showed the origins of life on earth and the death of the dinosaurs, to deny a central interest in the play of appearance and reality is to be deeply and perhaps willfully mistaken about the nature of the medium in which Disney so deliberately and brilliantly worked.

Walt Disney’s original vision for his Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow (EPCOT) is astounding.

Unfortunately, what was later opened as “EPCOT Center” is only a terribly faint echo of the original vision.

The Walt disney Family Museum website contains a biography of Walt Disney and a series of interviews with family and friends. A series of illustrated articles describes the making of several animation and live features, often preferring personal point of views and experiences to dry descriptions.

Takes me back.