The person behind the institution
Neal Gabler follows Disney’s life through animation, business, feature films, and the creation of Disneyland. The familiar name becomes a sequence of projects, collaborators, and decisions.
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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
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A biography that follows Disney’s creative ambitions, work, and the institution built around them.
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The story behind it.
A biography that follows Disney’s creative ambitions, work, and the institution built around them.
An imagination requiring organizations
The biography connects creative ambition with the teams and institutions needed to realize it. Individual vision and collective work share the story.
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FilmMary Poppins
The biography provides context for Disney’s ambitions and the production of the 1964 film.
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FilmMusicFamily
FilmToy Story 3
A route from an earlier history of animation to a later Pixar film; this does not attribute Toy Story 3 to Walt Disney.
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FilmFriendshipGrowing up