#346 How Walt Disney Built Himself

#346沃尔特·迪士尼如何打造自己

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2024-04-22

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What I learned from rereading Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler.

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  • Walt Disney was the first to bundle television programs, feature animation, live action films, documentaries, theme parks, music, books, comics, character merchandise, and educational films.

  • Under one corporate umbrella, he created the first modern multimedia corporation.

  • In the year of his death, 240 million people saw a Disney movie.

  • 100 million people watched a Disney television show.

  • 80 million people read a Disney book.

  • 50 million people listened to Disney records.

  • 80 million people brought Disney merchandise.

  • 150 million people read a Disney comic strip, and nearly 7 million people visited Disneyland.

  • Walt Disney had changed the world.

  • He had created a new art form and then produced several indisputable classics.

  • Within it, he had advanced color films and then color television.

  • He had reimagined the amusement park.

  • He had encouraged and popularized conservation, space exploration, atomic energy, urban planning, and a deeper historical awareness.

  • He had built one of the most powerful empires in the entertainment world, one that would long survive him.

  • Yet all of these accumulated contributions paled before a larger one.

  • He demonstrated how one could assert one's will on the world.

  • Walt Disney had been not so much a master of fun or irreverence or innocence.

  • He had been a master of order.

  • That was an excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is this giant, comprehensive, 800 page biography of Walt Disney.

  • It is called Walt Disney the triumph of the american imagination, and is written by Neil Gabler.