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From the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, UCLA Library Special Collections
From the Time Travel Collection (Israel), UCLA Library International Digital Ephemera Project
Photo from January 25, 1941, captioned, "The man behind Fantasia, Walt Disney, puts an approving eye on one of the models used to set a classic sequence for the animated musical production having its western premiere at the Carthay Circle Wednesday Night."
From the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection, Los Angeles Public Library
From the Friedlander (Jonathan) Collection of Middle Eastern Americana, 1875-2006, UCLA Library Special Collections
From the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, UCLA Library Special Collections
Disney animator Milton Quon is seen holding a book open, which shows a drawing of Disneyland's Matterhorn Mountain, at the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles, in 2005.
From the Gary Leonard Collection photographs, Los Angeles Public Library
From the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, UCLA Library Special Collections
Disney engineers, from left, Marty Sklar, Tony Baxter, George McGinnis and John Hench examine a model of Disney World's new Space Mountain ride. The display was part of the first press tour ever offered of production center of Walter Elias Disney Enterprises.
From the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, UCLA Library Special Collections
From the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, UCLA Library Special Collections
From Elisa Leonelli, Photojournalist Collection at Claremont Colleges Library, Special Collections
Retta Scott was the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios for Bambi. She also worked on Dumbo and Fantasia, but was uncredited at the time. She went on to illustrate Walt Disney’s Cinderella: A Big Golden Book (1950), a copy of which resides UCLA Library Special Collections.
Photo from Walt Disney Archives' Disney Legends webpage.
From the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, UCLA Library Special Collections
From the Los Angeles Daily News Negatives collection, UCLA Library Special Collections
From the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, UCLA Library Special Collections
This guide was originally created in 2022 by Arts Library Student Research Assistant Marie Fucile. It includes introductory resources on Walt Disney film, television, culture, and theme parks at UCLA Library, including selected archival materials. While some materials cover specific currently-owned Disney properties such as Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar, the focus of the guide is on Walt Disney Studios history and general Disney study.
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