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Thursday, 10th September 2009

A Brief Look Inside the Walt Disney Archives

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For the last 50 years, inside an unmarked warehouse here, a historic movie prop has rested in a deep, deep sleep. Last month a Walt Disney Company archivist awakened it.

Becky Cline, manager of the Walt Disney Company archive, with the storybook used for the opening scene of “Sleeping Beauty,” the animated classic from 1959, in Glendale, Calif.

Wearing white gloves, Becky Cline, manager of the sprawling repository, gently opened a crate containing the giant bejeweled storybook used for the opening scene of “Sleeping Beauty,” the animated classic from 1959. “We have to be really, really careful with this,” Ms. Cline said, almost in a whisper.

The prop, along with dozens of other specimens from Disney films that have long been kept under lock and key, will headline an unusual exhibition of memorabilia that opens on Thursday and runs through the weekend at the Anaheim Convention Center in Southern California.

The exhibition, “Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives,” will also include modern grails (Miley Cyrus’s blond “Hannah Montana” wig) and items from Walt Disney’s own office (like the rotary-dial telephone, dingy cord and all). “We would never clean it — that’s Walt’s grime,” Ms. Cline said.

Source: NY Times
Hat Tip: AMIA Newsbriefs


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