The Origins of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures

Download or read book The Origins of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures written by Didier Ghez and published by . This book was released on 2022-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Walt Disney, an artist known the world over for his animated cartoons and features, decide, in 1948, to produce the first of the True-Life Adventures, a live-action educational featurette about Alaskan seals? The road that led Walt to the creation of this landmark film was a long and winding one, full of trials and errors, replete with false starts and brilliant insights.To understand how and why Seal Island was produced we must travel back in time to 1938 during the making of Bambi, and to 1943, when Walt was starting to plan for the creative rebirth of The Walt Disney Studios after World War II. We must also unearth some of the abandoned True-Life Adventures.Relying on new archival research, never-accessed-before correspondence, and the recently rediscovered autobiography and diaries of cinematographers Alfred and Elma Milotte, historian Didier Ghez covers all this and more in this richly illustrated, groundbreaking monograph.