The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • Page 89

I' i i yxVy Jh DISNEY REFERS to his plant as "the studio that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs helped to build" The studios aren't beset with tourists wanting to visit. Conducted tours aren't as general a thing as might be supposed. Rather, the visitors go to Disneyland, its owner's lifetime dream-come-true out in Anaheim, some 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The place is now considered the No. 1 tourist attraction in southern California and the project nearest and dearest to Disney's heart.

Viewers shouldn't get the impression that vastness has engulfed Disney to the point where he has turned over the current television series to assistants. Walt's Vision "WALT DISNEY is involved in every operation of every show," an associate reports. "He approves the ideas, the scripts, and everything else. You can't call this a one-man operationhardly, with 900 employes working here in the studio. "But we're all guided by Walt's ideas and vision: good taste, imagination and creativity.

A man who worked for him years ago summed it up perfectly. He made up a word. "He called it imagineering, and it's applicable." How many hours a day does this mustached mild-speaking man work? No one has ever counted. Because he would be the last to regard it as work. HE ARRIVES at his offices on the third floor of the Animation Bldg.

there are a dozen buildings in the studio early each morning where he is surrounded by some 29 Academy Awards and literally hundreds of other citations from organizations all over the world. Actual count, more than 700. Where other studio executives bemoan the dearth of new creative talent to carry on in the television and movie industries, not so Walt Disney. "We find no shortage of talent. Of course, some of the staff have been with us for years, almost since the beginning.

"And I have yet to discover a lack of imagination in the people who work with us," he says. Anent drawn animals versus live ones, Disney has mingled reactions. "Drawn animals you can control," he laughed. it I i i FLORIDA MAGAZINE Wat Dsney's imagineering created on animated empire Hollywood Is A State of Mind OLLYWOOD, land of mink, movies and money is allegedly covered with motion 8 ISOBEL ASHE nando Valley to Culver City and even farther away. One of the busiest is in the valley.

That's Walt Disney Studios. One of the oldest, most productive, and possibly least hurt by television because its owner had vision and forethought back in 1954 when he first started in television. HE AS PROVED that by his Sunday night series on NBC, (Ch. 2 8), called Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, now in its second year. It may be noted the series will offer more fare for adults in such shows as Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnaped and Lovable Rats of the Paris Opera.

While the Disney series is equally divided among animal stories, nature novelettes as they are termed, live-action and animation shows, he doesn'f find audiences strongly preferring one type over another. The Walt Disney Studios are a bit different from other film factories. Take for example the street names: Dopey Drive, Snow White Ave. and Mickey Mouse Ave. to name just a few.

picture studios, but the truth of the matter is that only three studios actually have Hollywood as their mailing address. And Hollywood isn't a town at Shotctlme all. It's a region, a locale, andor a state of mind, according to some people. The movie and television studios sprawl from the San Fer- 18-E.