

Pic 1: Ub Iwerks, Rollin ‘Ham’ Hamilton and Walt Disney outside theĭisney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Los, Feliz, CA (1925). – an excerpt of Chris Nichols’ 2016 article for LA Magazine

Pictures of the brothers beaming in front of their building, which now houses a copy shop, seem so immediate and alive that you can almost feel Walt’s energy and enthusiasm jump from the page.” As soon as Walt and his brother Roy signed their first deal in 1923, they hightailed it out of uncle Robert’s garage and into the back of a real estate office on Kingswell Avenue.

“The world’s largest media company began in a small garage in Los Feliz, CA. The Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, 1923 - 1926 I heard he made a Big Splash at the opening.įull Interview at Disney And More, which has more stuff on working on Tokyo Disney (While working on It’s a Small World at Toho, he met Akira Kurosawa) as well as general career highlights. I offered to help out with a teeth cleaning and gave him a ride to make up, as seen in the 2 photos. Godzilla the most famous of their family was having a new premier revival at the Ginza. Based mostly at TOHO Studios, I was called upon one day to visit the Monster Room where all the TOHO Monsters hung around. The Africa Pavillion was cancelled, so I went to Japan to help with props and sets for about 13 attractions. Imagineer Pat Burke (Well known for getting all the authentic mining equipment used as props in all the Big Thunder Mountains) messing around with Godzilla in the early 1980s when Walt Disney Imagineering was using the Toho lot as a staging area for development of Tokyo Disneyland.īack in 1982 and 83, WED Enterprises was busy building it’s first international park called Tokyo Disneyland in Japan, as well as EPCOT in Walt Disney World.
