#248 - Disneyland Team Spring Reunion Pt. 1
Connecting with Walt - A look into the history of the man behind Mickey Mouse, Disneyland and Walt Disney World
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4.7 • 820 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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03/03/23 - In this episode, the DIS Unplugged: Disneyland Edition team gets together once again to check back in on all things Disneyland, but this time with a special guest who hasn't been heard in many years!
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| 0:00.0 | From West to East and Kingdom, the Kingdom, you're listening to the Diz Unplugged, Connecting with Walt |
| 0:06.7 | podcast. Connecting with Walt is brought to you by Dreams Unlimited Travel, experts at helping you plan the perfect Disney vacation. |
| 0:32.5 | Visit them on the web at dreams unlimited travel.com. |
| 0:36.6 | Hey, they're hi, they're ho there, and welcome to episode 248 of |
| 0:41.7 | the Diz Unplugged, connecting with Walt Podcast. I am your host and Diz historian Michael Bowling, |
| 0:47.4 | and I am joined by my co-host and good friend John Sikeri. John, how are you today? |
| 0:53.7 | Very good, Michael. How are you? I'm doing well. Thank you. |
| 0:57.8 | We're starting at our show with a bit of sad news today because we had a passing in someone who is |
| 1:06.1 | really important in Disney history, especially Disney animation. |
| 1:22.3 | Disney legend Bernie Mattson, who was an animator, a director, a producer, and story artists at Walt Disney Studios, the animation studios. He passed away Monday, February 27th. He was 87 years old. He was still active at Disney, and he worked there almost 70 years. |
| 1:37.3 | He was the longest serving cast member in the history of the Walt Disney Company. |
| 1:43.3 | He was going to receive his 70th anniversary service award on June 4th. |
| 1:47.8 | This would have been the first 70th anniversary service award ever, you know, ever given out by the Walt Disney Company. |
| 1:58.2 | So, John, you probably know a whole lot of what he has done. |
| 2:03.2 | He directed Mickey's Christmas Carol in 1983, and that was the first time Mickey |
| 2:10.4 | returned to the big screens in 30 years. |
| 2:13.4 | He was a co-director of the 1986 film, The Great Mouse Detective. |
| 2:18.6 | He worked, he most recently worked on Strange World. |
| 2:24.0 | So, but he worked on Winnie the Pooh, Big Hero Six. |
| 2:29.0 | And he, it was, when he was 18, he dreamt of working at the Walt Disney Animation Studios and he followed his dream. |
| 2:39.0 | And he, but some of the things he worked on, he worked on not only the couple that I just mentioned the films, but he worked on the classics, like Lady and the Tramp, 101 Dalmatians, the sword and the stone, the jungle |
| 2:52.1 | book, the rescuers. And he worked on the story team for Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, |
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