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Connecting with Walt - A look into the history of the man behind Mickey Mouse, Disneyland and Walt Disney World

Background Artist: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong with Karen Fang

Connecting with Walt - A look into the history of the man behind Mickey Mouse, Disneyland and Walt Disney World

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Walt Disney, Unknown, Roy Disney, Walt Disney Animation, Walt Disney World, Society & Culture, Disneyland, Walt Disney Studios

4.8799 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Michael and Tom chat with author Karen Fang about her book Background Artist: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong, whose watercolors are featured in Walt Disney's Bambi.



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0:49.7

Hey there, hi, there, and welcome to to episode 34 of Connecting with Walt, celebrating our

0:56.5

Tensennial year.

0:58.3

I am your host and dis historian Michael Bowling, and I am joined by my co-host, producer, and good

1:03.7

friend Tom Bell.

1:05.4

Tom, how are you today?

1:07.2

I am doing well.

1:08.3

Are you ready for Halloween?

1:10.0

I'm getting there. I have a lot of my decorations up.

1:14.2

All right. And I, the, uh, the Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary where I volunteer, we're having a, um, happy Howl-O-Ween event this, this Saturday. And so i'm going to wear i have sorcerer mickey headband that i

1:33.1

got at um disneyland uh um hong kong kong dsman which is really nice and i thought that'll be my costume

1:42.9

sure i don't want to wear a big old thing and all

1:46.5

that. And so I almost though, I was on site and they had on a Halloween, you know, website for costumes and

1:55.6

animatronics, all that. They had a Kevin costume. Oh, I was was so tempted. I was a chair, but one of the things is that first of all, I didn't know how I would get to the zoo in that thing. Right. Yeah. So I'd have to change somewhere. And then, but then we have to be able to wear our name badge. Oh, yeah. Okay. On it, and I wasn't sure.

2:20.0

Huh. I'm not sure how it would fit on there.

2:24.4

So if anybody would even realize I'm part of the zoo.

2:29.3

So are you a candy corn pro or con on candy corn?

2:31.5

I like it in moderation.

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