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You've been immature and you've lied.

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

I was trying to manipulate you.

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

I don't know. I guess you'd have to ask.

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Welcome to the History Extra podcast.

Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

From Bambi to The Little Mermaid, Snow White and their Seven Dwarves to Frozen,

Disney films have had a huge impact on generations of children and adults around the world.

As the Walt Disney Company celebrates its centenary,

John Wills, Professor of American History and Culture at the University of Kent,

spoke to Matt Elton about the entertainment giant's remarkable origins, its highs and its lows, and the more controversial

aspects of its story. John, thank you so much for being with us. This October, October 2023,

marks the centenary of the Walt Disney Company, which has become this huge cultural giant, and we'll get into some of the issues and the problems, I suppose, with that later down the line.

Before we go any further, though, I thought we should talk about the very early days of Disney. What are the things that we need to make sense of to understand the origins of this story?

This is a really good starting point to talk about Disney, rewinding the clock 100 years.

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