Mousetalgia Episode 540: Ron Miller and Dave Smith
Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast
Jeff Baham
4.4 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In the past two weeks, the Disney fan community was rocked with the news of the passing of two legendary names in the history of the Walt Disney Company. On February 9, Ron Miller - the son in law of Walt Disney and CEO/President of the company for many years - passed away at the age of 85. Miller helped bridge the gap between Walt Disney's personal enterprise and the international entertainment corporation that the Disney company would become, and was president of the Walt Disney Family Foundation, which is responsible for the Walt Disney Family Museum. Then, on February 15, Dave Smith passed away at the age of 78. Smith was responsible for developing the Walt Disney Archives for the Walt Disney Company, which he started in 1970, and was regarded as the highest authority on the history of everything related to Disney. In today's episode, Team Mousetalgia share stories of our personal interactions with both of these men, who were so important to making the Walt Disney Company what it is today.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Mostalgia, February 25th, 2019. |
| 0:06.0 | Nostalgia is a member of the Mice Chat Podcast Network. Hang on to them hats and glasses |
| 0:26.0 | Because this here is the wildest podcast in the wilderness |
| 0:30.1 | This is Mousalgia |
| 0:33.9 | Carpe Kingdom, seize the magic. |
| 0:48.6 | Welcome to Malstalgia, your podcast, all about Disneyland, Disney, California, Adventure, and everything else. |
| 0:50.9 | Disney, I am your host, Dave, and with us today we have Jack. |
| 0:51.7 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:52.3 | Kristen. |
| 0:53.4 | Hello, friends. |
| 0:55.2 | And Becky. Hello. |
| 1:03.7 | So today we're going to start off with the Moustalgia Roundup. Get ready, folks, for the weekly Mouselial Roundup. And today's roundup is what's your favorite Ron Miller production? |
| 1:14.8 | So film from the time that Ron Miller was running the Walt Disney Studios. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, there's so many to choose from, right? |
| 1:22.1 | Because before he was like president of the company, he was in charge of all the production. |
| 1:29.3 | And so all that time. |
| 1:33.3 | Well, I hope I'm not stealing Dave's, but I have to take Tron. |
| 1:33.7 | Uh-oh. |
| 1:35.1 | Good choice. |
| 1:35.9 | Oh, good, good, good. |
| 1:41.2 | Because Tron, a seminal film, you know, for Disney productions, kind of groundbreaking. |
| 1:44.7 | One of the first films that used computer graphics of any type. |
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