WWR S10:E3 - A Mouse Divided

WEDway Radio - Walt Disney World and Disneyland Examined with some Disney History

Nate and Matt Parrish

History, Florida, Society & Culture, California, Disney, Arts, Imagineering, Disneyland, Radio, Park, Theme, Wdw, Places & Travel

5 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, Matt and author Jeff Ryan look at the relationship between Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, and Mickey Mouse, and they discuss some of the unknown contributions of Ub to Disney animation, film SFX, and Disney theme parks.

You can find Jeff's book, A Mouse Divided, on Amazon!

Enjoy.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Season 10 of Wedway Radio.
0:28.8	This is the Disney History Show.
0:30.7	I'm Matt Parrish.
0:31.4	And throughout the 10cennial of Wedway Radio, I told you we'd be talking about Disney history,
0:36.5	Disney news and projects, and
0:37.8	speaking with some researchers and friends in the Disney community. And on this episode, I'm
0:42.8	joined by an author, someone who did a deep dive on some history that's pretty near and dear
0:48.9	to my heart as being from Kansas City. And it's the story of Walt Disney the man and of IWorks the man.
0:56.1	And so my guest is Jeff Ryan, and Jeff, I invited you on the show to talk about your book,
1:00.4	which is fairly recent.
1:02.2	It's called a mouse divided.
1:04.0	But before we get to the content of your research and all that great stuff, let's talk about you.
1:07.8	What inspired you to write this book about Walt and
1:11.4	what inspired me was that I had written a previous book about Super Mario very
1:16.3	creatively titled Super Mario and I I realized that Nintendo was treating Mario the
1:22.8	way that Disney treats Mickey Mouse where they brand him everywhere when you
1:26.8	think of one you think of the other.
1:29.3	And that was done on purpose.
1:31.3	So I started to think, well, how did Disney do that?
1:33.3	Because they created the template.
1:35.3	How did they decide that this weird little talking rat was going to be their symbol?
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