TV Guide (October 1, 1955)

Record Details:

Title:
TV Guide
Date:
October 1, 1955
Publisher:
Philadelphia: Triangle Publications, Inc.
Volume:
TV Guide - Oregon (October 1, 1955)
Leaf #:
0004
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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The Spectacular Mr. Disney His Television Plans Are As Grandiose As imagination And $6,000,000 Can Make Them Walt Disney, whose gray hairs are beginning to show but whose en¬ thusiasm remains undiminished, slid into a chair in the Disney studio commissary, scratched his chin and considered for a moment what he had learned about TV since he got himself into it just a year ago. “Well,” he said cautiously, “I didn’t know what I was doing then and I still don’t. All I know is, after about three weeks the thought Walt Disney and friends. At left, he stands before some of his creations: at right, scene from Disney 'Robin Hood.' suddenly struck me that I was in this thing and couldn’t back out.” The remark typifies the surface naivety of a man who is as sharp as a Disney-created fox but who takes pains to appear as a grown-up kid getting a boot 'out of the circus. It might be added that he hands the circus ticket to himself with his left hand and takes it with his right. And when no one was looking he calmly led off the rush of the formerly aloof movie studios into television. Disney himself is still far in the lead of the parade. In continued