Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- (Boxes: 3 ½ letter; 2 letter; 6 flat in letter; 2 ov; 7 ov folders)
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Walt Disney Collection. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection covers facets of Walt Disney Productions, including the development of Mickey Mouse, the Silly Symphonies series and other animated characters; animation cameras, animators at work; the Hyperion Avenue studio building and Mickey Mouse promotions. Manuscripts including Mickey Mouse fan mail; drawings; animation cels and backgrounds; film frames; photographs; posters; newspaper clippings; publications including ones by Earl Theissen; and ephemera. Also comic strip engraving plates for Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies series. 1906-1980, undated (bulk is 1930s-40s)
- Biographical / historical:
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The collection was donated by Walt Disney Productions in the 1930s. Items with later dates are filed in this collection due to subject appropriateness.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Animated films.
- Names:
- Walt Disney Company
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Research is by appointment only
- Terms of access:
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Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder
- Preferred citation:
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Walt Disney Collection. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
- Location of this collection:
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900 Exposition BoulevardLos Angeles, CA 90007-4057, US
- Contact:
- (213) 763-3359