Story time with five Disney Legends
Posted: December 22nd, 2009 | Author: fsouki | Filed under: Personal Projects, Uncategorized | Tags: Blaine Gibson, Bob Gurr, Disney, Disney Legends, Harrison Price, IAAPA, Marty Sklar, Rischard Sherman, Walt Disney | No Comments »
The Disney Legends
The IAAPA Attractions Expo held many surprises for me, but none as gratifying and mind-bogglingly amazing as a panel session very aptly titled “Disney Legends: working with Walt”.
The Disney Legends themselves were Marty Sklar (story man), Blaine Gibson (artist), Bob Gurr (mechanical wizard), Richard Sherman (composer) and Harrison “Buzz” Price (numbers man), all sitting side by side and brilliantly moderated by Bob Rogers.
The whole point of the session was for them to share their stories about working with Walt Disney (as in the man, not the company), though of course we were all hoping for them to deviate a little bit into sideplots in order to get the best stories that these men could tell. All of them having helped build what Disney is today, it wasn’t surprising to find them all to be brilliant storytellers and effortless entertainers. Read the rest of this entry »
