What would Walt Disney think of the Disney company today?
I don’t think that Walt would necessarily be surprised by the size of the company or its synergy. Walt was always thinking of ways of expanding his franchise. He might be a bit miffed by the lack in quality of some of the products—he would certainly be disappointed by the direct-to-video animations since he was insistent that the feature animations had a value that shouldn’t be compromised—but Walt also had a way of detaching himself from the things the studio did of which he didn’t approve—as if that was the studio’s problem, not his. As for the computer generated animations that have replaced the old hand-drawn animations, I don’t think Walt would have been averse—he was always searching for the next new thing—but I do think he would have recognized that CGI animations are much colder than hand-drawn animations and that they lack a certain animus that the old animations had. Q: How was Walt able to surround himself with the best animators in the business? In other words, how did he r
