Who is Walt Disney, and what made him so successful and talented at what he did?
Yet there is a whole generation that does not know that he was a man, a very decent man: a man who worked hard all of his life, a man who loved people, and who is much more than a corporate symbol, or a picture on toys and video packaging.” The family began taking steps to demystify Walt. In 1998 they produced a biographical CD-ROM, followed by a documentary film in 2001 entitled Walt: The Man Behind the Myth. They also launched the Walt Disney Family Museum, a virtual museum, hosted online by the Walt Disney Company at www.waltdisney.org. Still, the family felt they could do more. They returned to the thought of a physical museum. As time went on, the family’s initial dream of a small museum expanded dramatically in scope. Its mission is to present the life and career of Walt Disney in an honest and entertaining manner, with a museum that will fulfill the needs of serious scholars of the man, his work, and his times. When asked how the family will accomplish this, Walter Miller is qui
