Walt Disney: The Great American Storyteller (TRIH ep 614)
1929 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the life, work and cultural impact of Walt Disney. They chart Disney's rise from tinkering cartoonist to global entertainment entrepreneur, highlighting early technical innovations (Steamboat Willie, Three Little Pigs), landmark feature films (Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, Dumbo) and the studio's painstaking creative processes. The episode covers Disney's family background, wartime service in WWI, the loss of Oswald the Rabbit and the re...
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