Vigorous, vibrant — vivid

Tobias Winkler
4 min readOct 2, 2021

The Talking Dead: Imagineer Walt Disney

Walt Disney.

Walt, what it is makes up an imagineer?

The imagination. The sense of engineering, the will to construct it is. In the end it means to keep the engine running — by a knack to create made to invent imagings of expression.

A term of yours?

Indeed, I second that.

Imagineering means the power of Disney …

The line of dialogue is tied to the character, the verb again’s the writer — sticking his nose in’, author Elmore Leonard’s used to say.

Disney imagineers stages?

It’s a verb with an atomic valency of 2 plus X. The character refers to its creators, the sphere again to its expression. Within me, it’s setting myself to the stage — as some kind of a presenter. I guess, a hot-fuzz saw it is.

Who’s this guy?

A versatile creator of western and crime thrill — familiar in his spirit. We started with animees and cartoons: Alice In Wonderland in 1923, the story of a lonesome rider caught up within all of these pitfalls, amusements and oddities, of the Wild West World.

And if there’s a lack of budget, you even involve live-action film!

As soon as – some might say. A little bit different it is. Think of a full-length movie: Naturally a shoot is not that costly and expensive, elaborate same. The screenplay Davy Crockett, our King of the Wild Frontier, is still near and dear to mine. 1955, the aftermath of World War II, money is tight. Davy, he impersonates the adventurous spirit, the quirk, the tang and all of these entities a trapper and trotter is made of — unbeatenly undefeated.

Snow White And The 7 Dwarfs, 1937 — an object lesson, an example par excellence of putting it together: the live-action of human actor, their animated shape in technicolor …

Animation means to study people as peoples, moves and movements — to depict the human instincts of psych, to figure out characteristic motions, to morph and distort these magnitudes of all of these heroes of our times. Beyond recognition, anyhow it’s tied to some twist of knowableness.

What is it, that makes technicolor that seminal?

I guess, it’s the sphere of infrared and infrasound. It reveals an voyeur’s genome — unmasking all of these oddities of the world we live in.

Tell me ‘bout the charm, the lure these spaces of infrared and infrasound are made of.

Our designers, draftsmen, illustrators, stainers, and cinematographers create characters on the dot — and node. Disney movie’s are mindmaps of historical, mystical depth — and process. Our spectators dive into. A solitude of expression and experience it is. All of these creators and figures we depict meet in the ultraworld — behind any curtain.

Probably best illustrated it is by Disneyland?

It’s the innermost of my own mind and tide — a map of Walt himself. A course of circulation, the pulse of Disney. All of these characters we create come to resistance. Vigorous, vibrant — vivid: beyond the cinematic screenplay, far away the ordinary.

In a nutshell, what it is makes out Disney?

Disney makes dreams come true.

– WALT DISNEY –

Walter Elias ‘Walt’ Disney (1901–1966) is a pioneer of the American movie industry — an imagineer, entrepreneur, animator, actor, and producer. He introduces a several of developments within the production of animations, animees, and cartoons. As producer he wins 22 Academy Awards picked from 59 nominations, receives more Oscars than any other.

Disney’s parade of victory starts with Flowers And Trees, a naturalistic animation, winning the Best Short Subject (Cartoon, 1932). It ends with Winnie The Pooh And The Blustery Day, the story of a bear in wonderland (1969) — again its the Best Short Subject. On his own he’s honored 4 times same year. In 1953 he scores the strike: The Living Desert, Best Documentary (Feature), The Alaskan Eskimo, Best Documentary (Short Subject), Toot, Whistle, Plunk And Boom, Best Short Subject (Cartoon), Bear Country, Best Short Subject (2-Reel).

To his contemporaries and companions he means the embarrassed, almost bashful tycoon of professional cynism. He’s considered hiding his shy, insecure personality his public identity behind. In public he’s almost painfully shy — in private again he almost doesn’t exist.

Thus, to many entrepreneurs he’s still the basic figure of desire impersonating the American dream of liberty and advancement. Nowadays, the Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an multinational enterprise of entertainment, headquartered in Burbank / California. In November 1966, Walt is diagnosed with lung cancer and treated with cobalt therapy. Due to his heavy smoking since World War I — he smokes a pipe as a young man, later cigarettes without any filters — the 15th of December 1966, only past 10 days his 65th day of birth, he dies of circulatory collapse. His estate: a 14 percent holding, worth 20 million dollars.

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Tobias Winkler
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