Monday, November 25, 2013

This week, I went to the Museum of Science and Industry and saw the Treasures of Walt Disney Archives exhibit.  I have been to the Disney Family Museum in San Francisco twice before, so I didn't learn anything new about Walt Disney from the Museum, but the Family Museum cuts off when Walt Disney died in 1966 whereas this exhibit continued and had things from more current films.

This exhibit also had more production elements, including the books that open Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty and the costumes worn in Enchanted. This exhibit had a scale model of the Multiplane camera but I saw the real one in the family museum.  There were also a lot of production papers, including concept art and storyboards.





I thought the exhibit was fascinating.  Being a Disneyphile already, I was very interested to read and see everything.  It was especially interesting to see some of the maquettes and other figures.  I also liked seeing the behind the scenes work of the films and shorts, especially the earlier ones, like the Alice shorts.  I've watched them on YouTube but it was different seeing them on a large scale, getting to see other patrons' reactions.

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