The reader would turn a knob on the side, and the panels would rotate from north to south through a small window on the front of the box.
Actually, they weren’t really pages, they were panels, like a comic book, wrapped around a scroll jammed inside a little plastic box. Walt needed a hit, and he needed it achieved on a barebones budget.Ī year earlier, a new company called Roll-A-Book sold Disney the rights to an unpublished eight-page story entitled Dumbo, the Flying Elephant. America was on the precipice of World War II, and global distress distracted from animated pleasantries. In 1940, with only three feature films under their belt, Walt Disney Production’s prosperity looked rather grim.
The sovereignty of Disney was not always a certainty.
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The Walt Disney Company is a monolithic monster, but we’re happy to ignore its viral planetary takeover as long as we get a decent Fantastic Four movie out of the deal. You may be able to debate whether or not cannibalistic slavers will ever rule over society, but considering the recent corporate consumption of 21st Century Fox, there is little doubt that all future entertainments will be referred to as “Disneys.” The Mouse House’s total box office domination is a cultural certainty, and the impending arrival of the Disney+ streaming service should even have Netflix quaking in their boots. We are not far off from the apocalyptic future imagined by David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.
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