![]() ![]() A silver confetti cannon exploded over Mickey and Minnie mascots who wore special silver and purple centenary outfits. German celebrities and members of the official Disney fanclub were present when the Munich exhibition opened in April. Disney eventually relented and Söder got down on one knee when he met Minnie Mouse.įitting … Cinderella’s slipper from 2015, worn by Lily James. According to exhibition producer Christoph Scholz, it took a while to convince Disney that Bavaria’s minister-president, Markus Söder, who enjoys posting pictures of his Star Trek mugs on Instagram and once dressed up as Shrek, should give a speech at the launch in Munich. Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that Disney100: The Exhibition is aggressively apolitical. Disney is also suing Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who is trying to seize control of the company’s self-governing district near Orlando after former Disney executive Bob Chapek criticised the governor’s anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. Last Thursday, on the eve of the actors’ strike, Iger described it as “disturbing”, remarks which Fran Drescher, president of actors’ union Sag-Aftra, described as “repugnant and tone deaf”. ![]() In May, Disney paused production on various shows due to writers’ strikes. In February, chief executive Bob Iger announced 7,000 layoffs after a net loss of 2.4 million subscribers to streaming platform Disney+. Outside the exhibition hall, however, the Walt Disney Company is having a bumpy birthday. When Cline saw the results for the first time: “I got goosebumps.” Regrettably, this isn’t the level of tech seen when Kanye West arranged for Kim Kardashian to have a holographic visit from her dead father, and the “ooh” factor is missing as Walt tells visitors, “There’s a lot of satisfaction in developing ideas into reality.” His speech is a combination of two historical audio recordings and his body is made from AI-enhanced footage from the 1960s. Half-hologram, half a strange sort of layered cinema screen, 3D Walt appears lifesize before exhibition-goers in a cloud of fairy dust. Keen to have Walt himself greet punters and undeterred by his 56 years dead, Cline worked with visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic to create “something that had not been done before”: Disney MagicStage. “I always had this dream of having Walt Disney host the exhibition,” says Cline, who has worked for Disney for 34 years. How exactly do you summarise everything the company has done in a century? When Disney archivist Becky Cline began working on the exhibition five years ago, she knew exactly where to start: resurrecting Walt. Guests can see hundreds of props and costumes as well as play with interactive installations – press this button to hear Moana sing in Hebrew! Pull this lever to play a different underwater Disney scene! The jewel in Prince Charming’s crown, however, is a touring exhibition which opened in Philadelphia in February, came to Munich in April and is arriving at the Excel in London in the October, with tickets going on sale on 18 July.ĭisney100: The Exhibition is made up of 10 galleries, organised not chronologically but thematically: in one you can learn about music, and another is all about theme parks. Though the mouse who needs no introduction was not created until 1928, Disney is capitalising on the anniversary of the far less recognisable Alice with a concert, a merchandise collection and an ambiguous-sounding “multi-sensory friendship experience” for over-18s. How do you celebrate the centenary of the second biggest media company on the planet? This October marks 100 years since Walt Disney founded his eponymous film studio and began producing silent shorts known as the Alice Comedies. ![]()
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