Star reports on Kansas City's favorite (possible) Nazi sympathizer and purveyor of racist cartoons: "For 15 years, a Kansas City group has raised money to revitalize Laugh-O-Gram, Walt Disney’s first professional animation studio, and turn it into an interactive historical site, educational museum and perhaps more. Now, 90 years after Disney began work there in May 1922, organizers are launching their final fund-raising push, hoping to complete the project by 2015."
Even worse . . . Disney was a notorious union buster who worked against his animators . . . Other than the possibility that the tribute MIGHT include his frozen head . . . It's mostly a bad idea and a MONUMENTAL waste of time for a town that already has too many museums.
Even worse . . . Disney was a notorious union buster who worked against his animators . . . Other than the possibility that the tribute MIGHT include his frozen head . . . It's mostly a bad idea and a MONUMENTAL waste of time for a town that already has too many museums.
If it's private money, let them.
ReplyDeleteThey have plenty of loot! They don't NEED mine. fuck them.
ReplyDeleteThe Disney Corporation does not consider Laugh-O-gram studios to be a part of the official life and times of their Walt Disney, hence the reason for it's dilapidation.
ReplyDeleteSo technically, this celebrates the time Before Disney ratted out all of his Jewish friends and became sorta evil.
He was just a simple man, completely ripping off Otto Messmer's Felix the Cat.
Mr. Tony,
ReplyDeleteJust like Henry Ford, this man used Nazi hatred to enrich his personal wealth.
He may have thrown crumbs to a starving mouse in the brick building on Forest, but he went along with the genocide practised in the brick buildings in Germany. Starving Jews and their sympathizers were not treated so humanely as the rodent in KCMO.
Disney employed MANY Nazis in the post-war years. It is not as if he was the one person in America who did not know of the mass murders in Nazi Germany and across the European continent.
If an erstwhile museum is to be carved out of the ruins of the brick building on Forest, it must have ALL OF THE HISTORICAL DATA.
Disney's known affection for Nazis is well documented.
He was a vulgar man.
If there is a party, count on TKC to poop it. And to 11:17 and 2:57, the Jewish author Neal Gabler absolves Disney of the charge of anti-Semitism in his 2006 biography, "Walt Disney."
ReplyDeleteIt seems rather stupid that this city has never really taken advantage of the fact that the most recognized image in the world, that of Mickey Mouse, has roots in a particular location in Kansas City. We should have cashed in on this a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah. And you say union sympathizer? Isn't that Italians, like you, who are complaining about the firefighters, who started the bogus embezzling money of the unions. Grow up, what are you, 40?
ReplyDeleteYour right, Mickey Mouse was started in KC. His name was Mortimer mouse, and Walt changed it. It was his pet that stayed in his desk. True story
ReplyDeleteGood thing Walt's not working at that address now!
ReplyDeleteWhat a joke. Mickey sucked and he's not worth a museum.
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