Dream It! Do It!: My Half-Century Creating Disney’s Magic Kingdoms Author: Martin Sklar | Language: English | ISBN:
1423174062 | Format: PDF
Dream It! Do It!: My Half-Century Creating Disney’s Magic Kingdoms Description
About the Author
Marty Sklar was a student at UCLA and editor of its
Daily Bruin newspaper in 1955 when he was recruited to create an 1890s-themed newspaper,
The DisneylandNews, a month before the theme park opened. After graduating, he joined Disneyland full-time in 1956, where he held responsibility for most of the park's publicity and marketing materials.
In 1961, he moved to WED Enterprises, renamed in 1986 to Walt Disney Imagineering, where he worked on attractions for the 1964 New York World's Fair. For nearly ten years, he wrote personal materials for Walt Disney for use in publications, television and special films. In 1974 he became vice president of concepts/planning, and guided the creative development of EPCOT.
As vice president of creative development, executive vice president and then president of Imagineering for nine years, Sklar supervised the design and construction of Tokyo Disneyland, the Disney-MGM Studios, Disneyland Paris, Disney's Animal Kingdom, Disney California Adventure Park, Tokyo DisneySea, the Walt Disney Studios Park and most recently Hong Kong Disneyland.
- Series: Disney Editions Deluxe
- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Disney Editions (August 13, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1423174062
- ISBN-13: 978-1423174066
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Like many fans of the Disney theme parks, I have been looking forward to Marty Sklar's book. I was fortunate to be at his house with David Price the day he got the transcript back from his daughter Leslie Ann Sklar. My memories of that day include taking in all the wonderful stuff on the walls and on his massive desk, delicious cookies, and his showing off the book of materials that he compiled back in 1967 for Roy Disney about Walt's EPCOT (described in detail in the book). He even was kind enough to make a photo copy of the memo for the plaque above the tunnels at Disneyland with Walt's handwritten changes. Very special.
Marty (I called him Mr. Sklar at first, don't do it) is an excellent writer and editor. With a number of Disney related books being edited by the Company's legal department in exchange for the rights to publish, I was not looking for a book with a bite. If you want to get an unblemished look at Disney read Rolly Crump's book. However, I was mistaken. More on that later.
Marty described his early role at Disney as "chief ghostwriter." He cut his teeth trying to take Walt's thoughts and to organize them for print. One of his pride and joys were the seven pages of notes he took during a meeting with Walt as he described the EPCOT concept. Those notes would be used to write the script for the EPCOT film. I have read those notes and it is the clearest look into Walt's mind in regards to that project. No wonder Harrison "Buzz" Price (Walt's feasibility study guy) told me that the concept was viable.
The book is filled with extensive quotes from Walt Disney and others. For example, one day Walt was telling his team why everything is a Walt Disney production.
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