David Rosenthal: uncertainty

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…Yeah. Isn't there some famous story of people sort of standing up and screaming, "We want Steamboat Willie again!" instead of playing the main feature? Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. But still, you know, Disney now needs to find a distributor. And now he's got the proof point. These New York distributors, they're still so conservative. They're like, well, you had one hit. I don't know that, like, we can really trust that this isn't just a fad, that the future sound Mickeys are also gonna be a hit and that you can repeat the magic. And famously, one distributor, while Walt is meeting with him here and is trying to explain to Walt why he's gonna pass again on the Mickey deal, picks up a package of Life Savers candy. And he says to Walt, the public knows the Life Savers brand. They know what these are. They don't know Walt Disney and they don't know your mouse. Your mouse.…

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