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49 published records
01 / recommendation
“One, how a mechanical watch works, and two, how a Formula 1 car works. I highly recommend the channel, Animagraffs.”
02 / recommendation
“The sightlines, man. The, the—I, I like going to Disneyland just to walk around.”
03 / recommendation
“Tons of great Disney ones, Disney parks that were never built. There's a great one on the Florida Project, so I highly recommend Defunctland.”
04 / belief
“Gabler, I think, was the only author who had full access to the Disney archives, and all the research he did for that book is just incredible.”
05 / belief
“I think Walt himself has a famous quip on this, which is tomorrow comes a lot faster into today than we can kinda keep up with.”
06 / belief
“Yep, I think that's right. All right, so that's the animation process. That is why this is such a giant, difficult undertaking to create something like Snow White.”
07 / uncertainty
“I turned over every stone I possibly could on this company and we spent, I don't know, the better part of the year so far researching this and I found zero evidence of that.”
08 / observation
“I kinda suspect the way that a relationship between Disney and Nintendo, the only way it could work would be if one of them buys the other.”
09 / uncertainty
“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.”
10 / belief
“Yeah. And because it's Disney and part of Disneyland, we think, oh yeah, audio animatronics, like Disneyland.”
11 / belief
“Again, I think the novelty of cartoons plus live animation, audiences are entertained for a few years.”
12 / belief
“Walt also, in his mind, I think, comes to see this Burbank campus as really a utopian-like place, kind of almost like a college campus.”
13 / belief
“There's all this video of it, of him saying, "I believe so-and-so is a communist.”
14 / belief
“I think most of the film profits from Snow White went to repay all the loans to Bank of America.”
15 / belief
“Come in, raid the company, break it up for parts. But, David, I think you're getting ahead of yourself.”
16 / uncertainty
“I don't know, actually, that's almost like a capitalism moat to go pursue Snow White because there was no one else who really could have done it.”
17 / commitment
“Morgan in person, we will be on stage at the We Are Developers World Congress in San Jose this September.”
18 / belief
“Core Disney and Disney Animation and Pixar have been so disciplined over the years about metering out their content and the core delivery of that content on an infrequent enough basis that it doesn't dilute it. And Marvel, ironically, I think really is the counterexample here.”
19 / belief
“Yep. And I think there's something else too that only comes when you really fully embrace the flywheel business model and the trade-offs that it involves.”
20 / uncertainty
“In the long run, it's a pretty amazing strategy since they'd been paying I don't know, what is it, about a third of the total rentals to another distributor.”
21 / belief
“Yep, yep, yep. But I think for every other studio out there, their incentives have always been and are always going to be to release as much content as quickly as possible.”
22 / observation
“You've got parks to do—it's almost like the extreme bottom of funnel, the way to experience the most Disney thing you possibly could experience every once in a while, but a huge monetization event.”
23 / commitment
“Essentially, it was Roy's way of saying, okay, the company doesn't want to be too tied up in this project if it fails, but we will provide you a way to get more cash flows from the company so you can figure out how to do more of the funding of this thing yourself.”
24 / observation
“There's a team of operators to make it work. You had to climb a ladder to get all the way to the top.”
25 / evaluation
“Halfway through construction, they discover that Rivers of America almost doesn't work at all.”
26 / belief
“The second reason that I suspect you're hinting at, David, is it is real close to Lockheed.”
27 / belief
“I have a fun bit of trivia for you, Ben. So as I think you know, Disney eventually does get the rights to Oswald back.”
28 / uncertainty
“I mean, it sort of sounds like a— I don't know if it's a utopian or a dystopian film or both.”
29 / belief
“I think more than anything else, like through Disney films and Looney Tunes and Warner Brothers, I was just sitting there like, man, I feel like I should be watching some animation right now.”
30 / belief
“To this day, I think the most impressive thing about Disneyland is the sightlines.”
31 / belief
“I mean, yeah, you were there for a production, but I think the point you're trying to make is there were also these cartoons with gags.”
32 / belief
“I think, I think he's an engineer. I think he's, he loves picking things apart and learning the way they work.”
33 / belief
“Walt is like the original Steve Jobs, and I think you can definitely make the case that Ub is the Steve Wozniak.”
34 / belief
“The other story is that Walt always had a dream since he got to Hollywood of having his name up on a neon sign. And now that they have their own real studio, he wants a neon sign constructed that says the Walt Disney Studio, which I think does happen.”
35 / uncertainty
“Remember, this is at the same time as Disney is making short cartoons for like, I don't know, $20,000, $30,000.”
36 / belief
“In the better economics of not having to share too much on the back end or in merchandising fees, etc, with stars. And then I think really just like the ability of people to form deep, lasting relationships with the characters versus live action.”
37 / belief
“I think Iwerks had immense artistic talent as an animator and was able to do that.”
38 / commitment
“I will say I don't have the faith after watching a lot of videos and documentaries and reading about the Florida Project, it just doesn't make sense to me.”
39 / belief
“I think the quote was, "Radio whets the appetite for attending baseball games live, and TV satiates it.”
40 / belief
“Now, there's a reason why the Screen Cartoonists Guild had stayed away from Disney despite it obviously being the leader in animation up until this point, which is I think Walt's utopian dream more or less was true, or at least true enough.”
41 / commitment
“That's where we'll send our big takeaways from each episode, past episode corrections, exclusive behind-the-scenes photos that we found in our research, and it's where you can vote on future episode topics. Plus, we will give away a little hint each time about the next episode topic.”
42 / recommendation
“It's about Walt the person. Highly recommend going to see it next time you are in San Francisco.”
43 / evaluation
“There were no sound movie soundtrack albums before then, and it is a huge hit both because, you know, it's a great soundtrack, but like before this album, there was never anything that audiences could take home actually of the picture that they saw in theaters.”
44 / evaluation
“I think he really did recognize the incredible flywheel business model that he had sort of accidentally created and leaned into it.”
45 / evaluation
“Now, critically for Disney, and again, I think completely accidentally discovered by Walt, the IP that works best for flywheel dynamics almost has to be animated, i.”
46 / prediction
“Wow. So this means they're flying even closer to the sun than I realized because they've got the $8 million in sort of investments that they need to fund and they have $4.”
47 / prediction
“I said, Roy, this television thing can be the greatest thing because we will be going direct to the public.”
48 / recommendation
“I highly recommend the channel, Animagraffs.”
49 / recommendation
“There's a great one on the Florida Project, so I highly recommend Defunctland.”