Behind the Magic: Who is Behind the Magic of Disney?

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Many people know about or have heard about a magical place called Disney World. Children dream about this wonderful world filled with their favorite movie characters and dream of going to meet them in person. Disney World is a place where kids can be kids, and adults can feel like kids again. What people do not think about most often, when they think about this magical place, is the people behind the magic, or the person who made the dream alive for us to experience.

Before there was the idea of Disney World, there was Disneyland. Disneyland started as a dream but the dream became a reality, thanks to a man named Walt Disney. The idea of Disneyland began in 1951 when Walt met a movie art director, Harper Goff, who started to sketch out Walt’s ideas for the theme park. Walt Disney was all about making dreams come true and taking storytelling from two dimensions and making them into three dimensions. His idea was for visitor to feel as if they stepped into a movie when they stepped into Disneyland (The Imageneers 11). Walt states in his 1952 proposal for Disneyland that “[He wants vi...

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