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Issue 36 PERSERVING WALT DISNEY¶S RAILROAD HERITAGE Spring 2009 Disney Legend Bob 1 Disney Legend Bob Broughton Celebrated Broughton Celebrated by Michael Broggie

Welcome New and 2 On a pleasant Saturday afternoon WREH³RND\´LQWKHH\HVRI:DOW'LVQH\8E Renewing Members this past March, a group of us including Iwerks, Roger Broggie, and many others Diane Disney Miller, Don Iwerks, Ruthie who worked with him. In 2001, he was 8QGHU:DOW·V6SHOO 3 Tompson, Ted Thomas, Don Peri, and named a Disney Legend for his innovative scores of friends and family members, work in motion picture special effects. From Disney Chairman 4 gathered in a garden setting at the Motion story concept to final edit, Bob was a con- Dick Cook Revisits Picture & Television Fund Retirement stant source of solutions as to how a scene Community in Woodland Hills, California, could be put on film, such as the exciting First Job, Driving a to celebrate the life and career of Disney YLVXDOHIIHFWVRIWKH³1LJKWRQ%DOG0RXQ Train visual effects master Bob Broughton. WDLQ´ VHTXHQFH LQ Fantasia. Some of the 5 Bob moved to the retirement com- effects were actually filmed in live action The Mail Car munity in 2002. I had the opportunity to then imbedded into the animated feature. 6 interview Bob there in 2004 for a book on During his time in the military dur- Board of Governors 'LVQH\6WXGLRKLVWRU\,¶PGHYHORSLQJZLWK ing World War II, Bob worked with master Member Pictures 6 Carolwood Society Governor Gary Oak- filmmaker John Ford in the Field Photo- land. Bob told Gary and me about the early graphic Branch of the Office of Strategic Carolwood Event days of his career after graduating from Services. He was the cameraman on the 7 UCLA in 1937. Academy Award-winning Battle of Midway, Planner He was dating a young lady who directed by Ford.

7 worked as a secretary for Herb Lamb, the As a lasting tribute to Bob, and his New CPHS Items manager of production at Disney Studios relationship with John Ford, a permanent

on Hyperion Avenue. The studio staff was garden has been created in his name next to View from the Cupola 8 working into the night on a new produc- the John Ford Chapel on the campus of the tion, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Motion Picture & Television Retirement Since Bob had to wait for his date to finish Community. His two sons, Tim and Dan her work, she suggested he come up to the Broughton, and their extended family, par- office, which he did. While sitting in ticipated in the celebration and dedication. /DPE¶V RIILFH VXGGHQO\ /DUU\ /DQVEXUJK Bob passed away January 19, walked in. Larry was in charge of the traf- 2009, at the age of 91. The wizardry of his fic boys who delivered mail and messages work continues to live on. throughout the studio. * * * Assuming Bob was a friend of For those not familiar with this 48- Herb Lamb, he asked if he would be inter- acre facility, The Motion Picture & Televi- ested in filling an opening in the traffic sion Retirement Community originated as department. Not long after Bob joined the an idea back in the silent era of Hollywood studio, Larry mentioned to Herb that he among a few industry pioneers: Mary had hired his friend, to which Herb replied Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie WKDW KH GLGQ¶W NQRZ %RE DW DOO +H ZDV D Chaplin and D. W. Griffith. In 1921 they stranger just killing time waiting in his started the Motion Picture Relief Fund to office. Curious, Herb asked how the kid support people who worked in film and was doing and Larry said so far he was needed help. In 1941, veteran actor Jean Bob Broughton, Disney Legend okay. Hersholt donated the land where For over 45 years, Bob continued the present facility is located. PAGE 2 CAROLWOOD CHRONICLE ISSUE 36

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He could go into 6SUHDGLQWKHKLJKKDOOVRI:DVKLQJWRQ¶VDUWPXVHXPVLVDEURDGDQG Safeway, scan 10,000 products and then come out into the daylight SHUPDQHQWVHPLRIILFLDOVXUYH\RIWKHWKFHQWXU\DQGLW¶VJRWDKROHLQ ZLWKDVRXSFDQWKDW\RXFDQ¶WUHPRYHIURP\RXUKHDG,W¶VLQWKHUH LW6RPHRQHZKRUHDOO\RXJKWWREHWKHUHLVPLVVLQJ7KH\¶YHOHIWWalt irremovable. Pluto and Jiminy Cricket and Thumper sit on the same Disney out. shelf. 1RZ WKDW LW¶V RYHU DQG UHFHGLQJ HYHU\ GD\ DQG VWHDGLO\ EHFRPLQJ Disney could hang with the surrealists. Sometimes he just another episode in art history, how can you look back at the century was one of them. Disney shared the creepiness, the mining of mem- and pretend to see it whole, and then completely omit what Disney¶V ory, dream and irrational juxtaposition that we attribute to the best of GUDZLQJGLGWRLWVYLVXDOV"&RPHRQWKDWFDQ¶WEHULJKW WKHP1RZRQGHU6DOYDGRU'DOLFDPHWRZRUNZLWK'LVQH\³7KH 7KRXJK KDQGPDGH DV GUDZLQJV KDG DOZD\V EHHQ 'LVQH\¶V ZHUH made with a studio-factory of his own devising. Anyone raised in this QLJKW RI RXU PHHWLQJ´ ZURWH WKH 6SDQLDUG ZKR ZDV QRW HDVLO\ country, or anywhere else for that matter, knows what they look like. DPD]HG³,VSHQWDOPRVWHQWLUHO\ZLWKRXWVOHHS´ 'LVQH\¶VPRVWVXUUHDOHSLVRGHLVWKHRQHLQZKLFK'XPERGUXQN 7KH\¶UH DFWLYH DQG URXQGHG DQG MXYHQLOH DQG WKH\ SHUIRUP WKH\¶UH by accident, zooms off into an hallucination of blaring trombones, wholesome and scary, fantastical, folklorical and eerily transmissible. pink elephants (of course), morphing blobs and infinite regressions. 7KH\ SXW LQWR WKH FHQWXU\ D QHZ PRGH RI GHSLFWLRQ WKDW ZDVQ¶W WKHUH when it started but was everywhere when it closed. ³,KDYHQHYHUVHHQDQ\WKLQJWRDSSURDFKLW´ZURWH2WLV)HUJXVRQLQ WKH1HZ5HSXEOLF³DQGQHLWKHUKDYH\RXEHFDXVHWKHUHKDVQ¶WEHHQ Walter Elias Disney (1901²1966) grew up in the middle of the country, on its farms and in its cities and little unpaved towns, a skinny, DQ\WKLQJ´ Another surreal quality of his animation is its animism. Both strangely gifted kid drawing flip-books for his pals. His art looks Ameri- words are rooted in the Latin animare can, but not entirely, Disney having gotten a serious jolt of Europe when ³WRPDNHDOLYH´³WRILOOZLWK EUHDWK´ DQG'LVQH\UDWKHUVSRRNLO\EUHDWKHGELWVRIKLVOLYLQJVHOI KHGURYHDPEXODQFHVLQ)UDQFHLQ:RUOG:DU,2QFHKH¶GVHHQ³3DUHH´ into all his dancing toadstools, hippos and marching mops. This is young Disney did not go back to the farm. Instead, he found his way to ancient magic that takes you, through fairy tales and Pygmalion, way +ROO\ZRRG ZKHUH VWDUWLQJ LQ ZLWK ³6WHDPERDW :LOOLH´ KH PDGH EDFNWRWKHGDZQGD\VZKHQVSLULWVGZHOWLQSRQGVDQGURFNV³+H ³6QRZ:KLWHDQGWKH6HYHQ'ZDUIV´³3LQRFFKLR´³)DQWDVLD´² aston- ishing things. 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2002. H[DFWO\ZKDWKHZDQWHG´ Bambi is as much a person as a deer, but he sure looks like a deer. 'LVQH\¶VH[FOXVLRQLVQ¶WDFRQVSLUDF\7RRPXFKRIZKDWKHPDGH While creating him, the Disney studio brought in all the deer film it especially later, looks robotic, less the output of an artist than the mer- could find, and shot more in Maine, and got a dead deer for its art FKDQGLVHRIDEUDQG+HZDVQ¶W:LQVORZ+RPHU+LVJDJGHSHQGHQFH too, has worked against him. Organized in rows of metal filing cabinets VFKRRO ³5LFR /HEUXQ´ ZULWHV *DEOHU ³FRQGXFWHG FODVVHV LQ WKH afternoon to analyze deer anatomy. He had gotten a fresh carcass in his studio in California were 1.5 million gags in 124 classifications, from a forest ranger, and at each session he would remove another and traditional museums, being somber institutions, do not much like layer of the skin or muscle until he reached the bone by which jokes. And not even his best work is comfortably collected. What ² time Eric Larson was the only one of the staff who could tolerate the would you buy ² the throwaway sketches, cels (individual frames) that VWHQFK´ 7KRPDV (DNLQV WHDFKLQJ LQ 3KLODGHOSKLD KDG GRQH WKH other artists painted, reels of film, DVDs, a watch? same, with a horse, just as stinkily. But, still. -Americans first empa- He deserves more than the video store. He should be in the museums ,ZRXOGQ¶WEHVXUSULVHGLIORWVRIJUHHQHFR for a variety of reasons. Here are six: WKL]HGZLWKDQLPDOVZKLOHZDWFKLQJ'LVQH\¶VILOPV Politeness says admit him. Disney, let us not forget, did Walt Disney made drawing move. This is not a trivial accom- his artly duty. He recognized top quality, as museums are supposed plishment. Artists in the Ice Age caves gave their horses extra legs to to. He trained artists by the hundreds (since one second of a Disney indicate them galloping, and in Greece and Rome, gods were provided film required 17 hand-drawn stills). To blackball the good fellow with twisting poses and flyings-off of drapery to suggest their godly after all of that seems a little rude. motions. Disney did more than suggest. Leonardo would have fallen He put big money into art schools (the one in his studio eventually down in ecstasy if his whirlpools really whirled. became California Institute of the Arts). In 1943, he joined the board Earlier artists had explored animation ² Mélies in France, McCay in of the Museum of Modern Art. And, in many disciplines, he sought America ² but only tentatively. Disney went way beyond them. First collaboration with artists of high rank. KHJRWULGRILWVMHUNLQHVVDQGWKHQKHPDGHLWVLQJ ³:KHQWalt Disney Pictures looked Disney rode it often. The setup in his garden was elaborate, nos- to an unusual talent: the chairman of the studio. Yes, making talgia-soaked, the opposite of grown-up, onrushing and ma- his big-screen debut on Friday, March 6 is none other than Dis- chined, like his art. ney top dog Dick Cook. Time is on his side. Go to any with-it contemporary art Cook, known for his folksy personality, started his career at VKRZ DQG \RX¶OO VHH ZKDW , PHDQ /LW-up screens are every- the company in 1970 as a monorail and steam locomotive opera- where; so are ever-moving images, well-recorded sound effects, WRUDW'LVQH\ODQG6R³5DFH´GLUHFWRU$QG\)LFNPDQWKRXJKWLW plastic fabrications. In serious museums these would not have would be a funny inside joke to put Cook in the film as the op- been admissible when Disney was at his peak, but they are now. erator of a freight train that crashes in spectacular fashion after 7KHROGUXOHVKDYHEHHQEURNHQPXOWLPHGLD¶VLQDQ\WKLQJJRHV getting caught in alien crossfire. All art recalls its precedents. Our electrical, collaborative, 7KHIDWHRI&RRN¶VFKDUDFWHULVOHIWXSLQWKHDLUVRPHWKLQJ shiny, noisy 21st-century brings with it a distinctive past just as that concerned at least one eagle-eyed boy in a test screening, much as painting does. The advanced work of our own time is )LFNPDQVDLG³7KLVNLGSLSHGXSDQGZDQWHGWRNQRZZKDW doing Walt Disney a favor, legitimizing retrospectively the art he happened to that really nice train conductor man, which I made in his. WKRXJKWZDVDGRUDEOH´KHVDLG * * * Cook declined to comment. But Fickman clearly enjoyed the 3DULVKDVDOUHDG\VHHQDELJ:DOW'LVQH\VKRZ&DOOHG³2QFH H[SHULHQFH³7KHUH¶VQRWKLQJOLNHGLUHFWLQJDJX\ZKRFRXOG 8SRQD7LPH´LWRSHQHGDWWKH*UDQG3DODLVLQ%XW:DVK HQG\RXUFDUHHURQWKHVSRW´KHVDLG+HMRNLQJO\DGGHG³+H LQJWRQ¶V VWLOO ZDLWLQJ 6RPHGD\ WKHUH PD\ EH D ELJ 'LVQH\ DUW was a pleasure to work with, though ² H[FHSWIRUWKHGULQNLQJ´ exhibit somewhere on the Mall. I know what it should look like, and sometimes I imagine it. 7KH 3DULV H[KLELWLRQ ZDV ODUJHO\ ILOOHG ZLWK 'LVQH\¶V DUW 7KLV RQHVKRXOGEHPL[HG,WVKRXOGQ¶WEHRQO\DERXW'LVQH\ KH GLGQ¶WZRUNDORQH DQGLWVKRXOGQ¶WEHRYHU-VHULRXV KHZDVQ¶W and it ought to entertain. ,WVKRXOGLQFOXGHVRPHEOREVRI'DOL¶VPHOWLQJZDWFKHVWRJR with his surrealism, and some dramatic bucking broncos, in EURQ]H E\ 5HPLQJWRQ WR JR ZLWK 'LVQH\¶V DQLPDOV DQG VRPH ferocious North Atlantic waves crashing on the coast of Maine in RLOVE\:LQVORZ+RPHUWRDFFRPSDQ\³3LQRFFKLR¶V´VFDU\VWRUP at sea. The pop artists should be there, too. To evoke what came DIWHU KLP DQG VR VKRXOG ³*HUWLH WKH 'LQRVDXU´ D KDQG- drawn film by Winsor McCay, to show what came before. It also ought to have a whole gallery of cartoonists, including those who worked with him (Walt Kelly, for example) and those who merely paid him homage (say, the great R. Crumb). To demon- strate that first-UDWH DUW FDQ EH IDEXORXV DQG IXQQ\ ,¶G LQFOXGH 5HG*URRPVDQG,¶GSXWLQ1RUPDQ5RFNZHOOWRRMXVWIRUFRP pany. In darkened rooms with comfy seats, there will be screenings RI ³)DQWDVLD´ DQG ³'XPER´ DQG WKH ³6LOO\ 6\PSKRQLHV´ 6H quences of Disney cels will be lined up on the walls. Maybe the guards will all wear Disney watches. ,¶G LQFOXGH D JUHDW -HII .RRQV DV ZHOO +LV ³%DOORRQ 'RJ´ZRXOGEHSHUIHFW7KDW¶VEHFDXVHLW¶VIHHWKLJKSROLVKHG to a fare-thee-well, toylike and magnificent, inflated, unironic, and completely disneyesque. ,W¶GEHDKHFNRIDVKRZ )XOOFRORU´[´PDWWHGWR´[´² (Ed. note ² The opening of the Walt Disney Museum located at the Presido in San Francisco, CA is eagerly awaited.) Original art by Ed Wexler. Price $20.00 + $3.00 shipping and handling. PAGE 5 CAROLWOOD CHRONICLE ISSUE 36

The Mail Car I am writing to request an interview with Michael Brog- gie for my upcoming documentary on Walt Disney. My name is Jenna Kovsky and I am a student filmmaker from Guajome Park Academy in Vista, CA. This will be my I believe I have missed a couple of the Carolwood second documentary for the National History Day competi- Chronicles and wonder if I forgot to renew my member- tion. Last year my film on the plight of wild horses won ship. I seem to be in too many clubs to keep track of the first place in San Diego County and competed at the state renewal dates through the year, therefore I am enclosing OHYHO7KLV \HDUWKHWKHPHLV ³7KH,QGLYLGXDOLQ+LVWRU\ dues for two years. $FWLRQV DQG /HJDFLHV´ DQG , KDYH FKRVHQ :DOW 'LVQH\ ,DPKHDGLQJVRXWKIRU1HZ

Thank you for making me feel so welcome into your community. I am so excited to read the book that Mi- (Ed. Note ² After the interview with Michael, 12-year-old Jenna ex- celled and was chosen by her school to represent it at San Diego chael wrote. I am going to recommend this book to any &RXQW\¶V1DWLRQDO+LVWRU\'D\HYHQWKHOGDWWKH6DQ'LHJR%RDUGRI fan of Disney history as it has such detail into how the Education offices. She received an Honorable Mention award making magic began. I look forward to hearing more from the her an alternate to compete at the state level if the top contestant could- CPHS community. Thank you. Q¶WPDNHLW-HQQDZDVDOLWWOHGLVDSSRLQWHGQRWWRDGYDQFHEXWIHHOVLW was a worthwhile experience and was glad to share her excitement about ~~ Matt Naldzin Walt Disney and his legacy with her peers. We wish her well in her ~~ Lansdale, PA future endeavors.)

It was a pleasure to meet you and Michael at the :RUOG¶V*UHDWHVW+REE\RQ7RXUVKRZWKLVSDVWZHHNHQG LQ3KLODGHOSKLD3$%RWKP\ZLIHDQG,IRXQG0LFKDHO¶V presentation to be very informative and entertaining. That made the trip entirely worthwhile. Thanks for making it possible for us, and thanks for all that you both do to preserve and promote the history of one of the 20th FHQWXU\¶VSUHHPLQHQWUDLOURDGKREE\LVWVDQGIDQV² Walt Disney. ~~ Neil D. Norlund ~~ Cherry Hill, NJ.

We loved San Antonio! The train show was wonderful. Ken picked up a few train cars for his layout. We would like to order badges ² with just our names (without the city and state). Now we need to plan a trip to Walt Disney World...so we can wear them! Hahaha! Another excuse for another trip! When you go to the Cleveland show, be sure to dress warm, go to the Rock-N -Roll Hall of Fame and shop til yah drop at the Galleria! ~~ Cindy Kay Rhye ~~ Charleston, SC Jenna Kovsky

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VIEW FROM THE CUPOLA. . . . Eleven years ago, I received a sur- on July 19, 1999; featuring three genera- July 19th from 11 am to 3 pm. for a SULVHWHOHSKRQHFDOOIURP:DOW'LVQH\¶V WLRQVRI:DOW¶VIDPLO\LQFOXGLQJ'LDQH public 10th Anniversary Celebration. eldest daughter, Diane. I was aware that Disney Miller. The Carolwood Society * * * her family had recently sold the property undertook the continuing operations of a In addition to trains, many of us on Carolwood Drive in Holmby Hills mini-PXVHXPGHGLFDWHGWR:DOW¶VORYHRI enjoy sailing. On March 26th Roy Pat- that her mother had occupied until her railroading and individuals who shared rick Disney helped the Westlake Yacht passing in December 1997. Since the his passion including Ward Kimball, Club raise funds for its community escrow was about to close, Diane wanted Ollie Johnston, Roger Broggie and junior sailing program to encourage WREHVXUHKHUIDWKHU¶VIDYRULWHZRUNSODFH Morrie Hauser. children to learn the sport of competi- would be saved. To celebrate our 10th anniver- tive sailing. ³:HQHHGWRVDYHGDG¶VEDUQ´'LDQH VDU\RI:DOW¶V%DUQLQ*ULIILWK3DUN Roy provided a live introduction to VDLG³&DQ\RXKHOSXV"´ the Carolwood Foundation is hosting a private, sold-out screening of his fa- As one of the founding board of a private party on Saturday, July 18th WKHU¶VIHDWXUHGRFXPHQWDU\ governors of the Carolwood Pacific His- from 6 pm to 9 pm. Members of the Morning Light, the dramatic true-life torical Society Diane believed our or- Carolwood Society have first oppor- adventure of a group of 11 young peo- ganization could rally its resources to tunity to purchase tickets, which are ple who had never crewed on an open salvage the historic workshop that would limited to two per member and cost ocean race. They competed in the likely be reduced to scrap. $45 each. Tickets go on sale April Transpacific Yacht Race, a 2,225 mile We engaged the services of a resto- 15th, and there are a limited number non-stop sail from Los Angeles to ration contractor, Bill Abel, and the tal- of tickets available. Tickets include +RQROXOX,W¶VFRQVLGHUHGWKHPRVW ents of Carolwood Governor Miguel a catered barbeque, a commemora- challenging race in yacht sailing com- Fernandez, a professional architect. tive gift and a program featuring petition. Within a few weeks, the structure surprise guests. To order tickets (no Roy and his father have competed was safely dismantled and stored to await more than two per member) go to in 15 consecutive biannual Transpac its fate. www.carolwood.org/10thAnniversary UDFHVDQGKHOGWKHZRUOGUHFRUG5R\¶V Through Los Angeles City Council- to purchase with your credit/ five year old son loves trains and the man Tom LaBonge, then top advisor to debit card. If you wish to send a WZRDUHSODQQLQJDYLVLWWR:DOW¶V%DUQ Mayor Reardon, we entered negotiations check or money order, please make for a day of railroad fun. They are with the board of directors of the Los payable to Carolwood Foundation members of the Carolwood Society. Angeles Live Steamers, which operate a and send to 2060-D Avenida de Los --Michael Broggie 10-acre miniature railroad facility in Arboles, #237, Westlake Village, Griffith Park. CA 91362-1376. If you have ques- After consummating a loan agree- tions, please call (323) 786-6485 and ment among the Walt Disney Family someone will return your call as Foundation, the LA Live Steamers and soon as possible. The last date to the City of Los Angeles, construction have your money in for tickets is began in a meadow located in the east June 15, 2009. Due to the demand HQGRIWKH/$/LYH6WHDPHUV¶SHUPLW and expected sell out, early reserva- area. tions are strongly recommended. A dedication ceremony took place :DOW¶V%DUQZLOOEHRSHQRQ6XQGD\