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Walt Do You Know About Disney? :: Our Home Community :: Walt Do You Know About Disney? Storytelling Activity Purpose: To better understand how facts are selectively used and adapted to tell an intentional/purpose-filled story from the author's point of view, and to determine ways to hear and interpret the author's intent from the audience's point of view. Goal: Stimulate a discussion about how the audience, intent and authorial context of the facts might color our understanding of the story; also, to see that multiple points of view make up a greater story. Instructions: • Spilt your group into two or three smaller groups. • Hand out one set of facts (note that the facts may differ from group to group in their content, quantity and detail – this is intentional), and one copy of quotations to each group. • Have them follow the instructions on the top of the page as a group. Once completed, they need to elect an individual to be their group's "storyteller." (Note: it's best if the various groups can't hear each other discuss the activity.) • Have the individual storytellers relay their version of the facts to the entire group. o Do not let the storyteller say their group's objective. Let the story speak for itself as much as possible. o It's okay if the storyteller adds a few editorial and clarifying comments in and around the facts in order to string them together more coherently or explain them more fully. o Reiterate that as often as possible the storyteller should relay the actual verbiage of the facts and quotes as accurately as possible. • Optional Bonus: Before each storyteller presents, secretly give them a particular context and/or audience to target with their message. o Group A audience: Foreign fans of Disney films who know little about American history and geography. o Group B audience: Young children. o Group C audience: People who currently work for Disney. o Context ideas: You knew Walt personally; you worked at the studio; you're a relative of someone that was close to Walt; etc. • This activity should take 30 to 45 minutes: 5-10 minutes for groups to formulate their story; 2-5 minutes for each group to tell its story; 10-15 minutes for discussion. Discussion: • What was similar/different among the various groups' retelling of the story? • Who was each group talking to? What was their main point? How did you determine the storyteller's main point? What themes did you hear? • What did groups leave out? Should they have left that information out? • How do you feel about some of the facts differing in content/point of view/detail? • Which group's version presents the true Walt Disney? Was one group more accurate than the other? Why/why not? ourhomecommunity.wordpress.com Brent Otey :: Our Home Community :: Group A Instructions: Select 5 or 6 facts below and at least one Walt Disney quote, then place a number next to them in the order you want to relay them as a story. Objective: Convince your audience that where Walt Disney was from, where he lived, and the places he visited where strong influences on his career. Facts from Walt Disney's life • Elias Disney (Walt's father) married Flora Call on January 1, 1888, in Acron, Florida, just 40 miles north of where Walt Disney World would ultimately be developed. • Disney was born in 1901 in Chicago's Hermosa community area (Hermosa means "beautiful" in Spanish) • In 1906, when Walt was four, Elias and his family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri. The town would become the inspiration for the film Lady and the Tramp, and the design of Main Street, U.S.A. (inside the main entrance of Disneyland.) • Walt's father, Elias, was a subscriber to the Appeal to Reason newspaper and Walt copied the front-page cartoons of Ryan Walker. • After moving to California in October 1923, Walt and his brother Roy pooled their money and set up the Disney Brothers' Studio, located on Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Hollywood, the movie industry's capital city. • In the spring of 1928, Disney lost control of his popular Oswald the Lucky Rabbit character to Universal Pictures, and much of his staff was hired away. Walt promised never to work with a character he did not own ever again. Disney asked Ub Iwerks, who stayed on, to start drawing up new character ideas. Iwerks tried sketches of frogs, dogs, and cats, but none of these appealed to Disney. Ub Iwerks eventually got inspiration from an old drawing. In 1925, Hugh Harman drew some sketches of mice around a photograph of Walt Disney. These inspired Ub Iwerks to create a new mouse character for Disney, eventually called Mickey Mouse. • In the words of one Disney employee, "Ub designed Mickey's physical appearance, but Walt gave him his soul." • Mickey Mouse has become one of the most recognizable cartoon characters in the world. He is the official mascot of the Walt Disney Company, has been in over 130 films, and has received 10 Academy Award Nominations. • Walt Disney drew sketches of his ideas for an amusement park on a business trip to Chicago in the late-1940s after a visit to Children's Fairyland in Oakland, California. The amusement park Walt envisioned would eventually become Disneyland. • In 1949, Disney and his family moved to a new home on a large piece of land in the Holmby Hills district of Los Angeles, California. Walt used this land to build a miniature steam railroad, similar to one his friends (the Kimballs) had. Having his own railroad later inspired Walt to in- clude a railroad in Disneyland. • Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, and his ashes were interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. ourhomecommunity.wordpress.com Brent Otey :: Our Home Community :: Group B Instructions: Select 5 or 6 facts below and at least one Walt Disney quote, then place a number next to them in the order you want to relay them as a story. Objective: Convince your audience that the unjust and unexpected loss of his first popular cartoon creation, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, was what fueled Walt Disney's future success. Facts from Walt Disney's life • Disney was born at the beginning of the 20th century. • In 1906, when Walt was four, Elias and his family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri. The town would become the inspiration for the film Lady and the Tramp, and the design of Main Street, U.S.A. (inside the main entrance of Disneyland.) • Walt's father, Elias, was a subscriber to the Appeal to Reason newspaper and Walt copied the front-page cartoons of Ryan Walker. • Walt became interested in animation while working at Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he made commercials. • After moving to California in October 1923, Walt and his brother Roy pooled their money and set up the Disney Brothers' Studio, located on Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Hollywood, the movie industry's capital city. • Disney went to New York City in February 1928 to negotiate a higher fee for his highly successful "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" animated shorts with Charles Mintz, a film producer and distributor. Mintz shocked Walt by telling him that the fee would be reduced, and if Walt didn't accept it that Universal Pictures, not Disney, owned the Oswald trademark and could continue to make the films without him. Disney declined Mintz's offer and as a result lost most of his animation staff. • After losing the rights to Oswald, Disney felt the need to develop a new character to replace him, which was based on a mouse he had adopted as a pet while working in his studio in Kansas City. Ub Iwerks reworked the sketches made by Disney to make the character easier to animate. • Originally named "Mortimer", the mouse was later renamed "Mickey" by Walt's wife, Lillian Disney, who thought that the name Mortimer did not sound appealing. • Mickey Mouse went on to become one of the most recognizable cartoon characters in the world. He is the official mascot of the Walt Disney Company, has been in over 130 films, has received 10 Academy Award Nominations, and was the first cartoon character to be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. • Walt Disney drew sketches of his ideas for an amusement park on a business trip to Chicago in the late-1940s after a visit to Children's Fairyland in Oakland, California. The amusement park would eventually become Disneyland. • After Walt Disney's death, Roy Disney returned from retirement to take full control of Walt Disney Productions. ourhomecommunity.wordpress.com Brent Otey :: Our Home Community :: Group C Instructions: Select 5 or 6 facts below and at least one Walt Disney quote, then place a number next to them in the order you want to relay them as a story. Objective: Convince your audience that the secret to Walt Disney's success was leveraging the talents of the people around him. Facts from Walt Disney's life • Disney was born on December 5, 1901. • In 1906, when Walt was four, Elias and his family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri. The town would become the inspiration for the film Lady and the Tramp, and the design of Main Street, U.S.A. (inside the main entrance of Disneyland.) • Walt's father, Elias, was a subscriber to the Appeal to Reason newspaper and Walt copied the front-page cartoons of Ryan Walker. • While working at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio, Walt met cartoonist Ubbe Iwerks.
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