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The Revised Vault Of Walt (2012)

by Jim Korkis(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0984341544 (ISBN13: 9780984341542)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Bob McLain Media

review 1: Although this book took me a little while to complete based on its content not quite suiting my tastes, this book had its good points and bad points. I especially liked the tale about Walt Disney and the photographer when Walt was at Disneyland, or even the time Kruschcev visited America and all he wanted to do was visit Disneyland (this last one was rather funnily written, and I'm actually now looking forward to reading the sequel book in the series)!
review 2: The Revised Vault of Walt by Jim Korkis was in a word, exquisite. It is hard to put this book down once you've started reading it. if I had to rate this book on a scale of one to ten it would definitely be a ten, it is simply amazing.The content of his book was different than normal biographies because ... moreinstead of being a timeline of the events in Walt’s life each chapter was about something different. For example,chapter seven in the book is about what kind of food Walt enjoyed eating while chapter two was about how he played polo. I was drawn to this book because I have always admired Walt Disney for his imagination and how he used it to bring joy to so many people around the world. This book is structured in a way that lends itself nicely to the biography genre. First of all everything is explained in very deep detail which is to be expected when the author of the book is a Disney Historian. But along with in depth descriptions of Walt’s life Jim Korkis included a vast amount of quotes from Walt Disney himself, Disney animators, Diane Disney Miller, along with newspaper and magazine articles. Here’s an example of this from Movie Mirror Magazine is 1938 discussing “Snow White Island”:Snow White Island: Maybe you think that the dwarf’s cottage, their mine, the mountain climbed by the wicked queen, and all those strange scenes you saw in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs exist only on paper, just so many colored lines drawn by a cartoonist. Actually all these things existed to be touched, felt, and photographed by some half a million people who visited The Island during the four months ‘ run of the movie at Carthay Circle in Los Angeles. Since so much interest was aroused by traveler to the dwarf’s country, we delved into the matter and came up with some pertinent information. The island is a park, surrounded by a road, which is owned by the Native Sons and Daughters of California. It is almost 900 feet long, and on this was built the land of seven dwarfs. It cost nearly $10,000 to erect, and bills for lighting and watchmen(there were four) ran $6,500. You could see the mountain, the wishing well, the fantastic forest- all real life and twice as exciting. The first day it was finished, a guard counted 1,010 cars circling the display in one hour. That was just a starter. The gnomes were first made of plaster, but inquisitive kids, poking Dopey to see if he'd talk, forced Disney to remake them all in more enduring concrete. Souvenir hunters were a constant menace, one fellow stealing a bat out of a tree and flying off with it before the guard could catch him. Thousands of requests came in offering to buy sections; all were refused. when the movie ended its run at Carthay Circle, the entire forest, the mountain, the cottage-all disappeared to be stored away. In three days, like magic, green grass covered the park and the Island once more dozed in the sun, as if Snow White and her crew had never been. (p. 87-88)Quotes like this are why I like this book so much they give so much detail and insight into the imagination and the world of Disney. It also inspires me to follow my dreams and work for Disney as an imagineer. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys Disney things and is interested in the man behind it all. Or anyone who enjoys reading biographies in general, but I have to admit if you aren't a die hard Disney fan like I am this book may be a bit too in depth for the casual fan. less

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