Rolly Crump, a legendary Disney animator and Imagineer, whose designs helped define the early days of Disneyland, has died at the age of 93.
Rolly joined Walt Disney Studios in 1952, working on a number of the period’s animated features in marginal positions, including serving as an in-between artist on “Peter Pan” and as an assistant animator on “Lady and the Tramp,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “One Hundred and One Dalmatians.”
In 1959, he was recruited by Walt to join what was then known as Wed Enterprises, later Walt Disney Imagineering. While at Imagineering, he worked on designs for The Haunted Mansion (including the prototypical Museum of the Weird), the Enchanted Tiki Room and It’s a Small World, including the iconic Tower of the Four winds sculpture/statue that accompanied It’s a Small World when the ride debuted at the 1964/65 World’s Fair in Queens.
“People say the term legend can get...
Rolly joined Walt Disney Studios in 1952, working on a number of the period’s animated features in marginal positions, including serving as an in-between artist on “Peter Pan” and as an assistant animator on “Lady and the Tramp,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “One Hundred and One Dalmatians.”
In 1959, he was recruited by Walt to join what was then known as Wed Enterprises, later Walt Disney Imagineering. While at Imagineering, he worked on designs for The Haunted Mansion (including the prototypical Museum of the Weird), the Enchanted Tiki Room and It’s a Small World, including the iconic Tower of the Four winds sculpture/statue that accompanied It’s a Small World when the ride debuted at the 1964/65 World’s Fair in Queens.
“People say the term legend can get...
- 3/13/2023
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
The loss of James Gunn — the talented writer/director behind the “Guardians of the Galaxy” films who will now oversee the newly formed DC Studios (along with partner Peter Safran) at Warner Bros. Discovery — is obviously a huge blow to the wildly successful Marvel Studios movies (and Disney’s larger streaming output), but it also serves as perhaps a less obvious blow to the company’s Parks division, which lost one of its most enthusiastic and innovative champions.
In an unstable and volatile market, with the movie industry still recovering following Covid and streaming facing an uncertain future, Disney’s theme park division is increasingly important — and profitable — to the company.
Just how important are the parks? When Disney’s profits jumped 50 earlier this year during its fiscal third-quarter, a big driver was revenue from the parks totaling 21.5 billion, a 26 increase from the previous year, with an operating profit that was up 50 to 3.6 billion.
In an unstable and volatile market, with the movie industry still recovering following Covid and streaming facing an uncertain future, Disney’s theme park division is increasingly important — and profitable — to the company.
Just how important are the parks? When Disney’s profits jumped 50 earlier this year during its fiscal third-quarter, a big driver was revenue from the parks totaling 21.5 billion, a 26 increase from the previous year, with an operating profit that was up 50 to 3.6 billion.
- 11/4/2022
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
Disney Imagineer Jim Shull has taken to Twitter to offer his thoughts on a controversy, surrounding the Disneyland ride Snow White’s Enchanted Wish.
Since the Anaheim theme park reopened at the end of April, there has been substantial backlash to a ‘non-consensual kiss’ depicted on its renovated Snow White attraction, between the characters of Prince Charming and Snow White.
Shull’s Tweet came attached to a screenshot of Fox News, in which a headline reads, “Cancel Culture Targets Snow White.”
“Allowing for the fact that cultural changes occur over decades it must be acknowledged that in the context of the tale on which the film is based that the ride is accurate,” wrote Shull, who has worked for Disney for over three decades. “People are of course allowed to dislike the story but the Imagineering team did a spectacular job!”
The updated ride comes to an end with Prince...
Since the Anaheim theme park reopened at the end of April, there has been substantial backlash to a ‘non-consensual kiss’ depicted on its renovated Snow White attraction, between the characters of Prince Charming and Snow White.
Shull’s Tweet came attached to a screenshot of Fox News, in which a headline reads, “Cancel Culture Targets Snow White.”
“Allowing for the fact that cultural changes occur over decades it must be acknowledged that in the context of the tale on which the film is based that the ride is accurate,” wrote Shull, who has worked for Disney for over three decades. “People are of course allowed to dislike the story but the Imagineering team did a spectacular job!”
The updated ride comes to an end with Prince...
- 5/9/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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