Your Next Chance to Help Preserve Disney History is NOW!
(and you get to see 2 great movies at the same time)

Mark your calendars for Thank You Walt Disney’s next Fundraising event.

On Saturday, October 16, 2010

• 5:00 pm - We will show the movie, “Frank and Ollie.”

• After the movie, we will have a reception with food, drinks

• A live-auction and silent auction featuring items donated from the Walt Disney Studios will both end by 8:00. 

• 8:00 pm – we will resume back in the theater to enjoy the final movie of the night, “Waking Sleeping Beauty.”

We are still working on additional activities for the evening. As soon as they are finalized, we will add them to this page. So keep checking back to see how the night will grow.

Please note that this event is at a different location than our last few fundraisers, so make sure to plan accordingly on the 16th.   

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Included with your Fundraising ticket to the
Thank You Walt Disney event:

• 1 ticket to see “Frank and Ollie” anytime from October 15-21
  (does not have to be the same night of our event or the same night as “Waking Sleeping Beauty”)

• 1 ticket to see “Waking Sleeping Beauty” anytime from October 15-21 
  (does not have to be the same night of our event or the same night as “Frank and Ollie”)

•  Free Popcorn during our event

• Mixer with other supporters of Thank You WaltDisney

• Live & Silent Auction featuring items donated from The Walt Disney Studios

• Appetizers and snacks

• Full cash bar available

 Special Event: “Waking Sleeping Beauty”
and “Frank and Ollie”

Saturday, October 16, 2010
The Screenland Armour
408 Armour Rd • North Kansas City, MO 64116

Standard Ticket	$35.00
These tickets will sell fast. Be sure and order your tickets TODAY in order to guarantee a seat!!!

Questions:
Contact Brian Price, Vice President of Thank You Walt Disney, Inc.
816.674.4793 cell • Brian.Price@ThankYouWaltDisney.org 
Tickets are sold on a first come, first serve basis.

 

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. The conditions produced a series of box office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn’t care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending.

Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It’s the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits—“The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin,” “The Lion King” and more—over a 10-year period.

Director Don Hahn and producer Peter Schneider bring their insider knowledge to Waking Sleeping Beauty. Hahn was one of the Young Turks at Disney who produced some of its biggest sensations. Schneider led the animation group during this amazing renaissance and later became studio chairman. Their film offers a fascinating and candid perspective of what happened in the creative ranks set against the dynamic tensions among the top leadership, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Roy Disney (the nephew of Walt).

The process wasn’t always pretty. The filmmakers bring a refreshing candor in describing ego battles, cost overruns and failed experiments. During times of tension, the animators’ favorite form of release was to draw scathing caricatures of themselves and their bosses. Director Hahn puts several memorable ones on display and marshals a vast array of interviews, home movies, internal memos and unseen footage.

Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston are two of the world’s most beloved artists. If you don’t recognize their names, then you are certainly familiar with some of their masterworks: Pinocchio, Bambi, and The Jungle Book. Notes one animation historian in this captivating documentary, “I’ve never gone any place on this earth that [people] didn’t know or talk about specifically scenes that Frank and Ollie did.”

Thomas and Johnston are the most prominent of Disney’s vaunted group of key animators known as the “Nine Old Men.” They have collaborated on books about Disney animation and in interviews are engaging storytellers. Their delightful and illuminating anecdotes spanning their 43-year tenure at Disney, as well as classic film clips, take viewers behind the scenes to see how some of the studio’s most beloved characters (such as Thumper and Mowgli) and most indelible scenes (Lady and the Tramp’s back-alley spaghetti dinner, Bambi on the ice) were created.

Though they joke about being known as “the men who killed Bambi’s mother,” Thomas and Johnston are credited with changing not only the face, but the soul of animation. They pioneered what is called personality animation. According to Thomas, “Ollie had a sign above his desk: ‘What is the character thinking and why does he feel that way?’”

But at the heart of Frank & Ollie is the lifelong friendship between these kindred spirits. Not only were they professional colleagues, they became next-door neighbors as well.