Martin Sklar (–2017)
Auteur de Dream It! Do It!: My Half-Century Creating Disney’s Magic Kingdoms (Disney Editions Deluxe)
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Œuvres de Martin Sklar
Dream It! Do It!: My Half-Century Creating Disney’s Magic Kingdoms (Disney Editions Deluxe) (2013) 120 exemplaires
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- Autres noms
- Sklar, Marty
- Date de décès
- 2017-07-27
- Sexe
- male
- Lieu du décès
- Hollywood Hills, California, USA
- Organisations
- Disney
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- Œuvres
- 3
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 247
- Popularité
- #92,310
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 6
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From the back cover: Marty Sklar was hired by The Walt Disney Company after his junior year at UCLA, and began his Disney career at Disneyland in July 1955, the month before the park opened. He spent his first decade at Disney as "the kid," the very youngest of the creative team Walt had assembled at WED Enterprises. But despite his youth, his talents propelled him forward into substantial responsibility: he became Walt's speech writer, penned Walt's and Roy's messages in the company's annual report, composed most of the publicity and marketing materials for Disneyland, conceived presentations for the U.S. government, devised initiatives to obtain sponsors to enable new Disneyland developments, and wrote a twenty-four-minute film expressing Walt's philosophy for the Walt Disney World project and Epcot. He was Walt's literary right-hand man.
Over the next forty years, Marty Sklar rose to become president and principal creative executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, and he devoted his entire career to creating, enhancing, and expanding Walt's magical empire.
This beautifully written and enlightening book is Marty's own retelling of his epic Disney journey, a grand adventure that lasted over half a century.
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I read this book the month leading up to my 2022 trip to Disney World. I was as surprised as anyone that I didn't find most of it very interesting. The rare exception that stands out is the Engineering around Spaceship Earth (aka the Epcot Ball). That did fascinate me and I read further. Mostly I found Sklar to be a very entitled Jewish guy who doesn't recognize other minorities and thinks he should have it all. Very dated, for sure.… (plus d'informations)