This last appearance breaks my heart in two. I don't think anyone expected to lose Walt after this appearance but then again it was obvious. You can literally hear how he's struggling to breathe which makes it worse. God I sat and cried through this whole video because it hurts to watch knowing that it was his last, it really does. Walt had his flaws, we all do, but my God he had talent in spades. He will always be the G.O.A.T of anything related to art and animation. May he rest in peace. ❤
I was born in Southern California in 1965. I grew up watching the wonderful world of Disney every Sunday night and watching Walt Disney talk about different subjects. As far as I knew he was alive. I went to a Catholic school for a few years when I was in fifth grade so that would be around 1975. At the time we went to a field trip at Forest lawn cemetery to see the stain glass window of the last supper. Some friends of mine and myself ventured outside and poked around and looked at some other graves and I stumbled across Walt Disney’s grave. I was actually very surprised that he was deceased. but found out later that he was and had been for most of my life. I guess that’s the magic.
Hands down my All time favorite song from this movie. Her voice is astonishing & the "male dog's" singing/acting voices are Incredible! Feel very honored to be able to watch this in 2024.
Another thing to be noted in his time of all the work done, knowing showbiz your are as good as you last productions in it's returns, whatever stresses of bussiness they were going through both brothers, let's not forget Mr Roy's contribution to keep everything afloat, not even once quality and standard of work dropped, nor the sense of fun enjoying the work of his creations they way he did.
Composer Sergei Prokofiev, while touring the West in 1938, visited Los Angeles and met the real-life Walt Disney. Prokofiev performed the piano version of “Peter and the Wolf” for "le papa de Mickey Mouse", as Sergei described him in a letter to his sons. Walt was impressed, and considered adding an animated version of “Peter and the Wolf” to “Fantasia”, which was to be released in 1940. Due to the war, these plans fell through, and it was not until 1946 that Disney released his own version of “Peter and the Wolf”. It is unknown if Prokofiev, by that point behind the Iron Curtain, was aware of this.
