The small Chicago house where Walt Disney was born is to be turned into a museum, with a Kickstarter campaign to support renovations
• Read the Guardian's review of Saving Mr Banks, the story of Walt Disney and Mary Poppins
Walt Disney's birthplace is like something from the start of one of his films: a wooden house in Chicago that was the first humble chapter in an extraordinarily successful life. Now, as the Walt Disney Company celebrates its 90th anniversary, plans are being launched to turn the house into a museum.
The project is being proposed by Dina Benadon and Brent Young, a married couple whose company Super 78 Studios designs theme park attractions for the likes of SeaWorld and Universal Studios. They bought the house, built by Walt's father in 1893, for $173,000 earlier this year, and plan to recreate it as it was when Disney lived in it.
"We don't want...
• Read the Guardian's review of Saving Mr Banks, the story of Walt Disney and Mary Poppins
Walt Disney's birthplace is like something from the start of one of his films: a wooden house in Chicago that was the first humble chapter in an extraordinarily successful life. Now, as the Walt Disney Company celebrates its 90th anniversary, plans are being launched to turn the house into a museum.
The project is being proposed by Dina Benadon and Brent Young, a married couple whose company Super 78 Studios designs theme park attractions for the likes of SeaWorld and Universal Studios. They bought the house, built by Walt's father in 1893, for $173,000 earlier this year, and plan to recreate it as it was when Disney lived in it.
"We don't want...
- 12/4/2013
- by Ben Beaumont-Thomas
- The Guardian - Film News
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