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In 1955 Walt Disney contributed the essay "My Faith" to the book How Prayer Helps Me edited by Samuel Duff McCoy. Walt was one of the 71 figures to composes an essay for this book. Walt's brother, Roy, was so moved by Walt's words that he had the studio print shop publish cards with this text to be distributed to guests of Disneyland. We have used AI to recreate Walt's essay as it may have sounded in his own voice. Walt's mother played the piano and organ in their church when Walt was growing up. We've chosen a hymn from an early 20th century congregational hymnal to accompany Walt's words because of this. If you enjoy these videos of putting Walt's written words into a video format, please consider contributing to our Give/Send/Go so we can acquire more of these articles to adapt. Our goal is to make Walt's written words more accessible to the masses. https://www.givesendgo.com/RediscoveringWaltDisney Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

Celebrate stolen history by nominating a classic film, Song of the South, to the National Film Registry as Woke Disney is purging every aspect of it from existence. In theory, that's why the National Film Registry exists. Walt Disney's Song of the South is the first Technicolor feature film made that blended live action with animation throughout the film. The popular song Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah won the Oscar for Best Song. Woke Disney has purged this song from the theme parks and elsewhere. This is the definitively most popular Walt Disney song ever written. Actor James Baskett is the first black actor to win an Oscar and it was for this film! He was honored with an eternal Oscar for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in Song of the South. James Baskett is also the first actor to be out under contract by Walt Disney and the first black actor to be given a seven year contract with any film studio. Actor Nick Stewart played Br'er Bear, started the Ebony Showcase Theater with the earnings from this film. He returned to play Br'er Bear again in Splash Mountain and remodeled the theater. He was a Civil Rights pioneer and said "Walt Disney treated us like kings." Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel plays a major character in this film. She's the first black actress to win an Oscar for Gone with the Wind. The characters from this film were a major part of Walt Disney's stable of stars and he frequently revisited them again and again in his television, commercial, publishing, theme park ventures and more. The Uncle Remus stories were very special to Walt and so was this film inspired by them. Don't let Woke Disney erase important black, American, and cinematic history! Please nominate this historic film to the National Film Registry as Woke Disney purges every aspect of this special film from pop culture. The form is below. https://www.research.net/r/national-fim-registry-nomination-form Please consider contributing to our Give/Send/Go so we can continue preserving Walt Disney history like this. https://www.givesendgo.com/RediscoveringWaltDisney Posted for historical purposes. Walt Disney's voice is recreated with AI. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

In 1962 Walt Disney was asked to contribute an essay for the book "Faith is a Star" edited by Roland Gammon. Gammon hosted the popular radio show "Master Control" which often invited pop culture figures to appear and discuss their faith and values. The purpose of the book was to demonstrate to the Judeo-Christian Church that their values were reflected by leading and influential figures in American culture. Walt was one of sixty figures included in the book which was published in 1963. Walt had already written at least two published essays on his faith and had often cited his faith as the bedrock of the values demonstrated in his films in several interviews. Each of Walt's faith essays cite how important prayer was to his life and how he valued deeds rather than words as meaningful. They also build upon each other until culminating in this final faith essay. When Walt completed this essay, he gave a copy to his brother and business partner, Roy. Roy always looked after his younger brother and was deeply moved by what Walt had written. He had had one of Walt's earlier faith essays printed on cards that were given out to guests of the Disneyland Hotel much like Conrad Hilton had also done with his own faith essay in his own chain of hotels. Walt expressed his faith and values in every facet of his life. He originally planned a church to be built on Main Street USA at Disneyland until his nephew, Rev Glenn D Puder advised it would be disrespectful. Rev Puder still gave a Christian blessing during the opening ceremonies of Disneyland and led the crowd in prayer. There are numerous examples of Walt providing personal charity for individuals as well as organizations. In this essay, Walt covers content from his films he was often criticized for. He also cites the projects he produced during World War II as an expression of his faith. Unlike other film producers of his day, everything Walt Disney made filtered through him and because he put his name on it it had to reflect his values. It's often cited that "Feed the Birds" from Mary Poppins was Walt Disney's favorite song. He often invited the Sherman Bros, who wrote the song, to his office after work where they'd often play it for him during these visits. A song about personal charity, it's never address why it was Walt's favorite song. When the theme of his faith essays is deeds rather than words, you understand why Walt saw expressive action as a demonstration of personal faith rather than just talking about it. He lived by this moral compass his entire life. This essay was considered one of the most important writings Walt had ever written and was excerpted in an official book celebrating the 50th birthday of Mickey Mouse published in 1978. Walt's essay was retitled "Prayer in My Life." The book covered 50 years of Walt Disney Studio history and came with a 4 LP set of music spanning the entire run of the studio. This was the first time such an expansive music collection had ever been offered. When the Eisner regime gained control of Walt Disney Productions in 1984 and rechristened it the Walt Disney Company, such expressions of faith gradually faded away. Walt Disney began being painted as nonreligious and his faith essays became forgotten. By the Iger years expressions of faith became nonexistent with many executives expressing an outright hostility toward Christianity and traditional values in official interviews. The Iger regime also began purging things from Walt Disney history including photos, footage, writings, and even entire songs and films. Many people have no idea what Walt Disney's actual views were as the company carrying his name is the antithesis of many of the faith and values he held dear. We have used AI to recreate Walt's essay as it may have sounded in his own voice. All footage and images in this video are from Walt's film, animation, and TV productions demonstrating how his faith values were always used in his projects. The songs used during the opening scroll also come from Walt Disney productions. "The Lord Is Good To Me" is one of the songs in the 1948 short Johnny Appleseed and is sung by Dennis Day. It had a long life after this film as a Sunday School song and often sang at 4H gatherings with many not realizing it was a Walt Disney Song. It was part of the Walt Disney Songbook for decades until the post modernists purged it in the 20th century. "Strengthen the Dwelling Of The Lord" is one of the songs from what's regarded as Walt's final film, The Happiest Millionaire. In the film it's the anthem of the Biddle Bible Class and sung by Fred MacMurray with a chorus. Walt always cast MacMurray in the roles he himself most personally identified with. The song was composed by the Sherman Bros and meant to be much like the congregational songs that were popular in the early 20th century. By presenting Walt's written essay as a video we hope that it makes Walt's views more accessible to a wider variety of people. If you enjoy these videos of putting Walt's written words into a video format, please consider contributing to our Give/Send/Go so we can acquire more of these articles to adapt. Our goal is to make Walt's written words more accessible to the masses. https://www.givesendgo.com/RediscoveringWaltDisney Posted for historical purposes. Walt Disney's voice is recreated with AI. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

When Walt Disney originally came to Hollywood, he wanted to be a live action film director. When he found that no jobs were available to him, he returned to animation. For over two decades Walt produced wildly popular animated short subject cartoons culminating in the first feature length animated feature, Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs in 1937. Walt had planned to do several further animated features to follow the success of Snow White but Pinocchio, Fantasia, & Bambi all lost money upon their original theatrical releases. World War II paused Walt's plans to make more animated features and he was only able to keep his studio open through government contract work. After the war, Walt tried to rebuild his studio to what it had been in the 1930's but it was never the same. Several of his planned feature length productions such as Mickey & the Beanstalk, Bongo, and the Wind in the Willows were truncated into featurettes and released as what were called "package features. Walt's planned animated feature, Uncle Remus, became re-imagined as his first live action film, the Academy Award winning masterpiece Song of the South. Walt's follow up to Song of the South was another live action production he connected very deeply with because it tied into his youth as a boy growing up on a farm in Marceline, Missouri. That film was titled So Dear to My Heart and it was. Based on the 1943 novel Midnight & Jeremiah by Sterling North, it was Walt who retitled his film So Dear To My Heart because it was. Walt also restructured the story to center on prayer. North revised and retitled the novel to coincide with the film's 1948 release so that it more closely followed the content of the film. Forgotten today, So Dear to My Heart was highly acclaimed and always treated as a major film in the studio's library. It was also a personal favorite of Walt's only involving A-list talent. Walt personally selected director Harold Schuster to helm the film because he'd directed My Friend Flicka in 1943 - - a favorite film of Walt's wife and daughters. Oscar-nominated actress Beulah Bondi was cast as Granny Kincaid. She's best known today as Ma Bailey in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. To prepare for this role, she learned how to work a loom, spin a wheel, plow a field, and care for sheep. America's favorite balladeer, Burl Ives, portrayed Uncle Hiram in one of his first ever film roles. He won an Oscar in 1959 for his role of Rufus Hannassey in The Big Country. He won a Golden Globe for the same role. The folksong "Lavender Blue Dilly Dilly" featured in So Dear To My Heart was nominated for an Oscar and became the first hit for Ives. It lost the Oscar to "Baby It's Cold Outside" from the Warner Bros film Neptune's Daughter. Ives was known for gathering and preserving America's folksongs being nominated for 4 Grammies, winning one for his efforts. He's best known today as Sam the Snowman narrator of Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. He would later work with Walt again in 1963's Summer Magic. Child actor Bobby Driscoll was also awarded an Outstanding Juvenile Actor Oscar for his performance in both this film and Song of the South. He would go on to star in Walt Disney's Treasure Island and Peter Pan. His co-star, Luana Patten, also appeared with Driscoll in Song of the South and Melody Time. She also starred in Walt Disney's Fun & Fancy Free and would return to star in Johnny Tremain in 1957. Oscar nominated actor Harry Carey was cast as the Judge of the Pike County Fair. Carey had starred in over 90 films, this being the final one. He passed away before its release. Walt's distributor, RKO, dictated that he must include animation sequences in So Dear To My Heart because the public expected animation when they saw a Walt Disney film. Walt conceded reasoning that as young Jeremiah would work on his scrapbook the animated sequences would be out of his imagination. These sequences contain a great deal of American culture as they illustrate Biblical history, American history, and world history. For Walt's next film, Treasure Island, he would reject including animation at all. Walt showcased So Dear To My Heart multiple times on his TV show. He had always intended to recreate the farm seen in the film as a land within Disneyland from the earliest planning phase of the theme park, but it was never built. However, the Disneyland Railroad Station is built from the same plans used to build the railroad station seen in the film. A replica of the barn was also constructed in Walt's own backyard because it had been based on his memories of his family's own barn on their Marceline farm. It became Walt's sanctuary where he built models and operated his 1:8 scale backyard railroad. So Dear To My Heart was a film that kept Walt's studio afloat until he started making true animated features again with Cinderella immediately following its release. It was the fruition of Walt's "stick-to-it-tivity to one day make live action films. Like all of Walt's films, So Dear To My Heart. featured a major marketing and merchandising campaign. Some of the most historical artifacts to come out of this campaign were the numerous articles about the film where Walt candidly discussed his Christian faith and belief in God. The most important of these articles is in this 1949 issue of Guideposts published over six months after the film's release. Walt handwrote an essay where he shared that the theme of So Dear To My Heart is the power of prayer in our everyday lives. The article also featured artwork of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck taking their families to church created by Disney Legend Hank Porter. Porter created thousands of comic strips and illustrations of the Walt Disney characters during his time at the studio. Today he's most primarily known for the military art he created of the characters during World War II. Porter died of cancer in 1951. This is the rarest of Walt's faith essays to track down a hard copy of. Some suggest it's because of Walt's words along with Porter's artwork that's caused it to be suppressed. Walt would later expand on some of the paragraphs he originally wrote for this Guideposts essay in later essays and interviews proving his strong moral compass never wavered. To understand who Walt Disney was, one must see So Dear To My Heart. For some reason it's perhaps the most ignored film in the Disney canon barely getting mentioned in most Disney histories which is even more odd when this film was so important to Walt and influential on Disneyland. It was released to VHS and DVD and everyone should see it. The songs used during this video also come from Walt Disney's So Dear To My Heart. By presenting Walt's written essay as a video we hope that it makes Walt's views more accessible to a wider variety of people. If you enjoy these videos of putting Walt's written words into a video format, please consider contributing to our Give/Send/Go so we can acquire more of these articles to adapt. Our goal is to make Walt's written words more accessible to the masses. https://www.givesendgo.com/RediscoveringWaltDisney Posted for historical purposes. Walt Disney's voice is recreated with AI. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.