Dream It! Do It!
My Half-Century Creating Disney's Magic Kingdoms
$53.10
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
13 August 2013
Summary
Part memoir, part business book, Marty Sklar entertains readers with more than fifty years of tales of creating magic around the world.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 su…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781423174066 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1423174062 |
| Author: | Marty Sklar |
| Publisher: | Disney Book Publishing Inc. |
| Imprint: | Disney Editions |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2013 |
| Weight: | 601g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 148mm |
| Series: | Disney Editions Deluxe |
About The Author
Marty Sklar
Marty Sklar was a student at UCLA and editor of its Daily Bruin newspaper in 1955 when he was recruited to create an 1890s-themed newspaper, The DisneylandNews, a month before the theme park opened. After graduating, he joined Disneyland full-time in 1956, where he held responsibility for most of the park’s publicity and marketing materials.
In 1961, he moved to WED Enterprises, renamed in 1986 to Walt Disney Imagineering, where he worked on attractions for the 1964 New York World’s Fair. For nearly ten years, he wrote personal materials for Walt Disney for use in publications, television and special films. In 1974 he became vice president of concepts/planning, and guided the creative development of EPCOT.
As vice president of creative development, executive vice president and then president of Imagineering for nine years, Sklar supervised the design and construction of Tokyo Disneyland, the Disney-MGM Studios, Disneyland Paris, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Disney California Adventure Park, Tokyo DisneySea, the Walt Disney Studios Park and most recently Hong Kong Disneyland.
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