"-it all started with a mouse." Walt

The Walt Disney Family Museum is in the Presidio, founded by Walt Disney's daughter, Dianne Disney Miller. The museum opened October 9, 2009, and is dedicated to Walt's life and legacy.

Walt Disney, at 16-years-old, volunteered to drive a field ambulance in France during WWI.

Combining live action with animation in the 1920's.

It took 348 separate original drawings to create less than 15 seconds of animation for the 1928 film Steam Boat Willie. This was one labor-intensive business. Highly skilled labor.

Sketches from the 1940 film Pinnochio.

Technicolor arrived in the mid 1930's.

Walt discovered the world of minatures at the 1939 World's Fair in San Francisco/

Multi-plane camera for combining layers of cels atop a background.

A labor strike in 1941 shut down Disney studios for three months. Walt testified before Congress that communist influence was to blame. A federal mediator found for the strikers.

Disney Studios created pro-American propaganda during WWII.

Production flow chart at Walt Disney Studios.

Synching sfx

The invention of merch.

This must've weighed an absolute ton.

A 360-degree film camera.

A 12-foot wide, highly detailed model of vintage Disneyland.

Animatronics? We didn't get Abraham Lincoln, we got the parrot.

Birth of a Logo.

Home of the Future, when the future was the 1960's.

The world's reaction when Walt passed away on December 15, 1966.