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Jan 21

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — from Commercial Pilot to Children’s Book Author

Just like former commercial pilot Gene Roddenberry (the writer and creator of Star Trek), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was also a writer and creator, creating my all time favorite children's book, "The Little Price." And as I pointed out in my post two weeks ago, Roddenberry's writing career and subsequent imaginative... read more →

Jan 14

Snow White — Brief Outline for Gag Suggestions, November 6, 1934

This Disney story document contains both the latest Snow White synopsis and solicits gag suggestions. Interestingly, the document not just solicits general gags, which was quite common by this time, but it solicits specific gags that develop character and action, and are therefore more funny because they fit a character's... read more →

January 14, 2020
Michael Sky Danley
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Disney, Historical, Story Blog, Uncategorized

Jan 07

Gene Roddenberry — from Airline Pilot to Star Trek Creator

Most people, including most pilots I've ever flown with, don't know that the FINAL FRONTIER was created by an Airline Pilot. Gene Roddenberry (Eugene Wesley Roddenberry), creator of the iconic STAR TREK franchise, was initially trained as a US Army Air Corps Pilot during WW2, flying B-17 missions over the... read more →

January 7, 2020
Michael Sky Danley
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General, Historical, Story Blog, Uncategorized

Dec 31

SUGGESTIONS and NOTES on SNOW WHITE taken at an evening Sound Stage Meeting on October 30, 1934

It seems unusual that this meeting took place both in the evening and on a sound stage, which is a rather large room. All earlier meetings took place during the day in Walt's much smaller office. It makes me think there were a lot of people present, and possibly, this... read more →

Dec 25

Merry Christmas from Sky Danley

To keep my nose in aeronautics, one of my two passions (the other being story), I still fly part time and this is my Christmas Morning crew getting ready to board and deliver the most precious of all presents. It's always such a wonderful sight to see holiday passengers meeting... read more →

Dec 17

Walt Disney’s SNOW WHITE Tentative Outline dated October 22, 1934 [Part 2 of 2]

This is the second part of the October 22, 1934 Snow White Tentative Outline, the part that solicits gags for various scenes. At this early date, my guess is this solicitation is only directed toward story department employees and some animators. As time progresses, though, gag solicitations are definitely expanded... read more →

December 17, 2019
Michael Sky Danley
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Disney, Historical, Story Blog, Uncategorized

Dec 10

Walt Disney’s 1954 “Grand Canyonscope” Cartoon — Visual Story Gags

The Grand Canyon National Park turned 100 years old this year, and this past week, I finally fulfilled a lifetime ambition to hike all the way down to the Colorado River and stay overnight at Teddy Roosevelt's old hunting camp, where he hunted lions. Sky Danley hiking in the Grand... read more →

Dec 03

Walt Disney’s SNOW WHITE Tentative Outline dated October 22, 1934 [Part 1 of 2]

I am absolutely amazed at how far the story has progressed by this outline. It was later tightened up by removing a lot of the action (e.g. it went from two poisonings of Snow White to just one poisoning), but not too much plot action was later added. I personally... read more →

Nov 28

Happy Thanksgiving from Sky Danley Productions

Moose'r McDan, Hunter Bear, Cocodrie, Jo-Jo Slithers, Ponch, Lil'-Al, Grizzly Grimhart, Skidder, Brat Cat, Joshua Speed, Zanika Nay, Dak Johnson, Eliot Carr, the Rising, the Apparatus, the fictional freshman of Haworth High, the magic Soarcerer, and all the other ancillary characters from Sky Danley Productions, including Sky Danley himself... ...wish... read more →

Nov 19

Very Early Snow White Dialogue, October 19, 1934

A very early Walt Disney Snow White dialogue script in which the Dwarfs meet Snow White for the first time. You can see that. even at this very early stage in the story creation process, they are working on creating unique character personalities. Snow White and Dwarfs Dialogue from Bedroom... read more →

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