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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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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 →

Nov 05

SUGGESTIONS AND NOTES ON “SNOW WHITE” — Story Conference, October 15, 1934

October 15th, 1934, appears to be a relatively short meeting between Walt and two of his story men, Dick and Larry. They only addressed first names in the transcript header, but I'm pretty sure the referenced Larry is story-man Larry Morey, who was assigned to Snow White early-on to arrange... read more →

Oct 22

SUGGESTIONS AND NOTES ON “SNOW WHITE.” October 9th, 1934

Here's the 2nd earliest Snow White story document I have, and I just noticed that these early documents are from this month, October, only 85-years earlier. By the time of this document, it's amazing how much effort has already gone into Snow White's story construction, and you're really starting to... read more →

Oct 08

Suggestions and Notes on Snow White, Conference, October 3rd, 1934

SUGGESTIONS AND NOTES ON "SNOW WHITE." Disney Story Conference, October 3rd, 1934 I have developed two passions in my life: Aeronautical Engineering and Visual Story. As of late, VISUAL STORY has become the more dominant. I first became passionate about story as film student studying historical documents while at The... read more →

Aug 14

Sky Danley

As the soaring eagle came from an egg, and the majestic redwood came from a seed, be it known that Sky Danley came from a dream...