Nothing But Disney

The Princess Club

Episode 126

Pictured: Walt Disney, aged 16, posing for a photograph alongside a Red Cross Ambulance during WWI. With an alteration on his passport application and permission from his mother, Disney successfully joined the Red Cross Ambulance Corps. He learned how to drive and repair ambulances and aspired to become an official driver for the Red Cross. Unfortunately, Disney would not realize this dream. They shipped him out on November 12th, 1918, one day after the world ended, alongside 49 other men to aid in the occupation. While in training, Disney spent his sparse free time drawing sketches on the canteen menu and canvas flaps of the ambulances. You can see one of his custom designs on the ambulance in this picture.

Animation backgrounds from Disney’s THE SWORD IN THE STONE (1963).

Peter Pan (1953) dir. Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson

Sleeping Beauty Castle illustration, 1964

Matterhorn Bobsleds, Submarine Voyage and Disneyland Monorail, 1964

every conquest i had made / would make me more of a boss to you

What were you gonna tell Rey before? Still on that? Is this a bad time? It sort of is a bad time. 

A page of Ward Kimball’s pencil animation of Tweedledee and Tweedledum for Walt Disney’s Alice In Wonderland (1951).

You are the most gorgeous thing I’ve ever seen! Nobody deserves you.

Gramma!