Life in the Mouse House: Memoir of a Disney Story Artist Book PDF, ePub eBook

Join our eBook service for unlimited books & audiobooks. Get a free 7 day subscription! ↓↓↓↓↓


Book Descriptions:
A SEARING, SCATHING DISNEY MEMOIR

From 1935-1950, story artist Homer Brightman worked on the biggest Disney projects: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, the Oscar-winning short film Lend a Paw, and many others. A dream come true? Not really. Brightman's life in the Mouse House during Disney's Golden Age of Animation was tarnished by self-serving, power-hungry animators; by draconian policies and broken promises; and by Walt Disney himself.

Will the Real Walt Disney Please Stand Up?
Homer Brightman first encountered Walt Disney in the men's room of the Disney Studio in 1935. Another employee had just complained about Walt, not knowing that Walt himself was standing at the next urinal, and by lunchtime that employee found himself on the street, and out of a job.

Over the next fifteen years, Brightman experienced the highs and lows of working for a driven, complex, sometimes ruthless businessman and creative genius, Walt Disney, a man that other Disney artists—but not Brightman—saw as a smiling "uncle" or as a caring, patient mentor. Brightman presents the good and the bad, as he experienced them firsthand, and lets you ponder the contradictions of Walt's character.

Fun and Games and Politics in the Mouse House
When the Disney animators weren't creating classic films, they were pulling pranks—sometimes mean-spirited pranks—on one another. Brightman recounts how he and Harry Reeves once vandalized Roy Williams' (who later become the "Big Mooseketeer" on The Mickey Mouse Club) black limousine, and how Williams got back at Reeves that night by flattening the tires of his car. The prank includes improbable appearances by H.G. Wells and Charlie Chaplin, who dropped by Brightman's office on a tour of the studio with Walt right after Williams', in anger, had smashed the glass panel of the office door.

When not pranking, the animators were politicking: Brightman goes into detail about the toxic political culture at the Disney Studio, where animators would jump to their feet and hide their work whenever another animator came around, steal credit for one another's ideas, and compete—often shamelessly—for the fickle favor of Walt Disney. The politics reach their crescendo in Brightman's nailbiting account of the Disney Studio Strike of 1941, and how Walt retaliated against those he felt had betrayed him.

In Life in the Mouse House, you'll read about:

• Brightman's penniless start at the Disney Studio on a cold day in 1935
• What really caused the Disney Studio Strike in 1941, how Walt lost his cool, and the sad aftermath
• The foibles and eccentricities of many well-known Disney artists, animators, and executives
• Walt's ill-fated "Field Day", his trip to Mexico, and his uncanny talent for physical storytelling
• What Brightman did after he left Disney in 1950, despite Walt telling him he'd never work in the business again

Homer Brightman wrote Life in the Mouse House in the 1980s. He died in 1988, and the book has been lost since its rediscovery last year. When Brightman wrote the book, most of the people in it were still alive. He didn't want to offend them with his unflinchingly honest, provocative narrative, and so he changed the names of such luminaries as Ken Anderson, Perce Pearce, Ted Sears, Harry Tytle, and Roy Williams.

Nearly thirty years after Brightman's death, and the deaths of virtually everyone he worked with at Disney, we can now reveal the identities of characters like Muggle (Ken Anderson), Snojob (Perce Pearce), Crock (Card Walker), and over three dozen others. You'll read about these beloved Disney legends—including Walt Disney himself—as you've never read about them before.

Come share Homer Brigthman's life in the Mouse House!

Life in the Mouse House: Memoir of a Disney Story Artist by Homer Brightman, Alberto Becattini

From reader reviews:

William Nelson:

Nowadays reading books be a little more than want or need but also get a life style. This reading practice give you lot of advantages. The benefits you got of course the knowledge the particular information inside the book this improve your knowledge and information. The information you get based on what kind of guide you read, if you want get more knowledge just go with education books but if you want feel happy read one using theme for entertaining like comic or novel. The particular Life in the Mouse House: Memoir of a Disney Story Artist is kind of reserve which is giving the reader unpredictable experience.

Jimmy Martinez:

Reading a reserve tends to be new life style on this era globalization. With looking at you can get a lot of information that can give you benefit in your life. Along with book everyone in this world can easily share their idea. Textbooks can also inspire a lot of people. Lots of author can inspire all their reader with their story or their experience. Not only situation that share in the textbooks. But also they write about the knowledge about something that you need example of this. How to get the good score toefl, or how to teach children, there are many kinds of book which exist now. The authors on earth always try to improve their skill in writing, they also doing some exploration before they write on their book. One of them is this Life in the Mouse House: Memoir of a Disney Story Artist.

Stephen Wilson:

Life in the Mouse House: Memoir of a Disney Story Artist can be one of your beginner books that are good idea. We all recommend that straight away because this e-book has good vocabulary that may increase your knowledge in vocabulary, easy to understand, bit entertaining but nonetheless delivering the information. The writer giving his/her effort to set every word into delight arrangement in writing Life in the Mouse House: Memoir of a Disney Story Artist but doesn't forget the main position, giving the reader the hottest and also based confirm resource info that maybe you can be certainly one of it. This great information can easily drawn you into new stage of crucial considering.

Michael Rahn:

In this particular era which is the greater person or who has ability to do something more are more treasured than other. Do you want to become among it? It is just simple method to have that. What you are related is just spending your time little but quite enough to have a look at some books. One of the books in the top checklist in your reading list will be Life in the Mouse House: Memoir of a Disney Story Artist. This book and that is qualified as The Hungry Slopes can get you closer in turning out to be precious person. By looking up and review this publication you can get many advantages.