Prokofiev and Disney, 1938?
Dec. 23rd, 2006 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearI know that Disney did occasionally exaggerate some of the events in the studio that he "recreated" in the Disneyland TV show, such as how certain story ideas came up or how the animation school worked. So I was wondering how much truth there is about the visit that Prokofiev made to the studio in 1938. The TV show presents him (an actor/pianist playing him, Raymond Turner; this was filmed in 1957) as saying that he expressed a desire for Disney to make a cartoon out of his music.
Now, to the "Disney Skeptic", this can be seen as a typical ego-boost for television publicity, something Walt certainly did on other occasions; like Steve Jobs, Walt could at times believe his own publicity even as the writers of the show (or Apple's press releases) made some of the stuff up.
I know that of the meeting, some of it was made up because Prokofiev's version doesn't have names for the animals but the dramatization specifically named "Sonia the Duck" as coming from the translator between Sergei and Disney. So I was wondering how much of that meeting was true and how much was fictional. Google's coming up the a variety of views, all extremely summarized and unclear, and wikipedia doesn't mention the meeting at all.
Now, to the "Disney Skeptic", this can be seen as a typical ego-boost for television publicity, something Walt certainly did on other occasions; like Steve Jobs, Walt could at times believe his own publicity even as the writers of the show (or Apple's press releases) made some of the stuff up.
I know that of the meeting, some of it was made up because Prokofiev's version doesn't have names for the animals but the dramatization specifically named "Sonia the Duck" as coming from the translator between Sergei and Disney. So I was wondering how much of that meeting was true and how much was fictional. Google's coming up the a variety of views, all extremely summarized and unclear, and wikipedia doesn't mention the meeting at all.
