Disney book "Remembering Walt" 1st/1st Signed by 9 Disney Artists/Animators

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"Remembering Walt" Favorite Memories of Walt Disney.
Published: Hyperion, New York, 1999.  Hardcover with dust jacket.  First edition, first printing.  The book and dust jacket are in excellent, unread (like new) condition.  The books authors Amy and Howard Green have captured the essence of Walt Disney through the voices of the many lives he touched.  Whether as a family member, friend, colleague, employer, or public figure, Walt was there for everyone.  Walt's contemporaries pay tribute to a visionary, a perfectionist, a storyteller, a genius-the man they call boss, dad, husband, brother, artist, and friend.  I purchased this book at Disneyland when it was issued in 1999.  I had it signed by the animators at a Disney collector show held in Anaheim, Ca. almost 20 years ago.  There are 10 animators that signed the book, 9 were Disney and the 10th
animator, Lew Ott, worked in animation at different Hollywood film studios.  A great piece of Disney memorabilia to have for the serious collector of Disney.
Sam McKim
joined Disney Imagineering as an Illustrator. He drew many of the sketches used in the creation of Disneylands Main Street, Frontierland, and Tom sketches for Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln and the Carousel of Progress. In 195
Sawyer Island. He drew the concept art for the Haunted Mansion, and did the initial
8 Sam designed the first Disneyland souvenir map and continued to design the maps until 1964. In 1996 the Disney Company honored Sam naming him a "Disney Legend". Sadly on July 9, 2004 Sam passed away at the age of 79. On May 17, 2006 Disney bestowed upon Sam the ultimate and most rare honor of all by placing his name on a window on Mainstreet in Disneyland. This honor has been bestowed on only a select few.
Bob Gurr
joined Disney Imagineering in 1954. During his almost 30 year career at Imagineering Bob created over 100 designs for attractions that included the Disneyland Monorail, Matterhorn Bobsleds, Autopia cars, the memorable Flying Saucers, original Abraham Lincoln audio-animatronics figure, Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, as well as the Carousel of Progress and Magic Skyway at the N.Y. Worlds Fair.
In 2004 the Disney Company honored Bob naming him a Disney Legend. On March 3, 2008 Disney bestowed upon Bob the ultimate and most rare honor of all by placing his name on a window on Mainstreet in Disneyland. This honor has been bestowed on only a select few.
Xavier Atencio
or X. as his friends call him, began his career in 1938 as an in-betweener on Pinocchio and as an Assistant Animator on Fantasia. Later he became an Animator on short subjects including the academy award winning “TOOT, WHISTLE, PLUNK and BOOM”.
In 1965, at Walt’s request, he moved to WED Enterprises (Imagineering). Walt asked him to write the dialogue and lyrics for the “Pirates of the Caribbean”. His first song “Yo Ho a Pirates Life for Me” is one of the most memorable and loved songs at Disneyland.
Teaming up with musician director Buddy Baker, his next song "Grim Grinning Ghosts" for the Haunted Mansion had equal success.
Retiring in 1984, X was appropriately named a Disney Legend in 1996.
Rolly Crump
joined the Walt Disney Studios in 1952.  He was an assistant animator on the Disney Classic Animated films Peter Pan, Lady & the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, and 101 Dalmations. In 1959 he moved over to Disney Imagineering and became a designer of Disneylands attractions and shops including Haunted Mansion, Enchanted Tiki Room , and Adventureland Bazaar. He was responsible for designing many of the Disney attractions for the 1964 New York World's Fair including It's a Small World and its Tower of the Four Winds marquee.  In 1996 when the attraction was moved to Disneyland he designed the large animated clock at the entrance that sends the puppet children on parade.  In 2004 Rolly Crump was honored by the Walt Disney Company as a Disney Legend.
Richard Sherman
was one half of the Disney songwriting team known as the Sherman Bros.  Together with his brother Robert they wrote the songs for such Disney Classics films as Mary Poppins, Jungle Book, The Happiest Millionaire, and the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.  They also wrote the song It's a Small World After All for the Disneyland Theme park attraction It's a Small World and also the song "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" for the Disneyland attraction "Carousel of Progress".  In 2004 the Sherman
Bros. were honored with a Window on Main Street Disneyland in honor of their contributions to Disney Theme parks.
Floyd Norman
joined Disney in 1956 becoming the first animator hired by Walt Disney.  He contributed to some of the cornerstones of the studio's legacy including Sword and the Stone, animated sequences of Mary Poppins, and Sleeping Beauty.   He became a Story Artist with Jungle Book and then left after Walt Disney's death to venture on his own. he later returned to Disney as a Story Artist for Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, Toy Story 2, and Monsters Inc.
Reuben Apodaca
joined Disney in 1956.  He worked on the Disney Classic Animated Film Sleeping Beauty.  He went on to work at all the major studio's during the 60's and 70's including UPA, Format, Warner Bros., Hanna Barbera, and Filmation.
Pete Alvarado
worked at the Disney Studios as an assistant animator in the 1930's.  He worked on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and then left in 1939 and then returned in 1941 to do fill in work for almost all the Disney newspaper comic strip including an extended period as the main artist on Donald Duck.
Willie Itto
worked as an animator at Disney in the 1950's. One of the animated films he worked on was Lady & the Tramp. One of the segments of the film he worked on was the spaghetti scene between Lady and Tramp.
Lew Ott
worked in animation for a variety of Hollywood Studios. He worked on numerous animated T.V. shows starting in 1964 with the Jonny Quest T.V. series. Others include the Flintstones, Scooby Doo, The Smurfs, Fantastic Four,  The Fonz and Happy Days Gang, My Little Pony, to name just a few.
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