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This DVD was published on the occasion of the exhibition "IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS WALT DISNEY - Aux sources de l'Art des Studios Disney" presented at the Grand Palais (Paris - France), from 16 September 2006 to 15 January 2007.Walt DISNEY... He was a genius of American mass culture who was fascinated and inspired by classical European art, a gifted storyteller who surrounded himself with brillant artists from Sweden, Denmark and England who were able to give shape to his fertile imagination and bring it to life. Like a journey through Wonderland, this film tells the story of the creation of DISNEY Studios, merrily weaving together 3D and 2D sequences, stills and animated footage, interviews with specialists and excerpts from DISNEY's most celebrated works. (Heeza)

In the middle of the 1930s, Walt Disney undertook a long journey across Europe from which he returned with hundreds of illustrated books and engravings. A treasure trove that would be a major source of inspiration for his subsequent animated features. The film relates Walt Disney's artistic journey and the joyous clash between high culture and popular culture, in which Gustave Doré, Daumier and Rembrandt play peek-a-boo with Snow White, Pinocchio and the Sleeping Beauty. With a tone and a rhythm taken from cartoons, the story unfolds as an investigation within Disney's mind itself, blending specialist interviews, animated 3D sequences, and archives, along with clips from Disney's most famous works such as Snow White, Cinderella, Fantasia, Bambi, Dumbo, etc. (Les Films d'Ici)