The Disney Gallery

History

The Royal Continuation

With the beginning of the year 1960, whereas the construction of New Orleans Square was started, Walt Disney decided that it needed more a big space to accommodate important visitors in the park. It had already an apartment above the Fire station on Main Street the USA but too small to hold a reception. The calm one of the new Land satisfied Walt for this room of reception, rather a continuation VIP.

Walt had required the assistance of the decorator of plate Dorothea Redmond, known for the decorations of Gone With The Wind , for the fitting of the apartment. To decorate and furnish the continuation, Walt left his wife Lilly and the decorator of the studios Disney Emile Kuri to collaborate on the decoration, as they had been able to do it on other projects (Club 33, the apartment above the fire station,…)

Walt Disney died the December 15th 1966, and consequently of many projects of the Walt Disney Productions were suspended or given up. The continuation, famous Royal Continuation was abandoned at the request of Roy O. Disney. The main reason was that the Disney family could not really take pleasure to occupy the apartment without the presence of Walt.

However with died of Walt, all was already places from there except the pieces of furniture. The continuation was never what it was to be.

New tenants

A few years later, the insurance company Insurance Company off North America (INA) rented the continuation in order to make a continuation of company of it to accommodate customers in the park. They wanted to make use of it like an extension of the Carefree Corner of Street Hand.

After the departure of INA (in 1974), it is the subsidiary company Disneyland International which occupies space for offices of direction. They will be thus used to conceive Tokyo Disneyland with the company Oriental Land Company. A broad model of the future park was laid out in one of the parts in which Japanese could see the park physically.

The idea of Tony Baxter

In the middle of the Years 1980, (after 1983 and the end of the construction of Tokyo Disneyland), Disneyland International released the places to settle in larger buildings. Released space has a very dubious future then.

At the same period, Tony Baxter was to find a means of off improving flows of visitors to the accesses of attraction Pirates Caribbean. The queue of attraction became so long that it blocked the access to the remainder of New Orleans Square and Bear Country (famous Critter Country in 1988).

Baxter decided aopter the current configuration, where the queue passes under a bridge, thus releasing the passage connecting Adventureland to New Orleans Square. It was occupied after the appearance of the Continuation located above the queue. It conceived a decorative Escalier out of horseshoe with two flights which clings almost to the bridge and frames the building. Baxter thought that a so beautiful place which the Continuation was going to decay if she were not seen by the visitors.

Baxter required then of the new president and COO of the Walt Disney Company Frank Wells which were the projects for the Continuation in itself. Wells evoked the lack of space of the Club 33 and the envi to have novel members. Baxter returned with the idea of an art gallery open to the visitors. The Imagineers had often wished to take place to expose their works designed for the parks and almost ever seen by the public. The idea was retained and the Disney Gallery was born.

Histories of the exposures

The Disney Gallery is as its name indicates it a Disney gallery. Its vocation first is to be a place of exposure. She proposes as articles to be bought as they are exposed works or derivative products of these works. The gallery presented many exposures listed hereafter.

Opening: July 11th 1987

The Art off Disneyland (1987-1997)

This exposure opened with the gallery in 1987. It included/understood models and works of art associated with various attractions with the history with Disneyland.

Most famous of the parts was the model original of the Castle of Beautiful to Wood Sleeping in the first room. During the years, art was renewed and of the new things were presented concerning new attractions of the park. The last " nouvelle" attraction to be presented is Indiana Jones Adventure in the form of Concept Art in 1997.

During this exposure one of the rooms was occupied by a named under-exposure Disneyland which did not exist jamais". It included/understood concept art of certain attractions refused and not carried out like Dumbo' S Circus or Discovery Bay.

Tomorrowland: Future Imagining the 1955-1998 (1997-2000)

For the 10th birthday of the gallery, a new exposure was presented. It had as a subject various interpretations of the future within Disneyland. This exposure coincided with the construction of the Nouveau Tomorrowland of 1998 and was a means of stimulating the public with respect to this project.

The exposure was cut out in three distinct zones:

the first evoked Tomorrowland of the atomic era (1955 to 1966).
the second depicted the Tomorrowland of the World moving (1967 to 1997). The most famous parts of this room were a model very precise of the interior of Space Mountain. The visitors spent much time to observe the model too much not managing to make correspond the exact layout of the model with their feelings in attraction.
the last was a presentation of the concept-art of the baptized version of 1998 " Imagination and Beyond ". But it included/understood also concept-art of a baptized abandoned version " Tomorrowland 2055". With the open one in 1998 of New Tomorrowland, certain works of this section were replaced by concept-art of the new open Autopia in 2000.

In Brush with Disney: The Art off Herbert Ryman (2000-2002)

In 2000, the gallery of exposure presented for the first a collection of works targeted on only one artist of Walt Disney Imagineering: Herbert Dickens Ryman. Ryman was inter alia the author of the preparatory drawings for Disneyland which made it possible Roy O. Disney to have the financial contributions necessary to the construction of the project. He worked in the years 1960 on the project Florida.

This exposure reflected the life of this artist at the same time to the center and apart from Disney. One of the showrooms was devoted to the Ryman-Carroll Foundation for the young artists and the majority of paintings presented were carried out by artists of the foundation.

100 Mickeys (2002)

In order to celebrate the 100e birthday of the birth of Walt Disney, old Imagineer and specialist in the sale Eric Robison accepted the order by single Disneyland of 100 portaits of Mickey Mouse, the most popular character of Walt. All paintings were rélaisées on different supports like fabrics, letter-boxes, mats…

This exposure marks the beginning for the gallery of a system of art with the request. The visitors can take one of works which they appreciate (of Mickeys during this exposure) and to make it reproduce on paper or a fabric. This system was and remains very popular at the same time as profitable.

Haunted Mansion Holiday (2002-2003)

For the winter season 2002, the gallery exposed oeuvrs on the decoration affixed during the season on attraction Haunted Mansion. The exposure included/understood also concept art of original attraction as well as others on the film Strange Christmas of Mr Jack of Tim Burton, which is used as inspiration with the temporary decoration.

In Pirate' S Life for Me (2003)

This exposure off presented the concept art of the attraction located just in lower part Pirates the Caribbean. It included/understood the many details and stories of this attraction through drafts and drawings of Marc Davis, of models create by the Master sculptor of Imaginerring Blaine Gibson. Some busts of pirates created by the Master for attraction were also presented.

In addition to this exposure on attraction, a part presented the concept art and of the accessories of the film Pirates of the Caribbean 1: Curse of Black Pearl left in 2003 and based on attraction. The most remarkable elements were the costumes of Elisabeth Swann and Captaine Jack Sparrow, one of the gold coins Aztèque and the compass of Jack.

Frights, Camera, Action! The Haunted Mansion Goes Hollywood (2003-2005)

Because of success of the exposure and film Pirate of the Caribbean , Disney retenta the experiment with the film the haunted Manor and the 999 phantoms based him on attraction Haunted Mansion. The exposure included/understood, like that of the pirates, at the same time of the elements - already presented during the exposure Haunted Mansion Holiday (2002-2003) - on Haunted Mansion and film. Although the film did not have a big hit, the gallery attracted many visitors. It included/understood elements at the same time on the house haunted of California but also on the other versions of attraction in the parks Disney. The exposure devoted also a big part to the influence of the various houses haunted to that of film.

Part of the elements of the exposure had been presented within the El Capitan Theater in 2003.

Disneyland - has Magical Canvas: 50 Artists Celebrate 50 Years (2005-Present)

To celebrate the 50 years of Disneyland, within the Happiest Homecoming one Earth, the gallery presented works on the park in itself. The exposure similar to Art Disneyland is off presented between 1987 and 1997. Each Land of the park had a zone of the exposure. But the exposure different from share that exposed works did not have was the fact carried out only by only 50 imagineers, selected because of their creative impact on the park. Some imagineers were represented by several their works.

Since July 2006, the first showroom was slightly modified in order to expose works of art on the Pirates of the Caribbean at the same time attraction and the film. This change is a consequence of the success of the second shutter of the cinematographic trilogy. The exposure includes/understands accessories and costumes of the secret of the cursed trunk . Many elements reflect also the restoration of the attarction with the new scenes including/understanding Captaine Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa.

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