The Year Before Disneyland

The Year Before Disneyland

or: How Much Happened at the Company While Building the Park

by Michael L. Holland

Foreword by Donald W. Ballard

490 pages

6x9 size

Color

Paperback ISBN 9798896093558

Hardback ISBN 9798896093565

The Year Before Disneyland or: How Much Happened at the Company While Building the Park is the story of Walt and Roy leading a team of talented men and women who found it kind of fun to do the impossible.  And, from July 1954 to July 1955, it wasn’t just Disneyland.  They also left RKO to distribute their own movies, created their first television show, released 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, partnered on the Disneyland Hotel, managed the Davy Crockett phenomenon, and released Lady and the Tramp.  That would be a lot for ten years.  And Disney did it in one.