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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 19:48 David Rosenthal Actually, one of the first items on their agenda is they move the animation department out of the Burbank lot and basically
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:52:12 David Rosenthal Ben, as you alluded to, the new Disney Burbank animation studio, still the corporate headquarters of the company to this very day.
- ▶ 1:52:33 David Rosenthal So Walt's goal with the new Burbank studio
- ▶ 1:53:23 David Rosenthal Walt, also in his mind, I think comes to see this Burbank campus as really a utopian-like
- ▶ 1:53:34 David Rosenthal I mean, Walt didn't even graduate high school, let alone go to college, but he intentionally places it in Burbank, which back then was like the sticks outside of LA.
- ▶ 1:54:18 Ben Gilbert And so this Burbank studio was necessary even to keep the same producing films every three years.
- ▶ 1:54:49 David Rosenthal Right, in Burbank at the time.
- ▶ 1:55:03 Ben Gilbert It's, it's offset from the Burbank street grid at an angle, and we asked the person who we're showing, David and I around, listeners, uh, why this is, and he said that it was Walt's priority when they were building it to offer the exact…
- ▶ 1:57:23 David Rosenthal So the Burbank campus construction costs alone were three million dollars.
- ▶ 2:03:52 David Rosenthal And then they keep the same or they lower salaries for everybody else in the Burbank lot, and this causes huge resentment and unrest in the animation workforce.