Welcome to the public domain, THE KARNIVAL KID (1929), where #MickeyMouse speaks his first dialog—though not in Walt Disney's iconic falsetto! 🐭 🎞️ Learn more: blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...

Welcome to the public domain, THE OPRY HOUSE (1929), where #MickeyMouse dons his iconic gloves onscreen for the first time & performs a one-🐭 vaudeville show! 🎞️ 🎭🧤 Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025 #PublicDomain #InternetArchive

Welcome to the public domain, THE BARN DANCE (1929)! 🐭🎶 #MickeyMouse & Pete compete for Minnie’s attention at a lively barn dance, but with a twist ending: Pete wins! 💃🕺 🎞️ Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

Big record labels claim to be helping musicians by destroying the @archive.org ! We organized a letter with over 500 musicians who are speaking out about how this couldn't be further from the truth:

Don’t underestimate the importance of independent libraries and their right to archive, hold and lend books and other media. Greedy corporations and political agitators follow selfish plans to destroy sources of free information. Fight! www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/dema... #internetarchive

The Mickey Mouse Club Circus: With Gil Gray in #Disneyland (Bandwagon; 2011) www.dix-project.net/document/ban...

How "Mickey Mouse" Films are Made - Behind the Scenes at the Walt Disney Studio (The Meccano Magazine, 1935) www.dix-project.net/document/the...

Port Disney - Preliminary Master Plan : Executive Report (Economics Research Associates, 1990) www.dix-project.net/document/mis...

Donald and his ducts - Air conditioning the new Walt Disney Studios (Domestic Engineering, 1940) www.dix-project.net/document/dom...

Walt Disney comes to the Valley: San Fernando Valley - Home of the Wall Disney studios (Valley Progress, 1939) www.dix-project.net/document/mis...

The Disney Studio - Dreamland for Daytime Toilers (Radio Mirror/Radio TV Mirror, 1961) www.dix-project.net/document/rad...

Walt Disney Studios - Man-made magic gets itself properly homed (California arts & architecture, 1941) www.dix-project.net/document/cal...

Famed Mickey Mouse 100% I.B.E.W. - Animated creatures of a fertile imagination build a great new movie city in glamorous Hollywood (The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators, 1940 www.dix-project.net/document/the...

Walt Disney - After a Decade of Growing the Disneys Move to New Studio (The Film Daily Cavalcade, 1939) www.dix-project.net/document/the...

Safeguarding a large film studio - Disney Productions and Burbank Fire Department cooperate to protect sprawling movie facility (Fire Engineering, 1961) www.dix-project.net/document/fir...

Disney Studios, Burbank, Calif. (Architectural Forum, 1944) www.dix-project.net/document/arc...

The New Walt Disney Studio (Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, 1941) www.dix-project.net/document/jou...

Between 1940 and 1985 Walt Disney Productions published 46 Annual Reports of which I was able to locate 34 online. Maybe someone is able to fill the gaps? www.dix-project.net/featured/Ann...

Euro Disney S.C.A. issued 28 annual reports between 1989 and 2016. After the takeover by the Walt Disney Company these documents vanished from their corporate website. I was finally able to track down sources for all reports. Check www.dix-project.net/featured/Ann...

#EPCOT - A Proving Ground for the Future - A midterm progress report on "Disney’s greatest dream." (Future Life; 1981) www.dix-project.net/document/fut...

Walt Disney World #EPCOT CENTER - The Construction Adventure [Special Advertising Section] (Engineering News-Record; 1982) www.dix-project.net/document/eng...

Disney World's laundry kingdom - No production fantasy (American Laundry Digest; 1980) #WaltDisneyWorld #EPCOT www.dix-project.net/document/ame...

Chronic of the audio production of the #EPCOT opening special "The Beginning of The 21st Century": Countdown to the 21st Century (DB Magazine; 1982) www.dix-project.net/document/db-...

While developing his idea of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow Walt Disney studied this book by Victor Gruen. www.dix-project.net/document/mis... Check Sam Gannawey's essay for more background information: sites.google.com/site/theorig... #Epcot

I'll use that in my next meeting... Didn't know I need that but I do 👍

Air Conditioning in Walt Disney Studios (Architect and Engineer, 1941) www.dix-project.net/document/arc...

How would you air condition a city? (Architectural Forum, 1940) www.dix-project.net/document/arc...

Disney Productions Occupy New Home (The Architect and Engineer of California, 1940) www.dix-project.net/document/the...

Who are the Men who'll OK the Plans for the GREAT NEW PLANTS of Tomorrow ? (Architectural Forum , 1946) www.dix-project.net/document/arc...

As still marked as beta (since almost a year) the DIX project's website may have some quirks. But it offers 6000+ sources about Disney history - from magazine articles or interviews to podcasts. Check it out: www.dix-project.net

Six Telephone Outlets In The Home Of Mickey Mouse! [Bell System ad] (The Architect and Engineer of California, 1933) www.dix-project.net/document/the...

The Contemporary Resort: The house that Walt built (Progressive Architecture, 1971) www.dix-project.net/document/pro...

Haven't had much time to create lately, but here's a preview of the MSUSA book. This copy was made for the amazing people who helped me (and I didn’t realize it was so huge!). Unfortunately, printed copies are still not allowed, but the digital version and the audiobook are still free online!

An Afternoon with Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas and Pinocchio (Charles Solomon, Animation World Magazine, 1998) www.dix-project.net/document/ani...

Three Hundred Men: and Walt Disney (American Cinematographer; 1938) www.dix-project.net/document/ame...

Walt Disney: Humor - An International Sixth Sense (The Phi Delta Kappan; 1954) #WaltsWords www.dix-project.net/document/mis...

Amusement castle - Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant at Disneyland Paris (Patents filed by Tony Baxter, @tomkmorris.bsky.social and Mark A. Lescault; 1992) www.dix-project.net/document/pat...

Animated Old Legend - Disney Awakens Beauty" (LIFE mag., 1958) www.dix-project.net/document/lif...

Walt Disney Productions office at 477 Madison Avenue, New York (from article "Buena Vista - a Distributor with built-in Exploitation", Motion Picture Herald; 1954) www.dix-project.net/document/mot...

Walt Disney - The Latter-Day Aesop - Part 1, 2 and 3 (TV Guide; 1961) www.dix-project.net/document/tv-...

David R. Smith: A Mickey Mouse index - indexing and cataloguing the Walt Disney Archives (The Indexer; 1987) www.dix-project.net/document/the...

"An Historical Look at Business Archives" by Dave Smith (American Archivist, 1982) www.dix-project.net/document/ame...

For the next days I'll re-post some of my favorite sources and documents.

Hi fellow Disney history enthusiasts! Almost on the day ten years ago I started posting on Twitter about documents from the DIX project. 🎉 Although I was not very active on Twitter lately I decided to leave that place since I don't want to use a platform owned by such a dangerous individual. 🧳