“When television first hit, I went back to New York and spent a week in New York just to study television. . . . I had the feeling then that it was important and that we ought to get in it. The feeling of the motion picture business was that television was something we should fight. Or we should ignore it and maybe it would go away, or some darn thing.”—Walt

“[Disneyland] is something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing, keep plussing and adding to. It’s alive. It will be a live breathing thing that will need changes. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you’re through. . . . I wanted something live, something that could grow, something I could keep plussing with ideas, you see? The park is that.”—Walt

“I use the same talents to develop the different attractions at the park that I do to make my cartoons and make my other films here. So—it was a wise move some fifteen years ago when I decided that I should diversify.”—Walt

Even as the Disney studio continued to produce animated and live-action films, Walt was moving into new fields. As the 1950s dawned, he would embrace the medium of television and leave his unique stamp on it; and after creating so many fanciful worlds on the screen he would build a new, three-dimensional world that visitors could experience for themselves. A fresh explosion of creativity was just around the corner.