1956 Magazine Addressed to Walt Disney at Studio from San Diego Zoo Magazine

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1956 Magazine Addressed to Walt Disney at Studio from San Diego Zoo Magazine:
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1956 Magazine Addressed to Walt Disney at Studio from San Diego Zoo Magazine 1956 Magazine Addressed to Walt Disney at Studio from San Diego Zoo Magazine

\"SATURDAY\'S TOYS Presents...\" a vintage issue of ZOONOOZ Magazine... as personally addressed to Walt Disney at his Burbank studio office.

March 1956 issue; as sent from the San Diego Zoological Society to the office of Walt Disney at Walt Disney Productions.

The magazine highlights Cyrano and Roxane, a pair of Proboscis Monkeys. Also, the team goes backstage for KFMB TV to witness their Slow Loris monkey bite the finger of George Pournelle, the Zoo\'s curator of mammals; requiring a tetanus shot immediately after filming ended that day. The zoo\'s 1956 guided tour bus is pictured. Noell, the baby Orangutan was born on Christmas Day, 1955. Russell\'s Viper (snake) is featured as well. Dr. Charles Schroeder is referenced as the zoo\'s Managing Director at that time. He would later give primary leadership to the development of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park (formerly known as the San Diego Wild Animal Park) near Escondido.

In 1955, Walt Disney had been awarded an honorary lifetime membership to the San Diego Zoo and this magazine was forwarded monthly to Walt\'s office on the campus of the Walt Disney Studio in Burbank, California. While the studio\'s address is often referenced as 500 S. Buena Vista... Walt\'s offices (3H; 3rd Floor of the Animation Building) were actually nearer to the corner of Buena Vista & Alameda. Mail for Walt Disney was most often delivered to his studio offices c/o 2400 West Alameda.

As was Walt\'s practice, if he had no specific interest in a periodical received through his office, his staff would forward the magazine to the Studio Library where the library would catalog it for future reference by the studio\'s writers, researchers, or artists. As the library was already on the zoo\'s mailing, Walt\'s personal copy of this magazine would then become \"c.2\" (copy #2), as stored for the next half century in the Library of the Walt Disney Studio.

This particular issue would be checked out only one time... to studio story man, Larry Clemmons (1906 - 1988). Clemmons was first hired as an in-betweener at Disney\'s Hyperion Studio less than two years after the debut of Mickey Mouse. Following WWII he would later return to Disney\'s new Burbank Studio and would assist as a writer and segment producer on \"The Mickey Mouse Club.\" Along with writing many of Walt Disney\'s personal introductions for his weekly television series (Disneyland; Walt Disney Presents; Walt Disney\'s Wonderful World of Color), Clemmons would contribute story and dialogue to many of Disney\'s classic animated films including The Reluctant Dragon, Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land, The Golden Horseshoe Revue (1962), Disneyland After Dark, The Jungle Book, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, The Aristocats, Robin Hood, The Rescuers, The Fox and the Hound, and more.