A Brief History of the Walt Disney Studios

Van Eaton Galleries presented our eighth auction, “A Brief History of the Walt Disney Studios”, on July 7, 2018. This one-of-a-kind auction examined the events and individuals that helped build the Walt Disney Studios and theme parks into what we know them as today. This auction contained remarkable artifacts from Walt’s early life, such as a stock certificate for Walt’s animation company “Laugh-O-Gram” Studios, as well as Walt Disney’s personal business card from his time working on the Oswald cartoons. This auction also contained such items as animators’ desks and furniture from the Walt Disney Studios, rare animation artwork from the 1920s up through the Disney Renaissance, original Disneyland props and artifacts, as well as the original brownline that Walt Disney first drew the boundary of Disneyland on. This remarkable auction contained nearly 600 items, and represented almost 100 years of creativity and imagination from the mind of Walt Disney and the employees of the Walt Disney Studios.