The Lost Notebook: Herman Schultheis the Secrets of Walt Disney's Movie Magic

By Walt Disney Company and John Canemaker

Discover the secrets behind Fantasia, Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Bambi --all through the lens of early animation's most enigmatic and fascinating character, Herman Schultheis. A technician at the Disney Studio in the late 1930s, Schultheis kept a covert scrapbook of special effects wizardry, capturing in photographs and text the dazzling, behind-the-scenes ingenuity of early Disney films. Later, when he mysteriously disappeared into a Guatemalan jungle, his notebook was forgotten ... and with it, the stories of how these beloved animated classics were made. Miraculously unearthed in a chest of drawers in 1990, Schultheis's notebook is now available for all to see at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco--and in this compelling and beautiful book. Part annotated facsimile of the scrapbook itself, part biography of the complicated, overly ambitious man who made it, The Lost Notebook is a goldmine for Disney and animation enthusiasts and a vivid, riveting account of one man's plight to make it big in early Hollywood.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616286326
• ISBN13: 9781616286323
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Weldon Owen
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 12.2" x 12.1"