Comments on: Heading South

By: Another Voice

Another Voice — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:34:08 +0000

The Disney Family Foundation makes sense. The opening of the museum is probably the first time a lot of material about the trip was assembled in one spot.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:30:53 +0000

You know, that’s an excellent question and I don’t have a definite answer as to how the projects got started. They do have a connection, though. Both bear the involvement of the Walt Disney Family Foundation – the film was produced by WDFF and although the book was published by Disney Editions, it also bears the imprint of WDFF and D23 (!). There was also some obvious collaboration – the book cites the film several times. Also notable is the fact that at D23, author JB Kaufman and director Ted Thomas sat on the El Grupo panel together. I’ll try and find out more…

By: Another Voice

Another Voice — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:47:12 +0000

Is there any connection between the book and the movie? It seems rather strange there are two significant projects on such an obscure topic at the same time.