{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Call 'Em Like Museum with Eric Johnson","title":"Walt Disney's life wasn't always magical (with Kirsten Komoroske)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2584,"description":"The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco faces a unique challenge: How do you tell the story of one of history's most important storytellers? When Diane Disney Miller founded the museum, her goal was to let her father tell his own story. To achieve this, she amassed 30,000 artifacts and extensive archival media to create a deeply personal look at the man behind the magic.\n\"She really wanted to debunk these myths that he was not a family man, not committed to his friends and family,\" says Kirsten Komoroske, the executive director of the museum. \"She wanted to tell the truth about all of the challenges, the failures, the setbacks.\"\nThose challenges include the devastating loss of his first hit character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit; a polarizing animators' strike that led to Walt testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee; and the lifelong smoking habit that ultimately ended his life at age 65.\nToday on Call 'Em Like Museum, Kirsten shares how the Walt Disney Family Museum stays fresh as a single-subject institution, the importance of a \"good, hard failure,\" and why there is a plaque next to one of the museum's benches explicitly telling visitors to sit down. \n\nFull transcript of this episode\n\nSubscribe to the newsletter\nThis episode was hosted, produced, and edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod\nChapters\nMusic: www.purple-planet.com\n\nImages:\nThe museum exterior\nWalt Disney\nNarcissa Niblack Thorne\nThorne's \"English Cottage Kitchen of the Queen Anne Period\"\nGates of Hell\nRiver of Stone\nFaultline\nWood Line\nSpire\nEarth Wall\nVideos:\nWalt Disney Testifies at HUAC (1947)","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/R3vVVmzGNQz0jMgSg7uznIO-cko06gdiz9lG9pi3elA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85MTA0/ZmM2NTdlOTJjZGZk/NDA0MGI2M2IxNmU1/NWE0MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}