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    The Walt Disney Family Museum

    Storytelling with Sound

    Project Group

    The Walt Disney Family Museum

    Client

    Walt Disney Family Foundation

    Date

    October 2009

    Location

    San Francisco, CA

    Exhibit Design

    Rockwell Group

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    Tags

    Games , Installations , Storytelling , Touch

    Playlists

    • Group interactives
    • Narrative storytelling
    • Interactive installations

    Through four interactive music stands surrounding images of Walt, playful creative activities reveal the various ways Disney employed sound and music in his animated features.

    Following his pioneering success synchronizing sound with animation, Walt Disney was committed to the importance of the role sound and music played in storytelling. Through four different game-like activities, visitors can experience how Disney used tempos, moods, themes, and lyrics to help tell his stories. A central monolithic screen features animated images of Walt working side-by-side with animators and composers. At any one of the four stands surrounding Walt visitors can browse the four sheet music covers to pick one of the activities. Visitors manipulate a metronome to match storyboard sequences with tempos in the “Step in Time” activity, and pick records to match musical themes with characters in “How Do You Do?” In “Fun With Music” visitors match the mood of an animated pencil-sketch scene from Dumbo with the appropriate melody, and they listen to the words and music of “Love Is a Song” to decide which drawings correspond with the story the song tells.

    Press & Awards

    Themed Entertainment Association Annual Thea Award, OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, November 2010
    “Inside Walt Disney's World,” The Wall Street Journal, Ann Landi, October 13, 2009

    Interactive displays demonstrate how Disney joined the vanguard of the talking-picture revolution by creating an animated film with synchronized sound.

    “Walt Disney Museum in San Francisco Documents the Man Behind Mickey Mouse,” The Daily Mail, Jo Tweedy, September 29, 2009

    For younger visitors, the museum has interactive displays which enables them to sync music to cartoons in the way the masterful animator himself would once have done.

    “New Museum Reveals the Man Behind the Mouse,” Silicon Valley Mercury News, Chuck Barney, September 28, 2009

    Every gallery is crammed with touch screens and interactive exhibits designed to bring static drawings and documents to life.

    “Disney Family Museum puts focus on Walt,” The San Francisco Chronicle, Peter Hartlaub, September 25, 2009

    If that sounds boring, don't worry...there are 21st century touches everywhere...Touch-screen monitors allow users to browse through relic documents that would normally be kept under glass.

    Credits

    Designers
    Martin Linde, Erica Hassinger
    Motion Designer
    Martin Linde
    Technology Director
    Thomas Wester
    Developer
    Vance Feldman
    Producer
    Jennifer Guibord
    Video Editors
    Tim Kviz, David Waingarten
    Production Artist
    Rebecca Rosen
    Production/QA Assistant
    Elizabeth Bourke
    Content Development
    Walt Disney Family Foundation
    A/V Media Design
    Batwin & Robin
    A/V Integration
    BBI
    Exhibit Design
    Rockwell Group
    © 2012 Second Story, Inc.

    Project Group

    • Project Overview
    • Mickey Merchandise
    • Recovery and Reinvention: Behind the Scenes with Walt
    • Storytelling with Sound
    • The Schultheis Notebook
    • Walt’s Awards
    • Walt’s Childhood Stories
    • Walt’s Early Years Raree-Shows
    • Working with Walt