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The Walt Disney - Mescaline Connection

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I knew there was a reason I enjoyed Fantasia so much.


DISNEY'S "FANTASIA" was Mescaline Fueled

For many many years there has been speculation and urban legends about
the possibly psychedelic or hallucinogenic inspiration for Walt
Disney's animated masterpieces such as FANTASIA or the PINK ELEPHANTS
sequence from DUMBO.

Paul relates the background information on how Disney became aware of
the creative potentials of Mescaline (Peyote) while visiting Black
Mountain College in North Carolina in 1935. Disney was visiting to
meet with artistic director Josef Albers, the last head of the Bauhaus
before the Nazis closed it. The students explained to Walt Disney that
felt oppressed by Albers teaching techniques and took the summer
vacations to Mexico to collect Peyote buttons for inspiration. By 1936
Walt Disney was taking Mescaline of a regular basis, this information
comes from the recollections of the students and faculty at black
Mountain College as confided to Mr Laffoley.
 
but WAIT there'e MORE:
"In 1945, Walt Disney signed Aldous Huxley to write a screenplay for "Alice and the Mysterious Mr. Carroll" (which was to be a) combination live-action and animated incorporation of "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" with the biography of Lewis Carroll. "It was so literary I could understand only every third word," Disney said of Huxley’s script, which he didn’t end up using for his adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland".

-Salon.com, "7 Unproduced Screenplays by Famous Intellectuals"
 
pau said:
but WAIT there'e MORE:
"In 1945, Walt Disney signed Aldous Huxley to write a screenplay for "Alice and the Mysterious Mr. Carroll" (which was to be a) combination live-action and animated incorporation of "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" with the biography of Lewis Carroll. "It was so literary I could understand only every third word," Disney said of Huxley’s script, which he didn’t end up using for his adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland".

-Salon.com, "7 Unproduced Screenplays by Famous Intellectuals"
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That is probably unrelated as Huxley took Mescaline for the first time only in 1953. Unsubstantiated rumors persist that he had taken Peyote in the '30s given by Aleister Crowley. Crowley was way broken back then and I fail to see how he would have access to Peyote while living in Germany.
 
pau said:
but WAIT there'e MORE:
"In 1945, Walt Disney signed Aldous Huxley to write a screenplay for "Alice and the Mysterious Mr. Carroll" (which was to be a) combination live-action and animated incorporation of "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" with the biography of Lewis Carroll. "It was so literary I could understand only every third word," Disney said of Huxley’s script, which he didn’t end up using for his adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland".

-Salon.com, "7 Unproduced Screenplays by Famous Intellectuals"
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Damn. I wish some Hollywood producer would find that script now and make it a reality :)
 
RealAwareness said:
Josef Albers, the last head of the Bauhaus
before the Nazis closed it.
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I was taught that Mies Van der Rohe was the last director of the Bauhaus. Gropius, Meyer, then Mies.

I was also taught that the Nazis did close the Bauhaus at first, but then Mies persuaded them to let it open again, and once they let him open it he closed it himself and emigrated to the USA, so it wasn't the Nazis that closed it for good.

I am a confused nerd, and I should go to bed right now :?
 
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