ABSTRACT
What follows is a brief biography of the life of Walt Disney. This is undertaken in order to provide, along with the analysis in the next chapter of his company in the years after his death in 1966, a background to an appreciation of the Disney theme parks which are the chief focus of this book. There is no absolute necessity to undertake an examination of Walt Disney’s life, since the theme parks could logically be analysed in their own right or with little recourse to his biography. However, an examination of his life, and most especially the writings on his life, form an important backcloth to a number of observations which will be extracted in the context of the analysis of the theme parks.
