Help Start Up a Vault Disney/Disney Family Channel;Please Read If U Care About Disney

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"I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company" -- Walt Disney

The Disney Channel is ignoring the very principles Disney was founded under and is spitting on the Disney name as a whole. If certain areas in this company ignore their principles, they stop the Disney name from flourishing.
Disney is not just a company, but also a man. Walt Disney was a pioneer whose philosophy for the Disney Company was always to entice people to enjoy all of his masterpieces by providing nothing but "high quality family entertainment." The company he built currently preaches about family, yet at the same time ignores the very aspects and principles of family entertainment upon which they were built. After all, "this" is where Disney came from; "this" is where Disney was more of a magical legacy than a
generic brand name, such as Nickelodeon or MTV. When the Disney Channel began to ignore these ideals, they helped to stop the Disney name from flourishing into what it was destined to be and what Walt always meant it to
be.

"That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won’t do that. I’ll temper a story, yes. But I won’t play down, and I won't patronize" -- Walt Disney

Through the “old” Disney Channel, people of all ages were introduced to wonderful old movies. It was on Disney that many first saw a lot of the Disney classics as well as Hollywood classics like the musicals of Rogers
and Hammerstein. It used to be programming that parents and children could watch together. At least the Disney Channel had Vault Disney; that is until 2002, when all "classic" Disney was phased off the air. Why wouldn't
today's generation like Old Yeller, Davy Crockett, Five Mile Creek, Mickey Mouse Club, Zorro, Spin & Marty, Walt Disney World Inside Out, Dumbo's Circus, Pooh Corner, White Fang, Iron Will, Flight of the Navigator, Tron, Disney's nature specials, etc? This is where Disney came from; films and programs like these are true family classics; and they deserve to be showcased on television!

"You’re dead if you aim only for kids" -- Walt Disney

Now the only group the channel plays to is the 12 and under crowd. Disney is about family, and once this channel was for family. Now it's a commercial-filled, mostly un-watchable channel. One might as well watch Nickelodeon or MTV.

There could have been installed just a few shows that would be popular with the young crowd, but instead the entire channel has been converted to a preteen/preschool dreamland.

"I do not make films primarily for children" -- Walt Disney

Many children today who end up watching the older classics on DVD actually do like them. They like them very much, in fact. The problem, though, is that their parents are the ones who actually want the discs, and as a result these kids wouldn‘t even see these movies if it weren't for them (the
parents). By deciding not to air the old films and television specials, the current company is not giving them more of a chance with a younger generation; a generation that deserves to know the history, the legacy, and the beauty of Walt Disney and his vision.

"The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together -- and that’s the backbone of our whole business, catering to families -- that’s what we hope to do" -- Walt Disney

Help start up a Vault Disney or Disney Family Channel and put family programming there. What is the harm of mixing in classic Disney films and TV shows, for current and future generations to enjoy, with great non-Disney family fare? The very building blocks of this great company: its morals, its
principals, its values are shown in these timeless treasures. The next generation deserves to know who Walt Disney was. He is certainly one of the most beloved men of all time. Everyone deserves to know what he stood for. And we deserve to tell them.

Please join "Preserve the Magic," and help us fight to bring the pixie dust back to television:
http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/preservethemagic

 

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/preservethemagic
That last address was a typo; sorry.
A few days ago, my family and I returned from Reno. And I don't know if my
obsession with Walt Disney has anything to do with this, but while going up
to Nevada last week and traveling down this week, and passing by all of the
beautiful scenery, through Donners Pass and everything, I am reminded of how
Walt fought so adamently to bring all of this naturalistic beauty to the
public. These are the very morals and ideals and "principles" Disney was
founded under: entertainment that not only could be enjoyed by the entire
family, but entertainment at a consistently high level. Entertainment which
reflected -- so beautifully -- a deep and passionate love -- and yearning --
for America; not a cheap and dissillusioned America, but a true,
naturalistic, "realistic," and country-roads-take-me-home type of America.
And most of all, a real sense of the awesome beauty all around us.
This campaign has never gotten close to 300 members, and I have pledged to
myself that I will work harder and more dillegently to get the word out.
But I cannot do it on my own. Please, I beg you, Lillian begs you, Marc
Davis begs you, Frank Wells begs you, Roy begs you ... please: if you care
at all about Disney, at "all" about the company, pass out flyers. Promote
our campaign via the signature in your e-mail. Spread the word around to
family, friends, co-workers, etc.
TV Land is doing wonderfully. So is The Hallmark Channel and Nick-at-Nite.
Sesame Workshop is planning to unveil a 24-hour channel devoted entirely to
their programming ... I really do believe that we can succeed.
I am completely serious here, and am honestly getting more fed up with
Disney every day. If nothing is done, and quick, future generations will be
completely unaware of what "Disney" truly means.
And that, to me, is the most frightening thing of all.