Disney Archive Director Becky Cline Details New London Exhibition, How to Handle 100-Year-Old Storyboards

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K.J. Yossman In celebration of Disney’s centennial, the Mouse House is touring a 20,000-foot exhibition showcasing the company’s history and innovation. “Disney 100: The Exhibition” recently rolled into London, where visitors can marvel at Cinderella’s glass slipper and get up close and personal with items from Disney’s parks, films and TV shows.

Becky Cline, director of the Walt Disney Archives, has spent four years working on the exhibition. She sat down with Variety to discuss how the exhibition team picked which items from the company’s vast archives to put on display and her favorite piece of Disney history. What was the process of creating this exhibition? We worked with some of our partners around the company to pull assets that would tell the complete story of the 100 years.

What we wanted to do was select assets that would tell a unique story. We separated the exhibition into 10 galleries. The first gallery is chronological, it tells the story of Walt Disney and the early silent films up through the birth of Mickey Mouse and then it goes into different galleries based on different themes, such as Storytelling. Are there any unique items that have been flown over for the U.K.

portion of the tour? One piece that we included just for the U.K. exhibit is Walt Disney’s copy of “Mary Poppins,” the book, that is autographed to him from PL travers, who wrote it.