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Joe Collins (seated) and Wes Hamilton

This is the second grant written by Dr. Green that has benefited the museum in May of 2005 he and 2 of his students spent a week in Marceline researching a business plan for the museum. In case you haven’t guessed Dr. Green is a HUGE Disney fan. We feel honored to have him as part of our Marceline family.

Left: Tracy Jennings Right: Michael McNick

Tracy Jennings and Michael McNick from The Dallas Fort Worth area spent their Easter Holiday in Marceline volunteering at the Walt Disney Hometown Museum. They arrived just in time to scrape the ceiling and walls of the room being fitted for a film studio at the museum. Tracy is the President of his local NFFC chapter and you might recognize Michael as the King of Disney trivia. While they were here they sampled the famous Marceline ice cream treat “Dusty Miller” I believe they plan to serve it at their next NFFC event. Thanks for all of the help guy’s!

Andy Neitzert

March 15, Andy Neitzert a film student from CA arrived in Marceline to film for a documentary titled Walt Disney’s Missouri. During his two week stay he interviewed over 120 Marceline residents, many of whom had met Walt Disney and had great stories to share. Andy will be returning to Marceline to film the annual 4th of July celebration and Walt Disney’s Hometown Toonfest September 15. The intended length of the final film will 80 minutes and will be screened at private screenings and film festivals.

Andy is also providing the filmed interviews for the Walt Disney Hometown archives. Andy hopes to open a studio in Marceline.

Through a grant from the AT&T Foundation the Walt Disney Hometown Museum has recently purchased video, sound, lighting and editing equipment. And set up a permante studio at the museum. Since the opening of the museum many our guests have shared their Disney story with our museum hosts. We were concerned that these untold Disney stories would be lost unless we provided a way to capture them. Through the AT&T grant and a huge volunteer effort we now have a studio at the museum. Eisterhold and Associates from Kansas City Missouri advised us on the purchase of equipment set up of the studio how to film, interview, archive and edit the interviews.