{"product_id":"mouse-in-transition-steve-hulett-9798896094036","title":"Mouse in Transition: An Insider's Look at Disney Feature Animation","description":"\u003cp\u003eAN INSIDER'S LOOK AT DISNEY FEATURE ANIMATION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Walt Disney died, the studio went into a creative lockdown. The mantra \"What Would Walt Do\" comforted the old-timers, but it shackled the up-and-comers who wanted to take big risks on new approaches to animation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this sleepy studio walked Steve Hulett, whose father Ralph had been an artist at the studio for nearly four decades. Hulett was hired as a storyman during a transitional time in the company's history, when Walt's spirit was receding and Hollywood kingpins Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg were taking over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHulett takes you into the sometimes dark Disney heart of power, politics, and the cult of personality as he recalls: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Helping Ken Anderson on the ill-fated feature Catfish Bend, and how Anderson in return tried to get him fired\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Enduring intense, marathon story meetings with Woolie Reithermann, which Hulett recounts in colorful, unexpurgated detail\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Working on such Disney features as The Fox and the Hound, The Great Mouse Detective, and The Black Cauldron\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Meeting Eisner and Katzenberg for the first time, and the seismic shock their edicts sent through the Disney Studio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Learning the ropes through candid conversations with such Disney luminaries as Ward Kimball, Claude Coats, and Eric Larson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHulett's wit and dry humor, coupled with his first-hand accounts of working side-by-side with Ken Anderson, Woolie Reitherman, John Lasseter, and Little Mermaid co-director\/writer John Musker (who wrote the foreword), provides unique and unprecedented insight into the rapidly changing Disney Studio of the 1970s and 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve Hulett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798896094036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Theme Park Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d","brand":"Steve Hulett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48242010980607,"sku":"9798896094036","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9b958058-f537-4e7c-8266-0c8ec22a6b79.jpg?v=1772657055","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mouse-in-transition-steve-hulett-9798896094036","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}