D23: Great Job, Becky; I'm Jealous!

Link to September 8 New York Times article, "Blowing the Pixie Dust Off Disney’s Archives".

Excerpt: Wearing white gloves, Becky Cline, manager of the sprawling repository, gently opened a crate containing the giant bejeweled storybook used for the opening scene of “Sleeping Beauty,” the animated classic from 1959. “We have to be really, really careful with this,” Ms. Cline said, almost in a whisper.

The prop, along with dozens of other specimens from Disney films that have long been kept under lock and key, will headline an unusual exhibition of memorabilia that opens on Thursday and runs through the weekend at the Anaheim Convention Center in Southern California. Also included: the coonskin cap that Fess Parker wore as Davy Crockett (leading to a national craze), Annette Funicello’s Mouseketeer shirt, a costume from the 1950s TV series “Zorro” and the four-wheeled star of “The Love Bug.”