NEWS: Newspaper Uncovers a 70-Year-Old Lost Photo of Walt Disney

Walt Disney has fascinated many Americans for decades.

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His life has certainly been well documented, and there are countless historic photos of Walt and his work preserved in company and family archives, as well as in Museums. And let’s not forget about news organizations who covered Walt throughout his life. Now, the New York Times has quite literally uncovered a lost photo of Walt Disney.

The New York Times just revealed the photo, which features composer Igor Stravinsky — whose work was used in the classic Disney movie Fantasia. According to the Times, the archivist who manages the newspapers’ “morgue” of old photos and newspaper clippings was looking through Stravinsky’s file when he found a photo of the composer.

Stravinsky was on the right side of the photo, and the left side of the photo was covered with gray paint. The paint was wiped away, and voila! — there sat Walt Disney.

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As the Times explained, it appears Walt was “cropped out” of the photo with the paint, so that it could be used as just a photo of Stravinsky. The date the photo was taken is unknown, but it was published in the Times at least three times between 1948 and 1965.

We loved seeing this little piece of history that may have never been seen before, and we hope you do! For more on this photo, check out the complete story in the Times.

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