Dirty goings-on in the magic kingdom

May 28, 2005 9:28 AM

Dirty goings-on in the magic kingdom. (QuickTime) Amateur movies shot by Disney's professional furries in Disneyworld show what happens on the grounds while Mickey isn't looking.
"...Many of the videos, I found out, were created for unofficial annual character banquets, where screening funny skits is part of a tradition of subtle acts of subversion among the members of Disney’s undercompensated and overregulated workforce."
Probably sorta safe for work, but don't show it to Pooh aficionados.
[via Radar magazine via defamer]
posted by Silky Slim (29 comments total)

Gee, I wonder if this is gonna show up on Boing Boing.
posted by keswick at 9:31 AM on May 28, 2005

lame.
posted by jikel_morten at 9:38 AM on May 28, 2005

If that's the best Disney's employees can do in response to oppression? They're not being oppressed enough.
posted by ZachsMind at 9:38 AM on May 28, 2005

Pretty weak. The cuts were way too fast and the camerawork was shoddy. The "Belle Striptease" showed promise, but it was poorly executed. Perhaps some simulated fellatio with a baguette would have been better. Disney is ripe for parody, but this was toothless.
posted by ColdChef at 9:53 AM on May 28, 2005

On preview: ZachsMind nails it.
posted by ColdChef at 9:53 AM on May 28, 2005

it'd be funnier if that was candid shots of them doing stuff and not knowing that'd been filmed.
posted by Hands of Manos at 9:57 AM on May 28, 2005

This is satire, when satire's been disneyfied.
posted by AlexReynolds at 10:13 AM on May 28, 2005

Yeah i feel like i deserve more of the belle strip tease. Also why disney insists on educating americans that Pocahontas and John Smith were dating is beyond me. John Rolfe knocked that bitty up.

\Descended from Pocahontas and Rolfe
\\Pissed off that a huge percentage of americans
\\think that Pocahontas was made up by disney.
posted by sourbrew at 10:27 AM on May 28, 2005

There's a story in Hollywood's Dark Prince (nice bio of Walt) about how, when WD got married, some employees made a "Mickey and Minnie Wedding Night" film solely for the company party in honor of the occasion. After the film was shown Walt nodded, smiled, asked who made it When the animators claimed credit, he fired them on the spot.
posted by QuietDesperation at 10:27 AM on May 28, 2005

Sorry, y'all, ZachsMind owns it.
posted by squirrel at 10:38 AM on May 28, 2005

"professional furries"

ha ha.
posted by sleslie at 10:51 AM on May 28, 2005

\\Pissed off that a huge percentage of americans
\\think that Pocahontas was made up by disney.

next people will think terrence malick made it up.
posted by Silky Slim at 10:51 AM on May 28, 2005

So, anyone have a torrent of the rest of the Belle video?
posted by WinnipegDragon at 11:43 AM on May 28, 2005

I dunno, I kinda liked the way the striptease was shot.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 11:52 AM on May 28, 2005

Sliky Slim - CURSES!!!!
posted by sourbrew at 12:08 PM on May 28, 2005

bah.
posted by Edible Energy at 12:11 PM on May 28, 2005

was this post curse-worthy? i apologize.
posted by Silky Slim at 1:03 PM on May 28, 2005

were you guys expecting something like this?
posted by Silky Slim at 1:06 PM on May 28, 2005

Wow, Silky. Bosch meets Disney?
posted by Marit at 1:17 PM on May 28, 2005

waste
posted by a thousand writers drunk at the keyboard at 5:46 PM on May 28, 2005

wtf? It was just getting good.
posted by Hankins at 6:56 PM on May 28, 2005

Everything before the Belle striptease was a waste of time. It coule have been better spent allowing Belle to fully explore her new vocation.
posted by fenriq at 10:00 PM on May 28, 2005

Needs more cow...erm...Belle!

(BTW, my fave Disney ani-babe...)
posted by Samizdata at 5:55 AM on May 29, 2005

Gee, I wonder if this is gonna show up on Boing Boing.
posted by keswick at 9:31 AM PST on May 28 [!]

sure enough...
posted by Silky Slim at 12:17 PM on May 29, 2005

Wow. Boing Boing beaten on their very own turf. Nice going Silky Slim!
posted by vacapinta at 12:21 PM on May 29, 2005

They ruined a Pooh head and a Belle wig? I'd hate to have both Character Costuming and Wigs after my ass. Those wig ladies are serious, too.

I can't believe I didn't recoginize anyone. The Minnie looked a little familiar,but he could have been chipmunk; it's hard to tell without seeing legs. I'm strangely jealous that I never got to wear that pink dress/cape thing. I always had to wear the polka-dot dress with the ugly Studio jacket on the rare occasion I was scheduled to wear anything but Mickey.

That John Smith/Pocahontas joke is barely funny to start with and even less funny when you consider that nearly half of the male characters are gay.

About two years ago they merged all four of the character departments into one ginormous one. I imagine that this is the bland crap that comes of it. The video we did my first year was much, much funnier than this. Unfortunately, the higher-ups usually destroyed them after the banquets (at least in theory) so it lives only in my memory.
posted by Elsbet at 1:45 PM on May 29, 2005

fascinating, elsbet. what was your movie like? this is admittedly not that great, but at least it was leaked!
btw, i didn't mean anything by "professional furries"
posted by Silky Slim at 3:25 PM on May 29, 2005

Hehe, I didn't take the furry thing too seriously. The odd thing is, there are no furries that work in the Character Department. I always thought that was a little bit strange. And believe me, that group of people was all about living and loving arrangements that were outside of the norm. The straight couple with a monogamous relationship was always in the minority. But never any furries.

In my video, there was a Minnie Mouse peep show, Pocahontas threw Meeko (the raccoon) off of a cliff, there was a bit with Belle and Beast where he was under her skirt and pretty much all you could see was his tail (I remember they had to use the Christmas Belle dress because that was the only thing large enough to hide Beast), etc., etc. The whole video was much, much tighter, and me telling you about it doesn't get across how funny it was.

But mostly these videos are about the inside jokes that happen in a job where management is trying their best to crush your soul. I mean there are more nonsensical rules and red tape than in the military, and I've lived and worked in both environments. And the people I met there were some of the most creative people I ever met. Singers, visual artists, independent filmmaker... It seems like everyone had a special talent, and most of them didn't relate to the job. That was usually the reason for the banquet, it was almost like a talent show. A lot of frustrated artists showing off.

But if the crappy video means that the talented people have all moved on, then all the better, and I hope they're all doing well.
posted by Elsbet at 5:53 PM on May 30, 2005

I thought this was going to be bloopers and Snow White beating up little kids or something. Dumb video.
posted by elisabeth r at 7:21 PM on May 30, 2005