Award-winning filmmaker Pete Docter and veteran Walt Disney Imagineer Christopher Merritt share a deluxe two-book slip-cased set celebrating Disney Legend Marc Davis. The hefty volumes showcase Marc's mostly unseen Disney theme park concept art and offer a unique behind-the-scenes view as told through Marc's own words. On February 16, 1962, senior animator Marc Davis officially transitioned from Walt Disney Feature Animation to a new division of the company: WED Enterprises, the group assembled to design Walt's new theme park. The move would be a significant one. After thirty-plus years animating classic Disney features, Marc would become one of the most renowned of Walt Disney's new breed of employee-Imagineers. During Marc's time with WED (later Walt Disney Imagineering), he would become a driving force behind the designs of many of the most iconic attractions at the Disney theme parks. Pirates of the Caribbean, The Haunted Mansion, it's a small world, Jungle Cruise, Country Bear Jamboree, and many others feature environments and storylines that were heavily influenced by his conceptual artwork. Featuring work from the sixties through the eighties, this two-volume set includes more than 1,500 pieces from the Imagineering archives, the vast majority of which have never been published. In addition, for the first time Marc's design theories as well as many of his stories of working with Walt are featured in his own words as recorded during hours upon hours of interviews by author Chris Merritt. Marc Davis in His Own Words is a treasure trove for artists, students, and Disney collectors around the world.

Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks

Arts & Photography

Docter, Pete

Merritt, Christopher

Individual Artists

Disney Editions

After a complete sell-out of the original 2010 edition, Knott’s Preserved: From Boysenberry to Theme Park, the History of Knott’s Berry Farm (Revised Edition) is an expanded and updated treat for berry-farm fans everywhere. How could one place have the world’s best boysenberry preserves (no, Aunt Susan’s isn’t better!), world-class roller coasters and Independence Hall too? Where does a Ghost Town exist alongside a 360-foot Sky Jump, while people wait three hours for a chicken dinner? Knott’s Preserved reveals how the Knott family turned a berry business into one of the major theme parks in the world. Artists and designers will flip at the details the authors display--the how-it-happened of Knott’s from the earliest days. Berries and fried chicken were just a yummy lead-in to what would become a thrills capital of the world. Plus, it’s a story of how a man and a woman remained true to their values, sharing profits and credit whenever they could. Heartwarming? Yes. Decidedly so. For everybody who ever put their arms around Whiskey Bill and Handsome Brady, screamed in terror at Knott’s Scary Farm, or marveled at the Calico Mine, this book is filled with as much nostalgia as the Farm itself. Christopher Merritt is an artist and designer working in the theme park industry. His notable projects include serving as art director for the Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough at Disneyland, and as a concept and show designer for various attractions at the Disney theme parks. He works as a designer for Walt Disney Imagineering. Lucky enough to have grown up in Southern California, he visited Knott’s Berry Farm and Disneyland throughout his childhood. J. Eric Lynxwiler grew up in Southern California and spent one school year working at Knott’s Berry Farm’s shooting gallery while earning his degree in urban anthropology at UCLA. Popular host of Los Angeles’s renowned Neon Cruise and board member emeritus of the Museum of Neon Art, Lynxwiler co-authored the celebrated book Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles.

Knott's Preserved: From Boysenberry to Theme Park, the History of Knott's Berry Farm

Business & Money

Lynxwiler, Eric J.

Industries

Angel City Press

Book by Merritt, Christopher, Lynxwiler, J. Eric

Merritt, Christopher, Lynxwiler, J. Eric

Pacific Ocean Park--or as it was commonly known in Los Angeles from the '50s through the '70s, P.O.P.--was extraordinary in both its glamorous rise and spectacular fall. As a family-oriented attraction in the '50s with modernist-styled rides designed by Hollywood's best, P.O.P.'s attendance briefly surpassed that of Disneyland. Christopher Merritt and Domenic Priore's spectacular history includes hundreds of images, most of them unseen elsewhere, including original ride designs and illustrations, including Tiki-rich, space age, and nautical rides. P.O.P. was often widely seen in movies and television shows throughout the '60s. Its Cheetah auditorium hosted important early rock shows, including those by Ritchie Valens, The Doors, and Pink Floyd. P.O.P. was located at the dividing line between Santa Monica and Venice, the only spot during Prohibition-era Los Angeles where residents were allowed to dance and consort in a carnival-like atmosphere. The book also backgrounds the infamous "Dogtown" of the '70s in which surfers took advantage of big waves that rolled through P.O.P.'s rotting piers near homeless junkies. Buyers will be able to download audio files heard from all P.O.P. attractions. Christopher Merritt currently designs amusement parks in Asia and also co-wrote Knott's Preserved. Domenic Priore also co-wrote the celebrated volumes Riot on Sunset Strip, Pop Surf Culture, and Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece.

Pacific Ocean Park: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles' Space Age Nautical Pleasure Pier

Priore, Domenic

Music

Process

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Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks

Knott's Preserved: From Boysenberry to Theme Park, the History of Knott's Berry Farm

Knott's Preserved: From Boysenberry to Theme Park, the History of Knott's Berry Farm

Knott's Preserved: From Boysenberry to Theme Park, the History of Knott's Berry Farm

Pacific Ocean Park: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles' Space Age Nautical Pleasure Pier