The Disney Diegetic Prototype

*Look at the way ol' Walt here is deftly mixing Jules Verne, his own movies, ads for his urban amusement parks, model-making, rocketships, American military power, diegetic prototypes, multimedia publishing, art installations, nuclear physicists, atomic boosterism, and pure fairy tales.

*Man, no wonder the public domain froze solid with the birth of a cartoon mouse on a tabletop in Kansas City. The guy's ambitions knew no bounds.