Future Plans for New Laugh-O-Gram Films Building in Missouri
100 years ago on May 18, 1922, Walt Disney and 4 partners incorporated Laugh-O-gram Films in Kansas City, Missouri. As Disney draws to life a new chapter for the building, reading to see a comprehensive look at the restoration plans.
The building is two stories with a central masonry wall on each floor, separating it into four roughly 2,500-square-foot spaces. Essential to the long-term success of the facility will be designing flexibility into the program. It is anticipated that some spaces will have increasing demand over time and are likely to outgrow the Laugh-O- Gram building footprint. This natural expansion should contribute to the development of a Kansas City Campus of Innovation, in cooperation with other proximate education and training institutions, development and investment will radiate from the successful programs founded within this facility. As with Walt Disney’s success, the legacy of this building should be in providing fertile ground for great ideas to become new realities.
About the Laugh-O-Gram Film Studio
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Walt Disney created Laugh-O-Grams, short animated cartoons, in this building from 1922 to 1923
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The building is located at 1127 East 31st Street, Kansas City, MO 64109
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The building is known among animation historians as “the Cradle of Hollywood Animation” because the people Walt trained in this building followed him to California and became the founders of America’s most well-known animation studios
Program Plans for Laugh-O-Gram
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Museum tours for public; rotating gallery programs on animation history
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Educational programs on animation, digital storytelling & media
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K-12 and after-school programs
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Onsite and on-line post-secondary education programs
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Workforce development & continuing education programs (media)
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Degree programs through consortium of regional universities
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Special events and programs
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Entrepreneurial start-up support for new media companies
Thank You Walt Disney, Inc. is dedicated to preserving and restoring the Laugh-O-gram Film Studio that Walt Disney created and operated in Kansas City, Missouri from 1922-1923.
Take a virtual walkthrough of Gould Evans’ vision of how the Laugh-O-gram building will be designed.
This building will be home to an animation museum, training space for animation and digital media storytelling, and a co-working space for new media startups. This is a self-navigated 360-degree tour of the building. Use your mouse or your trackpad to redirect your viewpoint at any stop you make along the tour. You can view that space from any angle by making movements with your mouse or trackpad. The orange circles are new stations along the tour where you can stop to take a 360-degree view of that space in the building.
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The goal is to complete an historic rehabilitation of the building
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The building would feature four public areas:
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Museum of Animation—recreation of Walt’s Laugh-O-Gram studio
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Flex Studio—classroom/event space for training & public programs
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Welcome Center—soda/coffee shop and museum gift shop
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Co-working Space for new media start-up entrepreneurs
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Core planning team: Butch Rigby, Dan Viets, & Gary Sage of TYWD, Marlene Nagel of MARC, Ron Green of digiSTORYKC Center, and Gerald Smith of Plexpod.
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