For the premiere of Pinocchio Walt hired 11 midgets, dressed them up like the little puppet and put them on top of Radio City Music Hall in New York with a full day's supply of food and wine. The idea was they would wave hello to the little children entering into theater. By the middle of the hot afternoon, there were 11 drunken naked midgets running around the top of the marquee, screaming obscenities at the crowd below. The most embarrassed people were the police who had to climb up ladders and take the little fellows off in pillowcases. Despite his many failures and heavy debts, Walt never lost his very personal vision of building a family amusement park.
Amusement parks are dirty.
They don't make any money. It was Walt Disney's way to take sour lemons, squeeze them and make sweet lemon-ade. For twenty years he employed two writers who never came up with a good idea. Unlike a movie, Disneyland would never be finished. If the public didn't like something Walt would tinker with it until it was fixed.