Opinion ID: 77567
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Heading: Access Evidence

Text: 7 In support of his assertions regarding Disney's access to the Painting, Corwin has produced the testimony of Waters's former wife, Jaffray's widow, and Jaffray's daughters. He has also produced two letters and two notes. 8 Waters's former wife, Ellen Pauline Waters, denied any knowledge of the Miniature Worlds Painting in particular prior to having seen a story about it in a Toledo, Ohio newspaper in 2000. R15-171 at 14-16, 20. She said that Waters had not discussed the Jaffrays in detail but that he had told her he was doing work for Jaffray. Id. at 18, 25. She also reported that Waters had talked to her about the Miniature Worlds project which she understood was to be located outside Washington, D.C. Id. at 15. 9 Marian Jaffray, Jaffray's widow, testified that she believed Jaffray had met with a representative of Walt Disney in 1962 or 1963. R15-173 at 24. She also testified that Jaffray ultimately received a rejection letter. Id. at 35-36. Marian Jaffray was not at the alleged meeting and conceded that she did not know what Jaffray took with him to that meeting, but just assumed he took the total picture of his plans. Id. at 103-04. She was unable to produce the rejection letter. Id. at 36. 10 Jaffray's daughter, Patricia Jaffray Jones, testified that she remembered picking her father up at a train station after an alleged meeting with Disney. R12-165 at 35-36. She speculated that Disney did not return the materials Jaffray had used in his presentation at the alleged meeting until a couple of months thereafter. Id. at 137-38. However, she could not personally confirm the presence of the Painting among these materials, nor did she attend the alleged meeting herself. Id. at 108, 112. Jones also testified that when her father viewed a depiction of EPCOT sent to him by mail in 1980, she heard him say, Oh, my god, they built it . . . . I left everything with them . . . . They must have photographed and copied everything. No wonder they kept it for a month. R12-165 at 140. Jones testified that in connection with this statement, Jaffray specifically mentioned blueprints, his site map, and the drawings. Id. As for the documentary evidence, the first letter, dated 10 May 1963, is from Jaffray to Joseph P. Reddy, Director of Public Relations at Disney. In the letter, which apparently renews an already rebuffed offer to bring his idea to Disney, Jaffray expresses his understanding that Walt Disney has his hands completely full and cannot consider new projects at this time. R17-198, Exh. 4. A 27 May note from Reddy to William Cottrell, one of Disney's upper level executives, inquires Is there anything we can do on this? Id., Exh. 5. It is unclear from the record, however, to what the note refers. Finally, a letter dated 6 June 1963 from Reddy to Jaffray states that Disney is only designing the Exhibits for the World's Fair and that Ford and General Electric let the contracts for manufacturing the miniatures and the actual buildings. Id., Exh. 6. Reddy informed Jaffray that the new projects for Disneyland are already in work for the next few years and concluded the letter by expressing regret that he could be of no more help to [Jaffray]. Id. The final note comes from the period of time during which WorldCo was developing EPCOT. Martin Sklar, one of the leaders of the EPCOT design team, apparently during a meeting, drew an arrow on a piece of paper. The arrow runs from left to right and to the left of it is written Miniature World and Micro Miniature World. Id., Exh. 7. To the right of the arrow is written Cat = `Route to the Future.' Id. At the top of the same page are another set of notes referring again to the Cat as well as to `Our Town' Narrator and Rabbit. Id. Sklar testified that he does not remember what he was thinking about when he made these notes. Id., Exh. 14 at 176.