In Part I of my book review of The Pixar Touch by David A. Price I promised their would be dirty hippies and now dirty hippies you shall have.

"CalArts was Walt Disney's brainchild; he had started the planning of the school in the late 1950s and provided generously for it in his will. Walt and his brother Roy formed it in 1961 through a merger of two struggling Los Angeles institutions, the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and the Chouinard Art Institute. The doors opened at the school's consolidated campus in Valencia in 1971, five years after Walt's death.

The school had nearly been finished off before Lasseter got there. The Valencia campus opened at a time when hippiedom was near its peak. The Disney family, although forward thinking in many ways, was uncomfortable with the protest movements and flower-child culture that inevitably seeped into the school. The final straw came during a meeting if the school's campus affairs committee, when a member of the photography faculty showed up in the nude to protest an edict against skinny-dipping in the swimming pool."

Radda radda radda!

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