As Walt Disney turns 100, investors worry it's beginning to show its age. But adapting to the times is not a new challenge for Disney, rather it’s been a point of survival throughout the company’s history. A century ago when “Disney” was a single person, not a global company worth over $150 billion, emerging sound and color technologies rattled the silent film industry.
★★★★☆Imagine the sound of one bagpipe. Multiply that by nine. Then picture being right up close, enveloped by the noise for the best part of 17 minutes, in a dark concert hall, lit up with red light
One of her examples, Julia Wolfe, ran the Old Kentucky Home boardinghouse in Asheville at the turn of the last century. The experiences in her boardinghouse formed an important basis