By now we're all well aware that the Happiest Place on Earth is run by people who will sue a day care over a drawing of Mickey Mouse without batting an eye, so imagine how hard they crack down on the guys in charge of showing their movies. Theater manager Donovan said a fellow manager was once fired because he ran a Disney trailer one day before it was supposed to be released. "One day he was there, the next, no one spoke of him. It sounds melodramatic, but it's true." Hey, we believe you -- if any company was capable of making people disappear in a Stalinesque manner, it would be Disney. The guy's family probably denies his existence now.
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"Who? There never was a Bob."
"Disney was terrifying because of how much control they exercised over us. They would instruct us on how to set up a projector to make sure their movie looked just right. On one release they had a tech come out and install a special bulb, change the parameters of the projector, change how it fit the screen, and give new rules on quality checking the film. It was insane."
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