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Disneyphile en · NOUN

Etymology

From Disney + -phile.

Meanings

1. A fan of the Walt Disney Company.
   • Steve Watts is both a scholar and a Disneyphile, which makes him an ideal author for this much-needed volume about Walt Disney’s place in American culture. 1997, Steven Watts, quoting Leonard Maltin, The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life, Columbia, Mo.; London: University of Missouri Press, back cover:
   • McElwee also mentions the Perspecta Process that simulated stereo, and was applied to re-issues of Gone With the Wind (1939) and The Jolson Story (1946), and a reissue of Disney's Fantasia (1940) with a Dolby track that apparently annoyed Disneyphiles. 1993, Moving Image Works and Manifestations, University of California, Los Angeles, page 104:
   • While a few of the pictures harken back to the 1951 animated film of Alice, most are unlike anything Disneyphiles have seen before, […] 1989, Knight Letter, Lewis Carroll Society of North America:

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