In 1994 the duo returned as 'The K Foundation' and causing huge controversy at the time, famously set fire to one million pounds in cash on the Scottish Island of Jura, sparking speculation this was the profits from The KLF. The KLF had a number of huge chart topping hits, such as '3-Am Eternal', before mysteriously disbanding and deleting their entire back catalogue. At the same time, Cauty co-founded the ambient band 'The Orb'. Is there more to this story? We’d like to hear from you about this or any other stories you think we should know about.Artist and Musician, most well known for being one part of the KLF, The Orb - and infamously as the man who burnt a million pounds.Ĭauty banded together in the late 80's with Bill Drummond to form 'The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu' (The JAMS), which mutated into the electronic pioneering early 90's band 'The KLF'. Photo by Jason Payne / PNG Some vintage Disney magazines. Photo by Jason Payne / PNG Some vintage Disneyland china. from noon to 5 Everybody’s in this Second World War Disney cartoon: Donald Duck, Pluto, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. It is open fromTuesday to Friday from 9:30 a.m. Surrey Museum is located at 17710 – 56A Ave. The exhibit is open now but the grand opening is Friday. I bought that and it started me on my way.” “It was from KVOS in Bellingham, and it was the grand sum of $5. “At the old Woodward’s parkade in Gastown they had a flea market one day, and there was a little pin-back button for the 1955 Mickey Mouse club,” he relates. There will also be a selection of old Disney buttons and pins, which is how Lesjak caught the Disney bug as a teenager. It actually boasted a membership of over a million kids.” “But there was a precursor formed in 1930, and by the mid-1930s it had more members than the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts combined. “Everyone’s familiar with the 1955 Mickey Mouse Club that was on TV and had Annette Funicello and Cubby and Sharon,” said Lesjak, whose day job is with WorkSafe B.C. There is also a big display of 1930s Mickey Mouse Club items. There is Disneyland china, sheet music for Disney’shilarious anti-Hitler song Der Fuehrer’s Face, and a 1960s company directory that includes Walt Disney’s direct office number.Īrticle content Vintage Disney items from the 1930s are part of the exhibit. The Surrey show also includes several photos spanning Walt Disney’s life, including several shots of him as a 17-year-old Red Cross volunteer in the First World War. Sheet music for der Fuehrer’s Face, a song from the Disney cartoon Donald Duck in Nutzi Land. She was a really neat lady She had a sharp wit, very intelligent.” “I’ve done guest lectures at the museum, I did some writing for their blog and newsletter. He’s so knowledgeable about Mickey Mouse and company Walt Disney’s late daughter Diane hired him to work for the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. Lesjak was the curator, and supplied most of the material on display. The Disney display was put together by the Southwest British Columbia chapter of the Disneyana fan club, an organization of Disney fanatics that stretches around the globe. “I paid about $300 American for it, and I wouldn’t sell it for less than $2,000,” said the 53-year-old, who owns about 550 Disney items. Lesjak says he knows of only five or six that exist. Only a few Mickey Mouse gas masks were made in England – the design was kiboshed when the government decreed all metal was to put used for war material. One of them is scared, and the other two are saying it’s OK it’s only Mickey Mouse, don’t worry about it.” A British Mickey Mouse gas mask from 1941. “On the outside it’s got Disney characters, and Mickey Mouse is actually putting on a gas mask. There are little eyelets on the side of this tin and you would hook a string into it so the kids could carry it around everywhere they went. “The top pops off and on the inside it contained a child’s gas mask. “It’s a cylindrical canister made out of metal,” explains Lesjak, who has written a book, Service With Character, about Disney’s role in the Second World War. The most intriguing item might be a Mickey Mouse gas mask that was designed for British children in 1941, when German planes were bombing England. Lesjak also has a booklet of saving stamps for a Victory Loan campaign that features Mickey Mouse stirring a ‘war savings’ cauldron over top of a fire that Donald Duck is fueling with a log labelled ‘loan.’ A Disney War Savings Certificate from the Second World War features Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
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