“The New Yorker” Not So Good on Animation History

I think Walt Disney’s family might be surprised to read the following sentence that somehow made it into the New Yorker‘s Eli Broad profile published on December 6:

In 1987, Lillian Disney, Roy Disney’s widow, donated fifty million dollars for the construction of a symphony hall to replace the acoustically flawed Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and by 1995 Frank Gehry had been selected as the architect and had completed the design.

The LA Times also critiqued this particular sentence, but instead of catching the obvious error, they debated whether Chandler Pavilion is acoustically flawed. Welcome to the lonely world of the animation historian, and our constant struggle against the mainstream media’s indifference to the art form and its most important figures.