The first Walt Disney Gallery was opened outside of the park next to the Disney Store, Main Place Santa Ana mall in California on November 4, 1994 and was operated by Disney Store, under Doug Murphy, vice president of the Walt Disney Gallery.
The prototype store was designed by Disney Imagineering. I DESIGNED ALL THE MEDIA ELEMENTS
Doug Murphy, PROJECT MANAGER is President and Chief Executive Officer of Corus Entertainment Inc.
Corus is a leading Canadian-based media and content company with a portfolio of multimedia offerings encompassing 33 specialty television services, 39 radio stations, 15 conventional television stations, a suite of digital assets, a full-service social digital agency, animation software, technology and media services.
Corus is an established creator of globally distributed content through Nelvana animation studio, Corus Studios, and children’s book publishing house Kids Can Press.
The company also owns innovative full-service social digital agency so.da, and lifestyle entertainment company Kin Canada. In 2016, Doug led the company’s transformational acquisition of Shaw Media.
Doug spent ten years with the Walt Disney Company in a variety of senior executive positions in Canada, the United States, and Japan.
The 3,100-square-foot store used a museum shop method for its products organized into four sections, The Animation Gallery, The Contemporary Gallery, Vintage Disney and The Gallery Shop.
Doug Murphy was hired by Disney Store as manager of new business development in September 1991 promoted to head business development in April 1993 then appointed vice president of the Walt Disney Gallery for Disney Store in December 1994.
In late May 1995, the store held a meet and discussion with Beauty and the Beast musical costume designer Ann Hould-Ward and offering some of her work, limited edition lithographs, original watercolor sketches, line drawing and works-in-progress collages, plus film's animation.
As the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Corus Entertainment, the total compensation of Douglas Murphy at Corus Entertainment is $4,777,840.
There are no executives at Corus Entertainment getting paid more.
DOUG MURPHY gave me these photos - I knew that guy was going places ....
I got in big trouble on this project in. that I discovered that no royalties were needed to be payed when audio and video are not synced -( check out the videos of the show screen on u tube ) DOUG loved the idea and used it well - My Boss at Imagineering Tom Fitzpatrick did NOT like the idea and was angry that I had figured this out and that the client, DOUG MURPHY liked it a lot....This would start my downfalls at IMAGINEERING - now the big bosses like ROY DISNEY and MICHAEL EISNER were calling me up and wanting to discuss ideas with me directly - bypassing several levels of Useless Jealous Unimaginative executives - This would get me in lots of trouble .....