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TIL that in “once upon a studio”. When Mickey speaks to a portrait of Walt Disney, playing in the background was Disney's favorite song: "Feed the Birds”. The producers also got Richard Sherman to record a new version for the film, using the same piano and in the same old office of Walt Disney.

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