Producer Ron Miller is Walt Disney’s son-in-law; appropriately enough, his headquarters are located in Disney’s old office on the studio lot itself. Sandwiched between the studio’s two screening rooms on the third floor of the American Building, the Disney/Miller office exudes its history in a neatly persuasive atmosphere of comfortable nostalgia. Exhibition cases. a deep cream-colored rug, panelled walls (the real thing, with worked-in moldings at baseboard and ceiling) on which are hung the innumerable citations and awards the Disney organization has gathered in the past are all dominated by the massive wooden desk behind which Miller controls all the minutae of the studio itself. The overall effect is one of quiet efficiency, of power masked by gentility, but ghosts linger, too; here, where the persona of Disney himself is so strongly felt, one begins to half-believe that Miller is merely keeping the chair warm until Walt comes striding in through the door, nodding, waving. and wearing that famous grin.
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