After retirement, he worked for Disney as a consultant. On June 24, 2010, forty years after he began work at Disney, Smith announced he would soon be retiring. He was also a member of the Society of California Archivists. īetween 19, Smith was the executive director of the Manuscript Society.
In 2007, Smith received the Disney Legends Award, an honor given to people who have made significant contributions to The Walt Disney Company. Smith wrote many books, including Disney A to Z, an official encyclopedia of Disney knowledge, as well as the Walt Disney Trivia Books, and also co-authored Disney: The First 100 Years. His first task was to document all the items in Walt Disney's office that had been stored there since his death four years earlier. He joined the company on June 22, 1970, as its first archivist.
Smith's Disney Legends plaque in Legends Plaza at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank
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