D23 magazine summer issue celebrates 50 years of the Walt Disney Archive

The Walt Disney Archives will be celebrating its 50 anniversary this June and the new issue of “Disney twenty-three” available exclusively to Gold Members of D23: The Official Disney Fan Club, film critic and historian Leonard Maltin explores Disney’s preservation efforts.

The magazine also has interviews with Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy about the new “Muppets Now” show coming to Disney+.

In addition:

• Sir Kenneth Branagh, Dame Judi Dench, Josh Gad, and Ferdia Shaw discuss adapting “Artemis Fowl” into a feature, premiering this June on Disney+.
• Director and producer Don Hahn pens an essay on the making of his Howard Ashman documentary “Howard” for Disney+.
• “Secret Society of Second-Born Royals” star Skylar Astin reveals his Disneyland favorites, with photos. 
• Brian Henson talks on the set of the out-of-this-world Disney+ talk show “Earth to Ned,” complete with a celebrity-obsessed alien charged with destroying the planet.
• Film historian Dan Lanigan gives us an insider look at the making of “Prop Culture,” the new Disney+ series that looks at iconic props from timeless films.
• The 10 must-see Disney+ movies selected by members of the Walt Disney Archives team.
• Dazzling then-and-now Disneyland park photographs—plus an array of classic merchandise­—in honor of the park’s 65th anniversary.
• Regular features including From the Desk of, By the Numbers, Character Analysis, D Society, and Ask the Walt Disney Archives