tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2002379698909594612024-03-05T04:46:17.283-03:00This Day in Disney Parks HistoryMarcio Disneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496039646670161448noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200237969890959461.post-6711736291880520662013-02-02T12:35:00.001-02:002013-02-02T12:47:16.273-02:00February 02 - plan to build Epcot, Laugh-O-Gram Films, Zorro, Western Family magazine & More!<b style="color: red; font-size: xx-large;">1922</b><br />
<span style="text-align: justify;">Twenty-year-old Walt Disney begins work at his own cartoon company called Laugh-O-Gram Films in Kansas City, Missouri. He will produce one-reel animated versions of 6 fairy tales, each lasting just one minute. Walt had felt that Kansas City theaters - which featured cartoons made by studios on the east coast - might be willing to buy some from a local company. He created a few and brought them to the Newman Theater. In order to clinch the deal, Walt calls them ... "Newman's Laugh-O-Grams." He will incorporate Laugh-O-gram Films in May of 1922 with $15,000 from backers. (These cartoons will be regarded as Walt's first professional effort in the field of animation.)</span><br />
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Distributor Charles Mintz signs a new three-year agreement with Universal Pictures to provide Oswald cartoons (which are being created by the Disney Studios).</div>
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The cover of this day's issue of Western Family magazine features Mickey and Minnie Mouse smooching through a giant valentine. The illustration is the work of Hank Porter (originally a staff artist at the Disney Publicity Art Department).</div>
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Walt Disney signs a licensing deal with Mitchell Gertz for rights to produce a Zorro TV series. In 1950, Zorro creator Johnston McCulley assigned the film and television rights to Gertz, a Hollywood agent. Gertz had been trying for several years to find the financing to produce the series.</div>
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Roy Disney outlines his late brother's plan to build a theme park and the world's first futuristic metropolis, or EPCOT, when Disney Productions announces it will build the world's first glass-domed city in central Florida.</div>
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The movie presentation, narrated by Walt Disney, who past December 15, 1966, is termed by officials as "Walt's last film." Project Florida A Whole New Disney World premieres at the Park East Theater in Winter Park, Florida at 2:00 PM, where it is screened for business and government figures. The 25-minute film shows a 50-acre, air conditioned "city of tomorrow" centered in a 1,000-acre industrial park between Orlando and Kissimmee.</div>
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"<span style="color: #073763;">Our corporation is dedicated to making Walt Disney's dream a reality, but it cannot be done without the help of you people here in Florida.</span>"</div>
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The first phase of Disney World's Dixie Landings Resort (Alligator Bayou section) opens at 1251 Dixie Drive, Lake Buena Vista. Alligator Bayou consists of 1,024 guest rooms over 16 buildings styled as rustic, weathered lodges with 64 rooms per lodge. Located in the Downtown Disney resort area, Dixie Landings is themed after the Louisiana Countryside. It includes the Boatwright's Dining Hall (a full service, 208-seat table service restaurant themed to a wooden shipbuilding yard) and Fulton's General Store. (Today the resort is known as Disney's Port Orleans Resort.)</div>
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Disney announces that the Disneyland and Disney World <b><i>Pirates of the Caribbean</i></b> attractions will be undergoing a 3-4 month makeover to work in character and plot elements from the movie series that took its inspiration from the original attraction.</div>
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A Baby White-Cheeked Gibbon is born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. The fourth gibbon born at DAK (as part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Species Survival Plan); the yet-to-be named male won't be presented to the public until later in the month.</div>
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Today in Disney history, one of Fantasyland’s most innovative attractions to date made its grand debut at <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/magic-kingdom/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q3TodayInDisneyHistoryMickeysPhilharMagicDebuts30-09-11@0001">Magic Kingdom Park</a> on Sept. 30, 2003. </div>
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features a cast of 14 Disney characters performing together in a
digital 3-D film that shows just what happens when Donald Duck gets
ahold of Mickey Mouse’s conductor’s baton. Songs featured in the show
include “Be Our Guest,” “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King,” and “You Can
Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!”</div>Marcio Disneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496039646670161448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200237969890959461.post-31433200785549236262012-06-20T11:54:00.000-03:002012-06-21T11:54:41.326-03:00June 20 - River Country Water Park Opens at Walt Disney World<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">This Day in Disney History - Jun 20, 1976<br />
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River Country Water Park Opens at Walt Disney World</span></b> </div>
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River Country, a relaxing oasis under Walt Disney World’s hot Florida
sun, began dousing guests with filtered Florida lake water in 1976.
Inspir<span class="text_exposed_show">ed by Mark Twain’s The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, this old-fashioned swimming hole
included a host of natural swimming areas covered with mountainous
manmade boulders. A number of water slide attractions made the park an
inner tuber’s paradise with Slippery Slide Falls, Upstream Plunge, White
Water Rapids and Whoop ‘n’ Holler Hollow — two winding half pipes that
emptied into Bay Cove, a 330,000 gallon half-acre, sand-bottom lake.
Here, guests could relax on sandy beaches or hang out on a tire swing at
Bay Lake, with the Magic Kingdom’s beckoning skyline in view. Each
summer, the All-American Water Party drenched guests from April to
September with water balloon games, cannonball contests, live music and
splash time with Disney characters. River Country hung up its towel on
September 1, 2001, when Walt Disney World’s water adventures began to
head upstream — reaching new heights with the opening of Typhoon Lagoon
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Today, you can take a plunge on <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/blizzard-beach/attractions/summit-plummet/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY12Q2VintageWaltDisneyWorldLookingBackAtRiverCountry21-06-12@0002">Summit Plummet</a> at <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/blizzard-beach/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY12Q2VintageWaltDisneyWorldLookingBackAtRiverCountry21-06-12@0001">Disney’s Blizzard Beach Water Park</a> or conquer <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/typhoon-lagoon/attractions/crush-n-gusher/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY12Q2VintageWaltDisneyWorldLookingBackAtRiverCountry21-06-12@0004">Crush ‘n’ Gusher</a> at <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/typhoon-lagoon/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY12Q2VintageWaltDisneyWorldLookingBackAtRiverCountry21-06-12@0003">Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Water Park</a>, but hitting a water park at <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY12Q2VintageWaltDisneyWorldLookingBackAtRiverCountry21-06-12@0005">Walt Disney World Resort</a> was not an option until River Country opened back in 1976.</div>
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When River Country opened, it was described as a “unique new
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old days, plus all the comforts for Mom and Dad so they can participate
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One of the areas within River Country was Whoop-N’-Holler Hollow,
with two separate twisting journeys (260 feet and 160 feet respectively)
plunging into The Ol’ Swimmin’ Hole.</div>
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For over 25 years, River Country provided a refreshing escape from the warm Florida summers for guests of all ages.</div>Marcio Disneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496039646670161448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200237969890959461.post-64665959491941373162012-06-15T14:52:00.002-03:002012-06-15T14:52:31.235-03:00Jun 15 - The Lion King is Released<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong>The Lion King is Released</strong></div>
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<i>The Lion King</i>, one of the highest-grossing
films of all time, was released on this day in June in New York and Los
Angeles (it would open in wide release on June 24). Today, almost
everyone in the world knows the story of the young lion cub Simba, who
tries to find his place in the circle of life and follow the long
honorable shadow cast by his father, King Mufasa, after he is killed by
Scar (voiced with oozy relish by Jeremy Irons). But during
pre-production, when the project was called <i>King of the Jungle</i>,
the production teams wasn’t so sure they had a hit on their hands. “In
the early stages, there was great skepticism that a modern audience
would embrace a movie that didn’t include any human characters, much
less one built around singing animals,” Michael Eisner, then chairman
and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company, remembered in
his book <i>Work in Progress</i>. “But through countless drafts over five years, <i>The Lion King</i>
evolved into one of those magical films in which everything comes
together… It was also a daunting standard to match.” Eisner also noted
that it was “probably the most profitable film ever made, including <i>Titanic</i> (lions and meerkats don’t demand a percentage of the gross).”</div>Marcio Disneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496039646670161448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200237969890959461.post-32020392160412712512012-06-08T15:43:00.005-03:002012-06-08T15:43:51.238-03:00June 08 - If You Had Wings opens at the Magic Kingdom<div style="text-align: center;">
On this day in Disney history, If You Had Wings, one of <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY12Q1IfYouHadWingsDisneyHistory08-06-12@0001">Walt Disney World Resort</a>’s first attractions to celebrate flight, debuted to guests in 1972.</div>
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At If You Had Wings, guests boarded Omnimover vehicles that
took them on a flight around the world, making stops in Bermuda, Puerto
Rico and other vacation destinations. One stop took guests through New
Orleans for a jazz band performance.</div>
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Another stop was a city in Mexico where guests caught a lively
cultural dance performance. The attraction ended by offering a
bird’s-eye view of the United States, and then a descent back to the
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The attraction was very popular with guests in the 1970s, and in just six years, more than 40 million guests had taken a flight.</div>
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While the attraction was refurbished in 1987 to become If You Could Fly (the space is now <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/magic-kingdom/attractions/buzz-lightyears-space-ranger-spin/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY12Q1IfYouHadWingsDisneyHistory08-06-12@0002">Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin</a>), the attraction’s original theme song is sure to live on in the minds of Disney fans. </div>
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Now sing it with me: “If you had wings…” </div>Marcio Disneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496039646670161448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200237969890959461.post-19509082568588597812012-05-28T16:14:00.000-03:002012-05-28T16:14:37.450-03:00May 28 - Celebrating 45 Years of Laughter and Hope at Disneyland Park<div class="post-title">
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<strong><em>it’s a small world</em> Opens at Disneyland</strong></div>
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On this day in 1966, people from all over the world joined together under the golden sun at Disneyland for the opening of <em>it’s a small world</em>.
The group included young performing groups from America and abroad, and
more than 50 consul generals, consuls and vice consuls representing
nations worldwide. Amongst the opening day festivities was a phone call
between Walt, who was at Disneyland for the dedication, and Disneyland
Ambassador Connie Swanson, who, in keeping with the international theme,
was in Sweden, to be heard on the loud speakers via an international
phone call. Connie recently told D23′s Scott Wolf, “I opened [the event]
from Sweden. I was over in Skansen, which is a cultural amusement park
in Stockholm, and I was with the Minister of Communication, Olaf Palma,
and when I said the dedication words in that office in Sweden it went on
the loud speaker. I could hear Walt saying, ‘There’s some difficulty,
we can’t get it through,’ and I thought, ‘Oh dear, here I am in
Stockholm with the press and this Minister of Communications and the
line is going down, so I just read my script as I was asked to do.’”
Another aspect of the festivities was the brainchild of Jack Lindquist
who recently said, “We needed something to open the attraction. Walt was
going to be there and Louis Lundborg, the chairman of Bank of America,
and I came up with the idea of going to Disney reps all over the world
and saying, ‘Send me a bottle of water,’ and they did a great job.
Pretty soon my office had about 15 different bottles. Water came from
Thames, Seine, Amazon, Danube, Nile, Volga, Rhine, Caribbean,
Mediterranean, Atlantic, Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, among
others. To me, it was just a symbolic way to open the ride. Here was
water from all over the world, and we got kids representing those
countries to pour some water into the moat. It was symbolic and it
worked fine… and it was cheap. It also gave me an opportunity to get to
know the Disney reps around the world.” In his dedication speech, Walt
said, “I’d like to welcome all of you to the dedication of <em>it’s a small world</em>,
and I’d like to thank all of these wonderful children who have
performed here to make these dedication such a success. Thank you,
children! Beautiful children! When we completed <em>it’s a small world</em>
for presentation at the New York World’s Fair, we felt that we had
accomplished what we’d set out to do. We wanted to foster a better
understanding among nations of the world by showing the dress, the
customs, the language, the music and a little of the culture of our
neighbors around the world, and we wanted to show it to be a very happy
one. I think it’s safe to say that having fun has universal appeal.”</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">posted at the Disney Parks blog on May 27th, 2011 by <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/author/james/" title="Posts by Jim Ames">Jim Ames, Manager, Food and Wine Events, Disneyland Resort</a></span></div>
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Saturday, May 28, marks the anniversary of one of the most endearing attractions to ever open at a Disney park when “<a href="http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/its-a-small-world/?name=itsasmallworldAttractionPage&int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q345Years27-05-11@0002">it’s a small world</a>” celebrates 45 happy years at <a href="http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q345Years27-05-11@0001">Disneyland</a> park.</div>
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When he originally imagined this attraction for the 1964 New York World’s Fair, Walt Disney tasked a talented team of Imagineers, including artist and Disney Legend Mary Blair, to bring his vision of brotherhood and friendship to life. Mary’s concept was that of a “pop-up book” that looked like the children within the story had designed their worlds themselves.</div>
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Mary Blair also designed the iconic facade when the attraction was moved to its new home at Disneyland park. With whimsical representations of the Eiffel Tower, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Big Ben and the Taj Mahal, the exterior is no less impressive than the ride itself.</div>
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Of course it is the playful music, by legendary songwriting team Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman that keeps us humming long after we have exited the attraction. Walt asked the duo to write a simple piece that could be repeated and sung in different languages. The Sherman Brothers succeeded creating quite possibly the catchiest Disney attraction theme song of all time.</div>
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In 1966, Walt Disney presided over the opening ceremonies of the attraction in its new home at Disneyland park. Children representing countries from around the world came together to pour water from all seven continents into the “Rivers of the World.”</div>
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Since that moment, more than 233 million Disneyland park guests have joined “the happiest cruise that ever sailed” – enough to circumnavigate the Earth more than 190 times. “it’s a small world” has opened in the <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/magic-kingdom/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q345Years27-05-11@0003">Magic Kingdom park</a> at <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q345Years27-05-11@0006">Walt Disney World Resort</a>, <a href="http://www.tokyodisneyresort.co.jp/en/index.html?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q345Years27-05-11@0007">Tokyo Disneyland park</a>, <a href="http://www.disneylandparis.com/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q345Years27-05-11@0008">Disneyland Resort Paris</a> and <a href="http://park.hongkongdisneyland.com/hkdl/en_US/home/home?name=HomePage&int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q345Years27-05-11@0009">Hong Kong Disneyland Resort</a>, proving that “though the mountains divide and the oceans are wide, it’s a small world after all.”</div>
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<a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5108/5762593333_121b9ba7e0_o.jpg" id="zoom" title="Celebrating 45 Years of Laughter and Hope at Disneyland Park"><img alt="Celebrating 45 Years of Laughter and Hope at Disneyland Park" class="aligncenter" height="304" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5108/5762593333_121b9ba7e0_o.jpg" title="Celebrating 45 Years of Laughter and Hope at Disneyland Park" width="550" /></a></div>Marcio Disneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496039646670161448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200237969890959461.post-44554176446015443592012-05-22T08:24:00.000-03:002012-05-22T08:24:01.388-03:00May 22 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs<h1 class="hed-section">
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<strong>May 22, 1987 </strong></div>
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<strong>“Disney’s Golden Anniversary of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” Airs</strong></div>
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On this day in 1987, with a smile and a song
“Disney’s Golden Anniversary of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was
celebrated in an episode of <em>The Magical World of Disney</em>. Using
Disneyland as a backdrop, host Dick van Dyke is joined by the Seven
Dwarfs and Jane Curtin, who portrays the wicked Queen, while Sherman
Hemsley (TV’s George Jefferson) appears in the Magic Mirror. Highlights
include very rarely seen scenes that were deleted from the movie, done
in pencil animation. Although now available as bonus features on DVD,
this was the first time the public was given the chance to view those
scenes. In a dance number with the Dwarfs, Dick van Dyke sings “You’re
Never Too Old To Be Young.” With all that was packed into this hour
special, the “happy” program didn’t have a single “sleepy” moment.</div>
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From the late 1950s to 1968 Los Angeles Airways provided regularly scheduled helicopter passenger service between Disneyland and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and other cities in the area. The helicopters first operated from Anaheim/Disneyland Heliport, located behind Tomorrowland. Service later moved, in 1960, to a new heliport north of the Disneyland Hotel. Arriving guests were then transported to the Disneyland Hotel via tram.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">in August, 1968. Note the Matterhorn Mountain in the background.</span></div>
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The service ended after two fatal crashes in 1968: The crash in Paramount, California, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Airways_Flight_841" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TODAY</a> killed 23 (the worst helicopter accident in aviation history at that time). The second crash in Compton, California on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Airways_Flight_417" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">August 14, 1968</a>, killed 21</div>Marcio Disneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496039646670161448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200237969890959461.post-78116528651295578142012-05-04T15:37:00.001-03:002012-05-04T15:37:42.688-03:00May 04: Space Mountain Opens at Disneyland<h1 class="hed-section">
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<strong>May 04, 1977 </strong></div>
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<strong><em>Space Mountain</em> Opens at Disneyland</strong></div>
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Attention space travelers: It was on this day in 1977 that <em>Space Mountain</em>
first blasted off guests at Disneyland, rocketing them into a
simulation of outer space, aboard a roller coaster dark ride. But this
attraction, which still remains popular today in the year 2011, actually
has a history that goes back to the 1960s. Disney Legend John Hench
designed this attraction, years before the technology was readily
available. The first <em>Space Mountain</em> opened in the Magic Kingdom
at Walt Disney World in 1975, and after it proved its success, it
landed at Disneyland two years later, with the first American men in
space, consisting of the U.S. Mercury Astronauts Scott Carpenter, Gordon
Cooper, John Glenn, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, Donald “Deke” Slayton
and Betty Grissom (widow of Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom) on hand for the
opening ceremonies. Over the years, the attraction has seen improvements
with all new visual effects and a fully synchronized onboard audio
soundtrack. The next time you walk thru the queue for the attraction,
take a look around at the symbol for “Space Station 77,” paying homage
to the year <em>Space Mountain</em> first took flight.</div>
</div>Marcio Disneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496039646670161448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200237969890959461.post-77458215052810021772012-04-12T08:31:00.004-03:002012-04-12T08:31:50.464-03:00April 12 - Pluto’s Kid Brother, Euro Disney Resort, Characters in Flight, Carl Barks, Walt Disney and More!<div class="t-day-disney" style="text-align: center;">
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<b>Apr 12, 1946 </b></div>
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<b><i>Pluto’s Kid Brother</i> is Released</b></div>
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Pluto’s kid brother (called “K.B.” in this short not
“Pluto Junior” as another younger brother of his was called in the 1942
cartoon of the same name) stretches brotherly love to the limit in this
hilarious short, in which Pluto’s rambunctious, perpetually panting,
leash-evading sibling gets into all manner of difficulties despite
Pluto’s best custodial efforts. When Pluto discovers that Butch the
Bulldog has inveigled K.B. to sneak into a meat market and purloin some
sausages, he arrives to right the situation just as the burglar alarm
begins bleating. The brothers manage to evade a menacing dogcatcher, but
Butch meets a less happy fate.</div>
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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space, when he makes a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok spacecraft. (Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard will become the first American in space less than a month later.) Today there is a plaque commemorating Gagarin's milestone flight in Epcot's Mission: SPACE.</div>
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At the soon-to-be-open World's Fair in New York, Walt Disney, Henry Ford Jr., and Robert Moses (president of the New York World's Fair Corporation) visit the Ford Pavilion. The three are photographed by the press riding the "Magic Skyway."</div>
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The Euro Disney Resort, featuring the Euro Disneyland park, opens in France, east of Paris. Inaugural ceremonies are broadcast to the entire continent by five national networks. </div>
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Although 500,000 visitors are expected, only 50,000 are admitted because of protests from French people who fear their culture will be damaged by Euro Disney. Power cables are vandalized by some French citizens, which black out the road signs to Disneyland on the motorway.</div>
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Euro Disney also premieres its 5 hotels (Hotel Cheyenne, Santa Fe, Newport Bay Club, Hotel New York and Disneyland Hotel) and a campground (Davy Crockett Ranch) located several miles away from the main resort area. </div>
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One year after its opening, Euro Disneyland welcomes its 10.5-millionth guest.</div>
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In Florida, the Polynesian's Papeete Bay Verandah, opened since 1971, becomes the 'Ohana restaurant - featuring the world's largest fire pit.</div>
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Carl Barks - the genius behind the creation of Scrooge McDuck and the cartoonist who drew the comic book version of Donald Duck - celebrates his 96th birthday at a special weekend event at Walt Disney World.</div>
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Hilton Hotels Corp. breaks ground for a resort development adjacent to Walt Disney World Resort.</div>
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Disney World's newest attraction Characters in Flight, a tethered helium filled balloon ride (operated by Aerophile - a company specializing in tethered helium balloons) continues its "soft opening" at Downtown Disney. The balloon, which can hold up to 30 guests (depending on weather conditions), rises 400 feet above Disney World for a breathtaking view.</div>
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<strong>Apr 11, 2003 </strong></div>
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<strong><em>The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh</em> Attraction Opens at Disneyland</strong></div>
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Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood, er, Disneyland’s Critter
Country, you’ll meet one of the most famous literary bears there ever
was. Replacing the Bear Country Playhouse, <em>The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh </em>attraction
opened in 2003. Park visitors can climb inside a massive beehive and
buzz through famous scenes from Pooh’s most beloved escapades. Along the
way, you’ll meet Tigger, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit, Piglet, Gopher and
Owl. But if you are still longing to see the mugs of some of the stars
from <em>Country Bear Jamboree</em>, do not fret. Max, Buff and Melvin—a
few remaining “fixtures” from the previous attraction—can still be seen
as you pass through the doorways after meeting the Heffalumps and
Woozles. They are up above the doors, watching over the enchanted
neighborhood of Christopher Robin’s childhood friends.</div>
</div>Marcio Disneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496039646670161448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200237969890959461.post-71058222457466656762012-03-30T10:17:00.001-03:002012-03-30T10:17:43.062-03:00March 30 - Disney Legend Marc Davis is born<h1 class="hed-section" style="text-align: center;">
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<strong>Mar 30, 1913 </strong></div>
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<strong>Disney Legend Marc Davis is born</strong></div>
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On this day in 1913 Disney Legend Marc Davis was born
in Bakersfield, California. It was some unpleasant experiences as a
young child that indirectly led to his creating some of Disney’s most
well-known characters, from Cruella De Vil to Tinker Bell and developing
some of the most iconic scenes in Disney attractions such as the <em>Jungle Cruise</em>, <em>Haunted Mansion</em> and <em>Pirates of the Caribbean</em>.
Marc’s widow, Alice Davis, a Disney Legend herself, explained to D23′s
Scott Wolf, “Marc was in 26 schools before he was out of high school.
His father was a rainbow chaser… somebody who would always see the pot
of gold over the hill, or the grass is greener on the other side of the
fence. He also was a very fine jeweler. He could fix those clocks and
barometers for boats in nothing flat. So whenever the family was broke,
all they had to do is go to a seaport and he had more work than he could
possibly handle. Whenever Marc would go to a new school, at recess the
boys would circle around him and just beat the (heck) out of him.
That’s the way they greeted you. So he started doing a whole bunch of
drawings and he’d have all these drawings when he’d go to school and
everybody wanted one of the drawings. He would do drawings for them and
they didn’t beat him up. He said that’s what started him as an animator,
drawing for all these kids all the time so they wouldn’t beat him up.”</div>
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Disney's Donald Duck short The Eyes Have It, directed by Jack Hannah, is released. Donald uses hypnotism on Pluto and convinces him he is a mouse, turtle, chicken and finally a lion!</div>
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Members of the Santa Fe Railway Co. visit Disneyland. Walt himself hosts Bob Waller, a Santa Fe<br />attorney; Hank O'Leary, special representative of the public relations department of the Santa Fe; James P. Reinhold, assistant to the president of the Santa Fe; and; Ralph Thomas, manager of communications for the Santa Fe. (Back in 1953, the Walt Disney Company had solicited major railroads for corporate sponsorship of the attraction. The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway was the only company to respond.)</div>
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Two children come across the lifeless body of a homeless man in an abandoned tenement building on East 10th Street in New York City. Because no one identifies the body, the deceased is buried in an unmarked pauper's grave on Hart Island. (A fingerprint check in 1969 will identify the corpse as Bobby Driscoll, 31, the voice of Disney's Peter Pan. It is also discovered that the cause of death is a heart attack. Sadly his long history of alcohol and drug abuse was a strong contributing factor to his early death.) </div>
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2004</div>
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The Orlando Sentinel runs an article in which Walt Disney World president Al Weiss gives some insight into how the parks are maintained.</div>
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2006</div>
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The Disneyland Resort 50th anniversary celebration takes to the skies over Tucson, Arizona with a 100-foot tall, Mickey Mouse-shaped hot air balloon dubbed "The Happiest Balloon On Earth." With golden ears high atop its head, the Mickey balloon will travel throughout the western United States and Canada during an 11-week tour.</div>
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2008</div>
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Seasons Of The Vine, an opening day attraction at Disney's California Adventure, closes. A film presentation which took viewers through the journey of producing wine in California, it is shut down due to low attendance.</div>
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2011</div>
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The Walt Disney Pavilion at Florida Hospital for Children has its grand opening ceremony. Hundreds are on hand to celebrate the occasion (including Bob Iger, president and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, and Tom Staggs, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts), which includes a moving dedication ceremony featuring inspirational stories from former pediatric patients.</div>
</div>Marcio Disneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496039646670161448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200237969890959461.post-85759929806857540342012-03-28T14:29:00.000-03:002012-03-30T10:09:12.354-03:00March 28 - The Opry House is Released<div style="text-align: center;">
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If you've ever wondered when Disney first got its singing voice, it was on this day in 1929 with the release of <i>The Opry House</i>. The short marked the first real Disney musical — the prelude to Silly Symphonies and the foreshadowing of full-length animated musicals to come. In the film, Mickey Mouse, the proprietor and the pianist of a Vaudeville Opry house, orchestrates a musical fanfare with a band of instrument-playing animals. But it wasn't just music that made <i>The Opry House</i> such a special and groundbreaking short. It also marked the first Mickey Mouse cartoon where Mickey wears his trademark white gloves. And he hasn't taken them off since! </div>Marcio Disneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496039646670161448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200237969890959461.post-2080785622550187162012-03-21T10:56:00.001-03:002012-03-21T10:56:30.655-03:00March 21 - Mission to Mars, Disney's magic makes war disappear, Star Wars Weekends, Tomorrowland & More<h1 class="hed-section" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><i>Mission to Mars</i> opens at Disneyland</b></div>
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By 1975, it had been three years since astronauts had walked on the moon, and the <i>Flight to the Moon</i> attraction, which opened at Disneyland in 1955, needed a more distant itinerary. <i>Mission to Mars</i> opened that year in the place of <i>Flight to the Moon</i>, with the <i>Audio-Animatronics</i>®
figure of Mr. Johnson serving as host. Each of his lectures was
interrupted by the bleating of an alarm caused by the crash landing of a
large bird near the spacecraft launch pad (the footage was taken from a
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TIME magazine runs an article about Disney's plans for a $650 million American-history-and-entertainment park, called Disney's America.<br />
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The hills and fields
around Manassas, Virginia, have felt the boot of foreign forces before.
But the latest intruder, the Walt Disney Co., may leave a mark more
lasting than any Yankee heel: a $650 million American-history-and-
entertainment park, called Disney's America, situated on 3,000 acres in
the history-rich country 35 miles west of Washington.<br />
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Despite a
formidable array of opponents, the project moved ahead last Saturday
when the expiring session of the Virginia general assembly approved a
$163 million package of incentives for roads, highway signs, worker
training and tourism promotion designed to entice embattled Disney to
stay in the...<br />
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Disneyland unveils its long-awaited plans to renovate Tomorrowland. They include replacing the slow PeopleMover with a faster new attraction, Rocket Rods. The extensive project is due for completion in Spring 1998.</div>
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The Disney crew was tired of Tomorrowland. Most of its attractions were
only there to sponsor companies such as Monsanto, and not even the 1959
expansion helped very much. Instead of having another expansion, the
crew decided to start from scratch, and made the new Tomorrowland. Walt
Disney died in December 1966, almost seven months before the new
Tomorrowland would open. In 1967, the area was completely rebuilt with
new attractions and scenery. The original layout was demolished, and a
new set of buildings were erected. The addition of the Carousel of
Progress, Adventure Thru Inner Space, an improved and larger
Circle-Vision auditorium, Flight to the Moon, and the PeopleMover helped
give Tomorrowland its "World on the Move" theme. In 1973, "The World On
The Move" began to change.<br />
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General Electric decided to close Carousel of Progress, which would
later reopen at a new home in Walt Disney World in 1975 as part of its
expansion. In 1974, with the American Bicentennial approaching, Disney
designers seized the opportunity of the vacant carousel theater to
present a large musical extravaganza called America Sings, which
featured 114 Audio Animatronics. The following year, Flight to the Moon
was updated into Mission to Mars, as actual flights to the moon had
become a reality since the former's construction.<br />
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Then, in 1975, construction began on Walt Disney's proposed 1965 "Space
Port." In May 1977, this project opened to the public as Space Mountain.
The same year, the Super Speed Tunnel was added as part of the
Peoplemover experience, as the Epcot model that was formerly in the
building moved to Florida. In 1984 Circle-Vision 360 received a brand
new travelogue of the United States, to replace the aging "America The
Beautiful" film – American Journeys. Two years later, two new
attractions found homes in Tomorrowland: Star Tours and Captain EO.
Captain EO replaced the Space Stage in September 1986, and Star Tours
replaced Adventure Thru Inner Space in January 1987. Tomorrowland then
remained largely unchanged for much of the following decade, until the
land was again redone in 1998.<br />
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During the mid to late 1990s Tomorrowland Terrace (TLT)-Tomorrowland's
most popular outdoor restaurant-became a fashionable spot for many local
Southern California teenagers. Discounted annual passports for Southern
California residents, and the remarkable success of No Doubt's "Tragic
Kingdom" album which made several references to the Disneyland Park as a
whole, caused Orange County locals to pour into Tomorrowland every
Friday and Saturday night. Unfortunately for Disneyland, this caused an
increase in harassment of tourists and petty crimes which forced them to
increase security, culminating in 1996 with several separate gangs of
Disneyland locals, led by a “goth” style gang known as the “Disneyland
Arcane Crew (D.A.C.)”, and locals numbers in excess of several hundred
packed into Tomorrowland's space. This trend however, died out around
1998 when Tomorrowland was closed for renovation, and one of the
greatest changes in Disneyland since about 40 years ago happened.</blockquote>
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Star Wars Weekends is a festival generally held annually at the Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort. Included with park admission, the event typically occurs on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for four consecutive weekends in May and June and features appearances by actors and crew members from the George Lucas science-fantasy saga. Many Disney characters also appear dressed as Star Wars characters, such as Jedi Mickey, Minnie as Leia, Donald as a Stormtrooper and Goofy as Darth Vader. The festival began in 1997 and has been held in 2000, 2001, and annually since 2003. </blockquote>
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The newsroom is ringed by televisions. Various analysts are
discussing if shock and awe actually has begun or if this is pre shock
and awe.<br />
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Giving TV news a phrase like shock and awe is like giving a pit bull puppy a leather chew toy.<br />
I have had enough.<br />
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I'm going to Walt Disney World.<br />
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is no traffic jam on the way -- not a good omen for Disney. As I hop on
the paddleboat to the Magic Kingdom, Chip and Dale disembark. Two
children giggle. Little do they know that Chip is John Ashcroft.<br />
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He's keeping an eye on Aladdin and Jasmine.<br />
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eeriest experience I had after 9-11 was walking into Space Mountain and
being alone in the darkness as I walked to the launch center.<br />
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is nowhere near the case today. Main Street is bustling, if not mobbed.
The line for Space Mountain extends out of the building and stretches
100 yards.<br />
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But where I take the pulse of the Central Florida
economy is at Winnie the Pooh. I have ridden Winnie the Pooh
approximately 300 times in the past three years and now know just how
long the wait should be at what time of year. If there is no line at
Winnie the Pooh during spring break, sell your Disney stock.<br />
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The line is 45 minutes. That is worth at least a hold rating.<br />
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The line to get a Mickey ice cream sandwich is 10 minutes. I sit on the bench and begin licking between his ears.<br />
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then I realize the genius of Disney. There is no war here. That's
because there are no televisions, no radios and no newspapers. Citizens
in Baghdad have more access to news.<br />
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The scenes are familiar and comforting.<br />
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Two
kids fight over a Magic Kingdom map. A mom yells at her boy to walk
faster. A dad tells his family to sit tight while he goes in search of
food.<br />
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I listen in on dozens of different conversations and never hear the word war.<br />
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It's like Tinker Bell sprinkled her pixie dust and we've all been transported to Never Land.<br />
Make that Tomorrowland.<br />
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there, Tomorrowland travelers," says an amplified voice from overhead.
"This is Mr. Johnson. Everything is perfect on the Tomorrowland
superhighway."<br />
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And so it is.<br />
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Despite its designation as a potential terrorist target, there are no fears of WMD at WDW.<br />
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The only weapons of mass destruction I see are smoked turkey legs the size of Scuds.<br />
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I talk to Tom Ruth, a West Palm Beach teacher, for 15 minutes and the only Bush who comes up in the conversation is Jeb.<br />
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Finally, I mention Iraq.<br />
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was watching TV last night and they were interviewing the British
undersecretary of war materials," Tom says sarcastically. "It's the
perfect time to be on vacation."<br />
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My vacation is over.<br />
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I get
back in the car, turn on the radio and listen to an ABC correspondent
compare the size of various smoke plumes rising from Baghdad.<br />
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John Lounsbery, who was born on this day in 1911, first joined Walt's studio in 1935 as a member of the Studio's first training group and worked as an animator on <i>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</i>. A member of Walt's Nine Old Men group, Lounsbery worked on most of the classic features as an animator or a directing animator. Disney animator Andreas Deja, the man who drew Roger Rabbit from <i>Who Framed Roger Rabbit</i> and Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, among others, recently said of Lounsbery's work: "He liked characters he could sink his teeth into," Andreas muses. "Once he got one of those assignments then he could outshine anyone. Characters and scenes that had comedy in them, physicality and real caricature — characters with a little less realism — he'd just go to town with them. Like Tony and Joe from <i>Lady and the Tramp</i>, the elephants from <i>The Jungle Book </i> and Eeyore from <i>Winnie the Pooh</i>. His animation is very gutsy. He uses a lot of squash and stretch — his characters <i>really</i> squash and <i>really</i> stretch ("squash and stretch" is a technique that gives an animated object dimension and volume and is often used for comedic effect)." Disney animator Dale Baer, who trained with Lounsbery, said he was the only one of the Nine Old Men who drew with a carpenter pencil (a rectangular pencil with a quarter-inch wide piece of lead). "He would roughly block in with the wide flat part of pencil then when he found the line he wanted he would put it in thinner pencil," he notes. "John wasn't one of those guys that demanded that this or that happens or acted out all his scenes for the fellows. He showed up at 8, did his thing and left at 5. He did his day's work, but his family was just as important to him." He was honored posthumously in 1989 as a Disney Legend.<br />
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On ABC-TV, Disneyland airs "Man in Space," the first of a 3-part series about space travel. The show features Walt Disney, animator Ward Kimball (the director of the series), and scientists Willy Ley, Heinz Haber, and Wernher Von Braun (who will later be one of the leaders in the American space program). The show is narrated by Dick Tufeld (who will later be known as the voice of the robot on the TV series Lost in Space). The next two parts "Man and the Moon" and "Mars and Beyond" will be aired over the next few years. (The Disney "science factual" series will be very influential in drumming up support in the U.S. for a manned space project.)<br />
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Roy E. Disney resigns from the central board of the Walt Disney Company, setting in motion a series of takeover bids and maneuvering that by August will actually leave him in control of the company.<br />
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Tokyo Disneyland's Main Street Electrical Parade debuts. It is basically a carbon copy of the original Disneyland parade.<br />
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Previews begin for Disney's newest Broadway stage show Beauty and the Beast. (Opening night will be April 18.)<br />
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It is reported that the Hong Kong Disneyland theme park (set to open in September) has already booked 10,000 room reservations for its hotel since it opened a customer call center three weeks ago.<br />
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Disney's Block Party Bash makes its first public appearance at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida. The parade features the Pixar family of characters in three segments - Toy Story, Monsters Inc and A Bug's Life, with The Incredibles making an appearance at the parade's finale.<br />
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Harley, a city boy in a rural town, falls for a country girl named Willadean in this two-part series, "<span style="color: red;">For The Love of Willadean</span>," which aired on <b><i>Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color</i></b>. In the first episode titled "A Taste of Melon," Harley, joins a club with some other rural boys. But when he shows an interest in the leader of the club's girlfriend, which happens to be Willadean, the club members trick Harley into stealing a prize watermelon from a farmer as payback. In the show's second episode, "Treasure in the Haunted House," Harley is tricked again. This time, the boys send Harley into a house that's rumored to be haunted. But instead of ghosts, he and the boys uncover a bag of money, which was reported stolen in a bank robbery. In each episode, it seems the precarious boy from the city will do just about anything if it means winning the heart of sweet little Willadean.<br />
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The Disney studio completes the 22nd Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Sky Scrappers, and ships it to Winkler Productions just days after negotiations with Charles Mintz (of Winkler Productions) breaks down. As Walt cannot come to an agreement with Mintz, it looks as if the Disney Studios will be giving up their character Oswald.<br />
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U.S. President Reagan pays a visit to EPCOT, escorted by Dick Nunis, President of Walt Disney World, and several hundred math and science students from Central Florida. He first visits the American Experience attraction before making an afternoon speech at a podium located on the World Showcase Lagoon, directly opposite of Spaceship Earth. Reagan speaks of the promise of EPCOT Center and what it meant to his friend Walt Disney and to the world </div>
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<b>"Thank you very much. And I thank you very much for that very generous and kind introduction. And to prove how grateful I am, I, a Californian, will say to a Floridian, I have just returned from California, and this is the first time I've seen sunshine in 2 weeks. [Laughter]<br /><br />Well, I'm delighted to be here. I'm especially pleased to acknowledge the presence today of a group of students from eight countries. They're participants in the World Showcase Fellowship Program which Disney World has generously established as part of EPCOT. This excellent program brings young people from Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and the United Kingdom to EPCOT. It gives them the opportunity to experience American culture firsthand, to learn and, even more important, to teach.<br /><br />This is just the kind of approach that we're encouraging through the President's International Youth Exchange Initiative which I announced last May at the White House. For those of you who haven't seen it—well, first of all, let me say I'm convinced that people-to-people programs like World Showcase and the International Youth Initiative are one of the best ways to build real understanding in the world.<br /><br />I'm very happy to see so many young people here today, the math and science whizzes of central Florida, plus the students participating in the World Showcase Fellowship Program. And you adults are web come, too. [Laughter]<br /><br />I just watched a program—I don't know just what to call it—a show, a pageant with several hundred of my junior high and high school friends here, and I'm pleased to announce I didn't get hit with one spitball. [Laughter] But this program does capture the vitality of what we represent as a nation. And as I'd started to say earlier, I was going to remark that earlier—for those of you who haven't seen it—at one point in the movie Mark Twain, speaking of America, says, "We soared into the 20th century on the wings of invention and the winds of change."<br /><br />Well, in a few years' time, we Americans will soar into the 21st century and again it will be on the wings of invention and the winds of change. This afternoon, I'd like to explain how you, our young people, can ride those wings and winds of the future to a better life.<br /><br />Abraham Lincoln is supposed to have said that the best thing about the future is that it comes only 1 day at a time. In this modern age, it often seems to come more quickly than that, I know. Our nation is speeding toward the future at this very moment. We can see it coming. We can see its shape. I know in your history books you've read about the Industrial Revolution. Well, today we're in the midst of another revolution, one marked by the explosion of technological advances. It's a revolution of microchips and biotechnology. And, yes, it is ironic that products seen only through a microscope can cause such large changes in our society.<br /><br />We can see the benefits of this revolution already. Many of the advantages you can view right here at EPCOT Center, which itself is a celebration of tomorrow.<br /><br />Other aspects of the transition are more difficult and painful to bear. A large number of people are unemployed, not because of the recession but because their former jobs were in declining industries. Their skills are not in demand in the postindustrial America. And, as you know, this has caused grievous hardship.<br /><br />I don't want any of you young people to suffer what some of your parents are experiencing. I want you to have the training and the skills to meet the future. Even without knowing it, you're being prepared for a new age. Many of you already understand better than my generation ever will the possibilities of computers. In some of your homes, the computer is as available as the television set. And I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The Air Force believes these kids will be outstanding pilots should they fly our jets. The computerized radar screen in the cockpit is not unlike the computerized video screen. Watch a 12-year-old take evasive action and score multiple hits while playing "Space Invaders," and you will appreciate the skills of tomorrow's pilot.<br /><br />Now, don't get me wrong. I don't want the youth of this country to run home and tell their parents that the President of the United States says it's all right for them to go ahead and play video games all the time. [Laughter] Homework, sports, and friends still come first. What I am saying is that right now you're being prepared for tomorrow in many ways, and in ways that many of us who are older cannot fully comprehend.<br /><br />But those of my generation, and now I have to say and of your parents' generation, cannot just assume that you will adapt to the future. We must conscientiously prepare you for the years ahead. We must provide you with a good education, with solid math and science instruction. Not only will math and science serve you well in meeting the future, it'll serve the Nation.<br /><br />We Americans are still the technological leaders in most fields. And we must keep that edge. But to keep it, we need scientists and engineers and mathematicians. Many of you here today are above average in math and science skills. You have won awards for your knowledge; and you will be among the brightest of tomorrow's work force.<br /><br />But I want to give you some facts and figures here. And, by the way, I have been known to give a pop quiz now and then. [Laughter] But I want to show you the challenge that we as a nation face. Japan, with a population only about half the size of ours, graduates from its universities more engineers than we do. In Japan, specialized study in mathematics, biology, and physics starts in the sixth grade. Or take the Soviet Union—Soviet students learn the basic concepts of algebra and geometry in elementary school—that's elementary school. And then they get 4 more years of advanced mathematics in high school. I have a feeling the kids in the Soviet Union have to hit the books a bit more than American students.<br /><br />Not surprisingly, the Soviet Union graduates from college almost five times more engineering specialists than the United States. The number of scientists and engineers engaged in research and development in the United States has increased by only 25 percent between 1964 and 1979. The increase in France was 90 percent, 125 percent in Germany, and 145 percent in Japan.<br /><br />Obviously, we must do better or we will be overtaken. In math and science instruction, the United States is a slow learner among the major industrial nations. Like millions of other Americans, I'm a firm believer in the back-to-basics movement, because it is the basics that will best prepare us for the future. I think you would agree that if a young person doesn't receive adequate math and science teaching by age 16, he or she has lost the chance to become a scientist or an engineer.<br /><br />There's a story about a boy whose math homework paper was less than inspiring. Now, I know that yours are never like that. [Laughter] When the boy's paper was handed back, the teacher said, "I never saw so many errors in my life. I just can't understand how one person could have made all these mistakes." And the boy said, "One person didn't; my father helped me." [Laughter]<br /><br />Well, your generation will need better math and science skills than your fathers' generation. And the America of tomorrow will also need those skills more than the America of today. Since the future is technological, we simply must educate more people in the technological areas. And that's one reason I'm delighted to see more women going into scientific and engineering fields. I am especially pleased that eight women have been selected as astronauts for the shuttle flights—all with advanced degrees, Ph. D.'s in engineering and physical sciences, two have medical degrees. And late this spring on a launch pad not far from here, a woman named Sally Ride will have the ride of a lifetime—she'll blast off in the space shuttle, becoming America's first woman in space.<br /><br />The relatively short supply of technically qualified people in the United States is not because we don't have enough students, men or women, interested in tomorrow's job opportunities. In fact, engineering schools have to turn away many qualified students. The principal reason is the shortage of engineering faculty in universities and qualified math and science teachers in the secondary schools. This shortage cannot continue. And I know you'll be happy to hear that we intend to improve the quality of math and science education. And right now we're working with the Congress to determine the funding necessary to begin reducing this shortage. We seek a fiscally responsible initiative in this area—fair not only to your educational future but your economic future, as well.<br /><br />Private industry is also recognizing the problem and seeking ways to correct it. The American Electronics Association's goal is to obtain contributions from its high technology companies equal to 2 percent of their research and development budgets. I also know businesses around the country are loaning computers and other equipment to schools to prepare students for the new age. It's this kind of commitment from the private sector that will eventually help us meet the math and science shortages that we face. That's a great thing—if our visitors will forgive me for being chauvinistic-that's a great thing about our country. Once we've determined what the problem is, we take out after it.<br /><br />I know you young people are bombarded hourly with the problems the Nation faces. And, yes, we do have problems which all of us are working to solve. But you can't become paralyzed by these obstacles. This sounds like something you'll hear at graduation, but you really do have a wonderful future ahead of you. Don't be afraid of it. The future is what America has always represented. My generation wishes it had the years left to us that you have left to you. The things you'll see, the changes that you will experience—we just can't imagine them all.<br /><br />Hang on to the American spirit of adventure as you head into this future. Remember the quote by Thomas Wolfe that we heard in that program we've just seen, "To everyone a chance, to all people, regardless of their birth, the right to live, to work, to become whatever their visions can combine to make them." This is the promise of America.<br /><br />You, too, are the promise of America. And I came here to tell you today that I believe very much in you. I believe in your intelligence and your courage and your determination. And when the time arrives, the people of my generation will be very proud to turn America over to your care.<br /><br />May I just, in the spirit of that program that we saw, also say something about the presence here of our gifts, of this exchange program where you, of the same age, will meet with those from other countries and get to know each other as human beings and as individuals. I have always believed that a lot of the problems in the world come about because people talk about each other instead of to each other. And maybe one day, with programs of this kind, you are setting the stage for the dream that has lived with mankind from the first and earliest days of history, and that is the dream of peace; that one day, knowing each other, it will be impossible for someone to say to you that there must be a war or that you must take arms and do away with these people that you have come to know so well.<br /><br />And we shall do everything we can to see that this program prospers and goes forward and increases the ability of young generations like your own to meet and become acquainted with others around the world.<br /><br />I've used up all of my time here, and I know they have other things for me to do, but I don't know that they will be as much of a high spot as this has been. And I just want to say to all of you, thank you, and God bless you all.<br />Thank you."</b></blockquote>
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<br />Prior to his remarks, the President viewed "The American Adventure," a film and animation presentation depicting a three-century rediscovery of America. The film was presented jointly by the American Express and Coca-Cola Companies and is the centerpiece of World Showcase, that portion of EPCOT which, through pavilion displays, recreates the architecture and culture of nine countries.<br /><br />After the presentation, the President visited with students participating in the World Showcase Fellowship Program, an educational and cultural exchange program designed to enable outstanding young adults to represent their various countries for 1 year in the pavilions of World Showcase. The fellowship program is part of the President's private sector initiative on international youth exchange.<br /><br /></div>
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Celebrities visiting Disney World's Magic Kingdom on this day include entertainer Wayne Newton and St. Louis Cardinals All Star first baseman Albert Pujols.</div>
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posted on March 8th, 2010 by <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/author/pbrandon/" title="Posts by Pam Brandon">Pam Brandon, Disney Parks Food Writer</a></div>
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Hmmm, what to cook when President Barack Obama and the Greek prime minister are coming for dinner – and dinner is for 400 guests?<br />
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Just ask Chef Dee Foundoukis and Chef George Paterakis, <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY10Q1WhiteHouse08-03-10@0002">Walt Disney World</a> chefs from <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/resorts/board-walk-inn/dining/kouzzina/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY10Q1WhiteHouse08-03-10@0001">Kouzzina by Cat Cora</a> on <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/destinations/disneys-boardwalk/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY10Q1WhiteHouse08-03-10@0003">Disney’s BoardWalk</a>. They’ll be in the White House kitchen on Tuesday along with celebrity chef Cat Cora to cook for Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, in Washington to meet with the President. Among the dishes to be served is Fishermen’s Stew – the very same stew that you can taste at Kouzzina by Cat Cora.<br />
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The popular restaurant showcases many of Cora’s Greek family recipes, including the stew, a savory bowl of scallops, lobster, shrimp and clams dressed with ouzo butter. We think the guests will be impressed.<br />
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The other day I was chatting with fellow blogger, <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/author/smiller/">Steven Miller</a>, while we were flipping through a few Disney heritage books in the office. Disney history buffs, ourselves, we both gravitated towards the books that featured Walt Disney, the Nine Old Men, and the classic art of hand drawn animation. As we flipped through the books, it was amazing to see how far <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2animation08-03-11@0001">Disney Parks</a> has come and how much has changed since Walt first arrived on the scene in 1923. It was Walt’s dream to entertain the world through a variety of mediums, which continues to be evident today as we continue to pay tribute to the heritage and tradition that started so many years ago.<br />
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Looking through the books led me to think about a few of my favorite films and how they were brought to life. It’s overwhelming to think about how much effort and dedication went into creating each animated classic. It took a committed team of artists to sketch the characters, ink and painted each cel by hand, and color the backgrounds for each and every scene. While there have been many changes and advancements in technology that have changed the way we create our animated classics, the beautiful tradition of hand-inked and hand-painted cels is still very much alive at <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2animation08-03-11@0002">Walt Disney World</a> with the Disney Studios Ink and Paint Team at <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/hollywood-studios/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2animation08-03-11@0003">Disney’s Hollywood Studios</a>. A few months back, I <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/08/behind-the-scenes-with-disney-hollywood-studios-ink-paint-team/">introduced you</a> to the Disney Studios Ink and Paint Team and a gave you a behind the scenes look into what goes into creating each and every cel in the Ink and Paint Collection.<br />
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The Disney Studios Ink and Paint Team is small, but mighty. With six animators working behind the scenes, they paint each and every cel in the Ink and Paint Collection by hand. It’s the job of the Ink and Paint Team to bring each character to life to tell the story about the world our characters live in on the cel. The Disney Studios Ink and Paint Team is currently in the process of celebrating the release of the 45th release in the Ink and Paint Collection, titled “Look What I Got!” The new hand painted cel depicts Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as they enjoy confectionery creations from Sweet Spells on Sunset Boulevard in Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Both Snow White and Dopey are hand painted onto the cel.<br />
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<b>Fun Facts:</b> Did you know that each cel takes approximately 1.5 hours to create? Also, the “Look What I Got!,” cel will feature the most colors ever used on a cel from the Disney Studios Ink and Paint Team, topping out at 18 different colors.<br />
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On Saturday, March 12, you can celebrate the release of this new cel and help us pay tribute to those who made the magic possible and those who carry on the tradition of hand drawn animation today with a special signing at Disney Hollywood Studios, from 10am – 1pm and 2pm – 5pm. For more details on the cel, how to order this special piece, and to learn more about the artists that will be appearing for this special signing, please visit <a href="http://psc.disney.go.com/eventservices/artofdisneyparks/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2animation08-03-11@0007">www.ArtofDisneyParks.com</a>.<br />
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When Queen Latifah tried those tentacles on for size, the energy in
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<a href="http://parksandresorts.wdpromedia.com/media/disneyparks/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ddp028912LARGE.jpg" id="zoom" title="Queen Latifah as Ursula from 'The Little Mermaid'"><img alt="Queen Latifah as Ursula from 'The Little Mermaid'" class="aligncenter" height="370" src="http://parksandresorts.wdpromedia.com/media/disneyparks/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ddp028912SMALL.jpg" title="Queen Latifah as Ursula from 'The Little Mermaid'" width="550" /></a></div>
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There’s something a little bit ridiculous about Grand Opera
anyway, but give the conductor’s baton to Mickey Mouse and make Clara
Cluck and Donald Duck the stars of the show — as they are in <i>Mickey’s Grand Opera</i>
— and you know this most highbrow of art forms is about to get a
good-natured skewering — Disney style. Listening to Clara’s piercing
clucks and Donald’s unintelligible garbling during their duet is the
comic highpoint in a short full of them. And when a mischievous Pluto,
at first engaged in dubious battle backstage with a magic hat,
eventually finds his way onstage and adds his plaintive howl to the
final throes of Clara’s and Donald’s off-key finale, the short ends on a
perfect note. <i>Mickey’s Grand Opera</i> was directed by Wilfred
Jackson, who was one of those inventive and industrious men Walt
specialized in hiring. In his long Disney career, Jackson, who worked as
a sequence director on 11 features from <i>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</i> to <i>Lady and the Tramp</i>,
also invented the bar sheet to coordinate animation action with the
soundtrack. Jackson retired from Disney in 1961, and was honored as a
Disney Legend posthumously in 1998.<br />
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In a ceremony prior to the park's opening, Disney Legend Bob Gurr receives a window on Disneyland's Main Street USA. Gurr's Disneyland designs include the Autopia, the Monorail, Omnimovers, and the Main Street Vehicles.<br />
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More than 13,000 runners take part in Disney's Princess Half Marathon at WDW. Gina Aalgaard Kelly of Lisbon, North Dakota wins the race in 1:23:58. The half marathon (originally designed for women - although more than 400 men participated this year) wraps up a weekend of events including the Princess and the Frog Family 5K, Disney’s Fit for a Princess Expo on women’s health and wellness, as well as seminars on training, racing and nutrition.<br />
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<strong>Feb 15, 1955 </strong></div>
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<strong><i>Cinderella</i> is Released</strong></div>
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On this day in 1950, <em>Cinderella</em> made a bibbidi, bobbidi de-boo in theaters. In the ads to market the film, <em>Cinderella</em>
promised to “Put a smile in your heart… and laughter in your dreams.”
The ad continued, “A story written in stardust… six years in the making…
Walt Disney’s <em>Cinderella</em> will give a new gleam to your hopes, a
new lift to your life. You’ll take it to your heart, not only because
it’s the greatest love story ever told — though that’s reason enough if
you’ve ever been in love. But because it’s so full of the wonderful fun,
hilarious characters, singable songs — the sheer enchantment that comes
only from Disneyland.” Interestingly, this was not referring to the
theme park that would not be completed for another five years, but
simply the land of Disney magic.</div>
</div>Marcio Disneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496039646670161448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200237969890959461.post-59763542095695928652012-01-12T18:25:00.000-02:002012-01-12T18:40:48.406-02:00Downtown Disney opens at Disneyland Resort<h1 class="hed-section">
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<b>Downtown Disney opens at Disneyland Resort</b></div>
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Eleven years ago today, the Downtown Disney
District—an exciting dining, entertainment, and shopping promenade
located adjacent to Disney California Adventure Park and Disneyland
Park—first opened to guests on space previously occupied by the original
Disneyland parking lot and Disneyland Hotel. Downtown Disney was
constructed as part of a larger Disneyland Resort expansion and was
designed to encourage locals to visit and increase resort visits. The
“shoppertainment center” includes such stores as Disney’s Pin Traders,
Fossil, Disney Vault 28, Sephora, to name a few. Restaurants include
Rainforest Café, Napolini, Uva Bar, and House of Blues.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">1809</span></b></div>
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. President, is born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. He is the first president born outside the original Thirteen Colonies. Lincoln will be the subject of such Disney attractions as Great Moments with Mr Lincoln (originally created for the 1964 World's Fair) and Walt Disney World's The Hall of Presidents - click here to read Lincoln's HOP speech. (Walt Disney was always fascinated with the life of Lincoln. As a young boy, Walt recited Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to his elementary class ... dressed as Abe!)<br />
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Walt Disney Productions files an application for a trademark of "Mickey Mouse" for use in books and newspaper comic strips.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>1958</b></span></div>
At Todd Shipyards in Long Beach, California, the steel hull of Disneyland's newest ship Columbia is completed. It is the only three-masted windjammer constructed in the U.S. for over 100 years! The vessel will be transported to Disneyland and installed in the Rivers of America where the rest of the construction will be completed.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">1988</span></b></div>
Siegfried and Roy appear on the TV special Disney's Magic in the Magic Kingdom. The illusionists make Sleeping Beauty Castle disappear!<br />
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Disney fans dress up in tuxedos and formal gowns to attend the Royal Ball held at the Disneyland Hotel in California for Cinderella's 50th anniversary. The night includes stories from the Disney legends that created Cinderella including the voice talents who brought Anastasia, Drizella and Cinderella to life.<br />
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Ilene Woods - the original voice of Cinderella - appears at a Cinderella Ball in Disneyland to celebrate the anniversary of the motion picture.<br />
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The Tokyo Disneyland CD Cinderellabration: Lights of Romance is released. <br />
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Disney announces that they’re producing The Sorcerer’s Apprentice as a live-action feature starring Nicholas Cage as the Sorcerer. The film will be based on Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s original poem, not the Mickey Mouse sequence in Fantasia.<br />
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As part of the massive grand opening of the new American Idol Experience attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios, American Idol winners David Cook and Carrie Underwood sing a duet for the media inside the new attraction's theater. Also in attendance are Idol celebrities including all 7 winners, Paula Abdul, and Ryan Seacrest. Although the new attraction will officially open February 14, guest park Mark Ellis (from Pensacola, Florida) is awarded a Dream Ticket during this day's gala premier of the attraction for his performance of "Superstition."<br />
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A Disney Cruise Line exhibit opens in the Visitors Centre of Meyer Werft (one of the largest German shipyards, headquartered in Papenburg). Meyer Werft is currently building the Disney Dream, which will hit the high seas in 2011. <br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">posted on January 11th, 2011 by <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/author/ksams/" title="Posts by Kim Sams">Kim Sams, Director, Corporate Citizenship, Conservation Programs, The Walt Disney Company</a></span></div>
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Disney and the <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/exit?go2=http://www.janegoodall.org/">Jane Goodall Institute</a>
have worked together on a variety of conservation programs over the
years, and we’ve been thrilled that Dr. Jane has been able to take time
out of her extremely busy schedule to visit <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/animal-kingdom/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2JaneGoodallAtDAK11-01-11@0001">Disney’s Animal Kingdom</a> from the park’s earliest days, including being an honored guest on opening day in 1998.<br />
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Here, Dr. Jane visits a carving of David Greybeard, a chimpanzee that holds a very special place in her heart, at <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/animal-kingdom/attractions/the-tree-of-life/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2JaneGoodallAtDAK11-01-11@0002">The Tree of Life</a>. In 2006, it was our pleasure to honor Dr. Jane with a Conservation Legacy Award from the <a href="http://conservation.wdwpublicaffairs.com/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2JaneGoodallAtDAK11-01-11@0003">Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund</a>.<br />
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As Disney’s Animal Kingdom celebrated its 10th anniversary, Dr. Jane
and 100 young people from 28 countries participating in the 2008 Jane
Goodall Global Youth Summit at the <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2JaneGoodallAtDAK11-01-11@0004">Walt Disney World Resort</a> took time out to join the festivities. The young people were representatives from Jane Goodall’s <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/exit?go2=http://www.rootsandshoots.org/">Roots & Shoots</a>,
a program that engages hundreds of thousands of children and teens in
almost 120 countries to make positive change happen for communities,
animals and the environment.<br />
Next month, Dr. Jane will be hosting a Walt Disney World Safari VIP
Weekend, a fund-raising event for the Jane Goodall Institute. She will
be meeting with her Guests during this special trip. More details about
joining Dr. Jane February 18-21 are available at <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/exit?go2=http://www.janegoodall.org/travelwithjgi">http://www.janegoodall.org/travelwithjgi</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">posted on January 11th, 2011 by <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/author/mharker/" title="Posts by Michelle Harker">Michelle Harker, Merchandise Marketing & Communications Project Manager, Disneyland Resort</a></span></div>
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Preparations continue for the arrival of the <a href="http://disneycruise.disney.go.com/ships-activities/ships/wonder/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2MagicOnTheWater11-01-11@0001">Disney Wonder</a> to its new home in the Port of Los Angeles, as well as the inaugural voyage of the newest ship in Disney’s fleet, the <a href="http://disneycruise.disney.go.com/ships-activities/ships/dream/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2MagicOnTheWater11-01-11@0002">Disney Dream</a> in Port Canaveral, Florida. In the coming weeks, <a href="http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/disney-gallery/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2MagicOnTheWater11-01-11@0013">The Disney Gallery</a> will pay tribute to all the ships on land and at sea, including some of those near and dear to our hearts at our very own <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/?name=HomePage&int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2MagicOnTheWater11-01-11@0003">Disney Parks</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://parksandresorts.wdpromedia.com/media/disneyparks/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/mow0012910LARGE.jpg" id="zoom" title="Explore Castaway Cay Aboard the Disney Dream"><img alt="Explore Castaway Cay Aboard the Disney Dream" class="aligncenter" height="749" src="http://parksandresorts.wdpromedia.com/media/disneyparks/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/mow0012910SMALL.jpg" title="Explore Castaway Cay Aboard the Disney Dream" width="400" /></a></div>
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This new exhibit, titled “Magic on the Water – The Art of The
Happiest Fleet on Earth” will highlight nearly 60 years of nautical
designs by Walt Disney Imagineers, from the smallest <a href="http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/storybook-land-canal-boats/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2MagicOnTheWater11-01-11@0004">Storybook Land canal boat</a> to the newest modern classic for the <a href="http://disneycruise.disney.go.com/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2MagicOnTheWater11-01-11@0005">Disney Cruise Line</a>, the Disney Dream.<br />
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From submarines and sailing ships to jungle launches and pirate
bateau, water and watercraft have always played a key role in the design
of Disney Parks. Through the years, the Disney maritime fleet has
taken guests through uncharted jungles, under the polar ice caps, across
lagoons to the <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/magic-kingdom/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2MagicOnTheWater11-01-11@0006">Magic Kingdom</a> and a World Showcase at <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/epcot/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2MagicOnTheWater11-01-11@0007">Epcot</a>, to a storybook land of enchanted fairytales and around the world on the happiest cruise to ever sail the seven seas.<br />
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“This particular exhibit is different from any other because it displays concept art from all our theme parks around the world. <a href="http://www.tokyodisneyresort.co.jp/tds/index_e.html?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2MagicOnTheWater11-01-11@0008">Tokyo DisneySea</a>, <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2MagicOnTheWater11-01-11@0009">Walt Disney World Resort</a> and <a href="http://www.disneylandparis.co.uk/index.xhtml?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2MagicOnTheWater11-01-11@0010">Disneyland Paris</a>, all join <a href="http://disneyland.disney.go.com/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2MagicOnTheWater11-01-11@0011">Disneyland Resort</a>
art to form a display of various types of interesting watercraft,
Disney style” says Walt Disney Imagineering Director, Concept and Show
Design, Kim Irvine.<br />
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<a href="http://parksandresorts.wdpromedia.com/media/disneyparks/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/mow0020192LARGE.jpg" id="zoom" title="'Ariel,' by Larry Nikolai"><img alt="'Ariel,' by Larry Nikolai" class="aligncenter" height="600" src="http://parksandresorts.wdpromedia.com/media/disneyparks/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/mow0020192SMALL.jpg" title="'Ariel,' by Larry Nikolai" width="400" /></a></div>
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<a href="http://parksandresorts.wdpromedia.com/media/disneyparks/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/mow003831LARGE.jpg" id="zoom" title="'Pirates Dream,' by G. Scribner"><img alt="'Pirates Dream,' by G. Scribner" class="aligncenter" height="201" src="http://parksandresorts.wdpromedia.com/media/disneyparks/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/mow003831SMALL.jpg" title="'Pirates Dream,' by G. Scribner" width="400" /></a></div>
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Also in store for you as we launch this new exhibit will be Disney
Cruise Line-inspired original art, giclees and deluxe prints by notable
Walt Disney Imagineers, Disney Design Group and Disney-inspired artists
including Jeremy Fulton, Greg McCullough, Larry Nikolai, <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2009/11/meet-the-artist-behind-the-scenes-of-d-street/">Noah</a>, <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/08/celebrating-the-art-of-randy-noble/">Randy Noble</a>, George Scribner, Mark Seppala, SHAG, and <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/09/celebrating-the-art-of-darren-wilson/">Darren Wilson</a>.<br />
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<b>Special Tip</b>: On Saturday, Jan. 29, Jody Daily,
Jeremy Fulton, Kevin Kidney, Larry Nikolai, Noah and George Scribner
will be on hand for a special appearance and signing from 9 a.m. to 11
a.m. at The Disney Gallery. For details visit <a href="http://psc.disney.go.com/eventservices/artofdisneyparks/?int_cmp=SOC-intDPFY11Q2MagicOnTheWater11-01-11@0012">www.ArtofDisneyParks.com</a>.<br />
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So set sail with us on a retrospective voyage of memories – and prepare for an ocean of new ones.<br />
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</div>Marcio Disneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496039646670161448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200237969890959461.post-53535525181483728872012-01-11T09:53:00.003-02:002012-01-11T10:10:06.417-02:00Grand Opening of Walt Disney World Swan Resort<h1 class="hed-section">
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On this day in 1990 the Walt Disney World Swan Resort held its
grand opening, allowing guests to glide in to the deluxe hotel designed
by award-winning architect Michael Graves. This waterfront resort
consists of a central 12-story building with an arched rooftop featuring
a pair of graceful 47-foot swan statues. Across Crescent Lake sits the
Graves-designed sister hotel, the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort. The
swan and dolphin were chosen for the resorts because they represent
classical and contemporary symbols of water.<br />
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1954<br />
The Hollywood Reporter runs the front page headline: WALT DISNEY PLANS TV SHOW. Roy O. Disney has announced to stockholders, in a controversial move, that a Disney television show would be "designed not only to produce revenue but also to publicize all of the company's product."<br />
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1990<br />
Disneyland kicks off its 35th anniversary celebration. On hand for the first time since 1955 are all three of the original hosts of the park's grand opening live broadcast. Art Linkletter, Bob Cummings, and Ronald Reagan reunite in front of Main Street station before taking part in the Party Gras Parade - featuring New Orleans-style floats and 40-foot-tall balloons.<br />
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Meanwhile down in Florida, the Walt Disney World Swan Resort holds its grand opening. The deluxe hotel, designed by award-winning architect Michael Graves, is a 12-story building with an arched rooftop featuring a pair of graceful 47-foot swan statues. Located between Epcot and Disney-MGM Studios (later renamed Disney's Hollywood Studios), it is owned by Tishman Hotel Corporation and operated by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide under the Westin brand. (Its sister hotel the Walt Disney World Dolphin will open in June 1990.)<br />
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1998<br />
The 5th Annual Walt Disney World Marathon takes place in Florida. Santiago de Araujo of Sao Paulo, Brazil, wins with a time of 2:23:25.<br />
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Other winners on this day include:<br />
Women’s Overall: Lyubov Klochko, Gainesville, Fla., 2:44:47<br />
Men’s Masters: Jeff Delie, Palm Harbor, Fla., 2:33.32<br />
Women’s Masters: Bonnie Moser, Miami, Fla., 3:08.46<br />
Men’s Chair: Saul Mendoza, Col Ramos Milla, Mexico, 1:47.59<br />
Women’s Chair: Katherine Hunter, Orlando, Fla., 2:42.59<br />
Men’s Half: Keith Brantly, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., 1:09.58<br />
Women’s Half: Joan Samuelson, Freeport, Maine, 1:18.13<br />
Men’s Half Chair: Joe Dowling, Old Greenwich, Conn., 1:07:30 <br />
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2001<br />
A star-studded, high-energy party marks the Grand Opening of the Downtown Disney District at The Disneyland Resort in Southern California. At this one-of-a-kind premiere benefiting the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, donors and celebrity guests (like Sylvester Stallone and Paul Glaser) enjoy entertainment, world-class cuisine and unique shopping opportunities in more than two dozen clubs, restaurants and boutiques that make up the new addition to The Disneyland Resort. (The Downtown area will officially open to the public the very next day.)<br />
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2002<br />
Variety reports that Disney will develop a script inspired by its Haunted Mansion attraction. In "Haunted House," a father who has neglected his family encounters a ghost while on a job interview. The vision spooks him into a profound awareness of the importance of his family.<br />
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Superstar Limo, a dark ride attraction running since the debut of Disney's California Adventure, closes.<br />
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Situated in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot area of the Anaheim park, it was one of the original attractions (and the only dark ride) featured on opening day in February 2001.<br />
<br />Superstar Limo took guests on a ride through a cartoon version of Hollywood and featured Audio Animatronics models of celebrities like Tim Allen, Drew Carey, Whoopi Goldberg, and Regis Philbin.<br />
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2004<br />
he 11th annual Walt Disney World Marathon and Half Marathon both take place with a record-setting 24,000 participants (15,500 in the full marathon and 8,500 in the half marathon). Floridians Matthew Dobson of Jay and Kim Donaldson of St. Petersburg finish in first and second place (it is the first all-<br />
American championship finish in the 11-year history of the race). Clinton Verran, Nicholas Cordes and Brian Sell (a trio of Michigan runners tuning up for the Olympic Trials) cross the half marathon finish line together in a record-shattering time of 1:05:43.<br />
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Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean wins a People's Choice Award for favorite motion picture at the 30th annual event.<br />
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According to Box Office Mojo, Disney's Finding Nemo is #9 in Word Wide All-Time Box Office Grosses (as of this day) at $821.3 million. Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean comes in at #18 with $653.4 million.<br />
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2008<br />
Disney announces in a letter from CEO Bob Iger to shareholders that the 2008 annual meeting of shareholders will be held March 6, 2008 at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.<br />
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2009<br />
The 16th Annual Walt Disney World Marathon takes place with Brazilian Adriano Bastos winning for the fifth consecutive year (and sixth time overall). He finishes the 26.2-mile jaunt through all four of Disney's theme parks in 2:20:38. Lisa Mizutani, a 23-year-old medical student from Japan, wins the women's title in 2:46:27.<br />
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Other 2009 winners (over the last two days) include:<br />
Men’s Masters: Stuart McLay, San Salvador, El Salvador, 2:35:20<br />
Women’s Masters: Terri Rejimbal, Tampa, Fla., 3:04:57<br />
Men’s Chair: Krige Schabort, Cedartown, Ga., 1:37:19<br />
Women’s Chair: Shirley Reilly, Tucson, Ariz., 2:09:51<br />
Men’s Half: David Jankowski, Rochester Hills, Mich., 1:07:36<br />
Women’s Half: Elizabeth Chelagat, Las Cruces, N.M., 1:17:32<br />
Men’s Half Chair: John Payne, Germantown, Tenn., 1:24:18<br />
Women’s Half Chair: Jacqui Kapinowski, Point Pleasant, N.J., 1:24:51<br />
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</div>Marcio Disneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496039646670161448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200237969890959461.post-49800816907392825132012-01-08T14:08:00.000-02:002012-01-08T14:08:45.499-02:00Mickey Mouse Club Circus Closes at Disneyland<h1 class="hed-section">
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<strong>Jan 08, 1956 </strong></div>
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<strong><em>Mickey Mouse Club Circus</em> Closes at Disneyland</strong></div>
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Shortly after the opening of Disneyland, the <em>Mickey Mouse Club Circus </em>debuted<em> </em>in Fantasyland<em> </em>featuring acts from the Ted DeWayne Circus along with the Mouseketeers from TV’s <em>Mickey Mouse Club</em>.
One of those Mouseketeers was Bobby Burgess, who recently told us, “It
was a red-and-white, huge tent, and it was hot and sweaty in there but
we were having a blast. They dressed us as Peter Pan and Tinker Bell and
we did the trapeze act. There was a girl in the center who was a pro
who would go over and over and over. Tommy [Cole] and I were the web
setters, and two of the girls, one was Sharon [Baird] and one was Bonnie
[Lynn Fields] from the first year. The rest of them were on swinging
ladders and the boys were Peter Pan and the girls were Tinker Bell and
then we turned out the lights and we glowed in the dark. We also rode
elephants and horses everyday, and we were trained by professional
circus people. That was really fun!” Despite the fun the kids were
having, park guests didn’t want to spend their time watching a circus
when they had all of Disneyland to explore, and the <em>Circus</em> gave its final performance on this day in 1956.</div>
</div>Marcio Disneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496039646670161448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200237969890959461.post-18439006816323778162012-01-03T13:01:00.001-02:002012-01-03T14:02:52.451-02:00“Disneyland’s 10th Anniversary” Show on Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color<h1 class="hed-section">
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<b>“Disneyland’s 10th Anniversary” Show on <i>Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color</i></b></div>
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1965 marked the 10th anniversary of Disneyland, and to
celebrate the occasion, Walt gave TV viewers a sneak peek into the
upcoming <i>Haunted Mansion</i> and <i>Pirates of the Caribbean</i> attractions and other upcoming plans for his park on the “Disneyland’s 10<sup>th</sup> Anniversary” show on <i>Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color</i>.
For the tour, he brought along the very first Disneyland Ambassador,
Julie Reihm, introducing her to his team of creators. The show also
brought viewers to Disneyland to see the newest attractions along with
some special performances. Tom Mahoney, who started with Disney on <i>Mickey Mouse Club</i>,
choreographed the dance numbers featuring Disney’s newest star, Mary
Poppins, as well as a dancing cake and candles. Rikki Lugo, who began
her Disney career doing the can can in Disneyland’s <i>Golden Horseshoe Revue</i>,
assisted Tom with the choreography, and ended becoming part of the show
when one candle went out. “They were wearing character heels in those
‘candles’ and doing turns without being able to use their arms. In the
very first shot, one dancer, Emmy Lou, got her heel caught in the
cobblestone and broke her ankle, and Tom said, ‘Okay, Rikki, there you
go!’” and thus, Rikki lit up the screen as one of the dancing candles,
dancing to a new Sherman brothers tune with lyrics proclaiming, “Ten
years of fantasy, ten years of fun, ten years of growing and you’ve only
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The Film Daily announces that Mickey Mouse cartoons will be distributed internationally:<br />
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"Mickey Mouse" Goes Abroad Contracts were closed this week between International Photo Play Distributors and Charles J. Giegerich, eastern representative for Walt Disney, whereby International secures foreign rights to the Disney "Mickey Mouse" animated sound cartoons.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="color: orange;">1930</b></span><br />
Roy Disney signs a deal with M. George Borgfeldt Co. of New York to sell figurines of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. (Many consider this the beginning of Disney merchandising.)<br />
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<b style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1931</span></b><br />
Disney's Silly Symphony Birds of a Feather, directed by Burt Gillett, is released. When a flock of birds are attacked by a hawk - who steals one of the baby birds - the birds join ranks to rescue him back! <br />
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<b style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1939</span></b><br />
Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon Society Dog Show, directed by Bill Roberts, is released. Mickey enters Pluto in a fancy dog show where they are hopelessly outclassed and have little chance of winning ... until the building catches on fire and Pluto saves the day!<br />
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<b style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1941</span></b><br />
Disney's animated feature Pinocchio is released in Sweden.<br />
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<b style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1945</span></b><br />
Disney's 7th (animated and live-action) feature film The Three Caballeros is released in the U.S. Produced as part of the studio's good will message for South America, the film stars Donald Duck, who in the course of the film is joined by old friend José Carioca, the cigar-smoking parrot from Saludos Amigos (1943) representing Brazil, and later pistol-packing rooster Panchito Pistoles, representing Mexico. It will earn 2 Academy Award nominations. (Though after a brief initial run, Walt will pull the film from general release, due to bad press reviews.)<br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: x-large;"><b>1967</b></span><br />
The article "<a href="https://www.zotero.org/joguldi/items/itemKey/JHJXFHPW" target="_blank">Disneyworld Amusement Center with Domed City Set for Florida</a>" appears in the New York Times the day after Walt Disney Productions announces plans to build the world's first glass-domed city<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="color: magenta;">1969</b></span><br />
Cartoonist Al Taliaferro - known as the <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/30911985/Donald-Duck-by-Al-Taliaferro-1934-The-Wise-Little-Hen" target="_blank">first artist of Donald Duck</a> newspaper comics - passes away in Glendale, California, at age 63. Initially hired by Disney in 1931 as an animator, he was transferred to the comic strip department where he first lettered the Mickey Mouse strips (March 1931 - July 1932). He later drew the Bucky Bug comics as well as Silly Symphonies pages from 1932 to 1939. While working on the Donald Duck strips, he also created Donald's nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie! Taliaferro was posthumously honored a Disney Legend in 2003.<br />
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<b style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1986</span></b><br />
Pixar ceases being part of the Lucasfilm empire and becomes an independent company. At this time, the new enterprise, owned mostly by Steve Jobs (along with Ed Catmull & Alvy Ray Smith) is in the advanced computer hardware business. Pixar was founded as the Graphics Group, one third of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm that was launched in 1979 with the hiring of Catmull. (It will be nearly a decade until Pixar Inc. becomes Pixar Animation Studios, known for producing some of the greatest animated films ever.)<br />
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<b style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1989</span></b><br />
Disney issues new $1 and $5 Disney Dollars at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. The $1 bill depicts Mickey Mouse on one side, and Sleeping Beauty Castle on the other. The $5 bill features Goofy on one side, and EPCOT Center's Spaceship Earth and the Empress Lilly Riverboat on the other.<br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;"><b>2005</b></span><br />
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and his entourage visit Walt Disney World.<br />
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<b style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2007</span></b><br />
The Walt Disney Company announces a $50,000 donation to the American Red Cross to aide in relief efforts following the severe storms and tornados that struck Central Florida the night before.<br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: x-large;"><b>2011</b></span><br />
Pixar Animation Studios celebrates its 25-year anniversary. </div>
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<b>Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel Opens at Disneyland Resort</b></div>
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The first hotel to ever be located inside a Disney theme park
is no ordinary hotel… it’s grand! On this day in 2001, Disney’s Grand
Californian Hotel opened its golden gates for the first time, allowing
guests to stay within Disney’s California Adventure park. Although
guests could enjoy the adventure of Disneyland park, California
Adventure was not yet open, nor was Downtown Disney District for another
ten days. On February 8<sup>th</sup>, Disney’s California Adventure
held its grand opening, along with the official grand opening of the
Grand Californian Hotel, allowing Guests to have a grand experience at
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">1937</span><br />
Disney's Mickey Mouse film <i style="color: red;">The Worm Turns</i> - featuring the voices of <b>Walt Disney</b> as Mickey and Billy Bletcher as the dog catcher - is released.<br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">1938</span><br />
Conductor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Stokowski" target="_blank">Leopold Stokowski</a> arrives in Los Angeles for a session for Disney's <b>The Sorcerer's Apprentice</b>.<br />
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<b style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1977</span></b><br />
At Disneyland's Frontierland, the <a href="http://www.yesterland.com/minetrain.html" target="_blank">Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland</a> attraction closes. (It will later be replaced by Big Thunder Mountain.)<br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;"><b>1979</b></span><br />
Disney World's <i><span style="color: lime;">Dumbo's Circus Parade</span></i> kicks off down Main Street, USA. <span class="st"> (January 2, <i>1979</i> - December 21, <i>1979</i>). he parade featured "colorful costumes, comical ballerinas, a circus train, floats, ringmaster Mickey Mouse and Dumbo himself." </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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<b style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984</span></b><br />
The <b><i>Astuter Computer Revue</i></b>, a show in EPCOT Center's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CommuniCore" target="_blank">CommuniCore</a> East, closes. The attraction took place on a second-floor terraced theater that overlooked a large room housing some of the computers used to operate the park. It was hosted by a projected host who sang and danced his way across computer banks in the foreground of the room in an attempt to explain the role of computers at Walt Disney World. The Astuter Computer Revue will be the first attraction ever to be removed from EPCOT. It will be replaced in February 1984 by Backstage Magic.<br />
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<b style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1996</span></b><br />
Today is <i><b>World of Motion</b></i>'s final day of operation at Epcot. An opening day attraction, visitors traveled on Omniover vehicles through humorous technology-themed scenes. (Test Track will eventually take its place.)<br />
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<b style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2001</span></b><br />
Disney unveils its <a href="http://disneyland.disney.go.com/grand-californian-hotel/" target="_blank">Grand Californian Hotel</a>, offering a few hundred guests a preview of the high-end rooms and service the company hopes will transform the updated Anaheim vacation spot. The hotel is the first in the U.S. to be located inside a Disney theme park. The Grand Californian Hotel features 2 full-service restaurants (Storytellers Cafe and Napa Rose) and a snack bar (Whitewater Snacks). Although its grand opening will be in February, the first paying guests are welcomed on this day.<br />
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<b style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2005</span></b><br />
Effective this day, all current Walt Disney World admission media will now require ticket tag finger scans.<br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;"><b>2006</b></span><br />
In observance with the <i style="color: #660000;"><b>Tournament of Roses</b></i> “Never on Sunday” tradition, the 117th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California takes place on a Monday. Disney takes part in the event with a float featuring recreations of all 5 castles from each of its theme parks.<br />
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<b style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2009</span></b><br />
Opening night of "<a href="http://www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=%22disney%20on%20ice%3A%20100%20years%20of%20magic%22%20&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CEYQtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9RZtuaK9Eh4&ei=xNQBT67QNdSbtwevudSeCA&usg=AFQjCNFpIrzJOoMvMMZCDwHaNsKH4szC_w&sig2=l2aN1JCH-YRn604IzqediA&cad=rja" target="_blank">Disney on Ice: 100 Years of Magic</a>" begins at 7 p.m. at the First Arena in Elmira, New York.<br />
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The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra performs a concert of symphonic arrangements from the Walt Disney Studio archives at Powell Symphony Hall in Grand Center. The concert is synchronized with images from such Disney classics as The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins and Tarzan.<br />
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It is reported that The United Way of Palm Beach County, Florida is offering a program in which volunteers can earn a day at a Disney park.</div>
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On this day in 1966, everything was coming up roses for Walt Disney, when he served as the Grand Marshal of the 77<sup>th</sup>
Tournament of Roses Parade, in Pasadena, California. Over the years,
the parade has had some of the world’s most distinguished individuals
serving in that honored position; including luminaries such as Mary
Pickford, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gregory Peck, Bob Hope, Henry “Hank”
Aaron, the Apollo 12 astronauts, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Angela
Lansbury, and Shirley Temple. In 1966, with “It’s a Small World” as the
parade’s theme, who could be a better choice as Grand Marshal than Walt
(after all, later that year the <i>it’s a small world</i> attraction,
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