1929:
Legendary film composer Jerry Goldsmith - whose musical scores can be heard
in the Disney film attraction Soarin' Over California and the 1998 animated
feature Mulan - is born in Pasadena, California. While a student at L.A. City College, he
studied under future Disney Legend & composer Buddy Baker! Goldsmith's enormous and diverse body of
work includes television - The Twilight Zone and The Waltons, and such feature films as Air Force One, Star
Trek: Voyager, Total Recall, Logan's Run and Planet of the Apes.
1935:
Donald Duck makes his first appearance in the Mickey Mouse Sunday edition comic strip (by Ted Osbourne and Floyd Gottfredson).
2005:
Dream On Silly Dreamer, a live action/animated documentary, screens for free in Minneapolis for shareholders one day prior to the Walt Disney Company Annual Meeting. The film, about the creative forces behind the classic hand-drawn animated films of Walt Disney Feature Animation's modern era, is shown at the Crown Theater (about 6 blocks from where Disney will hold its meeting).
1870:
The California city of Anaheim is incorporated. Its name is a
blend of "Ana" (after the Santa Ana River) and "heim"
(which means home in German). First founded in 1857 by grape
farmers and wine makers from Franconia in Bavaria, walnuts, lemons and oranges became viable crops
after the prosperous grape industry was destroyed in the 1880s by an insect pest. Before Disneyland's
opening in 1955, Anaheim was a massive rural community with agriculture as its principal industry.
1927:
The Alice Comedy Alice at the Carnival is released.
1934:
Disney's Silly Symphony The Grasshopper and the Ants is released.
The grasshopper is voiced by Pinto Colvig (also the voice of Goofy).
Actor Barrie Ingham, the voice of Basil of Baker Street for Disney's 1986 animated The Great Mouse Detective, is born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.
1949:
Disney's Mickey and the Seal, Tea for Two Hundred, and Seal Island are all
nominated for Academy Awards. Oscar night is March 24.
1956:
A memorial service is held for author A.A. Milne (creator of Winnie-the- Pooh) at All Hallows-by-the-Tower in London. Milne had passed away on January 31. Milne's son Christopher, who has grown to resent his father and has seldom visited his parents, attends the service. It is the last time Christopher will ever see his mother.
1958:
The "Annette" serial (starring Annette Funicello) begins airing on ABC-TV's Mickey Mouse Club.
1960:
Disneyland's Stagecoach Line attraction is retired. A guest could ride shotgun
up top or inside the coach to view such Frontierland sights as Elephant Rock,
Horse Thief Canyon, Dead Man's Spring and the Rivers of America.
1963:
The TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
airs "Inside Outer Space," featuring Ludwig Von Drake.
1978:
Disney generally releases the live-action Candleshoe, starring
Helen Hayes (in her last big screen appearance), David Niven
and Jodie Foster. Small time crook Harry Bundage (played by Leo McKern)
discovers that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund (Hayes) resides, with three orphans and her butler Priory (Niven) is the resting place for a hoard of treasure! The film, which first premiered last December 1977, is directed by Norman Tokar.
2000:
Actor Jim Varney, famous for his "Ernest P. Worrell" character, dies of lung cancer in Tennessee. Varney lent his voice to such classic animated Disney films as Atlantis: The Lost Empire (still in production at the time of his passing), Toy Story, and Toy Story 2 (as the voice of Slinky Dog). At one time Epcot's Cranium Command attraction used his Ernest character in its preshow as an example of a "lovable but not the brightest person on the planet" type of person.
2001:
Disney's House of Mouse airs episode 4 "Goofy's Valentine Date." Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck feel sorry for Goofy because he doesn't have a date for Valentine's date so they plan a "blind date" for him that ends with unexpected results!
1951:
Robert A. Iger is born on Long Island, New York. After finishing his undergraduate studies at Ithaca College, Iger began his career in entertainment media at the American Broadcasting Company, where he worked from 1974 to 1999. On February 25, 1999, Disney named Iger president of Walt Disney International. In 2005 he was named President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company (the sixth CEO in Disney history).
1998:
Walt Disney Records releases Archive Collection, Vol. 1: Burl Ives: Chim
Chim Cheree, Archive Collection, Vol. 2: Hayley Mills: Let's Get Together,
Archive Collection, Vol. 3: Louis Prima With Gia Maione: Let's Fly With
Mary Poppins, Archive Collection, Vol. 4: Rex Allen: 16 Golden Hits,
Archive Collection, and Vol. 5: Cliff Edwards: Ukulele Ike Sings Again.
2007:
Kim Possible, the hit animated comedy/action/adventure
series from Walt Disney Television Animation, premieres its
fourth season with four new episodes on Disney Channel.
An average of 100 pairs of
sunglasses are turned in to
the Walt Disney World Lost
and Found Department at the
Magic Kingdom Park, each
day. On a winter day at Disney,
the lost-and-found departments
receives about 400 to 500 items
a day. But in summer, when
tourists pack the theme parks,
the staff wades through
a jumble of more than 1,000
articles daily.
1962:
The DGA Awards (given by Directors Guild of America) are presented at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City and the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Although nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures, Disney's The Absent-Minded Professor (directed by Robert Stevenson) is edged out by West Side Story.
2008:
The British Academy Film Awards are presented at the Royal Opera House in
London, England. Ratatouille wins Best Animated Film, beating out Shrek the Third
and The Simpsons Movie.
At the 50th annual Grammy Awards, composer Michael Giacchino is awarded Best
Score Soundtrack Album for Ratatouille.
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2010:
To honor the 10th anniversary of Travel Channel host Samantha Brown, the network
airs Samantha Brown Fan-a-thon in which she celebrates ten years of travel at the
Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida - with her fans. (In her 10 years at Travel
Channel, Brown has visited dozens of countries, hundreds of cities and countless hotels around the world!)
"What makes my job so incredible is that I literally get to have a fantasy life. I get to go to these different places and kind of take on an entirely different persona." -Samantha Brown
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1941:
Academy Award nominations are announced with Disney's Pinocchio receiving two for Music, Best Score and Music, Best Song (for "When You Wish Upon a Star").
Winners will be announced February 27.
1977:
It's Discovery Day on episode 19 of The New Mickey Mouse Club. Mouseketeers Allison,
Mindy, Nita, Shawnte, and Kelly star in the Mouseketeer Talent Showcase production number, "Twinkle,
Twinkle." Scenes from the animated classic, Bambi are shown in the Mouseka-movie special, and in episode
four, "Badman's Code," of "The Mystery of Rustler's Cave," Patty Bell, Chris and Stewie sneak back to the
abandoned line shack after everyone is asleep and find a CB radio and code book.
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2011:
Disney Legend Bill Justice passes away of natural causes, the day after his 97th birthday, in Santa Monica, California. A former Walt Disney Studios animator who worked on such classics as Fantasia, Bambi and Alice in Wonderland, Justice was also one of Disney's early Imagineers; programming Audio-Animatronic figures for theme park attractions. He also directed the animated Mickey Mouse March opening for the popular 1950s TV series Mickey Mouse Club. He retired in 1979 and later chronicled his 42 years at Disney in the book Justice for Disney.
"If he'd done nothing else but direct that unforgettable Mickey Mouse Club opening, he'd have a place in
the hearts of baby-boomer Disney fans everywhere." -film critic and historian Leonard Maltin
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