2004:
The SaveDisney website announces a rally in Philadelphia that will take place March 2 ... one day prior to Disney's Annual Shareholder Meeting.
1809:
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!)
1934:
Walt Disney Productions files an application for a trademark of "Mickey Mouse" for use in books and newspaper comic strips.
1951:
Disney's Cinderella is nominated for 3 Academy Awards - Best Music, Original Song (for "Bibbidy-Bobbidi-Boo"); Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture; and Best Sound, Recording. The Disney short In Beaver Valley is nominated for Best Short Subject: Two Reel. Winners will be announced March 29.
1960:
The ABC-TV series Walt Disney Presents airs "Texas John Slaughter: Desperado from Tombstone," the 10th of a 17-part miniseries starring Tom Tryon.
1988:
Siegfried and Roy appear on the TV special Disney's Magic in the Magic Kingdom. The illusionists make Sleeping Beauty Castle disappear!
1999:
Disney's My Favorite Martian starring Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Hurley, Darryl Hannah, and Ray Walston is generally released. Based on the popular 60's TV show (also starring Walston)
the film is directed by Donald Petrie (of Grumpy Old Men fame). Playing in front of My Favorite Martian is the animated short Pluto Gets the Paper: Spaceship.
2000:
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.
Disney's 1998 animated feature Mulan premieres on the Disney Channel.
2002:
Disney's 1953 Peter Pan; Special Edition is released on DVD. It includes
commentary by Walt Disney and veteran animators Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, and Marc Davis.
Disney-Pixar's Monsters, Inc. receives 4 Academy Award nominations.
Winners will be announced March 24.
2003:
The Tokyo Disneyland CD Cinderellabration: Lights of Romance is released.
2001:
Ilene Woods - the original voice of Cinderella - appears at a Cinderella Ball in Disneyland to celebrate the anniversary of the motion picture.
2007:
Academy Award-winning visual effects pioneer/matte artist and Disney Legend
Peter Ellenshaw passes away at his home in Santa Barbara, California at the
age of 93. A hand-picked member of Walt Disney's creative team since 1947, Ellenshaw was called upon
to create a wide variety of visual effects for such films as Mary Poppins, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,
Darby O'Gill and the Little People, Treasure Island, and The Black Hole. He even painted the iconic
first map of Disneyland that was featured on all the early postcards and souvenir booklets.
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.
"Long before the era of modern special effects, Peter Ellenshaw was working his magic in Disney films. People never knew how he accomplished his visual feats. When you think that Mary Poppins was made without anyone ever setting foot outside a soundstage - let alone visiting London - you get some idea of what he was able to pull off." -Film critic and historian Leonard Maltin
In 1940 RCA Victor released an album described as "recorded
from the original soundtrack
of the Walt Disney Production
Pinocchio." This was the first
time the phrase "original
soundtrack" was used to refer
to a commercially available
movie recording.
1964:
The live-action Disney comedy feature The Misadventures of Merlin Jones - starring Tommy Kirk (as the precocious Merlin), Annette Funicello, and Leon Ames - premieres in Florida. It will be in full-release by March 26.
1942:
Disney's animated feature Pinocchio is released in Chile.
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2009:
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."
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American Idols gather at WDW
1958:
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.
"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord
makes so many of them." -Abraham Lincoln
1973:
Actress, voice-over artist, comedian, musician, and singer Tara Strong is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Best known for voice acting in animated films and television, she is the voice of JuJu (Mama Odie's pet snake and apprentice) in Disney's 2009 The Princess and the Frog.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates Buddy Baker for the Disney film Napoleon and Samantha for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Original Dramatic Score. (Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell will win the Oscar for their work on the film Limelight.)
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1939:
Academy Award nominations are announced with Disney dominating the Short Subjects, Cartoons category with 4 films: The Brave Little Tailor,
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood, Ferdinand the Bull and Good Scouts.
The 11th Academy Awards will be held February 23.
1955:
Academy Award nominations are announced with Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under
the Sea receiving three for Art Direction - Set Decoration, Film Editing, and Special
Effects. Also nominated is Pigs is Pigs for Short Subjects, Cartoons, Siam for Short Subjects, Two Reels,
and The Vanishing Prairie for Documentary, Features. Winners will be announced March 30.
2010:
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.
The Holiday Inn at Walt Disney World Resort reopens after a massive 18-month renovation. Located at 1805 Hotel Plaza Blvd, it sits just down the road from Downtown Disney.
1998:
Disney officially announces the debut of a new stage musical called Elaborate Lives. The show, which is based on Verde's Aida but features new music by Elton John and Tim Rice, will receive its premiere at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre Company October 7, 1998.
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