2004:
"Snow White - An Enchanting Musical" begins running at Disneyland. The
live production is the most elaborate stage show to be produced for the
Fantasyland Theatre.
Fortune magazine reports The Walt Disney Company is
America's most admired entertainment company based on a survey of top
entertainment industry executives, directors and securities analysts.
1927:
A young artist - fresh out of high school - named Leslie James Clark reports to work at the Disney Studios at 2719 Hyperion Avenue in Hollywood, California. (Les had met Walt while serving him ice cream at a Hollywood confectionary on Vermont Avenue.) Walt warns him "it might be just a temporary job." (Les Clark will go on to become the first of Walt's "Nine Old Men" and stay with the Disney Studio for nearly half a century until his retirement in 1975!)
1935:
Disney's Mickey Mouse short The Band Concert
is released at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City
(the first Mickey cartoon to be shown at the Music Hall).
Also the first official Mickey cartoon in Technicolor, it is directed by
Wilfred Jackson (who will go on to direct such Disney classics as Peter Pan),
and features the animation of such famous names in Disney history as Les
Clark, Jack Kinney, Wolfgang Reitherman and Dick Humer. (Huemer will
later regard The Band Concert as the most perfect animated short ever made.) In The Band Concert, Mickey
leads his ensemble through a rendition of "The William Tell Overture" while Donald Duck and a passing
tornado interrupt! (The Band Concert will later be the major theme for the attraction, Silly Symphony Swings at Disney's California Adventure.)
Also released on the same day is the Mickey Mouse short Mickey's Service
Station. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen, trouble comes for Mickey and his gang when Pete (in his typical
bully role) drives up to Mickey's service station in his souped up roadster, demanding that they get rid of the
squeak in his car ... or else!
1939:
Walt Disney receives a special Oscar for his classic 83-minute animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, at the 11th Academy Awards. Child star Shirley Temple presents Walt with one statuette and seven miniature statuettes for "a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon." Also awarded is the Disney/RKO short Ferdinand the Bull for Best Short Subject, Cartoon, beating out 4 other animated shorts including Disney's own Brave Little Tailor! (It is the first Academy Awards show without any official host.)
1940:
Disney's second animated feature Pinocchio (which premiered in early February) is generally released in the U.S. Unlike Snow White, it will initially not be a financial success and its release in Europe and Asia will be delayed because of World War II.
1955:
Disney's 3rd installment of the 5-part Davy Crockett trilogy
"Davy Crockett At the Alamo" airs on ABC-TV's Disneyland series.
1964:
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs the 3rd and final episode of "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh."
2000:
British rocker Phil Collins wins a Grammy for his work on Disney's Tarzan soundtrack. Instrumental Composition for a Motion Picture or for Television is awarded to A Bug's Life, composed by Randy Newman.
2001:
Mardi Gras at Downtown Disney Pleasure Island begins today in
Florida. (It will run through the 27th.)
Disney Channel airs the Lizzie McGuire episode "Jack of All
Trade" for the first time.
2002:
As part of Walt Disney's 100th birthday celebration,
The Disney Gallery (located in New Orleans Square in Disneyland) opens its doors to reveal a special art exhibit featuring 100 images of Mickey Mouse created by former Disney Imagineer Eric Robison.
The exhibit will remain on display through September 8th.
At Walt Disney World, one of the park's longest running shows, Legend of the Lion King, has its final curtain call after more than 75,000 performances.
(A new 20-minute 3-D film called Mickey's PhilharMagic will replace it.)
The premiere screening of Disney's Cinderella II: Dreams Come True is held at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. (It will premiere exclusively on DVD and video on February 26.) Voice-over actresses Jennifer Hale and Russi Taylor and recording artist Brooke Allison are all on hand for the event.
2003:
At the 45th Grammy Awards (held in New York City) "If I Didn't Have You" - from Disney's Monster, Inc. written by Randy Newman - wins Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media. Also Monsters, Inc. - Scream Factory Favorites (by Riders in the Sky) wins for Best Musical Album for Children.
When Pinocchio is changed
into a real boy, his hands are
transformed from three-fingered and white-gloved "Mickey Mouse"
hands into four-fingered (plus
thumb) human hands
sans gloves.
2008:
Comedy legend Don Rickles (the voice of Toy Story's Mr. Potato Head) visits Walt Disney Imagineering in Los Angeles. Disney Imagineers have created a sophisticated Audio-Animatronics figure featuring the voice of Rickles for 'Toy Story Mania!'; an interactive ride-through attraction that combines 3-D technology and interaction with Disney-Pixar characters. The new attraction is scheduled to open late in 2008 at Disney World and Disneyland Resort.
1956:
The Disneyland episode "Davy Crockett" wins a Golden Globe Award for Best TV Show.
"When he was inside the whale and he sneezed Geppetto out, Walt came up with the line, "Gesundheit."
One of the biggest laughs from the picture; it's that spontaneous stuff that makes all the difference."
-Joe Grant
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1990:
Where the Heart Is, a romantic comedy featuring Dabney Coleman and
Uma Thurman, is released by Touchstone Pictures.
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1959:
Academy Award nominations are announced with Disney receiving 5:
White Wilderness - Documentary, Features
White Wilderness - Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Paul Bunyan - Short Subjects, Cartoons
Grand Canyon - Short Subjects, Live-Action Subjects
Ama Girls - Documentary, Short Subjects
Winners will be announced April 6.
2010:
The line for the Michael Jackson film, Captain EO, swells to about 70 people as the sun comes up on the movie’s first day back at Disneyland. About 35 fans are already in line by 6 a.m. on this day, about 4 hours before the first showing of the return of the 3-D movie at the Tomorrowland theater (where it originally played from 1986 to 1997). Although the park opens at 9:30 a.m., Disney officials allow Jackson fans to line up early on the west side of Disneyland’s main entrance. Disney forms a second line before 7 a.m.
1977:
Mouseka-alumni Darlene Gillespie and Cubby O'Brien make a special Surprise Day appearance on episode 28 of The New Mickey Mouse Club. Cubby is featured on the drums and Darlene sings "Silver Threads and Golden Needles." The new Mouseketeers join the original "Mice" in the production number "Sing and Dance."
2011:
Bill Nye The Science Guy is on hand at Epcot to give presentations in the midst of Engineers Week (which shines the spotlight on math, science and engineering, from February 21 to 25).
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