2005:
Disney's Phil of the Future (which has aired on the Disney Channel in
the U.S. since June 2004) debuts in Canada on the Family Channel.
The Incredibles is nominated for best movie of the year by the Producers Guild of America. (Animated features are seldom given this honor.)
1913:
Animator, director, writer and Disney Legend Jack Hannah is born in Arizona. At the Walt Disney Studios he will start as an inbetweener and clean-up artist on many early Mickey, Donald and Silly Symphony cartoons. Hannah will also help Carl Barks (the man who will draw the comic book adventures of Donald Duck) create his first two comic book stories. He will later go on to direct some 94 Disney animated films. Hannah will retire in 1959, and spend a number of years creating and then heading the character animation program at the California Institute of the Arts.
1931:
Al Taliaferro (future Disney Legend) is hired at the Disney Studios on Hyperion
Avenue in California, as an animator. A month later he will move on to the comic strip department and in February 1938 begin working on the Donald Duck daily newspaper strips.
1932:
Disney's 26th Silly Symphony film The Bird Store is completed. Directed by Wilfred Jackson (who played an important role in synchronizing sound to the movements of animated characters) the film will be released later in the month.
1935:
The Silly Symphony short The Tortoise and the Hare - a retelling of Aesop's fable - is released. (It will win an Academy Award for Best Short Cartoon.)
1955:
The Disneyland television series presents part 1 of Disney's 1950 live-action adventure film Treasure Island. This adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson is Disney's first all live-action feature.
1957:
The eighth and final installment of "My Dad, Walt Disney," by Diane Disney Miller
as told to Pete Martin (a "celebrity friendly" writer) appears in the Saturday Evening
Post. The 8 articles will later be expanded into a hardcover book in 1957 by Henry
Holt entitled "The Story of Walt Disney".
1964:
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs part 1 of "The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog."
1986:
The Biscuit Barrel, a shop in the United Kingdom Pavilion at EPCOT Center, closes.
First opened with the rest of the park in 1982, it will become The Country Manor.
2002:
Atlanta Braves spring training tickets go on sale at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex. This will be the team's 5th season of spring training at Disney's Florida complex, which includes a 15-game home schedule starting in mid-February.
2003:
Cinderella's Gala Feast, a character buffet at the Grand Floridian's 1900
Park Fare (located in Walt Disney World) officially welcomes guests.
Television's animated family The Simpsons visit a Florida
theme park called EFCOT.
2004:
The 2003 Annie Award nominations, presented by the International Animated Film Society, are announced. Disney nominees include Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo (with multiple nominations), Brother Bear, Jungle Book 2, 101 Dalmatians II, Destino, Piglet's Big Movie, and Stitch! The Movie. (Winners will be announced on February 7th.)
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1999:
Disney's animated feature The Rescuers and the new short Pluto Gets the Paper: Bubble Gum are released together on video.
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In Autumn of 1998,
Cinderella Castle's lighting system was upgraded at
Disney World. It now has the power to illuminate in some
16 million colors!
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2007:
A stage version of High School Musical premieres in Minneapolis at the Children's Theater Company's Cargill Stage. It is the first professional version of the show to ever be staged.
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Annie nominations announced.
2009:
Disney World announces that it will offer free five-day multi-park passes to members of the U.S. military. Both active and retired military personnel are eligible for the “Disney’s Armed Forces Salute” promotion, which will run through December 23, 2009.
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The Tortoise and the Hare released
1951:
Hayao Miyazaki, a prominent filmmaker of many popular animated feature films, is born in Tokyo, Japan. American fans know him from Howl's Moving Castle (distributed by Buena Vista Entertainment in the U.S.) and the Oscar-winning Spirited Way (distributed by Walt Disney Pictures in the U.S.).
Disney's Goofy short Lion Down, directed by Jack Kinney, is released.
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"All during the early years of my youth, and a long time before I had given a career any thought, the Public Library has always held a tremendous interest for me. Needless to say, any book that offered information on drawing was likely to be found listed on my card, and over-due books were the chief reason for my usually depleted bank account." -Walt Disney (1937)
1945:
The Goofy short Tiger Trouble - directed by Jack Kinney - is released.
