2003:
Disney's Finding Nemo is released to DVD in a
2-disc Collector's Edition and to VHS.
"Goodbye (Part 1)," the first new episode of the Touchstone/ABC sitcom
8 Simple Rules, since the sudden death of actor John Ritter, airs.
In its second season, the first 3 episodes had already been filmed prior to Ritter's sudden death on
September 11, 2003.
1895:
Ben Sharpsteen, Disney Legend, animator, and the co-director of many Disney films
including Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo, is born in Tacoma, Washington.
2005:
Chicken Little opens in theaters. A computer-generated imagery animated film, it was created in-house at Walt Disney Feature Animation's main headquarters in Burbank, California. Loosely based on the fable "The Sky Is Falling," the film's voice cast includes Zach Braff, Joan Cusack, Steve Zahn, Garry Marshall, Don Knotts, Fred Willard, and Catherine O'Hara.
1916:
Legendary newsman Walter Cronkite, the second voice of Epcot's Spaceship Earth, is
born in St. Joseph, Missouri. He also appeared in the 1981 TV special Walt Disney: One Man's Dream
and the 1989 broadcast of the opening of Disney-MGM Studios. Cronkite appeared and narrated Back To
Neverland a film about animation featuring Robin Williams and Disney’s Animators that was originally shown in
Disney-MGM Studios at Disney World. To promote TRON’s 1982 release, Cronkite recorded a segment about the film’s cutting-edge special effects for his science-related summer series Universe. (Best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years, Cronkite was often cited as "the most trusted man in America.")
1918:
Actor Art Carney, best known for his role of Ed Norton on TV's classic sitcom The
Honeymooners, is born in Mount Vernon, New York. His Disney credits include the
1976 TV special Christmas in Disneyland and the 1985 Disney Channel Premiere Film The Blue Yonder.
Red Cross volunteer Walt Disney returns to Camp Scott after recuperating at home
from influenza. (An influenza epidemic will soon spread throughout the world.) Camp Scott is a Red Cross
training facility located near the University of Chicago. Upon arrival though, Walt is sent by train to Camp King in Connecticut, to await transport to France. He will be part of Company A of the Automotive and Mechanical
Section. (The world war will end before Walt ever reaches France.)
1938:
Disney's Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Golf Game is released. Directed by Jack King, Donald needs silence to concentrate on his golf game, but his nephews (who have been pressed into duty as caddies) have noisy plans of their own!
1940:
Daisy Duck makes her first appearance in print in the
Donald Duck Sunday strip - drawn by Al Taliaferro.
1949:
Disney releases the Pluto short Sheep Dog. Pluto must protect his sheep against hungry coyotes!
1955:
The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Talent Round-Up Day.
Also shown is the first episode of The Adventures of Spin and Marty serial.
1962:
The NBC-TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs part 2 of "Sammy, the Way-Out Seal."
1983:
Disney's Five Mile Creek (a live-action television series about a stagecoach line in
the wilds of 19th Century Australia) debuts on the Disney Channel with two
episodes - "Making Tracks" and "Horses for Courses."
1990:
The American Teacher Awards is first aired on Disney Channel.
1991:
the Disney Studios as a precision machinist in 1939. A 50-year veteran of the Disney Company, Broggie's
mechanical ability touched many Disneyland and World's Fair attractions. Broggie built everything from steam
engine trains to electronic robots that could sing and dance.
1994:
The first Walt Disney Gallery opens at MainPlace in Santa Ana, California.
2001:
The staff of Disney Magazine don their Mary Poppins outfits for the East
Coast premiere of the film's sing-along at the Northampton Film Festival.
2002:
The ABC Soap Opera Bistro at Disney's California Adventure (opened since February 2001) closes.
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2006:
Disney: The Music Behind The Magic - a 2-day event including seminars and
rare artifacts - begins at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington.
The design of Walt Disney World's
is based on
California's
Del Coronado Hotel
(pictured right) -
the largest beach
resort on the North American
Pacific Coast!
1950:
Actor John Vickery, the original Scar in Disney's Broadway musical The Lion King, is born in Alameda, California. (Sci-fi fans know him for his Star Trek role of Rusot.)
1944:
Linda Gary, one of the most popular voice-over artists in the modern era of animation, is born in California. Among her credits are Disney's Darkwing Duck, DuckTales and TaleSpin. (The bulk of Gary's work was with the Filmation Studio - voicing characters in several TV series such as Web Woman, The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam!, BlackStar and Ghostbusters.)
This time the sky really is falling.
2004:
It is reported that Brooke Tansley, who started her run in Disney's Broadway musical Beauty and the Beast on September 14th, will continue as Belle through May 1.
Tansley was originally scheduled to depart in January.
The Hollywood Holly-Day Parade debuts at Disney-MGM Studios.
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1982:
Walt Disney World Eyes & Ears reports on a new resort -
Cypress Point Lodge will be a medium-sized hotel facility, located on the south shore of Bay Lake near our Fort Wilderness Campground Resort. Encompassing 550 rooms and 50 log cabins on the beach, Cypress Point Lodge will offer a romantic notion of a turn-of-the-century hunting lodge secluded in a deep forest. Neither the trees nor the buildings dominate the entire area; but blend together in a natural harmony.. One can almost hear the crackling fireplace and feel the large wooden beams offer a haven of security and comfort.
This hotel will never be built ... but years later the Wilderness Lodge will.
Chicken Little opens
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"Can Do Machine Works / Mechanical Wonders / Live Steam Engines / Magical Illusions / Cameras / Roger Broggie, Shopmaster / Advisor to the Magic Makers"
-Roger Broggie's Disneyland window on Main Street USA
Walter Cronkite born
2009:
It is reported that The Walt Disney Company has gotten the green light from Chinese authorities to build one of its theme parks in Shanghai.
"Walt and I shared the same hometown of Kansas City, and went to the same elementary school. Although a generation separated us, he
became an early hero of mine. There were many who saw a resemblance betwen us. Not that he would have approved, by an means, but I
once impersonated him." -Walter Cronkite
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