1908:
Pioneering animator Shamus Culhane is born in Ware, Massachusetts
(although as a small child his family will move to Manhattan, New York).
His most notable work for Disney includes the classic sequence with Pluto and the crab in Hawaiian Holiday and
the dwarfs' "Heigh Ho" number in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Culhane is the only animator who worked
on all of the first four animated feature cartoons in history: Disney's Snow White (1937) and Pinocchio (1940),
for which he animated the fox and cat selling Pinocchio to the Pleasure Island coachman; Max Fleischer's
Gulliver's Travels (1939) and Dave Fleischer's Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941).
2004:
Florida's Downtown Disney hosts the 3-day Festival of the Masters
(a display of more than 150 award-winning national and local artists).
Disney Channel airs the sixteenth Phil of the Future episode - "Age Before Beauty" for the first time. Guest stars include veteran actor Ronnie Schell (who portrays a 75-year-old Phil).
1916:
Character actor Liam Dunn is born in New Jersey. His Disney credits include
The Shaggy D.A., Gus, Herbie Rides Again, and The World's Greatest Athlete. (Mel Brooks'
fans will recognize him from the films Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Silent Movie.)
1932:
Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoons The Wayward Canary and The Klondike Kid
are both released. In The Wayward Canary, directed by Bert Gillet, Mickey buys a canary to give Minnie
as a pet, but doesn't know that the bird has a bunch of hatchlings in her cage! When they get away and fly loose in Minnie's house, an old cat tries to catch them as Mickey destructively tries to keep order.
The Klondike Kid, inspired by the silent Charlie Chaplin film "The Gold Rush" and directed by Wilfred Jackson,
finds Mickey entertaining guests at a saloon as a piano player. All is well
until Pete kidnaps Minnie ... causing a battle!
1939:
Actor Bela Lugosi (best known for his Dracula roles) spends the day
at the Disney Studios posing for animators. It is the intent that Lugosi will be
the model for the demon Chernabog in the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment of Fantasia.
(However, Bill Tytla, the animator in charge of Chernobog, will later be dissatisfied with Lugosi's performace, and will have sequence director Wilfred Jackson pose for the cameras. Thus it willl be Jackson, not Lugosi, who "appears" on-screen as Chernabog!)
1943:
Character actor & playwright Wallace Shawn, the voice of Rex the Green
Dinosaur in all three Toy Story films, is born in New York City. His vast Disney
credits include A Goofy Movie (as the voice of Principal Mazur), The Haunted Mansion (playing the role of Ezra),
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (as Tarzan the Chimp), The Incredibles (as Gilbert Huph), Air Buddies (although a live-action film - supplying the voice of Billy), and Chicken Little (as Principal Fetchit).
1946:
Walt Disney's Song of the South is released by RKO and debuts at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. The film, based on the books by Joel Chandler Harris, is Walt's first major plunge into live-action filmmaking (although it also contains animated segments). The premiere is sponsored jointly by the Atlanta Junior League and the Uncle Remus Memorial Association. (The film & its songs will later provide the inspiration for the Splash Mountain attractions at Disney theme parks.)
1954:
Disney's Donald Duck animated short The Flying Squirrel is released. Directed by Jack
Hannah, Donald enlists the help of a flying squirrel to hang a sign in a nearby tree for his peanut stand. But the
squirrel has to take revenge when Donald backs out on his half of the deal.
1957:
Disney stock is first listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
1961:
The NBC-TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Colorairs part 1 of "The Light
in the Forest."
Prime Minister Nehru of India visits Disneyland. He is taken on a personal tour of the
park by Walt Disney himself. (The Indian leader is in Southern California for a 3-day visit.)
1962:
The Firehouse Five Plus Two (a musical group made up of writers, animators, producers and directors at the Walt Disney Studios) perform on the stage of the Golden Horseshoe Saloon in Disneyland.
1980:
Actor Ryan Gosling, a member of Disney Channel's
The All New Mickey Mouse Club, is born in Ontario, Canada.
1982:
Actress Anne Hathaway, co-star of Disney's The Princess Dairies and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, is born in Brooklyn, New York. She
also appeared in the 2004 fairy-tale comedy Ella Enchanted (distributed by Miramax Films, the art-house/independent film division of The Walt Disney Company) as Ella of Frell.
1993:
Disney's The Three Musketeers, starring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Tim Curry, and Rebecca De Mornay, is released.
1999:
The Disney stage musical Aida debuts at Chicago's Palace Theatre.
2002:
Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year is released on video.
2006:
Singer Jon Secada brings down the curtain on the 2006 Eat to the Beat! concert series at Epcot when he performs his final show of a 4-day engagement.
The first annual American Teacher Awards (honoring exemplary American teachers) was hosted by Disney in 1990. The very first recipient was
Sylvia Anne Washburn.
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2007:
Walt Disney World kicks off the holiday season with this year's
debut of Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party at the Magic Kingdom.
Also at the MK, a dazzling new lighting spectacle which transforms the iconic Cinderella Castle into a glimmering, shimmering ice palace, debuts. Over at Disney-MGM, The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights (presented by Sylvania) returns to light up The Streets of America Backlot, while Mickey's Jingle Jungle Parade steps off at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
At the beginning of the Chinese Dance segment of Fantasia's "The Nutcracker Suite", Hop Low, the tiny mushroom, does a little jump while criss-crossing his legs. Animator Art Babbit supposedly got the idea from The Three Stooges - it's one of Curly Howard's signature moves!
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1942:
Disney's animated feature Pinocchio is released in Egypt.
1969:
Twenty-year-old Cathy Birk is chosen to be Disneyland's new Ambassador to the World. A Disneyland employee since April 1968, her initial duties as the new ambassador begins December 1.
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1986:
At Disneyland, the fourth International Children’s Peace Prize Awards are held at the Videopolis Stage, bringing together children from 41 countries to foster the goal of world peace.
1994:
The Annie Awards are handed out at ATAS Plaza Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Best Individual Achievement for Artistic Excellence in the Field of Animation goes to Deane Taylor the art director for The Nightmare Before Christmas. Jeremy Irons is awarded Best Achievement for Voice Acting for his contribution to Disney's The Lion King. Best Individual Achievement for Creative Supervision in the Field of Animation is given to director Henry Selick for The Nightmare Before Christmas. The Lion King wins Best Animated Film. Brenda Chapman is awarded Best Individual Achievement for Story Contribution in the Field of Animation for her contribution to The Lion King.
