2002:
A charity auction takes place in Paris as part of the 10-year Euro Disney celebration.
2004:
Disney's newest musical On The Record begins performances in Chicago at The
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University. The touring production will perform through
December 12.
Mickey's Jingle Jungle Parade (a special holiday season parade) debuts at Walt
Disney World's Animal Kingdom.
The Hollywood premiere of the Mary Poppins 40th anniversary DVD takes place at
the El Capitan Theater in California.
1835:
Writer & humorist Mark Twain is born Samuel Langhorne
Clemens in the small town of Florida, Missouri. (He will be raised
in Hannibal, Missouri.) Walt Disney admired Twain's writing and so the famous
author's name and image can be found scattered throughout Disney theme parks
all over the world. Tom Sawyer Island - based on Twain's classic The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer - is the only Disneyland attraction that Walt personally designed!
Disneyland also features the Mark Twain Riverboat, which takes guests on a
12-minute journey around the Rivers of America. Both Disneyland Paris and Tokyo
Disneyland have versions of the Mark Twain Riverboat as well. In Florida, Mr. Twain appears in Epcot's Audio-Animatronic stage show The American Adventure, and the Magic Kingdom features a version of Tom Sawyer Island (located in Frontierland). Disney's 1990 animated The Prince and the Pauper is loosely based on Twain's classic novel The Prince and the Pauper, first published in 1881. In 1991 The Disney Channel aired the Disney Channel Premiere Film Mark Twain and Me, about a young girl who befriends the famous writer.
1918:
Red Cross volunteer Walt Disney, aboard the SS Vaubin (a converted cattle boat) arrives in Cherbourg, France. Although an armisitice has been signed ending the world war (on
November 11), the U.S. volunteers are in France to aid in the occupation. The harbor in Cherbourg is clogged by a sunken boat, so the Vaubin steams to Le Havre (a city in Normandy on the English Channel). Walt and the others disembark in Le Havre and are put on a train for Paris.
1927:
Actor Robert Guillaume, the voice of Rafiki in The Lion King animated films, is born in St. Louis, Missouri. He also appeared in the 1994 television specials
The Making of 'The Lion King' and Disney's Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra. (TV fans will know Guillaume from the sitcoms Soap, Benson, & Sports Night.)
1935:
Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Cock o' the Walk, directed by Ben Sharpsteen, is released. When a prize fighting rooster comes to town, a celebration is held, complete with elaborate parodies of Busby Berkley dance routines. When the cock sweeps a young hen off her feet, however, he is challenged to a fight by her jealous suitor.
1955:
Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Anything Can Happen Day.
The 1939 Donald Duck cartoon Beach Picnic is shown.
1966:
Walt Disney (weeks after undergoing surgery) collapses at his California home. He is revived by medics and readmitted to St. Joseph's Hospital (under an assumed name to avoid publicity) in Burbank.
1979:
Disney veteran and Winsor McCay Award-winner Dick Huemer passes away at St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank, California. An animator, comic strip artist, director, & writer,
his long list of credits include such shorts and features as The Wise Little Hen, Wynken, Blynken and Nod,
Fantasia, Dumbo, The Reluctant Dragon, The Story of Anyburg U.S.A., and Alice in Wonderland. (Huemer
will be named a Disney Legend in 2007.)
1986:
The TV series The Wonderful World of Disney airs the episode "Sunday Drive."
1987:
Red's Dream, a short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by John Lasseter, is released. It is the result of Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull wanting the staff to make a film using the Pixar Image Computer and the rendering software Chapreyes. Set in a lonely city on a rainy night, the film takes place in a bicycle shop (named "Eben's Bikes" for Pixar animator Eben Ostby) that is closed for the night. In the corner of the shop sleeps Red, a red unicycle who languishes in the "clearance corner", waiting to be purchased.
1997:
The Wonderful World of Disney airs "The Love Bug" on ABC-TV. A made-for-television film starring Bruce Campbell, it marks the first new appearance of Herbie in more than 15 years.
2001:
For the first time ever, the Disney World Resort in Florida shares with Toronto's Cavalcade of Lights, the Walt Disney World Fireworks Spectacular. Cavalcade of Lights has kicked off the festive season in the heart of Toronto for the last 35 years with an evening of twinkling lights and dazzling ice-skating. This season the multi-media event will take viewers on a journey through the past hundred years of Disney magic with giant moving images projected on the Sheraton Centre Hotel tower, choreographed fireworks, and symphonic music.
A California couple become engaged atop the Sun Wheel at Disney's California Adventure.
The Lizzie McGuire episode "Lizzie and Kate's Big Adventure" debuts on Disney Channel.
2003:
Mousefest 2003 (the largest Walt Disney World gathering of Disney fans from around the Internet) begins in Florida. The 9-day event encompasses about 24 online communities such as All Ears Net, Passporter, Mousesavers, WDWMAGIC, Disney Dollarless, and MousePlanet.
It is reported that Roy E. Disney (the nephew of Walt Disney and son of Roy O. Disney) has resigned from the Walt Disney Company.
2005:
A purebred Beagle named Nutmeg (or "Meg" for short) is born in California. This pup has the distinction of having an unusual "Hidden Mickey," approximately two-and-a-half inches long on the top of her head! At nine-months of age, the natural "Mickey" markings will enable Meg to help Disneyland celebrate the "tail end" of their 50th Anniversary Celebration.
The "Liberty Oak," which is the focal point of the Liberty Square area in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, is the proud parent of more than 500 young trees. They all started out as acorns harvested from the single oak!
1995:
Disneyland performer Wally Boag is among the 9 inducted as Disney Legends.
1978:
Nita Booth, a member of Disney Channel's The All New Mickey Mouse Club,
is born in Virginia. Joining MMC for season 4, she remained with the show until the end of season 7.
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The Disneyland television series airs "The Story of the
Animated Drawing," hosted by Walt Disney himself. This is the first of
what will be three episodes based on Disney's "The Art of Animation" book. (Actually at the time of airing, the
"Art of Animation" hasn't been published yet and so the book Walt is reading from on camera is just a prop!)
"When I was in high school I read this book called, The Art of Animation, by Bob Thomas, it's all about the Walt Disney studio and the making of Sleeping Beauty. I read this and it dawned on me - wait a minute, people do animation for a living?" - Pixar's John Lasseter
Season 2 Episode 11
2007:
At Walt Disney World, singer Jessica Simpson tapes the finale performance for the
24th annual "Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade," which will
air December 25.
2010:
The much anticipated video game Epic Mickey is released in North America. Designed by Warren Spector, with 2D cinemas by Powerhouse Animation Studios, Inc., and developed by Junction Point Studios for the Wii console, Epic Mickey is part of an effort by The Walt Disney Company to re-brand the Mickey Mouse character.
In New York City, actress Jennifer Grey celebrates her recent Dancing With The Stars victory along with fellow contestant Kyle Massey at a special celebration for the launch of Disney Epic Mickey at the new Disney Store in Times Square. The store opens at 7:00 a.m., allowing fans an opportunity to meet both Grey and Massey as they hand-deliver the game to the first several hundred fans that have lined up to purchase it!
Waking Sleeping Beauty is released to DVD. A 2009 documentary film directed by Disney film producer Don Hahn and produced by Hahn and former Disney executive Peter Schneider, it reveals the history of Walt Disney Feature Animation from the making of The Fox and the Hound in 1980 to the release of The Lion King in 1994.
