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2000:
Pooh's Hunny Hunt, an attraction at Tokyo Disneyland, has a soft opening. A
more elaborate version than its Walt Disney World counterpart, guests ride in
large hunny pot vehicles through the pages of a giant storybook.
2005:
Disney Editions releases Ridley Pearson's The Kingdom Keepers, the first in a series of novels. This suspense thriller, subtitled Disney After Dark, is about five teenagers who end up inside Disney World after dark, and must solve a riddle in order to save the park from the dark side of Walt Disney's imagination.
Pooh's Playful Spot, a playground for 2-5 year-olds, opens in the Magic Kingdom at Disney World.
1875:
Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan and one of the great
pioneers of modern science fiction, is born in Chicago, Illinois.
Burroughs was a soldier, business executive, gold miner, cowboy, storekeeper, and policeman before he turned to writing as a career. He wrote more than 20 novels depicting the adventures of Tarzan. After the release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, he wrote a letter to Walt Disney about the possibility of making his creation into an animated feature. His work eventually did become the inspiration for Disney's 1999 animated feature Tarzan and later a Disney produced Broadway stage musical.
Burroughs also wrote popular science fiction and fantasy stories involving Earthly adventurers and Martians. He began writing a series called the Barsoom books in the second half of 1911. (Barsoom was his fictional representation of the planet Mars.) The final book in the series was titled John Carter of Mars (to be released as a major motion picture by Disney in 2012). In the early twentieth century, Burroughs compiled a glossary of the terms used in these novels. In 1957, Walt Disney created an animated version of it for his "Mars and Beyond" TV episode. Today Burroughs even has a large crater on Mars named for him!
1910:
Disney Legend Cyril James is born in Tonipandi, South Wales. He trained in London as a
chartered accountant and joined the Walt Disney Productions, Ltd., as Company secretary in 1938. Four years
later, James left Disney to join the war effort but returned as its liaison with RKO (which distributed Disney movies).
In 1956, Cyril was promoted to joint managing director of Walt Disney Productions, Ltd., and became Roy O.
Disney's point man three years later when he was named sole managing director for England and Europe. He was
known as Roy O. Disney's British counterpart because of his business genius and skill at handling all of the
financial and administrative affairs.
1925:
The Paramount Theater in Los Angeles previews Disney's Alice comedy film Alice the Jail Bird. It will be generally released September 15.
1934:
Disney's 6-minute Silly Symphony cartoon Peculiar Penguins is released.
Walt and Lillian Disney return home to Los Angeles from a trip to Hawaii
aboard the Matson liner SS Malolo. (When built in 1926, the Malolo was the largest,
technically advanced and most luxurious cruise liner to be built in the United States.)
1944:
Disney's The Plastics Inventor, starring Donald Duck, is released. In this short, directed by
Jack King, Donald decides to build an airplane with instructions from a radio show.
1989:
Disneyland welcomes Claudine Masson, its 300-millionth guest! It
has taken 34 years to accomplish this feat. From Chatearoux, France, the 28-year-old
Claudine is the first international visitor to become an attendance milestone guest.
1993:
Disney announces that AT&T has renewed its sponsorship of Spaceship Earth at EPCOT Center in the Walt Disney World Resort. (Spaceship Earth was originally sponsored by the Bell System from 1982 until 1984. When Bell was broken up into smaller companies in 1984, its parent company, AT&T became its own independent company and began sponsoring Spaceship Earth. It will continue to do so until 2004 - when Siemens picks up sponsorship.)
2002:
The Disney Poster Book by Tony Anselmo - the voice of Donald Duck who originally joined Disney as an animator - is published by Hyperion Press.
2003:
Disney Treasures, a unique treasure trove of nostalgia by Robert Tieman from Disney Editions, is released to bookstores.
Tokyo Disneyland presents "Blazing Rhythms,"
a spectacular nightly show, through September 19.
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September begins on the same day of the week as December ... every year!
2006:
The Tom Joyner Family Reunion kicks off its annual gathering (for the next 4 days) at
Walt Disney World.
Second-grader Whitney Hamilton wins a trip for four to Walt Disney World as part of
the American Heart Association’s "Jump Rope for Heart" program. A student at Deer Creek
Prairie Vale Elementary School in Oklahoma, she was chosen out of all students who raised more than $150 to
help cure heart disease in a five-state area. Whitney raised close to $200 as a first-grade student last term.
1998:
Walt Disney Records releases Disney's Greatest Pop Hits: A Decade Of Radio
Singles. The 15 tracks include performances by Elton John, Vanessa Wiliiams, Michael Bolton, and
Donna Summer.
World Showcase in Epcot originally opened with 9 nations surrounding the World Showcase Lagoon. These nations were Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, the United States of America, Italy, Germany, China, and Mexico.
1956:
The publication American Home runs the article
"Rare Antiques In Disneyland" along with a dozen photos.
ALICE
2007:
Epcot re-opens the film O Canada (a Circle-Vision 360° movie in the Canada Pavilion). It is an updated version hosted by Martin Short. Walt Disney Imagineers collaborated with the Canadian Tourism Commission to revise the film, which now includes new orchestration and images, and Canadian Idol winner Eva Avila singing the music of "O Canada!"
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2008:
Don LaFontaine, the highly sought-after voice-over artist often referred to as
"Thunder Throat" and "The Voice of God," passes away at age 68 in Los Angeles.
During his career, La Fontaine recorded over 5,000 movie trailers and over 350,000 television commercials,
network promotions, and video game trailers. His Disney credits include the animated series Fillmore! and the
feature Meet the Robinsons.
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1939:
Disney's Donald Duck cartoon The Autograph Hound is released. While trying
to collect autographs at a Hollywood studio, Donald meets a number of movie stars (Greta Garbo,
Mickey Rooney, Sonja Heine, The Ritz Brothers, Shirley Temple, Clark Gable, Charlie McCarthy, Joe
E. Lewis, Katherine Hepburn, and Groucho & Harpo Marx) and one very irritated security guard.
Epcot's O Canada re-opens
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The Autpgraph Hound released
1950:
The Disney animated short Hook, Lion and Sinker is released. Directed by Jack Hannah, Louie the Mountain Lion attempts to steal the prizes from Donald Duck's fishing expedition.
1962:
Meet Me at Disneyland (a limited TV series broadcast live on KTTV directly from the Anaheim park) airs episode 12 "Dixie on the Delta." Tonight’s show salutes jazz, and opens at the river boat landing as the Mark Twain pulls away from dock. Performers include the Hot-Jazz Society Marching Band, the Clara Ward Singers, the Voices of Hope, Benny Goodman and his band, Al Hirt and his band, The Young Men from New Orleans, and Kid Ory. Meet Me at Disneyland is designed to boost park attendance during the summer weeknights.
2009:
At Disneyland, Fantasmic’s animatronic dragon debuts during a water-and-light show on the Rivers of America after facing technical trouble all summer.
2011:
Pixar creative chief John Lasseter comes in at #8 on the Vanity Fair 2011 New Establishment list, just ahead of entertainer Lady Gaga and behind Reed Hastings of Netflix. This year’s New Establishment list identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigies, and entrepreneurs.
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