2004:
The SaveDisney website announces a rally in Philadelphia that will take place March 2 ... one day prior to Disney's Annual Shareholder Meeting.
1809:
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. President, is born in a one-room log
cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. He is the first president born outside the original Thirteen Colonies. Lincoln will be the subject of such Disney attractions as Great Moments with Mr Lincoln (originally created for the 1964 World's Fair) and Walt Disney World's The Hall of Presidents - click here to read Lincoln's HOP speech. (Walt Disney was always fascinated with the life of Lincoln. As a young boy, Walt recited Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to his elementary class ... dressed as Abe!)
1934:
Walt Disney Productions files an application for a trademark of "Mickey Mouse" for use in books and newspaper comic strips.
1951:
Disney's Cinderella is nominated for 3 Academy Awards - Best Music, Original Song (for "Bibbidy-Bobbidi-Boo"); Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture; and Best Sound, Recording. The Disney short
In Beaver Valley is nominated for Best Short Subject: Two Reel.
1960:
The ABC-TV series Walt Disney Presents airs the episode
"Texas John Slaughter: Desperado from Tombstone."
1988:
Siegfried and Roy appear on the TV special Disney's Magic in the Magic Kingdom. The illusionists make Sleeping Beauty Castle disappear!
1999:
Disney's My Favorite Martian starring Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Hurley, Darryl Hannah, and Ray Walston is generally released. Based on the popular 60's TV show (also
starring Walston) the film is directed by Donald Petrie
(of Grumpy Old Men fame). Playing in front of My Favorite Martian is the animated short Pluto Gets the Paper: Spaceship.
2000:
Disney fans dress up in tuxedos and formal gowns to attend the Royal Ball held at the Disneyland Hotel in California for Cinderella's 50th anniversary. The night includes stories from the Disney legends that created Cinderella including the voice talents who brought Anastasia, Drizella and Cinderella to life.
Disney's 1998 animated feature Mulan premieres on the Disney Channel.
2002:
Disney's 1953 Peter Pan; Special Edition is released on
DVD. It includes commentary by Walt Disney and veteran animators Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, and Marc Davis.
2003:
The Tokyo Disneyland CD Cinderellabration: Lights of Romance is released.
2001:
Ilene Woods - the original voice of Cinderella - appears at a Cinderella Ball in Disneyland to celebrate the anniversary of the motion picture.
2007:
Academy Award-winning visual effects pioneer/matte artist and Disney Legend
Peter Ellenshaw passes away at his home in Santa Barbara, California at the
age of 93. A hand-picked member of Walt Disney's creative team since 1947, Ellenshaw was called upon
to create a wide variety of visual effects for such films as Mary Poppins, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,
Darby O'Gill and the Little People, Treasure Island, and The Black Hole. He even painted the iconic
first map of Disneyland that was featured on all the early postcards and souvenir booklets.
Disney announces that they’re producing “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” as
a live-action feature starring Nicholas Cage as the Sorcerer. The film will be
based on Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s original poem, not the Mickey Mouse
sequence in Fantasia.
"Long before the era of modern special effects, Peter Ellenshaw was working his magic in Disney films. People never knew how he accomplished his visual feats. When you think that Mary Poppins was made without anyone ever setting foot outside a soundstage - let alone visiting London - you get some idea of what he was able to pull off."
- Film critic and historian Leonard Maltin
In 1940 RCA Victor released an album described as "recorded from the original soundtrack of the Walt Disney Production Pinocchio." This was the first time the phrase "original soundtrack" was used to refer to a commercially available movie recording.
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1964:
The live-action Disney feature The Misadventures of Merlin Jones - starring Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, and Leon Ames - premieres in Florida.
1942:
Disney's animated feature Pinocchio is released in Chile.
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2009:
As part of the massive grand opening of the new American Idol Experience attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios, American Idol winners David Cook and Carrie Underwood sing a duet for the media inside the new attraction's theater. Also in attendance are Idol celebrities including all 7 winners, Paula Abdul, and Ryan Seacrest. The new attraction will officially open February 14.
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American Idols gather at WDW
1958:
At Todd Shipyards in Long Beach, California, the steel hull of Disneyland's newest
ship Columbia is completed. It is the only three-masted windjammer constructed in the U.S. for over
100 years! The vessel will be transported to Disneyland and installed in the Rivers of America where the rest of
the construction will be completed.
"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord
makes so many of them." -Abraham Lincoln
1973:
Actress, voice-over artist, comedian, musician, and singer Tara Strong is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Best known for voice acting in animated films and television, she is the voice of JuJu (Mama Odie's pet snake and apprentice) in Disney's 2009 The Princess and the Frog.
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