2005:
Disney releases 4 live-action features from the past to DVD. They include the 1966 Lt. Robin Crusoe, the 1967 The Adventures Of Bullwhip Griffin, and the 1971 films The Barefoot Executive and Million Dollar Duck.
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1925:
Roy Oliver Disney (Walt's brother & business partner) marries Edna Francis at Uncle Robert Disney's house in Los Angeles, California. It is the same house where Walt lived and set up shop after first arriving in Hollywood. As Walt owns a motion picture camera, he shoots the days events. (In 1930 Roy and Edna will have a son named Roy Edward.)
1987:
The Wonderful World of Disney airs "Bride of Boogedy" - about a family of practical jokers who are haunted by a ghost.
1992:
The Euro Disney Resort, featuring the Euro Disneyland park, opens in France,
east of Paris. Inaugural ceremonies are broadcast to the entire continent by five
national networks. Although 500,000 visitors are expected, only 50,000 are
admitted because of protests from French people who fear their culture will be
damaged by Euro Disney. Power cables are vandalized by French citizens,
which black out the road signs to Disneyland on the motorway. Euro Disney
also premieres its 5 hotels (Hotel Cheyenne, Santa Fe, Newport Bay Club,
Hotel New York and Disneyland Hotel) and a campground - Davy Crockett
Ranch - located several miles away from the main resort area.
1993:
One year after its opening, Euro Disneyland welcomes its 10.5-millionth guest.
1996:
Disney's claymation and live action movie,
James and the Giant Peach (featuring the voices of Paul Terry, Richard Dreyfuss and Susan Sarandon) is released in U.S. theaters. It is based on the story by Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.)
1997:
Carl Barks - the genius behind the creation of Scrooge McDuck and the cartoonist who drew the comic book version of Donald Duck - celebrates his 96th birthday at a special weekend
event at Walt Disney World.
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1995:
In Florida, the Polynesian's Papeete Bay Verandah, opened since 1971,
becomes the 'Ohana restaurant - featuring the world's largest fire pit.
Lt. Robin Crusoe is the only movie for which Walt Disney received a story credit (as Retlaw Yensid - Walter Disney spelled backward).
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2007:
Hilton Hotels Corp. breaks ground for a resort development adjacent to Walt Disney World Resort.
1907:
Bernhard August "Hardie" Gramatky, Jr., one of the great American watercolorists (as well as an author & illustrator), is born in Dallas, Texas. He will start his career in animation working at Disney from 1929-1936. Gramatky will be best known for his classic children's book, Little Toot. Nine years after it is first published, Little Toot will be animated by the Disney Studio and be included as one of the seven musical segments in the feature Melody Time.
1964:
At the soon-to-be-opened World's Fair in New York, Walt Disney, Henry
Ford Jr., and Robert Moses (president of the New York World's Fair
Corporation) visit the Ford Pavilion. The three are photographed by the
press riding the "Magic Skyway."
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"In those days, there was a very small group. We would do the story at night with Walt clowning around, acting like crazy, and in the daytime we did the animation." -Hardie Gramatky
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