2004:
Buena Vista Home Entertainment releases the concert DVD
Hilary Duff: The Girl Can Rock.
In 1987, Disneyland veteran Chuck Abbott conceived and initiated the Cast Member seeing-eye dog fund, which became a highly successful volunteer group.
1914:
British film director & Disney Legend Ken Annakin is born in Beverly, Yorkshire.
He is known for the series of Walt Disney live-action adventures including The Story of Robin Hood (1952), The
Sword and the Rose (1953) and Swiss Family Robinson (1960). Annakin is a friend of George Lucas, and as
such, was used by Lucas as the source of the name for Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars.
1951:
Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon R'coon Dawg, featuring James Macdonald as the voice of Mickey, is released.
1955:
Chuck Abbott begins work at Disneyland as a ride operator on the Autopia. Abbott has to really pay attention - as there is no track on the attraction (at this time) and drivers frequently crash into anything and everything - including Cast Members! (He will go on to become a foreman at Disneyland for 36 years and be named a Disney Legend in 2005 -
a first for an hourly theme park Cast Member.)
1959:
Walt Disney reads an article in The New York Times about the upcoming 1964 World's Fair in New York. He immediately sees opportunities for his company.
1960:
Disney's True-Life Adventure documentary Jungle Cat - narrated by Winston
Hibler - is released. The film, written and directed by James Algar, chronicles
the life of a female spotted jaguar in the South American jungle.
1994:
The Concourse Steak House opens in the Contemporary Resort at
Walt Disney World, on the site of the former Concourse Grill.
1999:
Doreen Tracey - an original Mouseketeer - appears
as a chat guest at Disney.com.
2001:
The Lizzie McGuire episode "Rated Aargh" debuts on Disney Channel.
1968:
Peter Docter, director of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. and Up, is born in Bloomington,
Minnesota. Starting at Pixar at age 21 (the third animator on the staff and the tenth person hired by the
company), he's also been an integral part of such classics as Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bugs Life, Cars, and Wall-E. Docter has also contributed voices for Up, The Incredibles, and Monsters, Inc.
2007:
“Muppets, Music and Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy,” takes place at the Cinema Arts
Center in Huntington, New York (for the next 3 days). A traveling series of films, workshops and
discussions, “Muppets, Music and Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy” also features special guest puppeteers.
Corbin Bleu from the Disney Channel's High School Musical, Jump In!, and
High School Musical 2 appears on "Live! with Regis & Kelly."
High School Musical 2 debuts on iO's and Verizon FiOS's Disney on Demand. (This
much-anticipated sequel will premiere on Disney Channel seven days later.)
1934:
Walt and Lillian Disney sail for Hawaii from Los Angeles aboard the Matson liner Lurline. It will be their first visit to the islands.
1874:
Herbert Hoover, the thirty-first United States President, is born in West Branch, Iowa (the first President to be born west of the Mississippi River). Visit him and all the U.S. Chief Executives at Disney World's The Hall of Presidents.
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"That’s one of the cool things that I really love about animation, that you know it’s all phony. You know it’s just a bunch of drawings or in our case computer images, but when it’s done well, you totally get sucked into it. You fall into it and fall into love with these characters. You cry. You laugh. There’s something really intriguing about that duplicity, or whatever, of knowing that it’s fake and yet getting totally drawn into it." -Peter Docter
