AUG 19 Disney History

2004:

Disney producer/supervisor & Disney Legend Harry Tytle passes away at age 95.

For 40 years he worked (alongside Walt Disney) as co-producer of the Disney television series. Tytle is also

the author of "One of Walt's Boys," a memoir of his years at the Walt Disney Studios.

1935:

Story Musgrave, six-time NASA Space Shuttle astronaut and a consultant to the

Epcot attraction Mission: SPACE, is born in Boston, Massachusetts. With a 30 year career

spanning the Apollo era of the 1960s right through to the Space Shuttle program of the 1990s, Musgrave is the only

astronaut to have flown on all five Space Shuttles. He is also a pilot, surgeon, mechanic, poet and philosopher.

2005:

Disney's animated feature Valiant opens in theaters. Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon

(voiced by Ewan McGregor) who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits

for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London!

1692:

The Reverend George Burroughs - an ancestor of Walt Disney - is hanged in Massachusetts, as the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 rages on. Walt Disney through maternal lines is a descendant of this minister, who along with George Jacobs, Sr., John Proctor, John Willard, and Martha (Allen) Carrier are wrongfully put to death on this day. Burroughs had been the minister at Salem Village from 1681 to 1683 and had made several enemies there, in particular, the Putnam family, who accused him of witchcraft!

1933:

Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Lullaby Land is released. Directed by Wilfred Jackson, this short tells the story of a baby who falls asleep and dreams of a land where "powder puffs and binkies grow on trees."

(The Disneyland attraction Storybook Land Canal Boats will later pay tribute to Lullaby Land.)

1938:

Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon The Whalers is released. Comedic nonsense rules when

Captain Mickey struggles to empty a pail of water, Donald gets his head stuck in a boot that's tied to a harpoon

rope, and in trying to save him, Goofy falls through the blowhole of the whale they're trying to capture! Directed by

Dick Huemer, the short featurs the voices of Walt Disney (as Mickey), Pinto Colvig (as Goofy), and Clarence Nash

(as Donald Duck).

1955:

The Disney short Bearly Asleep, featuring Donald Duck (voiced by Clarence Nash)

and Humphrey the Bear (voiced by James Macdonald), is released. Directed by Jack

Hannah, Humphrey is kicked out of his cave because of his obnoxious snoring and tries to find another place to

hibernate for the winter. It is only the second short to be released thus far in 1955.

Casa de Fritos located next door to Aunt Jemima's Pancake House

opens at Disneyland. The Mexican eatery features a Frito Kid chip-dispensing machine.

Guests can place a nickel in a cash box and watch the Frito Kid come to life! While rolling his

eyes, licking his lips, and turning his head, he hollers back to an unseen partner

inside the mountain to send down a wax-paper bag of Fritos!

1963:

Actor, musician, producer & Disney fan John Stamos, who was the

e-bay winning bidder for Disneyland's entrance sign used between

1989 and 1999, is born in Cypress, California. He also appeared on a 1989

"Guest Day" episode of Disney Channel's MMC. TV fans will know him from Full House as

Uncle Jesse, and ER as Dr. Tony Gates. When ER finished filming its very last episode in March 2009, Stamos was

asked on camera what he was going to do next. He appropriately replied - "I'm going to Disney World!" (And he did!)

2001:

Scuttle's Landing (a small refreshment/snack booth) in Disney World's Fantasyland closes for a 6-day rehab.

2002:

The Travel Channel airs Disney's Imagineers for the first time.

2006:

Kumiko Mori, Japan's popular television personality, makes her worldwide debut on

Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. Mori is the host of Disney Japan's Disney

Paradise, a variety show based on Disney trivia.

Disney-MGM Studios' Who Wants to Be a Millionaire - Play It closes.

(A new interactive ride-through attraction, Midway Madness, is scheduled to open in summer 2008.)

"The Great American Concert: Walt Disney’s Fantasia with Fireworks" is performed for

a second night at the Hollywood Bowl in California.

Disney Channel airs the series finale of Phil of the Future. The episode "Back to the

Future (Not the Movie)" is the 43rd and last show about the Diffy family.

1965:

Walt Disney is issued a passport for an upcoming trip to London, England.

Marcellite Garner,

from Disney's ink and

paint department, was

the original voice of Minnie

Mouse (starting in 1928). She

can be heard in such shorts as

The Karnival Kid, Mickey's

Orphans, and Mickey's

Surprise Party. (Thelma

Boardman took over the

voice in 1940.)

2008:

Verizon FiOS TV video-on-demand customers get a first look at the summer's hottest new movie from Disney Channel. The highly anticipated film, The Cheetah Girls One World, begins premiering today on FiOS TV's Disney Channel on Demand - three days ahead of the movie's Disney Channel premiere on August 22!

Walt Disney Records releases "One World" - the newest soundtrack CD from The Cheetah Girls.

Walt Disney World opens all four theme parks and the Downtown Disney area one hour earlier - at 8 a.m. - due to the possibility of Tropical Storm Fay striking Central

Florida sometime later this day. The sixth named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Fay

will travel through the entire state!

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