2003:
Actor Robby Benson narrates Epcot's Candlelight Processional.
(Benson is the voice of the Beast for Disney's Beauty and the Beast.)
1861:
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. author Lewis Carroll) is ordained a deacon
in the Church of England. Dodgson has written many mathematical books,
but also books for children such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
1885:
Composer, radio commentator, and author Deems Taylor - the narrator of Disney's 1940 film Fantasia - is born in New York City. (A promoter of classical music throughout his life, working in broadcasting, and as intermission commentator for the New York Philharmonic, Taylor's work "The King's Henchman," was the first opera by an American composer to be broadcast on radio!)
1917:
Frankie Darro, the voice of Lampwick in the 1940 Disney classic Pinocchio,
is born to a husband and wife aerialist team in Chicago, Illinois.
1936:
Another Snow White conference is held at the Disney Studio's Hyperion sound
stage in California. Twenty-nine employees (mostly animators and animation directors) discuss the
dwarf's personalities and listen to Walt's detailed shot-by-shot description of the movie.
1937:
Animator Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman runs into Walt
Disney at the studio the morning after the wildly successful opening of
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Instead of talking about how he can now take a little rest after
all the tensions he'd gone through during the four years it took to make Snow White, Walt talks about the next
animated feature and how he wants to get started right away!
1954:
The Disneyland television series presents episode number 9 "A Present for Donald."
It is a re-edited version of The Three Caballeros in which Donald Duck and friends celebrate Christmas in Mexico.
1955:
The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Circus Day.
1963:
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs a re-edited version of the annual holiday episode "From All of Us to All of You."
1968:
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs "The Mickey Mouse Anniversary
Show," narrated by Dean Jones.
1995:
Writer, Imagineer and Disney Legend Bill Cottrell passes away in Burbank, California. Brother-in-law of Lillian & Walt Disney, Cottrell was the first president of what is today known as Walt Disney Imagineering.
1956:
The sixth of eight installments titled "My Dad, Walt Disney," by Diane Disney Miller as told to Pete Martin (a "celebrity friendly" writer) appears in the Saturday Evening Post.
During the parades at Disney World, the second story windows on Main Street open and close automatically just before and after the parade to reveal the speakers that
play the parade music.
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1953:
Disney's animated Peter Pan is released in West Germany.
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THIS DAY MADE
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1984:
Disneyland's Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln is updated to incorporate the latest innovations in Audio-Animatronics, technology and the inclusion of a new finale song - "Golden Dream."
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In Memory of Imagineer Bill Cottrell
