1957:
Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck and his trio finish up a 2-day recording session for a Disney themed record album to be called Dave Digs Disney. For many years his quartet had played various Disney tunes at live performances, but it wasn't until a Brubeck family trip to Disneyland that Dave realized he should gather them together for an album!
2005:
The United States Postal Service releases the second set of The Art of Disney stamps entitled "Celebration." They feature Mickey & Pluto, Alice & The Mad Hatter, Ariel & Flounder and Snow White & Dopey.
1939:
Disney's Donald Duck short Sea Scouts, directed by Dick Lundy and
written by Carl Barks, is released. In this short, Donald fancies himself as an old-fashioned Navy Captain ... although he knows nothing about sailing!
1950:
The Goofy short Motor Mania (the very first of Goofy's car safety cartoons) is released. Goofy plays Mr. Walker a kind hearted soul who changes into nasty Mr. Wheeler when he gets behind the wheel of his car (like Dr. Jekyll turning into Mr. Hyde)! Directed by Jack Kinney, it features the voices of Pinto Colvig (as Goofy) and John McLeish (as the narrator).
1966:
Cartoonist Carl Barks voluntarily retires after 3 decades of
drawing Donald Duck comic books for Disney. First hired in 1936, Barks started out as an apprentice animator on the storyboards of several Donald Duck shorts.
From 1943 to 1966 he wrote and drew hundreds of Donald Duck stories and created
Duckburg and several new characters for the comics, such as Uncle Scrooge McDuck,
Gyro Gearloose, Gladstone Gander and the Beagle Boys.
1993:
Disney acquires the independent film production house Miramax Films. From the deal, Disney will gain the rights to Miramax's library of more than 200 films and agree to finance all future Miramax productions.
2003:
Singer Toni Braxton makes her debut appearance in the title role of
Disney's Broadway show Aida. This is her second starring role on Broadway, as five
years ago she starred as Belle in Beauty and the Beast.
If you wanted to stay in every
guestroom in all of the hotels
& resorts currently open on
Walt Disney World property
(at a rate of one per night) it
would take you about 75 years!
1971:
Disney's live-action comedy The Million Dollar Duck, starring Dean Jones, Sandy Duncan, and Joe Flynn is released. The film centers on a scientist named Professor Albert Dooley (Dean Jones) and his family. It is the seventh Disney comedy that Jones headlines.
1999:
Disney's Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra performs at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City.
1974:
A special Summer Press Party is held for Disneyland's newest
attraction America Sings.
"It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me." -Dave Brubeck
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1931:
Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Busy Beavers, directed by Wilfred Jackson, is released. A group of cheerful beavers come up with inventive ways to build a dam. But when a storm causes a flood and debris destroys their dam, a clever little beaver saves the day when he topples a large tree, forming a new dam to block the flood!
2008:
The Innoventions Dream Home opens to the public at Disneyland. First revealed last June 17 for a limited time, the Tomorrowland attraction is a peak into the future of a state-of-the-art technological home.
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