Tokyo Disney Resort's shopping,
dining, and entertainment complex
is called Ikspiari. Owned and
operated by The Oriental Land
Company, it is the Japanese
equivalent of the Downtown
Disney complexes in the U.S.
Disney parks. Featuring more than
100 shops, restaurants, cafes and
bars, as well as a 16-screen movie
theater, Ikspiari is located
between Maihama Station and
the Disney Ambassador Hotel.
2003:
The Orlando Business Journal reports that Walt Disney World has
received the Corporation of the Year Award from America's Blood Centers
in Washington, D.C. Disney World is recognized for outstanding contributions in blood
donations to the Central Florida Blood Bank. (America's Blood Centers is a national organization of
independent blood banks that supply nearly half of the nation's blood supply.)
Disney Channel receives 9 Daytime Emmy nominations, including 4 for
Bear in the Big Blue House, 2 each for Kim Possible and Even Stevens,
and 1 for Rolie Polie Olie.
1993:
The Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is purchased by Disney.
The film A Far Off Place (starring Reese Witherspoon and Ethan Embry) is released through Walt Disney Pictures & Amblin Entertainment. Playing ahead of A Far Off Place is the animated short Trail Mixup featuring Baby Herman and Roger Rabbit.
2004:
St. Patrick's Day is celebrated today, tomorrow and on Wednesday the 17th at Disney World's Pleasure Island.
1948:
Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter James Taylor - whose version of "Second Star to the Right" appears on the 1988 CD STAY AWAKE Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films - is born in Boston, Massachusetts. Taylor also sang Randy Newman's Grammy Award-winnning song "Our Town" for the Disney/Pixar Cars.
1958:
The Disneyland TV series airs "Saga of Andy Burnett: The Big Council." (It is the final episode of the Burnett serial.)
1961:
The TV series Walt Disney Presents airs "Daniel Boone: The
Wilderness Road." It is the third episode of a four-part mini-series.
1987:
Art academic and executive, entrepreneur and former politician Robert J. Fitzpatrick is named president of Euro Disneyland. (The resort will open in April 1992, and Fitzpatrick will leave the company the following year.)
1996:
Hazel Gilman, Disney Studio nurse and songwriter (under the pseudonym "Gil George"), passes away in Burbank, California. Born in 1904, she was not only the Disney Studio nurse, but also acted as Walt Disney's personal nurse. "Gil George" was the name under which she co-wrote songs for Disney films and television shows, including Mickey Mouse Club.
1964:
Disney's family film A Tiger Walks, starring Brian Keith and directed by Norman Tokar, is released. Based on a novel of the same name by Ian Niall, it tells the story of a mistreated Bengal Tiger who escapes from a traveling circus.
1938:
Disney's first full length animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is released in the United Kingdom.
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MARCH 12
THIS DAY MADE IN THE USA
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1946:
Voice actor Frank Welker is born in Denver, Colorado. Often referred to as a "voice acting god" in Hollywood, Welker started out as an impressionist. His vast Disney credits include Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams, The Emperor's New School, Kim Possible, The Tigger Movie, Return to Neverland, Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, and Bambi II.
"I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others."
-James Taylor
1943:
Disney's Donald Duck short The Flying Jalopy, directed by Dick Lundy and featuring the animation of Art Babbitt, is released. Donald (voiced by Clarence Nash) buys a dilapidated plane from crooked Ben Buzzard who tries to sabotage it in order to collect on a forged insurance policy. It is Dick Lundy's last short for Disney as he is going off to work for Walter Lantz
(and later Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).
2011:
Kim Irvine, Disneyland's art director, is honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Themed Entertainment Association. The daughter of Disney animators Harvey and Leota Toombs, Kim first took a summer job at WED in 1970 at the age of 18. Since then she's played a key role in such Disneyland projects as producing the Haunted Mansion's holiday overlay, enhancing "it's a small world" and creating trash cans to fit in with the different lands.
1937:
Walt Disney is interviewed on radio by NBC radio veteran,
Elza Schallert (an entertainment correspondent). The interview touches on the production of Snow White and the character of Donald Duck.
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2012:
The Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World unveils the first phase of the new
Storybook Circus area of Fantasyland with a "soft" opening. The Storybook Circus area
pays tribute to the traveling circuses of the 1950s and 1960s and features the first part of "Dumbo, the Flying
Elephant" (with Dumbo spinning clockwise for the first time in Magic Kingdom history), "The Barnstormer, Starring
The Great Goofini" (a family coaster attraction) and "The Fantasyland Train Station" (one of the three stops for
The Walt Disney World Railroad).
March 12
This Day in Disney History - THE FIRST - THE ORIGINAL
Traveling in time since 1999!
1954:
Stormy the Thoroughbred, a live-action featurette is released to theaters. It tells the
story of a scrawny young colt who grows up to be a highly-prized polo pony.
2013:
Mulan is released to Disney Blu-ray and HD Digital.
