NOV 07 Disney History

1947:

Actor Walter Fenner, who portrayed Walt Disney in the 1944 Once Upon a Time (starring Cary Grant), passes away in Los Angeles, California.

2004:

The Korea Times reports the city of Seoul, South Korea, and the Walt Disney Company have been discussing plans to create an amusement park.

1955:

The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Fun With Music Day.

Also airing is "The Triple R" the second episode of The Adventures of

Spin and Marty serial.

1957:

"Zorro's Romance" - the fifth episode of the

Disney TV series Zorro - airs on ABC.

1958:

The TV series Walt Disney Presents airs the episode "His Majesty, King of the Beasts."

1962:

Disney's action adventure film The Legend of Lobo is released. Rex Allen, accompanied by the Sons Of The Pioneers, tells a tale about a crafty wolf named Lobo who tries to free his mate from a

group of hunters.

1966:

Walt Disney is admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital on S. Buena Vista Street in Burbank, California. The cancer has spread and sadly doctors believe Walt has between 6 months and 2 years to live. (Surgery will be performed the following day.)

1972:

Christopher Daniel Barnes, the voice of Prince Eric in Disney's The Little

Mermaid (at only 16 years of age), is born in Portland, Maine. His voice credits also

include Cinderella II: Dreams Come True and Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (as Prince Charming). Widely

known for performing the voice of Spider-Man from 1994-1998, Barnes also played Greg Brady in the Brady

Bunch parody movies of the mid-1990s.

1999:

The Wonderful World of Disney airs "Annie"

(a new television production of the classic musical).

2003:

Animation historian John Canemaker appears at the Los Angeles County

Museum of Art with a colorfully illustrated multimedia presentation: The Art

and Flair of Mary Blair, based on his new Disney Editions book. His lecture is

followed by a book signing and a rare 35mm screening of Disney's Alice in Wonderland, the 1951

cartoon feature principally art directed by Mary Blair.

"I'm a mirror reflecting the genius of Walt Disney."

-Roy Williams "the big Mooseketeer"

1976:

Roy Williams, gag writer, cartoonist & actor passes away in Burbank, California. Starting his career in 1925 at The Walt Disney Studios as an artist and then a storyman (Walt paid for Roy's training at the Chouinnard Art School) he eventually became known as "the big Mooseketeer" on the 1950s TV series the Mickey Mouse Club. Williams also created the famous Mickey Mouse ears hat - originally for the cast of the show - but today available to all in any Disney park. Roy Williams will be named a Disney Legend in 1992.

2006:

Disney/Pixar's smash hit Cars is released to DVD.

Disney announces that they are creating a video game studio - called Fall

Line - to make titles exclusively for Nintendo machines in an attempt to

bring its animated characters to a wider audience.

The Audio-Animatronics figures

in Disney World's The Hall of Presidents

need continual maintenance.

All the presidents have personal beauticians and at least one

change of clothes!

1903:

Ary Barroso, Brazil's most successful songwriter in the first half of the 20th century, is born in Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Barroso's two best-known compositions are the sambas "Aquarela do Brasil" (better known as "Brazil"), written in 1939, and "Na Baixa do Sapateiro" (also known as simply "Bahia"), composed a year earlier. In August 1941, Walt Disney will first meet Barroso at a cocktail party given by the U.S. consulate at the hotel Glória in Rio de Janeiro. Walt will later feature "Brazil" in his 1942 animated Saludos Amigos and "Bahia" in the 1944 sequel The Three Caballeros.

2007:

Walt Disney Pictures' Enchanted has its London premiere at the Odeon West End.

A fantasy-comedy-musical, it is the first Disney movie to be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures instead of Buena Vista. Starring Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall, Idina Menzel, Rachel Covey, and Susan Sarandon, Enchanted will open in U.S. theaters November 21.

1953:

This week's issue of Saturday Evening Post features part 2 of the article

"The Amazing Story of Walt Disney" by Jack Alexander.

1956:

The Disneyland series airs episode 56 - "Cameras in Samoa/ The Holland Story"

on ABC-TV.