NOV 14 Disney History

2005:

Mickey's Jingle Jungle Parade steps off at Disney's

Animal Kingdom for the first time this season.

The Osborne Family Spectacle of Lights return to

Disney-MGM Studios for the 2005 holiday season.

1921:

Actor Brian Keith is born Bayonne, New Jersey. His live-action Disney film credits include

The Parent Trap (1961), Moon Pilot (1962), A Tiger Walks (1964) and Those Calloways (1965). TV fans will remember him as Uncle Bill from the series Family Affair.

1927:

Disney's sixth Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short The Ocean Hop is released. Oswald takes part in a race across the Atlantic, from New York to Paris by plane, with a grand prize of $25,000!

1936:

Disney's cartoon Mother Pluto, directed by David Hand, is released. Pluto (voiced by

Pinto Colvig) stumbles into a henhouse where chicks are being born ... and they think that he is their mother!

1946:

Walt Disney sets sail out of New York on the Queen Elizabeth. He is headed to England and then Ireland.

1955:

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

1957:

"Zorro Saves a Friend," the 6th episode of the Disney television series Zorro, airs on ABC.

1958:

The TV series Walt Disney Presents airs the episode

"Texas John Slaughter: Ambush at Laredo."

1961:

Walt Disney becomes a grandfather again with the birth of Diane & Ron Miller's

fifth child, in Monterey County, California. The baby boy is named Walter Elias Disney Miller.

Actor D.B. Sweeney, the voice of Sitka in Disney's 2003 Brother Bear and the voice

of Aladar in Disney's 200 Dinosaur, is born in Shoreham, New York.

1964:

Actor Patrick Warburton, the voices of Alien Cop in Chicken Little and Patrick in Home on the Range, is born in Paterson, New Jersey. His Disney credits also include Sky High, The Emperor's New Groove and Kim Possible: The Secret Files. He also supplies the voice for Buzz Lightyear (a Toy Story character usually associated with Tim Allen) for the TV series and video games. Warburton is featured in the "preboarding" film shown to guests at Soarin' Over California in Disney's California Adventure Park, and Soarin' in Florida's Epcot. (TV fans will recognize him as David Puddy from the hit series Seinfeld and his voice from both the animated series The Tick and Family Guy.)

1998:

The Disney/Pixar computer-animated feature film A Bug's Life premieres at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California.

(It will be generally released later in the month.)

2000:

The soundtrack for Disney's The Emperor's New Groove, featuring the music of John Debney, Sting, and David Hartley is released.

The Disney Club (offering discounts on theme park tickets, merchandise, food and beverage) is launched. It replaces the Magic Kingdom Club.

2002:

The image to the right is discovered during restoration of

a church wall in Malta, Austria. It is part of a 14th century

fresco depicting Saint Christopher of the Catholic Church.

Kermit the Frog receives a star

on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2004:

Today is opening day for Opportunity City located in Innoventions at Epcot. Inspired by the success of the Disney-Kauffman Hot Shot Business Internet simulation game, the Opportunity City exhibit features several activity stations, including state-of-the-art interactive kiosks.

1940:

The morning after the gala premiere of Fantasia in New York City, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times reports:

"Motion picture history was made at the Broadway Theatre last night."

1962:

Actor Harland Williams, the voice of Carl in the 2007 Meet The Robinsons, is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The Walt Disney Company started the Disney Legends program in 1987,

to honor those whose contributions have made an important impact on its history.

2001:

The 7th Annual Marc Davis Lecture on Animation takes place

in Los Angeles, California.

The orchestra that appears in Fantasia is not the actual Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra (who recorded most of the soundtrack), but rather a collection of local Hollywood musicians and Disney studio employees such as

Paul J. Smith and James Macdonald.

2007:

The new Yak and Yeti Restaurant located in Disney's Animal Kingdom

opens to guests.

Walt Disney World President Meg Crofton delivers the keynote address to 400 leaders of the amusement-park industry at the annual International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions conference in Orlando, Florida.

1956:

"Along the Oregon Trail," episode 57 of the Disneyland series airs on ABC-TV. Walt takes viewers on the famous Oregon Trail, a pathway from Kansas City to Oregon, where the settlers moved westward. He also goes behind the scenes of his new feature Westward Ho the Wagons! with Fess Parker.