1994:
The Timekeeper, a new attraction featuring a CircleVision 360 film and Audio-Animatronics & special effects, opens in WDW's Tomorrowland. Replacing America the Beautiful, the show features a levitating android called Nine-Eye (the 9 eyes she has represents the 9 cameras used in filming From Time to Time in the round, thus showing each of her 9 eyes on each one of the 9 movie screens) who travels back in time while under the complete control of the zany Timekeeper - voiced by Robin Williams.
1940:
Legendary singer-piano player Dr. John is born Malcolm Rebennack in New
Orleans. He will go on to record a version of "Cruella DeVil" (for the CD Classic Disney Volume 5)
and a duet of "You've Got a Friend in Me" (for singer Steve Tyrell's Disney Standards CD). Dr. John
can also be heard on the soundtrack for The Princess and the Frog, singing "Down in New Orleans."
1942:
First-year Mouseketeer Ronnie Steiner is born in Canada.
1952:
The Mickey Mouse cartoon Pluto's Christmas Tree, directed
by Jack Hannah, is released.
1955:
The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Fun With Music Day.
Musical numbers include Roy Williams dressed as the "boy at the dike" singing Roy at the Dike and Jimmie Dodd dressed as Tom Sawyer (along with a handful of the Mouseketeers) singing Painting Aunt Polly's Fence.
1956:
The Disneyland television series airs episode 58 - "At Home with Donald Duck."
1957:
Disney's TV series Zorro airs the 7th episode of the season titled, "Monastario Sets a Trap."
1958:
The TV series Walt Disney Presents airs part 1 of "Johnny Tremain."
1997:
Absent-Minded Inventors and the Search for Flubber, a half-hour special airs
on ABC-TV. Hosted by Bill Nye, it is a promo for the release of Flubber.
2001:
Disney World unveils its holiday lights and decorations with The
Osborne Family Spectacle of Lights at Disney-MGM Studios.
(Arkansas businessman Jennings Osborne received worldwide attention when he first created the luminous light show for his daughter more than a decade ago.) The glowing bulbs light Residential Street, Washington Square and New York Street in merry holiday displays that include 170 flying angels, two 30-foot-tall carousels, illuminated trees, and 50 lighted Mickey Mouse figures.
The newly redesigned restaurant Avalon Cove debuts at
Disney's California Adventure. Located along the
boardwalk entrance into Paradise Pier,
the restaurant features appearances by Disney characters.
2003:
The Lizzie McGuire episode "Just One of the Guys" debuts on Disney
Channel as does the Disney Channel Original Movie Full-Court Miracle.
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2006:
John Tartaglia and Jonathan Freeman join the Broadway
company of Beauty and the Beast. Tartaglia assumes the role of Lumiere and Freeman the role of Cogsworth.
Walt Disney Records releases The Fox and The Hound 2 Soundtrack, features songs performed by such artists as Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood, Lucas Grabe, and Joel McNeely.
1943:
An ad for War Bonds featuring Disney art appears in an NFL program for a game between the Pittsburgh Steagles and the Detroit Lions. (The Pittsburgh Steelers have temporarily merged with the Philadelphia Eagles as team rosters have become depleted by the ongoing world war.) The art is from the Ave Maria sequence of Fantasia.
1911:
Animator Andy Engman is born in Vasa, Finland.
He will work at the Disney Studios from 1937-1971 on such shorts as Brave Little Tailor and Goofy's Glider and on such classic full-features as Snow White, Fantasia, Make Mine Music, and The Jungle Book.
"Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed guests, and those of you wearing the funny animal hats, welcome!
The reason I've gathered you here today is to witness the exploration of the next great frontier, courtesy of my own incredible time machine." -The Timekeeper
1961:
Sculptor, animator, designer, comic book artist, and Disney Imagineer Rubén Procopio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (his family will move to the U.S. when he is 4). Affiliated with Walt Disney Feature Animation (he trained under Eric Larson, one of Disneys legendary Nine Old Men), Procopio is credited with restoring the maquette process to feature animation film production in the early 1980s - influenced by his dad Adolfo Procopio, a 35-year veteran sculptor at Walt Disney Imagineering. Rubén's extensive Disney credits include The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, Rescuers Down Under, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin.
2007:
Amy Adams (co-star of Disney's Enchanted) and Richard Cook, Chairman of The Walt
Disney Studios, ring the New York Stock Exchange closing bell in New York City.
Hollywood’s El Capitan Theatre offers a special engagement of Walt Disney Pictures’
magical new musical-fantasy Enchanted - the same day the film is generally released
in U.S. theaters. A homage to, and a self-parody of, conventional Walt Disney Animated Classics, Enchanted
features cameo appearances by Paige O'Hara (the speaking & singing voice of Belle in Beauty and the Beast), Jodi Benson (the speaking & singing voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid), Judy Kuhn (the singing voice of the title
character in Pocahontas), and Disney Legend Julie Andrews (the original Mary Poppins).
2008:
Disney's 47th animated feature Bolt (a CGI animated film) is released.
The film centers around Bolt (voiced by John Travolta) - a white German Shepherd who has lived
all his life on the set of a TV show in which he portrays a superhero dog, and as a result thinks that his
superpowers are real! The voice cast also includes Miley Cyrus (as Penny) and Malcolm McDowell (as Dr.
Calico). Bolt is Disney's first film made as a 3D feature during its production. The two previously CGI
features from the studio were first produced as 2D movies and later made stereoscopic after completion.
Upon its release, the
New York Times called
Disney's Steamboat Willie
"an ingenious piece of work with a good deal of fun."
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1963:
Walt Disney and a group of his top executives arrive in Tampa, Florida and check
into a local hotel under assumed names. The next day they will fly over the Orlando-area in
search of a spot for Walt's East Coast Disneyland.
The Timekeeper opens
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Bolt released
2009:
Mickey Mouse serves as Grand Marshal for the 18th Annual Magnificent Mile Lights Festival in Chicago, Illinois. Meanwhile over at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield, Playhouse Disney Live! performs an afternoon and evening show.
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