1978:
It is announced that Mickey Mouse will be awarded a star on
Hollywood Blvd's Walk of Fame next month in honor of his 50th birthday!
2000:
The Disney Channel Original Movie
Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire premieres.
1936:
Actor Jim McMullan, Lt. Powell in Disney's 1967 live-action feature The Happiest Millionaire, is born on Long Island in Long Beach, New York.
1940:
Disney Legend Dave Smith, official Disney historian, author, archivist, and the ultimate authority on all things Disney, is born in Pasadena, California.The founder and head of the Walt Disney Archives, located in the Frank G. Wells Building at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, Smith is also the author of such books as Disney A to Z and Walt Disney Famous Quotes.
1955:
The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Circus Day.
1960:
Walt Disney returns to his boyhood home of Marceline, Missouri to help dedicate "Walt Disney Elementary," a new public school. Walt arrives for the dedication ceremony by train; the first time that the Santa Fe Super Chief has ever stopped in Marceline. He donates playground equipment to the new school, and a flagpole that had flown flags over the 1960 Winter Olympic ceremonies in Squaw Valley, California.
1962:
Actress Kelly Preston - Josie Jetsream in Disney's 2005
Sky High - is born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Actress T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh - Tonya Baxter of Disney
Channel's That's So Raven - is born in Chicago, Illinois.
1963:
The TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs "Fly With Von Drake."
Professor Von Drake and his seagull Orville discuss the history of aviation.
1997:
It is reported that Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida is taking a 2-year long sabbatical from feature length films to work on shorts, Fantasia 2000 and restoration of films like Beauty and the Beast.
1999:
Disney Legend Van Arsdale France, who established the Disney University to
train Disneyland Cast Members, passes at age 87 at a hospital in Newport
Beach, California. He first joined Disney in March of 1955, and over the years, performed many roles at the
park, including area manager of Tomorrowland, organizational chairman of the Disneyland Recreation Club, and
coordinator of the first Disneyland Cast Member magazine - Backstage Disneyland. He spent more than a
quarter-century developing training programs for what came to be called Disney University. After retiring in 1978,
he was a consultant to Disney until his death.
2006:
Walt Disney World Annual Passholders are invited to experience The Seas with Nemo & Friends, a brand new Epcot attraction.
1993:
Touchstone Pictures' The Nightmare Before Christmas opens in New York City and other select cities. A stop motion fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced/co-written by Tim Burton, it tells the story of Jack Skellington, a skeleton known as the "Pumpkin King" from Halloween Town who opens a portal to Christmas Town. Burton originally wrote "The Nightmare Before Christmas" as a three-page poem when he was a Disney animator in the early 1980s! (The film will be generally released October 29.)
1998:
The Disney World restaurant Key West Seafood closes. It will be replaced with Rainforest Cafe.
Between 1970 and 1992, the Greater Orlando Area population (in Central Florida) grew from 453,270 to 1,143,472!
1938:
Supervising director David Hand holds a class on "Staging as Applied to Presentation of Story and Gag Ideas" at the Disney Studios on Hyperion Avenue.
2001:
Disney's House of Mouse debuts the episode "The Mouse Who Came to Dinner."
France's basic idea was something he called ''the looking-glass self,'' meaning that if staff members smiled, customers would smile, too.
2008:
In a ceremony at the Burbank Walt Disney Studios, the
Walt Disney Company inducts 11 new Disney Legends.
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1987:
employees and press representatives gather at the Burbank studio to honor MacMurray as he arrives, sitting in
the back of a 1915 Model T Ford - reminiscent of the one he flew as Professor Ned Brainard in the Disney film
The Absent-Minded Professor.
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"The company asked me to start the Archives a little over three years after Walt's death when they realized that the company has a constant need for information about its history, and Walt and the oldtimers
weren't always going to be there to answer questions." -Dave Smith
Disney Legend Dave Smith born
Greater Orlando, alternatively known as
the Orlando Area or Metro Orlando, is
the third most populated metropolitan
region in the state of Florida.
Walt visits Marceline
2009:
Walt Disney Records releases The Sherman Brothers Songbook, a two-disc
retrospective collection of 59 songs by the award-winning songwriting team of
Robert Sherman and Richard Sherman.
