Wayward Canary, The (film) Mickey Mouse cartoon; released on November 12, 1932. Directed by Burt Gillett. Minnie is thrilled with Mickey’s gift of a pet bird. But the mischievous bird escapes, takes a bath in ink, and is only saved from being a cat’s lunch by Pluto’s quick action.
See moreWe Belong Together Song from Toy Story 3, with words and music by Randy Newman. It won the Academy Award for Best Song.
See moreWaterboy, The (film) Lowly water boy Bobby Boucher is 31 years old, overly protected by his mother, and socially inept but he loves his job with the university football team, even though he is constantly the target of gross jokes and public humiliation. When he is unceremoniously fired for his ineptitude, he gets a chance …
See moreWatson, Raymond L. (1926-2012) Member of the Disney board of directors beginning in 1974. When Card Walker retired in 1983, Watson was asked to take over as chairman of the board, a post which he held until Michael Eisner arrived in September 1984. He left the board in 2004. He was named a Disney Legend …
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Water Birds (film) True-Life Adventure featurette; released on June 26, 1952. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen. Vignettes depict the lives of waterbirds, showing how Nature has adapted each of them to meet the problems of survival, such as different types of beaks and bodies, and describe their feeding habits and courtships. Academy Award winner. 31 min.
See moreWay Down Cellar (television) Two-part television show; aired on January 7 and 14, 1968. Directed by Robert Totten. Three friends find a secret tunnel under a destroyed church that leads them to a supposedly haunted house and, incidentally, a group of counterfeiters. Stars Butch Patrick, Sheldon Collins, Lundy Davis, Frank McHugh, Richard Bakalyan, David McLean, …
See moreWater, Friend or Enemy (film) Educational film produced under the auspices of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, the film shows the benefits derived from water, cautions against polluting drinking water, and teaches how to avoid cholera, typhoid, and dysentery. Delivered on May 1, 1943.
See moreWashington Square (film) In 1850s New York, shy and awkward Catherine Sloper, the daughter of a wealthy and distinguished physician, and favored by neither beauty nor brilliance, is tottering into spinsterhood when she falls wildly and tempestuously in love with the smooth and dashing wastrel, Morris Townsend. She is encouraged by her incurably romantic and …
See moreWatcher in the Woods, The (film) When an American composer and his family rent a foreboding house in England from an eccentric recluse, Mrs. Aylwood, a series of terrifying events occur, primarily to 17-year-old Jan. It turns out that the eerie experiences are connected to Mrs. Aylwood’s teenage daughter’s disappearance 30 years earlier. A reenactment …
See moreWashington, Ned (1901-1976) Lyricist; worked at Disney from 1938 to 1940, during which time he wrote songs for Pinocchio, Saludos Amigos, and Dumbo. “When You Wish Upon a Star” and the score from Pinocchio won him two Oscars. He was named a Disney Legend in 2001.
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