Village Resorts

Village Resorts Located at Walt Disney World, near the Downtown Disney Marketplace, the resort began in December 1971 with 27 town houses for lease primarily to corporations. Eventually, they became known as Vacation Villas and Treehouses, Fairway Villas, and Club Lake Villas were added over the next decade. By 1977 the focus had changed to …

Vidi

Vidi Protective snipe in The Pelican and the Snipe (1944).

Videopolis Railroad Station

Videopolis Railroad Station The renamed Fantasyland Railroad Station at Disneyland; opening on June 30, 1988. It became the Toontown Railroad Station in 1992.

Vienna Boys Choir

Vienna Boys Choir They appeared in Almost Angels.

Videopolis

Videopolis Opened next to Fantasyland at Disneyland on June 22, 1985 as a high-tech teen dance area, with a 5,000-square-foot dance floor and 70 television monitors offering popular music videos; later seats covered the dance floor and Videopolis was used for outdoor stage shows such as “One Man’s Dream,” “Dick Tracy,” and “Beauty and the …

Victoria’s Home-Style Cooking

Victoria’s Home-Style Cooking Restaurant on Main Street in Disneyland Paris; opened on April 12, 1992.

Video

Video After initial reticence to release its films on video cassette for home usage, Disney finally released its first videos, for rental and sale, in both Beta and VHS format, in October 1980. Besides some cartoon compilations, among the ten features released that month were The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Black Hole, The Love Bug, …

Victory Vehicles (film)

Victory Vehicles (film) Goofy cartoon; released on July 30, 1943. Directed by Jack Kinney. Goofy demonstrates, with offscreen narration, various devices used to replace the automobile during wartime, finally ending up with a pogo stick.

Victory Through Air Power (film)

Victory Through Air Power (film) Based on Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky’s book of the same title, the film shows how long-range air power could cause the defeat of the Axis and Japan during World War II. It opens with an animated history of aviation, followed by scenes of Major de Seversky expressing his theories …

V.I. Warshawski (film)

V.I. Warshawski (film) A tough-talking, fiercely independent female private investigator (with a weakness for pretty shoes), Warshawski is often forced to play hardball with Chicago’s crime element. When her new flame, ex-hockey player Boom-Boom Grafalk turns up murdered, his 13-year-old daughter Kat hires V.I. to find her father’s killer. She soon uncovers a startling conspiracy …