Merchandise

Merchandise Shoppers are so accustomed to seeing the wide variety of Disney merchandise on store shelves today that it is hard to imagine a time before you could buy a Mickey Mouse doll, book, toothbrush, or pair of bedroom slippers. Actually, it all started by chance back in 1929. Walt Disney was walking through a …

Menken, Alan

Menken, Alan Composer; joined Disney in 1987 to work on The Little Mermaid. Since then, he has composed the music for Disney classics such as Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, writing the music for such memorable songs as “Under the Sea, ” “Beauty and the Beast, ” and “A Whole New World, ” all …

Mello Men

Mello Men Singing group that provided vocals in many Disney films and theme park attractions. Consisted of Bill Lee, Max Smith, Bob Stevens, and Thurl Ravenscroft. They are shown recording the voices of the dogs in the dog pound for Lady and the Tramp in the television show Cavalcade of Songs. Sometimes spelled The Mellomen …

Menace on the Mountain (television)

Menace on the Mountain (television) Two-part television show; aired on March 1 and 8, 1970. Directed by Vincent McEveety. A boy struggles to take care of his family during the Civil War, after his father joins the Confederate Army. To help pay the taxes, he captures a mountain lion for the bounty, angering another man …

Melody Time (film)

Melody Time (film) An animation/live-action feature consisting of seven sequences: (1) Once Upon a Wintertime, sung by Frances Langford, tells of a winter romance by both human and bunny couples sleighing and skating in the 1800s; (2) Bumble Boogie, played by Freddy Martin and his orchestra, is a fantasy of a bee’s nightmare; (3) Johnny …

Men Against the Arctic (film)

Men Against the Arctic (film) People and Places featurette; released on December 21, 1955. Directed by Winston Hibler. Academy Award winner. 30 min. The film shows how icebreakers, specially constructed ships built by the U.S. Coast Guard, to make their way through heavy Arctic icepacks. They maneuver with the aid of helicopters in their effort …

Melody

Melody See Adventures in Music: Melody.

Meet the World

Meet the World Audio-Animatronics attraction about Japanese history in Tomorrowland at Tokyo Disneyland; opened April 15, 1983, and closed on June 30, 2002.

Meet the Munceys (television)

Meet the Munceys (television) Television show; aired on May 22, 1988. Directed by Noel Black. A lower class family moves into a mansion when a maid is left in charge of an elderly woman’s fortune. Naturally, the woman’s relatives are not at all pleased, and they plot to get rid of the Munceys. It was …

Meet the Robinsons (film)

Meet the Robinsons (film) A CG-animated feature. Lewis is a brilliant twelve-year-old with a surprising number of clever inventions to his credit. His latest and most ambitious project is the Memory Scanner, which he hopes will retrieve early memories of his mother and maybe even reveal why she put him up for adoption. But before …