Disney Animation

Disney Animation Attraction in Hollywood Pictures Backlot at Disney California Adventure; opened February 8, 2001. Inside, guests can decide between several venues—Animation Academy, Sorcerer’s Workshop (with Magic Mirror Realm, The Beast’s Library, and Ursula’s Grotto), The Art of Animation, or Turtle Talk with Crush. A similar attraction at Walt Disney Studios Paris, named L’Art de …

Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life (television)

Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life (television) Television show; aired on April 26, 1981. Directed by William Reid. Hayley Mills returns to the Disney Studio to see how The Fox and the Hound is being made, tied to Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston’s book from which the show was titled. Hayley visits the Archives, learns …

Disney Art Editions

Disney Art Editions See Cel.

Disney Afternoon Live! at Disneyland (television)

Disney Afternoon Live! at Disneyland (television) Television special (60 min.) on KCAL, Los Angeles, airing on September 14, 1991. Includes a look at Walt Disney Imagineering and how they design a new attraction, followed by the opening of Splash Mountain, and a segment on some of Disneyland’s more unusual jobs (scuba diver, harness maker, pyrotechnician, …

Disney Ambassador Hotel

Disney Ambassador Hotel Elegant art deco style hotel at Tokyo Disneyland Resort, opened July 7, 2000.

Disney & Co.

Disney & Co. Shop on Main Street in Disneyland Paris, opened on April 12, 1992.

Disney Afternoon Avenue

Disney Afternoon Avenue Special Fantasyland promotion at Disneyland from March 15 to November 10, 1991. Featured Baloo’s Dressing Room. The area in front of “it’s a small world” was decorated with building fronts modeled after those on the Disney animated television shows, and costumed characters interacted with guests. The adjacent Fantasyland Autopia and Motor Boat …

Disney, Ruth F.

Disney, Ruth F. Walt Disney’s sister, the youngest in the family, born in Chicago on December 6, 1903. Ruth eventually moved to Portland, Oregon, where she married Theodore Beecher. Ruth was a connoisseur of organ music, purchasing and outfitting an old theater organ at her home. She died on April 7, 1995.

Disney, Sharon M.

Disney, Sharon M. Second daughter of Walt and Lillian Disney, born on December 31, 1936. She married first Robert B. Brown, who died shortly after Walt, and later William Lund. She had three children. She was one of the founders of Retlaw Enterprises. Sharon was elected to the board of directors of The Walt Disney …

Disney, Walter Elias

Disney, Walter Elias Founder of the Disney empire, Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Chicago, Illinois, son of Elias and Flora Call Disney. Elias decided a few years later to move his family to a farm at Marceline, Missouri, and it was here that the young Walt grew up and got his …