Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio

Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio Original name of the Disney company when it was formed as a partnership between Walt and Roy Disney in 1923.

Disney Art Editions

Disney Art Editions See Cel.

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 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 Ambassador Hotel

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

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 & Co.

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

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, 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•ABC Cable Networks Group

Disney•ABC Cable Networks Group Manages The Walt Disney Company’s interest in global television businesses, including 24 wholly-owned international Disney Channels and the company’s majority interest in the international Jetix (formerly Fox Kids) channels, plus Disney- and Jetix-branded programming (formerly known as Fox Kids programming) around the world. In addition, the group manages Disney’s equity interest …