Celebrity Sports Center

Celebrity Sports Center Denver, Colorado, sports facility, built by a group of celebrity investors, including Walt Disney, Art Linkletter, and John Payne; opened on September 17, 1960. Walt Disney Productions purchased the Center in 1962, and used it as a training ground for cast members who would soon be operating resort facilities at Walt Disney …

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Celebrity Celebration Aboard the Queen Mary (television)

Celebrity Celebration Aboard the Queen Mary (television) Television special on KCAL in Los Angeles, celebrating “Voyage to 1939” at the Queen Mary and including information about the ship and its history, aired on April 15, 1990. 60 min. Directed by Rick Locke. Stars Wil Shriner, Melissa Manchester, Michael Feinstein.

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Celebration

Celebration New town on the Walt Disney World property in Florida. The downtown area and the first residential phase of this self-contained city of 20,000 opened in 1996, with the first residents moving in on June 18, 1996. Facilities include a school (kindergarten through middle school), a high school, a movie theater, and rental apartments …

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Cat’s Out, The (film)

Cat’s Out, The (film) Silly Symphony cartoon; released on July 28, 1931. Copyrighted as The Cat’s Nightmare. Directed by Wilfred Jackson. After a cat is put out of the house, it is knocked out by a falling weather vane. It has a nightmare in which giant birds, bats, scarecrows, huge spiders, and monstrous trees scare …

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Cavemen (television)

Cavemen (television) ABC television series premiering on October 2, 2007, and ending November 13, 2007. Three cavemen struggle with prejudice as they strive to live normal lives in 2007 Atlanta. Based on characters from a group of seven popular Geico Insurance television commercials which were introduced in 2004. Stars Bill English (Joel), Nick Kroll (Nick), …

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Cel

Cel The clear celluloid on which the characters were painted during the animation process. The painted celluloid, or cel, was placed over a background and photographed, becoming one frame of the animated film. There are 24 frames per second in an animated film, but most cels containing characters are often held for two frames. If …

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Cavin

Cavin Courageous young page boy hero in the Gummi Bears television series; voiced by Jason Marsden.

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Cavalcade of Songs (television)

Cavalcade of Songs (television) Television show; aired on February 16, 1955. Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Peter Godfrey. Walt Disney discusses the importance of music in the movies, re-enacting with some of his current artists the story meeting which came up with “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” for Three Little Pigs and promoting the …

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Catmull, Ed

Catmull, Ed President of Pixar Animation Studios, he was named president of Walt Disney Animation Studios when Disney acquired Pixar in 2006. He received the Gordon E. Sawyer Oscar for technical contributions to the industry in 2009. Before Disney’s acquisition, Catmull had received four scientific and technical Academy Awards. He retired in 2018.

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