Building of a Tire, The (film)

Building of a Tire, The (film) Educational film made for the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.; delivered to them on February 14, 1946. Directed by Lou Debney. The film shows the cross section of a tire and demonstrates the manufacture of various parts, beginning at a rubber plantation and continuing to the finished tire.

Building a Building (film)

Building a Building (film) Mickey Mouse cartoon; released on January 7, 1933. Directed by Dave Hand. Mickey is a steam shovel operator at a construction site where Pete is the foreman; Minnie is selling box lunches. After Pete steals and eats Mickey’s lunch, Minnie gives Mickey a box lunch. Pete attempts to kidnap Minnie, but …

Bujold, Genevieve

Bujold, Genevieve Actress; appeared in The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark (Bernadette Lafleur).

bug’s life, a (film)

bug’s life, a (film) A hungry hoard of grasshoppers, led by Hopper, annually extort food from a timid ant colony. A klutzy but inventive worker ant, Flik, tries to increase production with a harvesting contraption, but his plans go awry, and he finds himself instead sent out of the colony to find a way to …

Bugs in Love (film)

Bugs in Love (film) Silly Symphony cartoon; released on October 1, 1932. Directed by Burt Gillett. Nestled in a junk pile, a girl and boy bug are in love in their tiny village. When a crow captures the girl, the bugs sound the alarm and rescue her, imprisoning the crow in an old shoe.

bug’s land, a

bug’s land, a Area featuring Flik’s Fun Fair, attractions for children based on A Bug’s Life, in Disney California Adventure; opened on October 7, 2002. The attractions are Flik’s Flyers, Tuck & Roll’s Drive ‘em Buggies, Heimlich’s Chew Chew Train, Francis’s Ladybug Boogie, and Princess Dot’s Puddle Park. The area encompassed the previously opened It’s …

Bug Juice (television)

Bug Juice (television) 18-episode documentary series on Disney Channel about a group of kids, aged 12 to 15, that goes off to summer camp at Camp Waziyatah in Waterford, Maine. Premiered on March 1, 1998, after a preview the previous night. A new camp, Camp Highlander near Asheville, North Carolina, was featured in a second …

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show Dinner show at Disney Village at Disneyland Paris, where cowboys and Indians put on a pageant in a large arena reminiscent of Buffalo Bill’s foray into France many decades earlier. Began April 12, 1992.

Buffalo Dreams (television)

Buffalo Dreams (television) A Disney Channel Original Movie, debuting on March 11, 2005. Thomas Blackhorse, a Native American, rejects the customs of his Navajo tribe, much to his grandfather’s chagrin. Josh Townsend, a caucasian kid, newly relocated to New Mexico, takes a job on the buffalo preserve just so he can ride his mountain bike. …

Buffalo, The—Majestic Symbol of the Plains (film)

Buffalo, The—Majestic Symbol of the Plains (film) Part of The Vanishing Prairie, released on 16mm for schools in September 1962. Describes the appearance, habitat, and food of the buffalo and human’s efforts to prevent their extinction.