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.

Bullock, Sandra

Bullock, Sandra Actress; appeared in While You Were Sleeping (Lucy), Gun Shy (Judy Tipp), and The Proposal (Margaret Tate).

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 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 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 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.

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 …

Buena Vista Palace

Buena Vista Palace Hotel at Lake Buena Vista at Walt Disney World, opened on March 3, 1983. It became the Wyndham Palace Resort and Spa on November 1, 1998, then reverted to the Buena Vista Palace name in August 2005.

Buena Vista Street

Buena Vista Street Located in Burbank, California, where the Walt Disney Studios are located (500 South Buena Vista Street). At first, in the 1940s, the company used a 2400 W. Alameda address. The Studio lot is bordered on four sides by Buena Vista, Alameda, Keystone, and the Los Angeles River. Riverside Drive runs through the …