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 …
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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.
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Buena Vista Club Golf club, opened at Lake Buena Vista on November 22, 1974, and closed on March 21, 1994. Also known as Lake Buena Vista Club. The restaurant in its country-club atmosphere featured the chef’s specialty, a fantastic onion soup, with thick melted cheese overflowing the edges of the bowl. Renamed Disney Village Clubhouse …
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Buena Vista Games New parent in 2003 for Disney Interactive, the interactive games division of Disney Consumer Products. Buena Vista Games creates, markets, and distributes a broad portfolio of PC and multiplatform video games worldwide, as well as licensing Disney properties to other game publishers. It changed its name to Disney Interactive Studios on February …
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Buena Vista International Company incorporated in 1961 to handle the foreign distribution of Disney films. Occasionally, BVI will handle the foreign distribution of non-Disney films, including such titles as Die Hard with a Vengeance, Face/Off, Starship Troopers, and Air Force One. It changed its name to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International in July 2007.
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Buena Vista Distribution Company Founded by Disney in 1953 to distribute its films; its first release was The Living Desert (see more detail under that entry). The headquarters were located in New York until the 1970s when they were moved to California. Irving Ludwig headed Buena Vista until his retirement, when Dick Cook took over. …
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Bubble Boy (film) Jimmy Livingston is a boy born without immunities and raised in a manufactured world provided by his well-intentioned but misguided mother. Jimmy is happy enough and has all the same experiences as other boys and girls growing up, except he lives in a bubble. When Jimmy realizes that he’s in love with …
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Buchanan, Stuart (1893-1973) Disney animation staff member; he voiced the Huntsman in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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