Ambassador

Ambassador Beginning with Julie Reihm in 1965, Disneyland has selected a young cast member each year to act as “Disneyland ambassador to the world.” The ambassador travels to participate in parades, hospital visits, television and radio interviews, and other special events, and hosts special visitors to Disneyland. Walt Disney World continued the tradition beginning in …

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Ambition: What Price Fulfillment? (film)

Ambition: What Price Fulfillment? (film) Educational film, using sequences from Third Man on the Mountain. In the Questions!/Answers? series; released in 1976. A boy’s greatest ambition is to climb the mountain that took his father’s life; should he give up that dream to save the life of a man he hates?

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still of Mickey in climber gear dangling from a rope in Alpine Climbers

Alpine Climbers (film)

Alpine Climbers (film) Mickey Mouse cartoon; released on July 25, 1936. Directed by Dave Hand. In the mountains, Pluto and a friendly St. Bernard get drunk from the big dog’s keg of brandy after Pluto is rescued, and Mickey runs afoul of a mother eagle necessitating rescue by Donald Duck.

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Alpine Gardens

Alpine Gardens Flowers surround a pond between Tomorrowland and Fantasyland at Disneyland, once the site of the Monsanto Home of the Future. It became Triton Gardens in February 1996.  It later became Ariel’s Grotto from 1997 to 2008, and in October 2008 Pixie Hollow.

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Aly and AJ

Aly and AJ Pop-rock band featuring sisters Alyson and Amanda (AJ) Michalka, recording for Hollywood Records from 2004 to 2010. In 2009 they changed their band name to 78violet. Alyson appeared in the series Phil of the Future (Keely Teslow); Amanda appeared in Secretariat (Kate Tweedy). They both appeared in Cow Belles (Taylor and Courtney …

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Ama Girls

Ama Girls (film)

Ama Girls (film) People and Places featurette, released on July 9, 1958. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen. A typical day in the life of a family of fisherfolk of Japan. The elder daughter is an Ama, or diving girl, who collects “Heaven Grass,” a variety of seaweed, as a crop. The girls’ training is studied as …

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Along the Oregon Trail (television)

Along the Oregon Trail (television) Television show, aired November 14, 1956, as a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Westward Ho the Wagons! Directed by William Beaudine. Walt Disney describes the Oregon Trail, then turns to Fess Parker, one of the stars of the film, to give a behind-the-scenes look at the production and, with …

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Alley Cats Strike (television)

Alley Cats Strike (television) Disney Channel Original Movie; premiered on March 18, 2000. Four hip teens are content with their non-conformist attitudes, retro styles of dress, and an interest in bowling and lounge music that have made them outcasts among their classmates at West Appleton Middle School. But when an annual interschool competition ends in …

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