Laugh-O-grams

The Fairy Tales Walt Disney Produced in Kansas City

Before the Alice Comedies, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney produced one-minute shorts, known as the Newman Laugh-O-grams, for the local Newman cinema chain in Kansas City—a series of six modernized fairy-tale shorts, known as the Laugh-O-grams.

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Kermit the Frog

Kermit’s Shocking Transformation!

The earliest version of the character that would come to be known as the Muppets’ leading man, uh, frog, first appeared in 1955 as more of a lizard-like, abstract character on Jim Henson’s Sam and Friends Washington, D.C. TV show.

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two production stills from the movie Son of Flubber showing star Fred MacMurray and actor Ken Murray

Fred MacMurray Flies Again in Walt Disney’s Son of Flubber

Down through the years, as mankind has emerged from the dark ages, there have been turning points and inspirational milestones. And we remember the great names of science: Newton and the law of gravity; Watt and the steam engine; Edison and the electric light… and Brainard and flubber!

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Disney’s Dark Side

Hong Kong Disneyland and Disneyland Paris get downright scary this time of year. Check out some of the most frightening experiences ever created at Disney parks.

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