Of all the quaint shops that have lined Main Street, U.S.A. in Disneyland, one of the most unusual was the Intimate Apparel shop. Also known as the Wizard of Bras, the shop—featuring a front porch where gentlemen could wait while the ladies shopped for unmentionables closed in 1956—but the charming porch remains to this day.
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It was well within the puckish sense of humor of Disney Legend Ward Kimball to create a mock animation model sheet featuring models of himself. Though a similar caricature of Ward was used in Reason and Emotion (1943), this caricature of a model sheet is from 1953 and was not used for any real animated …
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When Walt was invited to take a good will trip to South America in 1941, he wanted to make films so he took along some handpicked artists and handheld camera, with which he photographed the sights in 16 millimeter film. Walt’s actual coverage was used in Saludos Amigos (1942), the first feature to result from …
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In preparation for the Disneyland Park dedication of it’s a small world on May 28, 1966, samples were gathered from bodies of water around the world for Walt Disney to pour into the attraction’s Seven Seaways canal. Here, Disney Legend Antonio Bertini, Disney’s merchandising rep in Italy, gathers water from the Mediterranean along with Club …
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Walt’s brother Roy O. Disney, who served as Chairman of the Board, supervised the massive Walt Disney World Resort project and also made personal visits to inspect the land. In this February 3, 1967 photo, Roy, several representatives, and Admiral Joe Potter, who headed up the construction of the Walt Disney World infrastructure, can be …
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The immense popularity of Walt Disney’s Three Little Pigs (1933) inspired some inventive publicity stunts, such as this old-fashioned horse and buggy carrying a trio of stuffed piggies through Manhattan so that moviegoers would know the Roxy Theatre on Seventh Avenue was the place to see the Silly Symphony sensation.
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The earliest known still photograph in color of Walt Disney, this photo was taken in the great showman’s office at the Hyperion Studio in 1939 during production of Pinocchio (1940).
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Disney Legend Floyd Gottfredson was the remarkable artist of the famed Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip from 1930 until he retired from the Disney Studio in 1975. In this 1938 photo, Floyd reviews a Pluto and Donald Duck comic as head of the Comic Strip Department, a role he held from 1930 to 1946.
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In this whimsical publicity drawing—part of a series in which various Disney characters, including Donald Duck, costumed themselves as the little wooden boy—Pinocchio’s official conscience, Jiminy Cricket, eschews his customary top gentleman’s hat and jacket to don the puppet’s traditional Tyrolean ensemble.
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Ever the innovator, Walt Disney became the first major Hollywood producer to commit to a weekly television series for the new medium. Here, in a 1954 publicity photo after signing with the ABC Television Network, Walt poses for the ABC TV camera with some friends. On the resulting anthology series, entitled Disneyland, which debuted on …
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