While a real snowfall at Disneyland® Resort in California or Walt Disney World® Resort in Florida is most unlikely, the sparkling white flakes have been known to float down on at Tokyo Disneyland in Japan. In fact, the Main Street-type area known as the World Bazaar features a roof to protect guests against sometimes-inclement weather …
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Pinocchio (1940) features one of Walt Disney’s “biggest” animated stars, Monstro the whale. A number of surviving sketches suggest that the animators and story artists were fascinated with this scene-stealing behemoth, and they came up with a number of gags putting the enormous mammal in humorously incongruous roles. In this drawing, Pinocchio artists couldn’t resist …
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Mickey and Donald were on hand at Disneyland Park for Opening Day, July 17, 1955, but not quite in the form we know and love them today. These costumes were borrowed from the Ice Capades for the occasion. Disney Legend Bill Justice, one of the Imagineers who was instrumental in designing the theme park characters …
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The eerily moonlit visage of the Haunted Mansion looms over New Orleans Square at Disneyland in October of 1969, just a few months after the Mansion welcomed its first mortal visitors.
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Imagineer and Disney Legend Yale Gracey makes adjustments to a short-lived spirit of Disneyland’s the Haunted Mansion–the Hatbox Ghost. The apparition would not return to the Mansion’s attic until 2015.
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Walt Disney was well known among his artists for acting out roles during story meetings but this photo is not Walt, as some seem to think. This is actor Don Brodie acting as live-action model for the old peddler woman in 1937 for the reference of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs animators.
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The stars of Walt Disney’s Three Little Pigs, a breakout 1933 Silly Symphony cartoon, prepare to entertain Disneyland Guests in this 1962 photo. Sharp eyes may spot the TWA Moonliner rocket ship in the background, an icon of the Tomorrowland skyline from 1955-1966. NEW! Visit DisneyPhotoArchives.com to order this and other classic images on archival paper or …
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Cherry Tree Lane, home to the Banks family of Mary Poppins (1964), awaits a visit from a “practically perfect” nanny. Walt Disney’s classic film, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, was shot entirely indoors at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, with this London set constructed on Stage 4. NEW! Visit DisneyPhotoArchives.com to order this …
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One of the most fondly remembered Disneyland attractions is the Mine Train Through Nature’s Wonderland. This Frontierland draw opened May 28, 1960, and ran until January 2, 1977. Pictured here is a scenic vista from “Balancing Rock Canyon” around the time of the attraction’s opening in the spring of 1960. NEW! Visit DisneyPhotoArchives.com to order this and …
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It looks like a certain jalopy-driving sheep dog has been caught tooling around the Walt Disney Studios backlot in this publicity still from Disney’s fan-favorite comedy-fantasy, The Shaggy Dog (1959). The first Disney film starring Disney Legend Fred MacMurray, the feature was an unexpected hit with audiences, setting the template for many successful live-action comedies …
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