Cora, Navarre, Florida

Not in a comic book, comic strip, or animated cartoon, but they are together in the Disney Epic Mickey videogame. [Oswald appears briefly in the 2013 animated short, Get a Horse!]

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Stephen, Concord, New Hampshire

The Walt Disney Archives has a collection of items, including several currently on display at the Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives exhibit at The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. Mary Poppins’ hat and traveling costume, alphabet blocks, and the jack-in-the-box from the Banks’ nursery are on display there. And then there’s an Audio-Animatronics® …

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Michael, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

In Epic Mickey, it is Ortensia. Fanny and Sadie were names used for girlfriends during the production of the Oswald cartoons in the 1920s.

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Jan, Lakewood, Colorado

They do not sound familiar to me. It is possible that these could have been window display pieces, perhaps created by the store that displayed them.

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Daniel, Alexandria, Louisiana

Unfortunately, this TV show is not currently available on DVD.

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Larry, Tampa, Florida

His title was executive producer.

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Kris, Glendale, Arizona

He died in 1962 in New York City, so it is possible that he is buried near there. Internet sites say his burial site is unknown.

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Nikki, Edison, New Jersey

The quote is from a book, It’s Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider (New York, Hyperion, 2005), p. 132.

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John, Centerville, Utah

According to our lists of Walt Disney’s travels, he traveled to Evanston in July, 1957, to be in their Independence Day parade, along with Fess Parker (Davy Crockett), Hal Stalmaster (Johnny Tremain), and various Mouseketeers and Disney characters. The event continued with a twilight show and fireworks at Northwestern’s Dyche Stadium (now Ryan Field).

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Laura, Casper, Wyoming

Goliath II (1960) was the first time that the Xerox process was used to transfer the animators’ drawings to cels. Since the animators’ original pencil drawings are used, rather than inked lines, on cels there is more of a sketchiness than usual. You will see a similar look in One Hundred and One Dalmatians, from …

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