Matt, Tampa, Florida

The residential street was demolished in 2003, to make room for the Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show, which debuted in 2005. The park’s name change to Disney’s Hollywood Studios did not come until 2008. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were never a Disney franchise, but they were licensed to appear on New York Street …

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Ben, Long Beach, California

When the new Tomorrowland was built in 1967, the company had no Archives, so the World Clock and other elements from the original land were not retained. The Mine Train Through Nature’s Wonderland locomotive that was displayed along the Rivers of America was saved and is being restored by the Carolwood Pacific Historical Society.

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Steve, Ithaca, New York

The motion picture you cite is The Reluctant Dragon (1941). Robert Benchley is the actor bringing the book to the Studio, and he does indeed meet Walt at the end of the film, only to find that Disney has already made a film of the story. The cartoon segment about the dragon was also released …

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Brent, Dallas, Texas

I do not know for sure, but since the prints of Three Little Pigs and Fantasia submitted to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress were sent in 2007 and 1990 respectively, I would guess that they are the revised prints, since the revisions had been made decades earlier. The original versions, however, …

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Kimberly, New York, New York

The Walt Disney Archives has a large collection of Kem Weber’s designs. You can contact the Archives at Disney.Archives@disney.com.

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Mark, Rochester, New York

We cannot add much to what you already know about Porter. After he was hired at Disney in 1936 as a publicity artist, he penciled and inked several of the Disney Sunday comic pages for newspapers (from 1937–40). With the coming of World War II, he designed insignias for over 1,000 military units.

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John, San Diego, California

We are unaware of any such appearance.

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Jonathon, Westlake Village, California

Ruth Ivener worked with Kay Kamen handling Disney merchandise licensing in New York in the 1930s and 1940s, but I do not offhand recall a photo of her.

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