Emily, Selden, New York
Thanks for your kind comments. There are no official names of the eras. From time to time for particular promotions, or DVD releases, a designation might be assigned. But for later promotions the name might change.
See moreAvi, Irvine, California
There is a Muppets archive in New York, which has original Muppets. The Walt Disney Archives has props and costumes from the two recent Muppet movies.
See moreAvi, Irvine, California
The bust is of singer Thurl Ravenscroft; he had somewhat of a resemblance to Walt Disney.
See moreMegan, Rome, Georgia
There were props created to represent props used in particular episodes of The Twilight Zone series, but no original props were included. The fortune telling machine you saw was one of them.
See moreDylan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
I know of no plans for a full-length Mickey Mouse film; Walt Disney had always thought that it would be hard for Mickey to sustain a complete feature. Regarding Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, you might be interested that now, for the first time, guests can meet the character at Tokyo DisneySea.
See moreJamison, Jackson, Michigan
With the release of Maleficent in 2014, there will have been 684 Disney theatrical features.
See moreRosy, Charlottesville, Virginia
Heavily researched biographies include those by Neil Gabler (Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination) and Steven Watts (The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life), but the only one by someone who actually knew Walt Disney is Bob Thomas’s Walt Disney: An American Original. Diane Disney Miller’s early biography of …
See moreKaren, Mesa, Arizona
The Club 33 harpsichord is not an antique. The painting on the underside of the lid was by Disney Imagineer Collin Campbell. The phone booth was indeed a prop in The Happiest Millionaire, but the open elevator was simply a reconstruction based on early elevators. The vulture and other figures that were in the trophy …
See moreMark, Los Angeles, California
It is not usually possible to determine which particular artist did which background for a film. The primary styling of the film was done by Eyvind Earle, and other artists, including Art Riley, Thelma Witmer, Frank Armitage, Walt Peregoy, Al Dempster, Dick Anthony, and Ralph Hulett, contributed backgrounds in his style.
See moreTrent, Minneapolis, Minnesota
During the 1940s, with the Disney Studio having financial problems due to the war, Walt decided to release a bunch of feature packages that were made up of two or more shorter films. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad was the last of those package films. It juxtaposed a famous American tall tale, by …
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