Deborah, Santa Barbara, California

There is a Disney gold pass. It is given on an annual basis by Disney executives to Disney board members, leaders of companies that are Disney participants, and other VIPs. The number of gold passes, which began during Walt Disney’s life, has not been released, but there are not many of them.

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Sarah, Chicago, Illinois

We do not know the history of that bronze dog—it may have been given to Walt Disney by one of his staff members.

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Katy, Sherwood, Oregon

The main department for this would be the Walt Disney Archives, though there are also other smaller archives/libraries within the Disney company that deal with the history of particular areas. Any available jobs would be listed on the Disney Careers website.

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Serena, Pahoa, Hawaii

Those two videos were produced by Walt Disney Attractions as an exclusive for sale at Walmart in 1996; they have not been released on DVD.

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Meg, College Station, Texas

The Walt Disney Archives uses Filemaker Pro as a general database program, though other specialized software has been used for particular areas such as museum objects and photographs.

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Rebecca, Saint Joseph, Michigan

According to an article in the March 1931 issue of Modern Mechanix, the 16mm Kodatoy projector, made by Eastman Kodak, was “recently introduced.” It was during this same period that Disney licensed Hollywood Film Enterprises to release shortened versions of its cartoons for home movie use. The projector itself is unrelated to Disney. The projector …

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Avi, Irvine, California

There have been 14 songs which have won Oscars for Disney: “When You Wish Upon a Star,” “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah,” “Chim Chim Cher-ee,” “Under the Sea,” “Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man),” “Beauty and the Beast,” “A Whole New World,” “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” “Colors of the Wind,” “You Must Love Me,” “You’ll …

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