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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Taylor, Hillsboro, Oregon
Several of Robin’s lines were ad-libbed, as he was eventually given creative freedom from the production team to “let loose” to see where he could “take” the character (partially in order to get a better performance from him). His mannerisms and ad-libs helped to form the version of the character that we see on the …
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