Kobe, Delaware, Ohio

It wasn’t the Black Pearl. The HMS Bounty ship replica, which had been built for filming Mutiny on the Bounty in 1960, portrayed the Edinburgh Trader in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. The Bounty sunk during Hurricane Sandy, on October 29, 2012.

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Kobe, Delaware, Ohio

When I first started my column, in the Disney Channel Magazine in 1983, nobody knew about it yet, so I had to make up the first questions myself. Once the columns began being published, then the questions started coming in. There are many questions we receive that cannot be answered; often one would have to …

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Remembering Walt Peregoy

Walt Peregoy, a color stylist and background artist who was named a Disney Legend in 2008, passed away at his home in Encino, California, on January 16.

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Book cover for The Lost Notebook: Tales of Herman Schultheis

Herman J. Schultheis and His Lost (And Found) Notebook

In the late 1930s, Disney special-effects man Herman Schultheis documented in a personal notebook Disney’s special-effects wizardry during the golden age of animation. That notebook became the inspiration behind John Canemaker’s recently released book, The Lost Notebook: Herman Schultheis and the Secrets of Walt Disney’s Movie Magic.

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Winnie the Pooh Exhibition Opens in Japan

Winnie the Pooh Exhibition is currently touring select venues in Japan through 2015. The traveling exhibit presents the history of Winnie the Pooh and includes rare treasures from The Walt Disney Archives.

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Victoria, Granite Falls, Washington

Destino appears on the Fantasia and Fantasia/2000 4-disc Special Edition Blu-ray, released in 2010.

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Dennis, Buena Park, California

The only C.S. Lewis book on Walt’s office bookshelves was his Poems (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962). Other books there that were made into Disney movies include Sterling North’s Rascal (autographed to Walt), Robert Lewis Taylor’s A Journey to Matecumbe, A. A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh, Upton Sinclair’s The Gnomobile (autographed to Walt), P.L. Travers’ …

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