Greetings, Earthlings! When the Disneyland TV show aired, it was to feature programs from the various lands of Disneyland. Fantasyland, Adventureland, and Frontierland were easy enough to represent, but creating shows to represent Tomorrowland presented more of a challenge, since both on the air and in the theme park, it was supposed to represent science …
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On October 10, 1957, out of the night, when the full moon was bright, the horseman known as Zorro was first introduced to television audiences. The story of the masked avenger starred Guy Williams in the title role of Zorro and his daytime alter ego, Don Diego de la Vega. After the series’ 78 total …
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On October 10, 1957, out of the night, when the full moon was bright, the horseman known as Zorro was first introduced to television audiences. The story of the masked avenger starred Guy Williams in the title role of Zorro and his daytime alter ego, Don Diego de la Vega. After the series’ 78 total …
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“What’s the truth about Mother Goose?” This question was posed by an animated trio of jesters in the cartoon short The Truth About Mother Goose, which was released on this day in 1957. The film tells the historical stories behind the popular nursery rhymes “Mary Mary Quite Contrary,” “London Bridge”, and “Little Jack Horner” and …
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On this day in 1957, an attractive female from Utah emerged as Disney’s latest star in the live-action film Perri. The Academy Award®-nominated film tells the story of the trials and tribulations of the title character, a tiny pine squirrel. Filmed by a dozen naturalists over a two-year period in the forests of Utah and …
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This day in 1957 literally changed Disney theme parks as we know them today with the premiere of Date Nite at Disneyland. For Disneyland’s first two years it was primarily a daytime park, but beginning in May 1957 it would begin nighttime operation, daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. A month later, with the …
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Billed as the “fastest miniature train in the world,” the Disneyland Viewliner, which was capable of zooming along at a top speed of 60 mph on its narrow gauge track, was in many ways the stylistic precursor to the Monorail (Disney Legend Bob Gurr designed the attraction’s sleek aluminum siding and super-sized windows). The miniature …
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Injustice and tyranny spark the action of the great adventure known as the Boston Tea Party, and a young lad named Johnny Tremain plays an important role in the budding struggle for human liberty. In 1957’s Johnny Tremain, audiences join Johnny and the Sons of Liberty to relive those stirring events that have long inspired …
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Who would’ve thought that the dream home of the future would have been built nearly entirely of plastics? A decade before Disneyland’s House of the Future debuted, the idea was conceived during a plastics research program financed by Monsanto Chemical Company at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The plastics home boasted that hardly a natural …
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When Sleeping Beauty Castle opened its doors for the new walk-through tour for the first time in 1957, Walt Disney was joined by grown-up child star Shirley Temple for the royal dedication. Jack Lindquist, Disneyland’s first Advertising Manager, who later became Disneyland’s first president, recalls, “I had the chance to write the speech for Walt. …
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