Hear ye! Hear ye! On this day in the year one thousand, nine hundred and fifty-three, it shall be held forever true that the film The Sword and the Rose was released in theaters across our fine country. When much of Disney’s earned funds in England were blocked off during the war, Walt decided he …
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“The subject for today is melody,” as Professor Owl stated at the beginning of 1953’s Adventures in Music: Melody. This cartoon short was intended to be the first in a series of educational shorts, yet only one additional follow-up was released… the Academy Award®-winning Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom. Melody is a film of “note” …
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In the cartoon short For Whom the Bulls Toil, which stampeded into theaters on this day in 1953, Goofy finds himself in Mexico where a nasty bull horns in on his vacation. When he naively attempts to move the bull out of his path and wipes his brow with a red handkerchief, the Mexican villagers …
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Animator/director Ron Clements was born in Sioux City, Iowa, on this day in 1953, and 10 years later, after viewing Pinocchio, began to show a strong interest in animation. As a teenager, he began making animated movies using a super-8 camera, and after graduating from high school, Clements headed to Southern California in search of …
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Disney’s first People and Places film. People and Places is a documentary film series about, as you might have guessed, people and places. These 17 travelogues, released from 1953 to 1960, primarily focused on little-known places or out-of-the-ordinary people, and it was on this day that the first People and Places film, The Alaskan Eskimo, …
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On this day in 1953, when the classic animated film Peter Pan flew into theaters, the marquee would also bear the name of the accompanying featurette, Bear Country. The Academy Award®-winning True-Life Adventure tells the story of American black bears. In a 1955 article by Bear Country photographers Alfred and Elma Milotte, the couple discussed …
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Peter Pan first flew onto screens on this day in 1953, with some faith, trust — and a little bit of pixie dust. The story of Peter Pan was first told in 1904 in J. M. Barrie’s play, Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, although the character of Peter Pan was first …
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What eventually would become Walt Disney Imagineering in 1986 was founded on this day in 1952. WED Enterprises derived its name from Walt’s initials—Walter Elias Disney. Working in a warehouse at the back of the studio, the team of Harriet Burns, Fred Joerger, and Wathel Rogers had already been hard at work on the creation …
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In this classic Goofy cartoon, Goofy is “Johnny Eyeball, Private Eye,” a detective on a mission to solve the mystery of missing Al. The cartoon includes several classic murder mystery features, such as a “shady character,” a high-speed car chase, and a smooth talking police officer (played by Pete). Along the way, Goofy gets mixed …
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With Christmas just around the corner, it was on this day in 1952 that the Mickey Mouse cartoon short Pluto’s Christmas Tree was released in theaters. When Mickey chops down a choice Christmas tree, he is completely unaware that, much to Pluto’s dismay, it houses Chip ‘n’ Dale. But, when Minnie, Donald, and Goofy come …
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