Tracy, Lexington, Kentucky

There was indeed serious consideration of Disney doing a project in St. Louis, but not on the scale of Walt Disney World. For more details, I suggest that you find the book, Walt Disney’s Missouri, by Brian Burnes, et al., published in 2002. There is a chapter on the St. Louis project, including copies of …

James, Seattle, Washington

The New York Graphic Society was licensed from 1945 to 1949 to do full-color lithographic prints of scenes from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Bambi, and they did several from each picture. Purchasers could buy a 20 x 24 one for $4, a 15 x 18 one for $2, or a 10 x …

Avi, Irvine, California

You can contact the Archives at Disney.Archives@disney.com.

Phillip, Paducah, Kentucky

The Swamp Fox films were released on DVD in 2005 in the Walt Disney Treasures series with The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca.

Carissa, San Jose, California

Disney had nothing do so with Heritage Square, but several former Disney employees (including early Disneyland vice president C. V. Wood) were involved in its inception. It was originally created as an amusement park called Magic Mountain in 1959, but it closed due to financial difficulties the following year. A decade later, the park was …

Brett, Newport Beach, California

When Island at the Top of the World (1974) was in production, some executives in the company felt that it was going to be a huge hit, so the Imagineers began working on an attraction based on it. The company’s 1976 annual report had a description and drawings of what Discovery Bay, as the area …

Rodulfo, Mexico City, Mexico

In Disney A to Z, I generally do not list individual DVD releases, so, no, this show’s DVDs will not be listed there. On the other hand, it was made by Marvel after Marvel had been purchased by Disney, so technically it is a Disney film.

Dawn, Stoughton, Massachusetts

Regarding the animated features, you are forgetting mothers in such films as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (stepmother), Dumbo, Cinderella (stepmother), Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Lion King, Hercules, Mulan, Toy Story, The Incredibles, and The Princess and the Frog. Even Rapunzel in Tangled had …

Chase, Pickering, Ontario, Canada

We know that there were metal and ceramic Disneyland ashtrays in the 1950s (a 1959 mail order catalog lists a porcelain smoker set with a cigarette box and two ashtrays for $1.25). By the 1960s, Disneyland had stopped selling ashtrays.

Jim, Cape Canaveral, Florida

In doing more research, I see that the elephants have not always been referred to by the same names. Fidgity and Giddy were also called Catty and Giggles. According to John Grant in his Encyclopedia of Walt Disney’s Animated Characters, at the beginning of the film, Matriarch has the pink-violet headdress, Catty has the yellow, …