Paul, Rochester, Minnesota

The Archives’ production records for Snowball Express do not give much detail of the filming in Crested Butte—just notations such as bank, garage, gas station, etc. The hotel exterior was indeed a set built at the location. It included rooms built behind the false front where the crew could warm up between takes in the …

Tim, Carlsbad, California

That is Dad, Can I Borrow the Car (1970), directed by Ward Kimball and narrated by Kurt Russell.

Photo of Spaceship Earth Geodesic globe attraction

Mitchell, Hudson, New Hampshire

Since Walt Disney was intimately involved with everything that was created at Disneyland, that would have included all the attractions that were built there during his lifetime (1955-1966). In addition, Walt was involved in the planning stages for later attractions such as Haunted Mansion, Country Bear Jamboree, Hall of Presidents, and Pirates of the Caribbean.

DJ, Dallas, Texas

This is hard to count. There are 24 frames per second, but some cels are held over for two frames. Also, if there are several characters in a scene, they are sometimes painted on separate cels. So Snow White, as a guess, might have had in the neighborhood of 100,000 cels.

Teri, Anaheim, California

There was only one birthday put into a mural by the designers, but there is another tribute: The names of the designers are hidden on graphics as planet names in the attraction.

Keith, Port Orchard, Washington

There has been no book that shows them all, but many can be seen in Walton Rawls’ book, Disney Dons Dogtags: The Best of Disney Military Insignia from World War II (Abbeville, 1992).

Constantine, Melbourne, Australia

There is no record of the number.

Dean, Nampa, Idaho

The names of the first artists to draw the characters are unknown, but we can tell you the first animators to actually animate them in their debut cartoons: It was Tom Palmer doing Goofy in Mickey’s Revue, and Art Babbitt and Dick Huemer doing Donald in The Wise Little Hen.

Jeremiah, Fairfax, Virginia

The official music source at Disney simply lists this song as “traditional,” developed by Ed Plumb. Plumb was credited with the English lyrics on the published sheet music.

Andrew, St. James, New York

Dean Jones once said in an interview that he didn’t think the script was up to the quality of that of the first film. It is explained in the film, which starred Helen Hayes as Herbie’s new owner, that Herbie’s former owner, Jim Douglas (Dean Jones), had gone to Europe.