Besides an Academy Award®, this film also won numerous other awards including several awards from the Southern California Motion Picture Council and the Berlin International Film Festival. The Wetback Hound is about the story of a young hound dog named Paco that is owned by mountain lion hunters in Sonora, Mexico. His owners mistreat him …
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Christmas parades are an important part of the holiday tradition at the Disney theme parks worldwide, a tradition that dates back to Disneyland’s earliest years. On this day in 1957, the internationally themed Christmas in Many Lands first paraded through the Magic Kingdom. Today, it’s a small world holiday and the annual Holidays Around the …
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On this day in 1957, “The Horse of the West” galloped on to the small screen as an episode of the Disneyland television series, following the life of a young filly named Bay Lady. Singing cowboy Rex Allen saddled up as the film’s narrator. His voice is sure to sound familiar to Disney fans, as …
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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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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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“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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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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