three cabs event recap

D23 Members Sing and Samba with The Three Caballeros Across the Country

This February, D23 Members across the country jumped on the magic sarape and celebrated 75 years of Walt Disney’s animated classic, The Three Caballeros with D23 Magical Screening Series. Kicking off with a blast in Burbank, members went to the very studio where the film was made to celebrate Donald, José, and Panchito’s exhilarating tour …

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Comic-Con 2018

Everything You Need to Know About Disney at San Diego Comic-Con 2018

By Jim Frye Each July, more than 130,000 fans of films, comic books, and television travel to Southern California for San Diego Comic-Con, one of the largest celebrations of pop culture in the country. Disney, Marvel, and Lucasfilm have been there since the convention’s early years—Comic-Con celebrates 50 years in 2019—providing news about the latest …

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Rhythm & Rhyme art exhibit

Step Inside Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Latest Exhibit

By Courtney Potter Inside the Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, a gleaming white hallway and rotunda welcome the crew into a building where the likes of Frozen and Zootopia took shape. Since the building’s remodel in 2016, this particular space has been used to display artwork from an animated film currently in production… but …

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aurora miranda

Aurora Miranda in The Three Caballeros

Walt Disney combined animation and live action for the first time since the Alice Comedies of the 1920s in The Three Caballeros (1945)—in an innovative, cutting-edge process developed by Walt’s longtime colleague Ub Iwerks—as here, when Donald Duck interacts with Brazilian star Aurora Miranda.

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Ward Kimball animates Panchito

Ward Kimball Animates Panchito

Disney Legend Ward Kimball animates the charro rooster Panchito for The Three Caballeros (1945), which contains the artist’s favorite sequence of all the animation he produced: the title song sequence featuring Donald Duck, José Carioca, and Panchito himself. “I still look on it as one of the good, big things I did because I broke …

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Disney chickens

7 Disney Roosters to Help You Ring in the Year of the Rooster

By Jocelyn Buhlman The Lunar New Year begins on Saturday, January 28, and we’re crowing with delight about celebrating the Year of the Rooster. We’ve rounded up some of our favorite feathered friends from animated classics to help us celebrate. 1. Heihei (Moana, 2016) He doesn’t say much and would rather snack on rocks than …

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favorite disney birds

Celebrate National Bird Day with our Favorite Feathered Friends

By Nicole Nalty Whistle, chirp, or let out a cock-a-doodle-doo! It’s National Bird Day and, to celebrate, we’re letting some of our favorite birdies take center stage. What are you waiting for? Olé! Olé! It’s showtime! Archimedes, The Sword in the Stone (1963) Whoooo’s up first? Why, it’s Merlin’s feathered friend, Archimedes. This opinionated owl …

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