During the 1941 “Good Neighbor” trip Walt and his artists took to South America, the clan known as “El Grupo” received many a gift from the enchanted people they studied and learned from—Walt especially. One of the gifts Walt received during the trip was a scrapbook filled with original art from some of South America’s then-premier artists.
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Where Mary has an immensely important place in the pantheon of Disney history, some may not know that so too does her husband, Lee.
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Imagineer John Hench sketched this salty seafarer for Epcot Center’s Living Seas pavilion.
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Before he could go on a Journey into Imagination, Figment needed to find his voice.
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Disney historian Jim Fanning looks back at Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, a musical fantasy with an astonishing cast of Audio-Animatronics® personalities.
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Years before Disneyland opened, Walt Disney and his staff considered building an amusement enterprise right across the street from their Burbank studio.
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In this behind-the-scenes production photo, we see a young Fairuza Balk on the set of Return to Oz (1985) with George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars universe.
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Disney Legend Wally Boag wrote a ghoulish promotion about a man trapped in the Haunted Mansion’s basement in 1966.
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This early script for the Haunted Mansion might sound familiar, but its Ghost Host had a slightly different spiel.
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The Walt Disney Archives showcases a rare instance when a character named Donald Duck appears in a storybook published earlier than the 1934 animated short The Wise Little Hen, where Donald Duck appeared for the first time.
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