On this day Disney History

[careship]

June 26 - On This Day

1952: Disney's family adventure film "The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men" (starring Richard Todd, Joan Rice, and Peter Finch) is released.

1959: Disney's Donald Duck film "Donald in Mathmagic Land" is released.

The live-action feature film "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" is released.

1989: Delta Dreamflight (an attraction that depicts the history of aviation) debuts at Disney World's Tomorrowland. (When Delta drops it's sponsorship in January 1996, the name will be changed to Take Flight.)

 

[Bagheera]

Re: On This Day - June 25th

Originally posted by careship
1966: Disney's live-action comedy feature film "Lt. Robinson Crusoe, U.S.N." (starring D**k Van ) is generally released in the U.S.

Wasn't it "Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N."?

 

[EpcoTim]

I really miss dreamflight.

 

[misskat]

oooh im learning all the time

 

[General Grizz]

Next year will have to be Dreamflight's 15th birthday...I had no idea!

Happy late birthday, Dreamflight!

Where did you get this info, Careship?

 

[billybaruch1]

Re: June 24

Originally posted by careship
On this day - June 24

1998: Jacqueline D'Ambrosi, a 9-year-old from Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, becomes the 600-millionth person to walk through the turnstiles of the Magic Kingdom in Disney World. With a click of the turnstile at 7:37 a.m., Jacqueline is immediately mobbed by Mickey Mouse and a cast of other Disney characters. She is awarded lifetime passes to the vast Florida amusement park, and to Disney's three other theme parks, for her and her family.

Any idea if 700-million has been reached? I wonder what the lucky 1-billionth person will get? :king:

 

[Katherine]

I love these bits of Disney past! Thanks so much for sharing!

 

[Bagheera]

Originally posted by grizzlyhall
Happy late birthday, Dreamflight!

I would think that it's more "Happy Birthday to the late Dreamflight."

 

[careship]

June 27th -

(Sorry had a garage sale and no time for the puter. I'll catch it back up.)

June 27th -

1889: Moroni Olsen, the voice of the Magic Mirror in Disney's 1937 classic "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," is born in Ogden, Utah. (He was also the voice of the senior angel in the 1946
holiday classic "It's a Wonderful World.")

1930: Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon "Arctic Antics" is released. This is animator Ubi Iwerks' last cartoon at Disney as a director.

1952: Disney's Goofy short "Teachers are People" is released.

1979: Disney's "The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again," starring Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Tim Matheson, Harry Morgan and Ruth Buzzi, is released.

1985: Disney and MGM/UA sign a 31-page, 20-year agreement, giving Disney the exclusive rights to use most of the MGM/UA film studio's movies.
**NOTE: (This 20 yr agreement is almost up. What does this mean for Disney/MGM Studios???)**

1986: Disney's "Ruthless People," starring Danny De Vito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, and Helen Slater, is released.

1997: Disney's 35th animated feature film "Hercules" is officially released in the U.S. and Canada, the same day Disneyland's Hercules Victory Parade debuts.

 

[careship]

June 28th -

June 28th - On this day

1929: Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon "The Plow Boy" is released. It is the first cartoon appearance of Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar.

1940: Disney's Pluto cartoon "Bone Trouble" is released. It is the first cartoon directed by Jack Kinney.

1988: The opening of Disney's Grand Floridian Resort ushers in an era of accelerated hotel building at Disney World, during which 10 new resort hotels have been added to date. It is the third Magic Kingdom monorail resort located on the sandy beaches of the Seven Seas Lagoon between the Polynesian Resort and the Magic Kingdom. The luxurious Grand Floridian (the crown jewel of the Disney World resorts) is themed to be reminiscent of turn-of-the-century Florida.

1999: At Disneyland, the Main Street Window is dedicated to the former Chairman of the Walt Disney Attractions, D**k Nunis. (Receiving a window on Main Street is the highest honor any Cast Member can achieve.)

2003: The world premiere of The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl takes place at Disneyland.

 

[careship]

June 29th -

June 29th - On this day

1935: Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon "Who Killed C**k Robin?" is released.

1966: Disney's live-action short film "Run, Appaloosa, Run" is generally released.

1974: At Disneyland the 'America Sings' attraction (located in a carousel theater) debuts.

2002: Mickey's Star Spangled Pin Event takes place at Disney World's Contemporary Resort.

 

[careship]

On This Day - June 30th

June 30 -

1931: Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon "The Busy Beavers" is released.

1939: Disney's Donald Duck short "Sea Scouts" is released.

1950: Disney's Goofy short "Motor Mania" is released.

1978: Disney's "The Cat from Outer Space," starring Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan,Harry Morgan, McLean Stevenson (making his film debut) and Roddy McDowell, is released.

1993: Disney acquires the independent film production house, Miramax Films. From the deal, Disney will gain the rights to Miramax's library of more than 200 films and agree to finance all future Miramax productions.

2000: An armed man, distraught over a marital dispute, surrenders to Florida police after holding his 4-year-old son and a room-service waiter hostage in a room at a Walt Disney World Hotel for over nine hours. The drama at The Boardwalk Inn hotel ends shortly after midnight when the 39-year-old man gives himself up peacefully.

2003: Singer Toni Braxton makes her debut appearance in Disney's Broadway show Aida.

 

[careship]

July 1st

On This Day - July 1st

1924: Disney's Alice and the Dog Catcher (a silent black & white short) is released.

1933: Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon "Mickey's Gala Premiere" is released.

1959: Disney's Donald Duck film "How to Have an Accident at Work" is released.

1966: Primeval World debuts at Disneyland. Originally featured as part of the Ford Magic Skyway attraction for the 1964-1965 World's Fair, guests aboard the Disneyland Railroad travel through a dinorama featuring animatronic dinosaurs.

1970: Disney's comedy film "The Boatniks," starring Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers, Phil Silvers, Norman Fell, Wally , Don Ameche and Bob Hastings, is released.

1975: At Disney World, the WEDway People Mover, a futuristic way of shuttling people all around Tomorrowland, opens.

1994: The Lion King Celebration Parade debuts at Disneyland. Moving down the street to the music of "I Just Can't Wait to be King," the parade features detailed floats that depict artist interpretations of various African landscapes, and stars all the characters from the animated hit "The Lion King." (It is the first parade to include an Animatronic character on a moving float.)

At Disney World's EPCOT park, Innoventions opens replacing the outdated CommuniCore with all new exhibits. Innoventions is a showcase of new products and ideas covering 100,000 square feet.

1996: In Disney World, the last of the Epcot resorts planned around Crescent Lake, Disney's Boardwalk Inn, opens.

The Boardwalk Villas (a Disney Vacation Club property) also opens.

1997: The sound effects demonstration attraction "ABC Sound Studio" opens at the Disney-MGM Studios Park in Florida.

 

[careship]

July 2nd -

On this day in Disney history -

1967: Disneyland's Rocket Jets, PeopleMover, and the General Electric Carousel of Progress all open in Tomorrowland.

1986: Disney's animated film "The Great Mouse Detective" (based on the children's book series by Eve Titus, Basil of Baker Street) is released in U.S. theaters.

1993: Aladdin's Oasis opens in Disneyland's Adventureland.

 

[careship]

July 3rd - On this day

July 3rd -

1906: Actor George Sanders, the voice of Shere Khan the Tiger in Disney's 1967 classic "The Jungle Book," is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1942: Disney's Pluto short "The Sleepwalker" is released.

1957: Disney's People & Places documentary "Lapland" is released.

1994: The Lion King soundtrack hits #1 on the Billboard chart, where it will stay for nine consecutive weeks.

1998: Innoventions debuts in Disneyland's Tomorrowland. Visitors climb aboard a carousel theater to experience 5 different "pods" of technology.