I recently added to my personal library a copy of Walt Disney's Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks by his son Don Iwerks. Today, the name of Ub Iwerks is fairly well known to most Disney ...

For many Disney animation fans, The Rescuers released June 22, 1977 is considered a neglected favorite that receives little attention, affection and documentation. Financially, it was more ...

As we approach another big celebration in 2023 where the Walt Disney Company will be celebrating the 100 th anniversary of the creation of the company in 1923, I am wondering about whether the man ...

For many young people, being hired to work as an animator at Disney Feature Animation is a dream come true, but for recently graduated Timothy Burton of Burbank, Calif., it was a living nightmare.

At the dedication of the Magic Kingdom on October 25, 1971, Roy O. Disney, the 78-year-old brother of the fabled Walt Disney who had died nearly five years earlier, stood stiffly by the flagpole ...

Walt Disney World's Shades of Green resort originally opened as a Disney-owned resort known simply as the Golf Resort in December 1973, with roughly 150 rooms. The Golf Resort was originally a ...

Disney premieres its grand reveal of “Disney Treasure.” Video courtesy Disney. “Disney Treasure” will be the sixth Disney Cruise Line ship in service when it begins sailing in December 2024.

Mickey Mouse has always loved leading a band of musicians from Mickey's Follies (1929), The Barnyard Concert (1930), The Band Concert (1935), and Symphony Hour (1942) among others. So it was no ...

At Disney's Wilderness Lodge that opened May 28, 1994, the Walt Disney Imagineers attempted to maintain a linear time lime for the entire area that is divided into three distinct-but-connected ...

I often mention that I was an animation instructor at the Disney Institute when it first opened in 1996 and taught every animation course, helped out with the annual Animation Events, and even ...

Laugh-O-grams (yes, with a small “g”) were a series of seven black-and-white animated short cartoons that Walt Disney produced for theatrical release with a crew of young, inexperienced ...

As we continue to celebrate Disney's Animal Kingdom's 22 nd anniversary this month, I thought it might be interesting to take a closer look at the park's first year of operation and, in particular ...