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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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.

Named for Walt Disney's first studio in Hollywood founded in 1923, and created by the Walt Disney Company in 2009, D23: The Official Disney Fan Club holds special events for Disney fans and ...

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 ...

“Tropical birds, Tikis and flowers spring to life in the Enchanted Tiki Room, a musical fantasy recalling legends of the South Seas.” – Walt Disney's DISNEYLAND a pictorial souvenir and ...

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 ...

At the age of 4, Michael French's parents went to their friends' house to play cards in the kitchen “in those very '80s chrome pole and wicker breakfast room chairs” but he did not know this ...