At the end of last month, I started uploading daily videos to my long-dormant YouTube channel, Progress City Public TV. These are random clips and ephemera from decades of collecting – from long-ago TV specials to rare content from the early days of the Disney Channel. Maybe even the occasional really terrible home video […]
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Disney animators and staff play Caxanga in Brazil during the 1941 “El Grupo” goodwill trip. The four players are Norm Ferguson, Bill Cottrell, Mary Blair, and Jack Cutting. For decades now, Disney has been releasing its archival titles to home media, and as the years have passed we’ve seen a number of formats come […] Earlier this month I had the privilege of writing a piece for Storyboard, the official blog of the Walt Disney Family Museum. As readers will know, I’m a big fan of the museum so I was very glad to be able to help out. My story concerns the making of The Great Locomotive Chase, […] Yes. It seems like everyone is talking about The Rocketeer lately. And by everyone, I guess I mean me. There’s actually been a frisson of conversation recently about the 1991 Walt Disney Pictures production on Twitter, owing to the recent release of a rather snazzy trailer for this summer’s Captain America. Marvel’s latest […]
Beacon Joe has returned from his shanty on the Rivers of America to continue a series started in OCTOBER 2008! Though much has changed since this article was written, you should read the first part of this series before continuing further…. Yes, I know. My blog posting frequency or (lack thereof) is […] |
 From the Progress City archives comes this collection of 33 tall tales and true from Disney history. Available in paperback, hardback, and ebook formats.  |
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