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By Michael - July 24th, 2010 The 1970s were a strange time. Much of the entertainment produced in that decade seems to have been created by aliens masquerading as humans; everything seems vaguely familiar, but enough small details are off just enough that the cumulative effect is decidedly creepy. So it is with this piece of video, Lady and the Tramp: […]
By Michael - July 17th, 2010 Walt Disney displays a number of concept art pieces for Disneyland, all created by Herbert Ryman
“Hello?”
“Hi Herb, it’s Bill Cottrell. We’re over at the Studio working on something and Walt wants to talk to you.”
“Well, OK…”
“Hiya Herbie, it’s Walt!”
“Well hi, Walt, how are you?”
“Fine, Herb, fine. Now listen. I’m […]
By Michael - July 16th, 2010 To rub in the fact that most of us aren’t remotely cool at all, the Walt Disney Family Museum is having a series of events this weekend to celebrate the 55th anniversary of Disneyland. A number of Disney luminaries will gather over the course of three days to discuss the park and Walt himself. Tickets […]
By Michael - July 14th, 2010
With our recent look at the engineering process behind the creation of Space Mountain, I thought that now would be a good time to take a look back at the opening of the attraction itself courtesy of this very nifty program.
Space Mountain had opened at Walt Disney World in 1975, but it wasn’t […]
By Michael - July 14th, 2010 As we take a brief intermission before we start looking at Disney artist Herbert Ryman’s contributions to Imagineering – contributions that would occupy the last thirty-some years of his life – perhaps it would be nice to hear, for the first time, from the man himself. Author John Donaldson has uploaded this video, which originally […]
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The Progress City Primer
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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