The Official: This Day in Disney History Thread!

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November 3
1954-the Edited Version of "Alice in Wonderland" apprise on "Disneyland" The Tv Show

1977- "Pete's Dragon" (First role for Helen Reddy) has it's world Premiere

2006 - The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause is released in theatres

 

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1896:
Illustrator Gustaf Tenggren is born in Vastergotland, Sweden. Known for his Arthur Rackham-influenced fairy-tale style and use of silhouetted figures with caricatured faces, Tenggren was a chief illustrator for The Walt Disney Company in the late 1930s. He worked on the features Snow White, Bambi, and Pinocchio, and the shorts The Ugly Duckling and The Old Mill.
1910:
Disney Legend Irving Ludwig is born in Russia. In 1920 his family will immigrate to the United States and Irving will be raised in Brooklyn, New York. During his 40-year career with Disney, he will serve as president of Buena Vista Distribution (the motion picture and television feature distribution company owned by The Walt Disney Company).
1922:
The Laugh-O-Gram silent cartoon Puss in Boots, directed and
co-animated by Walt Disney, is released.
1933:
Actor-dancer Ken Berry is born in Moline, Illinois. His Disney credits include
The Cat From Outer Space and Herbie Rides Again. (TV fans will know Berry as Wilton
Parmenter on F Troop and Vinton Harper on Mama's Family
1934:
Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon The Goddess of Spring is released. This short is one of Disney's early attempts at human animation.
1950:
Disney's Goofy cartoon Hold That Pose is released.
It features the first appearance of Humphrey the Bear.
1952:
Voice actor Jim Cummings is born James Jonah Cummings in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1983, the increasing illness of longtime Winnie the Pooh voice actor Sterling Holloway will lead to an open call to replace him for the movie Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore. Cummings' uncanny audition will kick start a successful voice career that will include the voices of Pooh (and later Tigger) and such feature work as The Lion King, The Fox and the Hound 2, Aladdin, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Brother Bear 2, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
1955:
The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Circus Day.
1961:
The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" first airs on television.
It features actor Bill Mummy as six-year-old Anthony Fremont who has godlike
mental powers. Rod Serling's introduction to Walt Disney World's Tower of Terror
attraction - as viewed in the library - is taken in part from this very episode. Serling begins the program with the words, "Tonight's story on The Twilight Zone is somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction." Imagineers completed the introduction for the attraction with dialogue by sound-alike actor Mark Silverman. Ironically, this episode contains the longest opening narration on the entire series!
(On your next trip to Hollywood Studios, look for a small poster dedicated to "Anthony Fremont & and his Orchestra" inside the Hollywood Tower of Terror.)
1963:
The TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
airs part 2 of "The Waltz King.
1965:
Walt Disney appears on television's The Jack Benny Hour. Featured is a skit with Benny (cheap, petty, vain and self-congratulatory) visiting Disney's office ... asking for free tickets to Disneyland for 110 guests!
1998:
Walt Disney World's newest attraction Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin officially opens at the Magic Kingdom. The popularity of the two Toy Story films has led to the creation of this Tomorrowland attraction (which is housed in the pavilion formerly home to If You Had Wings, If You Could Fly, Delta Dreamflight, and Take Flight).

The Skyway at Tokyo Disneyland (running since
the park debuted in 1983) closes.
2001:
Susan Lucci and a cavalcade of soap opera stars appear during the
2-day ABC Super Soap Weekend at the Disney-MGM Studios.

Disney's LuminAria - a new nighttime show at Disney's California Adventure featuring fireworks - has a rehearsal after park operating hours
2003:
Michael Eisner (chairman and CEO of Disney) appears at the Harris Nesbitt Gerard Playtime Investor Conference. His comments and responses during the question and answer session are broadcast live via Webcast.
2006:

Toon Disney presents the world television premiere of Bambi II.

At Disneyland, professional dancer Edyta Sliwinska and actor Joey Lawrence of TV's Dancing With The Stars tape a segment at the Sleeping Beauty Castle Stage. (It will air November 7.)

Down at Epcot, Cast Members Lowell Doringo and Michael Kelley are chosen as the WDW 2007 Ambassador Team!

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announce 16 films that are tentatively eligible for the animated feature film category. Among those named is the Disney/Pixar Cars. (The nominations for the 79th Academy Awards will be announced on January 23, 2007.)

Ruth Patricia Shellhorn, Disneyland's first landscaper, passes away at the age of 97 in California.

The Hannah Montana episode
"People Who Use People" debuts on Disney Channel
2007:
Disney’s newest theatrical stage production The Little Mermaid begins preview performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City.

 

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November 4
1938- "Donalds Golf Game" a Donald Short is released

 

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November 5
1937-"The Old Mill" a Silly Symphony, The first animated film using a multiplane camera, is released

1990- Disney's Yatch and Beach Club Opens

 

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November 6
1960-"Zorro: Adios El Cuchillio" airs on TV

1990-"The Waterboy" a Touchstone picture is released (Yes TouchStone is a Disney owned company)

 

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November 7
1962-"the Legend of Lobo" is released

1999- "Annie" a made for TV movie debuts on "The wonderful World Of Disney"

2006 - Cars is released on DVD

 

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November 4
2002- Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year is released on DVD/Video.
2005 - Chicken Little is released in theaters.


November 5
2004 - The Incredibles is released in theaters.


November 6

2001 - Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed In At the House of Mouse, a direct-to-Video/DVD movie, is released.

2007 - Cars is released on Blu-ray.
" " Ratatouille is released on DVD and Blu-ray.

 

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November 8
1973- "Robin Hood" is released (ANIMATED)

 

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November 9
1997-WorldPort, a Disney Themed merchandise store opens at pointe Orlando.
1999- "Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas" is released directly to video
1999-"Winnie The Pooh: Seasons of Giving is released directly to video
2004 - Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas is released on DVD. It is the first time Mickey & friends have been presented in CGI animation (aside from Mickey and Donald, who made their CGI debut in Mickey's PhilharMagic the year before).

 

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November 10
1992- Aladdin is released in New York and Los Angeles
1994- "The Santa Clause" is released

 

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November 10
1953 - "The Living Desert," the first True-Life Adventure documentary, was released.

 

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November 10
1959- Third Man on The Mountain" is released

1994- Mickey Mouse and Minnie MOuse take the last ride on the Disneyland Skyway before it closes

 

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November 11

1992- Aladdin is released in New York and Los Angeles
1994- "The Santa Clause" is released

 

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1994- Mickey Mouse and Minnie MOuse take the last ride on the Disneyland Skyway before it closes

Wow, that's neat! I never knew that.

 

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November 12

1946-"Song of the South" Premieres at Loew's Grand in Atlanta

1999- DTD Marketplace Carousel opens

 

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November 13
1940-"Fantasia" with Fantasound premiers at the Broadway Theater in New York

1957- "To The South Pole for Science" airs on TV

 

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November 13
1991 - "Beauty and the Beast" has its world premiere in New York City.

 

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November 14

1988- "Live With Regis and Kathie Lee" has its first on location shoot at WDW

1995- The Disney Magic is announced as the name of the first DCL ship.

 

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November 15
1932-First class at Disney Art School held on studio sound stage to train animators

1965-Walt and Roy announce Disney's Florida Project

1980-Grand Opening of the BTMRR at the Mk

1996-official opening of Downtown Celebration

2000-The Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge open.

 

[WeatherbySwann]

November 15
1989 - "The Little Mermaid" premieres in New York and Los Angeles.