Disney on TV

**tiggerguy** · 06-05-2006, 11:23 PM

Magic and Music aired on 3/19/1958. the slave in the Magic Mirror emceed the show on the magic of music, using footage of visual fantasies from Melody Time and Fantasia. Hans Confried was the star.

**tiggerguy** · 06-06-2006, 11:17 PM

The Golf Resort opened at Walt Disney World in 1973, it is now known as Shades of Green.

**tiggerguy** · 06-07-2006, 11:05 PM

The Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, is the only major film/animation studio not to run backlot tours.

**tiggerguy** · 06-08-2006, 11:10 PM

"Mickey Mouse One" as Walt's plane was known, was in reference to the presidential plane Air Force One. It is a Grumman G-159 Gulfstream and built in 1963. Walt used it in his efforts to find a location for a new park. It is currently on display in the backlot area of the Disney- MGM Studios.

**tiggerguy** · 06-09-2006, 10:42 PM

The first intentional Hidden Mickey's are thought to be the giant water molecules from Adventure thru Inner Space. (Two small hydrogen atoms sitting on top of the large oxygen atom.)

**tiggerguy** · 06-10-2006, 11:56 PM

"Agrifuture" is the term used by designers for the mixing of urban structures and lush florata inspire a future where cities are not seperate from nature. The term is associated with the edible agriculture of Disneyland's Tomorrowland.

**tiggerguy** · 06-12-2006, 12:22 AM

Riding in the very first sled down Disneyland's Matterhorn in June 1959, were Walt Disney, his wife Lilly, their daughters ... and U.S. vice president Richard Nixon.

**tiggerguy** · 06-12-2006, 11:33 PM

Leota Thomas, an imagineer, was used as the model for "Little Leota" in both face and body.

**tiggerguy** · 06-13-2006, 11:24 PM

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers named the Disneyland Monorail a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark in 1986.

**tiggerguy** · 06-15-2006, 06:52 PM

Hawaiian Holiday released on 9/24/1937 On a sunny beach minnie does the hula accompanied by Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. Pluto makes an enemy out of a starfish while Goofy attempts to surf.

**tiggerguy** · 06-15-2006, 11:07 PM

Disney's 1969 hit movie The Love Bug was based on Gordon Buford's story "Car-Boy-Girl."

**tiggerguy** · 06-16-2006, 11:30 PM

Minnie's Yoo Hoo was the original theme song for The Mickey Mouse Club in 1930. It was the first Disney song to be released on sheet music. It was wriitten by Walt Disney and Carl Stalling.

**tiggerguy** · 06-17-2006, 11:31 PM

One spire atop Sleeping Beauty Castle remains ungilded as a physical manifestation of Walt's creedo "Disneyland will never be completed".

**tiggerguy** · 06-18-2006, 11:18 PM

Puss In Boots was a Laugh-O-Gram film made by Walt Disney in 1922. After getting kicked out if the palace for trying to see the princess, his cat in exchange for his buying her a pair of boots, comes up with a plan for him to win a bull fight and thus the princess.