Jim Cummings - the voice of Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, & other characters - provides the narration at the beginning of Epcot's
IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth.
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Jim Cummings - the voice of Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, & other characters - provides the narration at the beginning of Epcot's
IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth.
CommuniCore (which is short for Community Core) was an Epcot attraction held in two buildings to the east and west of Spaceship Earth. Both featured technology exhibits.
Walt Disney World is the largest supporter of the Give Kids the World compassion program. Disney provides over 50,000 tickets a year and special services for terminally ill children and their families
Beatle Paul McCartney names Lady and the Tramp as his all-time Disney favorite.
Young Walt Disney's first pet was a Maltese terrier, on his family's farm in Marceline, Missouri.
The Walt Disney World College Program is a U.S. national internship program operated by The Walt Disney Company, stationed at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. The program recruits students (18 years and older) and all majors for a semester-long paid internship program working at Walt Disney World.
Port Discovery is an Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland, children's museum that opened in 1998. Port Discovery's permanent exhibits were designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.
Walt Disney's original plans for a theme park (a place his employees & families could go to relax) were on 8 acres next to his Burbank, California studios.
Don Iwerks (the son of legendary Disney animator Ub Iwerks) is the co-founder of Iwerks Entertainment. He has been associated with many accomplishments, including the 360-degree CircleVision camera and projection systems that he worked on with his father. Don's department designed and manufactured hundreds of unique film projection systems for Disney theme parks such as Disney's Star Tours simulator.
To all who come to this happy place, welcome. Here you will discover enchanted lands of Fantasy and Adventure, Yesterday and Tomorrow. May Tokyo Disneyland be an eternal source of joy, laughter, inspiration, and imagination to the peoples of the world. And may this magical kingdom be an enduring symbol of the spirit of cooperation and friendship between the great nations of Japan and the United States of America."
-E. Cardon Walker's dedication 1983
"All of us in the Disney organization who have come to Florida over the last several years
can't say enough about the warm and enthusiastic welcome we have received here."
- Roy O. Disney
"The world you have entered was created by the Walt Disney Company & is dedicated to Hollywood - not a place on a map, but a state of mind that exists wherever people dream & wonder & imagine, a place where illusion & reality are fused by technological magic. We welcome you to a Hollywood that never was - and always will be."
- the dedication plaque at Disney-MGM Studios
"I think there was always a gentle sweetness to Joe and his work. There's a gentility in everything he touched. But there's also a great sophistication. He was one of the truly great craftsmen of our art, but he always saw his craft as a way to communicate ideas."
- Roy E. Disney on artist Joe Grant
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have
anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
- James M. Barrie (born 5/9/1860)
On its initial release Snow White brought in over $8.5 million – an unbelievable feat when you consider that the average admission price at that time was 25 cents, and children, who made up the bulk of the audience, paid only a dime!