The Mickey Mouse Club

Star Wars fans won't have to travel to a galaxy far, far away to relive their favorite galactic adventure. In a huge Disney event last Sunday, Harrison Ford revealed plans for a Star Wars theme park and how fans will soon be able to walk in the "iconic locations" of the film franchise, just like he did while playing Hans Solo. Entertainment Weekly reported that the actor appeared at ABC's Disneyland 60, a live TV event celebrating Walt Disney's first ever park. Ford began his speech by saying,…

The classic movies people know were created by Disney and have been cemented into our minds. Employees at Walt Disney Animations have worked to evolve ideas from the mind of Walt Disney, to the thriving studios we know and love today. From the 1970’s to the 2000’s Disney, as a whole, has changed drastically. Disney then and now are different in ways such as animation, effect, and company size. Animation in Disney has changed a great deal since the mid 1900’s. Disney’s animation style…

Movies are watched across the globe by millions of people from various religions, cultures, and ethnicities. What often makes movies stand out across cultures and apart from one another is an overarching theme, or message, that supersedes the movie itself. Disney is known worldwide as being one of the world's best animated movie makers for a variety of reasons, including the themes found in many of the movies they produce. The movie Hercules, which Disney produced in 1997, is no exception. In…

Sarah Rice Mrs. Petree Spanish 1 10-7-14 Walt Disney From Mickey Mouse to Disney Land, the famous Walt Disney has changed the world of entertainment forever! Walt Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois. Many rumors say his mother wanted to leave her life of poverty and as a washwoman (prostitute), behind, so she moved to the United States as and immigrant with her son days after he was born and dropped him at the door step of Elias (father) and Flora (mother) Disney. The Rumor was carried out…

For years I have been watching the Star Wars movies, never thinking I would actually see one for the first time in theaters. The last Star Wars movie to hit theaters in my life time was Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith in 2005, and it was stinker. If you ask anyone who considers themselves a fan of the Star Wars movies, they will tell you the first trilogy was some of the best cinema ever created, and the second trilogy was in comparison just completely awful. In fact a lot of people wish the…

Mo Willems began his career as a writer and animator for the show Sesame Street on PBS. During this time, he earned 6 Emmy Awards for his writing. Willems worked on Sesame Street for nine seasons and created two animated series The Off-Beats for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City. Codename: Kids Next Door was another show where Willems served as head writer at Cartoon Network, it was during this time that Willems began writing and illustrating books for children (Willems, Mo…

Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5th, 1901 In chicago, Illinois. Walt was an entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. Founder of the famous Disneyland and Walt Disney World. He was well known for being the pioneer for cartoon films and the creator of Disney Land. Walt Disney was the fourth son of Elias and Flora Disney. He was one of the 5 children, four boys and a girl. Walt experimented with cameras and later decided to open his own business which was Laugh-O-Grams. The…

The Walt Disney Animators’ Strike of 1941 During the early 1930s, unions began to organize in almost every industry across the United States, including the Hollywood entertainment industry. Unions for actors, directors, stagehands, and writers sprung up to unify laborers and collectively bargain for better working conditions. The Screen Cartoonist’s Guild was formed in 1938 to organize the previously unrepresented cartoonists and animators in Hollywood. The Guild enjoyed success during its…

The Walt Disney Company has built a diverse business organization since its conception in the 1920s, developing a huge range of profitable products in a number of marketplaces. The Walt Disney Company is the largest mass media conglomerate in the world and is best known for film and TV production as well as their theme parks. Its television arm controls the ABC Television network with 10 broadcasting stations, as well as a number of cable networks, including ABC Family, Disney Channel and ESPN.…

Upon his retirement Tyrus Wong rediscovered a childhood love…flying kites. He designed and handmade all of his kites with bamboo, rattan, rip-stop nylon and string. He would joyously fill the sky at Santa Monica Beach with his designs: a fantastical menagerie consisting of flocks of Butterflies, Owls, Cranes, Swallows, schools of fish, perhaps a running panda, and on a day with good wind, a hundred foot long centipede. Tyrus was a painter, muralist, lithographer, greeting card designer, film…