HAPPY BIRTHDAY EPCOT … TOO ~ African Style
Ken Anderson & Herb Ryman Imagineered, Herb Ryman Painted. Click on for glorious High Resolution image.We almost forgot our DHI Birthday wishes for EPCOT (which is the favorite WDW park of all three members of the DHI troika). With DHI's background so firmly...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WDW ~ All Month at DHI
A CONSTRUCTION SHOT A DAYTO CELEBRATE WALT DISNEY WORLD'SLABORIOUS BIRTHWe have a few things we are working on for Walt Disney World's birthday month here at the Institute. To start with, each day I'll post a different construction shot from Institute's photo...
A SECOND RATE LAS VEGAS ~ 1980s Style
"A Second Rate Las Vegas" -Walt DisneyREDUXby Paul F. AndersonHarbor Blvd., Walt's "Second Rate Las Vegas" (July 1962)I was recently going through some of the nearly 9000 photos of Disneyland that Jeremy scanned over the summer and I found a few that I think...
Back-to-School Special – 1955
Back-to-School Special - 1955by Todd James PierceNow, I'm not sure schools have these newspaper readers any more. But when I was a kid (back in the 1970s), I remember them clearly. I'm pretty sure this "Picture Reader" was given out for the kindergarten...
Vacationland- A Dog and his Boy.
©Disney Vacationland Magazine- Fall 1970 Pg. 20While going through some old issues of Vacationland, I came across this brief segment that just made me smile. A few minutes later I was still smiling, and knew it was something that I would want to share...
Something I’ve Never Noticed Before – Disneyland 1956
Storybook Land - Summer 1956Something I’ve Never Noticed Beforeby Todd James Pierce For the last day or so, I’ve been pulling together images for a short essay on Internationalism at Early Disneyland when I stumbled across something I’ve never noticed before: the...
Storyboarding the Caballeros
Storyboarding the Caballerosby Todd James PierceI realize that I've been off-line for the past couple weeks. I've been on vacation and setting up the kids for another year of school But like some of you, I was able to attend the Destination D...
Mickey Mouse Magazine October 1937 Ingersoll Advertisement
Was going through some Institute stacks of Disney magazines in search of a bit of research for a future DHI essay. I came across a stack of 1930s Mickey Mouse Magazines, and sort of got lost in the moment, flipping through the pages and enjoying the color lithography...
Another GALA DAY AT DISNEYLAND and DHI
MOONLINER MANIA~Gala Day At Disneyland Style
Jeremy wrote about one of his favorite jobs here at DHI (here and here): the scanning of all of the Institute's movie Campaign and Exhibitor's manuals (nearly a complete collection from Walt's lifetime--can anybody spare an original release Fantasia?). This particular...
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