January 2020 Movie of the Month- Part 1
Davy Crockett Campaign Manual Cover Image This month the Disney History Institute is proud to cover one of the Pop Culture Classics, Davy Crockett- King of the Wild Frontier. As I was going through the many pages of the campaign manual for this movie, which stated out...
DHI’s November Movie- “The Shaggy Dog”: The Campaign Manuals Synopsis
With the Disney Company releasing their new Disney+ streaming service, DHI will be covering a feature film each month. With Disney+ starting out with so many productions from their vault, we have decided to start with the wonderful classic, "The Shaggy Dog". Each...
DHI 050 – An Unusual History of Audio-Animatronics
Did a 1934 exhibition of mechanical presidents inspire Walt Disney to build his own Audio-Animatronics?
DHI Podcast 049 – Walt’s Lost Hotels
In 1966, Walt’s team laid out plans for the Florida resort–plans for hotels very different than those built years after his death.
DHI 048 – Roy Disney Goest to Florida
In 1950, Roy Disney visited Florida and had an experience that may have changed the course of the Disney empire.
Adventure Thru Inner Space VR – Project: Snowflake – UPDATED –
From 1967 until 1985, guests at Disneyland had the opportunity to ”travel into the incredible universe found within a tiny fragment of a snowflake." The attraction, Adventure Thru Inner Space, sought to use the tools of cinematic set design to explore the lessons of...
DHI 047 – Mystery of the Five-Legged Goat
Think you know the story of Mary Blair and the famous Five-Legged Goat? The popular story may be wrong. This time on the DHI Podcast.
DHI 045 – The Secret History of The Sweatbox
In the 1930s, artists saw “The Sweatbox” as the practice that pushed Disney’s animation beyond work produced by rival studios.
DHI 044 – X Atencio & The Path of the Imagineer – Part 1
Pirates of the Caribbean. Haunted Mansion. Adventure Thru Inner Space. These are a few of the attractions that X Atencio helped create. The first part of his story--from animation inbetweener to Imagineer--is an hour-long podcast posted this month. Episode 044....
Adventures in Color – Parts 1 and 2
In 1932, the Technicolor Corporation created a unique process system to present full-color presentations using images captured only on black-and-white film. Instead of looking to one of the major studios to premiere their full-color process, they looked to Walt...
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