Project: Fair Winds
Project: Fair Winds by Jeremy Marx At the close of the D23 Expo, as Todd Pierce and I were walking down Katella Avenue, we started talking about Disney's involvement in the 1964 World's Fair. We talked about Lincoln, the Magic Skyway then the Small World...
Walt Disney and the Griffith Park Zoo
Walt Disney and the Griffith Park Zoo – the story of the old Los Angeles zoo where animators once trained, with directions to find it now.
JOURNAL OF A DISNEY HISTORIAN~Television, Disneyland Dirt and Walt (OH YEAH, Walt!)
JOURNAL OF A DISNEY HISTORIANThe Disneyland Dirt & Massacre Editionby Paul F. AndersonEdgar Samuel Paxon's "Custer's Last Stand." Oil on canvas, 1899.From the collection of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming.MASSACRE AT DISNEYLAND ~ One "C" Ticket...
DISNEY HISTORY INSTITUTE CELEBRATES THE 1964 NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR 50th ~ THE MAGIC SKYWAY
THE 1964 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR50th CELEBRATIONMagic Skyway Press Preview & Opening Dayby Paul F. AndersonWED Imagineering Art featuring a cutaway of the Magic Skyway.FORD~PRESS PREVIEWRobert Moses, Walt Disney, and Henry Ford IIat the April 12, 1964 Press...
DISNEY HISTORY INSTITUTE CELEBRATES THE 1964 NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR’S 50th ~ ABRAHAM LINCOLN
This entire year here at the Disney History Institute we will be celebrating the 50th Anniversaryof Walt Disney's contribution to the 1964 New York World's Fair.Our banner artwork is a rarely seen piece of WED Imagineering Art. Painted byDisney Imagineer Sam...
The Penthouse Club at the Disney Studio
In the early 1940s, the Walt Disney Studio opened a men’s club on the roof of its animation building, with exercise, sunbathing and other activities.
In Defense of Walt – Walt Disney and Anti-Semitism
In Defense of Walt Disney – Disney and Anti-Semitism: this article separates the truth from myth in regards to charges of Anti-Semitism and Walt Disney.
Will you be my Valentine?- Pinocchio style!
We at DHI wanted to share some some special Valentine's Day cards from Disney's past with everyone, so Paul gave me a stack a few days ago and sent me off to scan them. The five from Pinocchio were the most important as they moved, and many people have never had...
Adventures in Preservation: Slides
I love looking at the many different parts and pieces of Disney history, from documents, to merchandise to images of all types. One I want to look at today is working with, and saving, old slides. We're not talking about the kind that you sit on and go for...
JOURNAL OF A DISNEY HISTORIAN–The Salad Bowl Edition
JOURNAL OF A DISNEY HISTORIANThe Salad Bowl Editionby Paul F. Anderson It has been a wee bit of time since my last Journal of a Disney Historian; seems as if life had a different course for me over the latter part of 2013. Yet, all is (seemingly) on the mend now (they...
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