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Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The estimated population in 2007 was 107,921.
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Canada
Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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Caribbean
The CaribbeanPronounced or . Both pronunciations are equally valid; indeed, they see equal use even within areas of the Caribbean itself. Cf. Royal Caribbean, which stresses the second syllable. In this case, as a proper noun, those who would normally pronounce it a different way may use the pronunciation associated with the noun when referring to it. More generic nouns such as the Caribbean Community are generally referred to using the speaker's preferred pronunciation.; Dutch ; or more commonly Antilles is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (most of which enclose the sea), and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and North America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America.
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Disneyland Resort
The Disneyland Resort is a recreational resort that opened in 1955 in Anaheim, California. The resort is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks and Resorts division and is home to two theme parks, three hotels and a shopping, dining, and entertainment area.
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Epcot
Epcot is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort, located near Orlando, Florida. The park is dedicated to international culture and technological innovation. The second park built at the resort, it opened on October 1, 1982 and was named EPCOT Center until 1994.
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Flanders
Flanders (Dutch: , ) is the (political) community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Over the course of history, the geographical territory that was called "Flanders" has varied.
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Fort Myers, Florida
Fort Myers is the county seat and commercial center of Lee County, Florida, United States. Its population was 48,208 in the 2000 census. According to 2008 estimates, the population is 65,394.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong () is one of two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau. Situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour. With a land mass of and a population of seven million people, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Hong Kong's population is 95 percent ethnic Chinese and 5 percent from other groups. Hong Kong's Han Chinese majority originate mainly from the cities of Guangzhou and Taishan in the neighbouring Guangdong province.
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India
India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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Ireland
Ireland (,; , ; Ulster Scots: Airlann) is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the northwest of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland is Great Britain, separated from it by the Irish Sea. The island is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers just under five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remainder and is located in the northeast of the island. The population of Ireland is approximately 6.2 million people. Just under 4.5 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just under 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
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New Zealand
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Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios is an American CGI animation film studio based in Emeryville, California, United States. As of 2006, Pixar is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. The studio has earned twenty-four Academy Awards, six Golden Globes, and three Grammys, among many other awards, acknowledgments and achievements and has made $5.5 billion worldwide. It is one of the most (according to Rotten Tomatoes, perhaps the single most) critically acclaimed film studios of all time. It is best known for its CGI-animated feature films which are created with PhotoRealistic RenderMan, its own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan image-rendering API used to generate high-quality images.
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South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly surrounded by South African territory.
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The Prospect Studios
The Prospect Studios (also known as ABC Television Center [West]) is a lot containing several television studios located at 4151 Prospect Avenue in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, at the corner of Prospect and Talmadge Avenues (named in honor of silent screen star Norma Talmadge), just east of Hollywood. For over fifty years, this facility served as the West Coast headquarters of the American Broadcasting Company, before the network moved its main headquarters to the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. From 1949 to 1999, the ABC-owned Los Angeles television station, KABC-TV, was also located there. The station moved to a new state of the art facility located on a portion of Disney's Grand Central Creative Campus (GC3) in nearby Glendale, California in December 1999.
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Times Square Studios
Times Square Studios (TSS) is an American television studio located in the Times Square neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York. The studio is best known as the production home of ABC News' Good Morning America (GMA), a morning news and talk program and segments for GMA on ABC News Now.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Alan N. Braverman
Alan N. Braverman is the senior executive vice president, secretary and general counsel of The Walt Disney Company.
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Alan Wagner
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Anne Sweeney
Anne Sweeney (born November 4, 1958) is the Co-Chair of Disney Media Networks and President of Disney-ABC Television Group.
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Aylwin Lewis
Aylwin B. Lewis (born May 28, 1954) is an African American businessman. He is formerly the Chief Executive Officer and President of Sears Holdings Corporation and currently the CEO of Potbelly Sandwich Works.
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Beethoven
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Bridgit Mendler
Bridgit Claire Mendler, (born December 18, 1992) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her lead role as Teddy Duncan on the Disney Channel Original Series Good Luck Charlie and her recurring role as Juliet Van Heusen on Wizards of Waverly Place.
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Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album in 1999. During her first decade within the music industry, she became a prominent figure in mainstream popular music and popular culture, followed by a much-publicized personal life. Her first two albums established her as a pop icon and broke sales records, while title tracks "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!... I Did It Again" became international number-one hits. Spears was credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s.
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Cam Brainard
Cam "Buzz" Brainard (aka... Buzz Brainard) (b. May 21, 1962) is a voice actor and narrator, most notably as the "smart ass" narrator on the TV show Maximum Exposure, and as the voice of Disney Channel. He is the Host of "This Week In Baseball" on FOX (taking over for the late great Mel Allen). He narrated "Breed All About It" for Animal Planet and was the promo voice fro the TV series "Friends" in syndication. He took over the voice of Rotor the Walrus on the ABC show Sonic the Hedgehog during its run.
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Card Walker
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Christina Aguilera
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David Henrie
David Clayton Henrie (born July 11, 1989) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Larry on ''That's So Raven, and Justin Russo on Wizards of Waverly Place''.
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Demi Lovato
Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato (born August 20, 1992) is an American actress, singer-songwriter and musician. She is best known for her roles as Mitchie Torres in the Camp Rock movies and as Sonny Munroe in Sonny With a Chance. Lovato starred in the 2009 movie Princess Protection Program. Before Disney, she had one of the roles on Barney & Friends.
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Dennis Haskins
Dennis Haskins (born November 18, 1950) is an American actor known for his role as principal Richard Belding in the teen sitcom Saved by the Bell, which ran from 1989 to 1993 on NBC. He then went on to star in , which aired from 1993 to 2000.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
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Elvis Presley
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Fergie (singer)
Stacy Ann Ferguson (born March 27, 1975), better known by her stage name Fergie, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, fashion designer and actress. She was a member of the children's television series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid. She is the female vocalist for the hip hop group the The Black Eyed Peas with whom she has attained much charting success worldwide. Her own debut album spawned four Billboard Hot 100 top five singles, three of which went to number one.
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Fred Langhammer
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Handy Manny
Handy Manny is an animated children's television program launched in 2006, part of the Playhouse Disney morning block of the Disney Channel.
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Hayley Mills
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong () is one of two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau. Situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour. With a land mass of and a population of seven million people, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Hong Kong's population is 95 percent ethnic Chinese and 5 percent from other groups. Hong Kong's Han Chinese majority originate mainly from the cities of Guangzhou and Taishan in the neighbouring Guangdong province.
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Jake T. Austin
Jake T. Austin (born Jake Toranzo Austin Szymanski; December 3, 1994) is an American actor who currently stars as Max Russo, the youngest of three wizards, on the Disney Channel Original Series, Wizards of Waverly Place and as the voice of Diego in the Nickelodeon animated series Go, Diego, Go!.
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Jason Dolley
Jason Scott Dolley (born July 5, 1991), is an American actor, best known for his roles on different Disney Channel projects. These include Newton "Newt" Livingston III on Cory in the House, Virgil Fox in Minutemen and Pete Ivey in Hatching Pete. He currently stars as PJ Duncan in Good Luck Charlie.
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JC Chasez
Joshua Scott "JC" Chasez (born August 8, 1976 in Washington, DC) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, entertainer, record producer, and occasional actor, best known as one of the lead vocalists in the former pop group 'N Sync. In 2004, Chasez released a solo album, Schizophrenic, and has gone on to write and produce for music acts such as Girls Aloud, Basement Jaxx, David Archuleta, and the Backstreet Boys. He is currently a judge for ''America's Best Dance Crew''.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress, television director, voice actress, singer-songwriter, author, and film and television producer. Hewitt began her acting career as a child by appearing in television commercials and the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated. She rose to fame in teenage popular culture in her roles in the Fox series Party of Five, as Sarah Reeves, and films I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, as Julie James.
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John S. Chen
John S. Chen (born July 1, 1955) is chairman, chief executive officer and president of Sybase, Inc. A recognized expert on global business and international trade, he is also a director of Wells Fargo & Company.
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Jonas L.A.
Jonas L.A. (previously titled Jonas) is a Disney Channel Original Series created by Michael Curtis and Roger Schulman, starring the Jonas Brothers. The pilot was filmed in September 2008, the series premiered on Disney Channel on May 2, 2009, and became available on demand starting on April 25, 2009; first-run episodes currently air on Sunday nights.
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Judith Estrin
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Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American pop musician and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as two Emmy Awards. He achieved early fame when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez. Timberlake became famous in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the boy band 'N Sync, whose launch was financed by Lou Pearlman.
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Keri Russell
Keri Lynn Russell (born March 23, 1976) is an American actress and dancer. After appearing in a number of made-for-television films and series during the mid-1990s, she came to fame for portraying the title role of Felicity Porter on the series Felicity, which ran from 1998 to 2002, and for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Russell has since appeared in several films, including We Were Soldiers, The Upside of Anger, Mad About Mambo, Wonder Woman, , Waitress, August Rush, Bedtime Stories, and Extraordinary Measures.
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Lark Voorhies
Lark Voorhies (born March 25, 1974) is an American actress who rose to fame playing Lisa Turtle in Saved by the Bell, for which she was nominated for the Young Artist Award four times, winning in 1990 and 1993.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Mark-Paul Harry Gosselaar (born March 1, 1974) is an American actor. He portrayed Zack Morris in NBC's Saved by the Bell, detective John Clark in NYPD Blue, and more recently as Jerry Kellerman in TNT's Raising the Bar.
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Martika
Martika (born Marta Marrero, May 18, 1969, Whittier, California, United States) is an American pop singer-songwriter and actress. As a singer she released two internationally successful albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s, selling over four million copies worldwide. Now working mainly as an actress, since 2009 she has used the new stage name Vida Edit.
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Miley Cyrus
Miley Ray Cyrus (born Destiny Hope Cyrus; November 23, 1992) is an American actress and pop singer. She achieved wide fame for her role as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana.
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Orin C. Smith
Orin C. Smith was President and Chief Executive Officer of Starbucks Corporation from 2000 to 2005. He joined Starbucks as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 1990, became President and Chief Operating Officer in 1994, and became a director of Starbucks in 1996. Prior to joining Starbucks, Mr. Smith spent a total of 14 years with Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Smith is a director of Nike, Inc. and Washington Mutual and serves on the Advisory Board for the University of Washington School of Business, the University of Washington Medicine Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of Conservation International. Mr. Smith has been a Director of The Walt Disney Company since 2006.
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Robert Matschullat
Robert W. Matschullat is a private equity investor, and served from October 1995 until June 2000 as Vice Chairman of the board of directors of The Seagram Company Ltd. He also served as Chief Financial Officer of Seagram until January 2000. Prior to joining Seagram, Matschullat was head of worldwide investment banking for Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, and was on the Morgan Stanley Group board of directors. He is the Presiding Director of the Board of Directors of The Clorox Company, and a director of McKesson Corporation and has been a Director of The Walt Disney Company since 2002. He also joined Visa Inc's Board of Directors in Nov 2007.
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Ronald Reagan
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Ryan Gosling
Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor and musician. He is known for his roles in The Notebook and The Believer, and he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male and the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for his role in Half Nelson, for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award. He was nominated for another Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Lars and the Real Girl.
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Scott Wolf
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Selena Gomez
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Sheryl Sandberg
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- La Navette De Mickey
- Steamboat Willie
- Euro Disneyland (Feel the Magic)
- Cendrillon / Cinderella
- La Petite Sirène / The Little Mermaid
- Whak in Time!
- Mickey Globe Trotter
- Mary Lou
- The Toons Are Coming!
- Europe
- Chante, C'Est Noël!
- Mickey's Nutcracker
- How Many Biscuits Can You Eat
- Phantom Manor (medley)
- Yellow Rose of Texas
- Winter Hoedown
- Strangers Like Me
- African Soul
- Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)
- Peter Pan
- Pays Du Merveilleux
- The Unbirthday Song
- It's a Small World
- Bella Notte (This Is the Night)
- Claque Des Doigts / Just Give a Snap
- Rock Shock
- The Ancestors
- Medley
- Baroque Hoedown
- Plane Bikes
- Start of Something New (performed by Troy and Gabriella)
- Get'cha Head in the Game (performed by Troy)
- What I've Been Looking For (performed by Ryan and Sharpay)
- When There Was Me and You (performed by Gabriella)
- Bop to the Top (performed by Ryan and Sharpay)
- Breaking Free (performed by Troy and Gabriella)
- We're All in This Together (performed by High School Musical cast)
- I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You (performed by Troy, Gabriella, Ryan and Sharpay)
- Start of Something New (instrumental)
- Get'cha Head in the Game (instrumental)
- What I've Been Looking For (instrumental)
- When There Was Me and You (instrumental)
- Bop to the Top (instrumental)
- Breaking Free (instrumental)
- We're All in This Together (instrumental)
- I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You (instrumental)
- Start of Something New (sing-along with Troy)
- King Mickey (Mickey Mouse March)
- Walt Disney Medley
- It's A Small World
- Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf
- Songs from 'Winnie the Pooh'
- The Old Home Guard
- Grim Grinning Ghosts (Haunted Mansion Theme)
- A Marching Band
- Mary Poppins Medley
- America The Beautiful (Circlevision Theme)
- Strike Up The Band
- Seventy-Six Trombones
- Old Favorites Medley
- Toot Toot Tootsie
- With A Flair (feat. Dapper Dans)
- Football Medley
- Slidin' Saints (When the Saints Go Marching In)
- King Cotton March
- I Got Rhythm
- What Time Is It
- Fabulous
- Work This Out
- You Are the Music in Me
- I Don't Dance
- You Are the Music in Me (Sharpay version)
- Gotta Go My Own Way
- Bet on It
- Everyday
- All for One
- HUMUHUMUNUKUNUKUAPUA'A
- Im Herzen der tiefblauen See
- In ihrer Welt (instrumental)
- Die Fanfare des Königs (instrumental)
- Tritons Töchter
- In deiner Welt
- Unten im Meer
- In deiner Welt (reprise)
- Die armen Seelen in Not
- Les poissons (Das Lied des Kochs)
- Nur ein Kuss
- Das Feuerwerk (instrumental)
- Das Fest (instrumental)
- Der Sturm (instrumental)
- Die Zerstörung der Grotte (instrumental)
- Abschaum und Meerschaum (instrumental)
- Die Fahrt durch das Königreich (instrumental)
- Schlafenszeit (instrumental)
- Das Aufgebot (instrumental)
- Eriks Rettung (instrumental)
- Happy End / In deiner Welt (Finale)
- Part of Your World
- Kiss the Girl
- So This Is Love
- Winnie the Pooh
- You've Got a Friend in Me
- If I Didn't Have You
- I Just Can't Wait to Be King
- I Won't Say (I'm In Love)
- The Bare Necessities
- Hakuna Matata
- So This Is Love
- Winnie the Pooh
- You've Got a Friend in Me
- If I Didn't Have You
- I Just Can't Wait to Be King
- I Won't Say (I'm In Love)
- The Bare Necessities
- Hakuna Matata
- Can You Feel The Love Tonight
- I Just Can't Wait To Be King
- Circle Of Life
- Warthog Rhapsody
- Hakuna Matata
- Be Prepared
- He Lives In You
- Queen of the Jungle
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight
- I Just Can't Wait to Be King
- Circle of Life
- Warthog Rhapsody
- Hakuna Matata
- IBe Prepared
- He Lives in You
- Queen of the Jungle
- Grazing in the Grass
- Digga Tunnah Dance
- That's All I Need
- Hakuna Matata
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight
- Jungle Boogie
- Timon's Traveling Theme
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Someday (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- The Circle of Life (The Lion King)
- Winnie the Pooh
- Minnie's Yoo Hoo
- Whistle While You Work (Snow White)
- Candle on the Water (Pete's Dragon)
- My Own Home (The Jungle Book)
- Love (Robin Hood)
- Casey Junior (Dumbo)
- Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)
- Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (Cinderella)
- Following the Leader (Peter Pan)
- All in the Golden Afternoon (Alice in Wonderland)
- Saludos Amigos
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Mary Poppins)
- Colors of the Wind (Pocahontas)
- Ave Maria, Op.52 (Fantasia)
- When You Wish Upon a Star (Pinocchio)
- Start of Something New
- Get'cha Head in the Game
- What I've Been Looking For
- What I've Been Looking For (reprise)
- Stick to the Status Quo
- When There Was Me and You
- Bop to the Top
- Breaking Free
- We're All in This Together
- I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
- Get'cha Head in the Game
- Peter Pan : À la file indienne
- Aladdin : Ce rêve bleu
- Mulan : Réflexion
- Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains : Heigh-ho !
- Le Livre de la jungle : Il en faut peu pour être heureux
- Toy Story 2 : Je suis ton ami (version de Sifli)
- La Belle au bois dormant : J'en ai rêvé
- La Belle et la Bête : La Belle et la Bête
- Bambi : La Chanson de la pluie
- Le Roi Lion : L'Histoire de la vie
- Winnie l'Ourson et ses plus belles chansons : Mon ami Winnie
- La Petite Sirène : Partir là-bas
- Pinocchio : Quand on prie la bonne étoile
- Blanche-Niege et les Sept Nains : Sifflez en travaillant
- La Petite Sirène : Sous l'océan
- Les Aristochats : Tout le monde devenir un cat
- Peter Pan : Tu t'envoles
- La Belle et le Clochard : Belle nuit
- Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains : Un jour, mon prince viendra
- Les 101 Dalmatiens : Cruella de Ville
- Wildcat Cheer
- Start of Something New
- Start of Something New (Playoff)
- Homeroom
- Gabriella's Phone
- School Bell
- Announcement Transistion 1
- Hallway
- Basketball Practice
- Get'cha Head in the Game
- Get'cha (Playoff) into Lab
- Sharpay Dials
- The Plot Thickens
- Announcement Transistion 2
- Detention
- Announcement Transistion 3
- Auditions
- What I've Been Looking For
- School Bell
- What I've Been Looking For (Reprise)
- The Callback List
- Stick to the Status Quo
- Rooftop Garden
- Sharpay's Locker
- Study Hall
- In the Gym
- Counting on You
- Taylor's Cell
- When There Was Me and You
- Theater
- Gabriella's Cell
- Study Hall
- Announcement Transistion 4
- Sorry, Troy
- We're All in This Together
- Bop to the Top
- Meltdown
- In the Lab
- In the Theater
- Kelsi Tries
- Breaking Free
- Game Buzzer
- Wildcat Camp
- We're All in This Together (Reprise)
- High School Musical Megamix
- Exit Music (Bop to the Top)
- YMCA
- The Twist
- The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room (Macarena Dance Version)
- The Bunny Hop
- The Chicken Dance (aka Dance Little Bird)
- Born To Hand Jive
- The Swim
- Shout
- The Twelve Days of Christmas (instrumental)
- Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer (instrumental)
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas (instrumental)
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (instrumental)
- Jingle Bells (instrumental)
- O Christmas Tree (instrumental)
- Deck the Halls (instrumental)
- From All of Us to All of You (instrumental)
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Jingle Bells
- O Christmas Tree
- Deck the Halls
- From All of Us to All of You
- Fun in the Sun
- I've Been Working on the Railroad
- Old Duck Donald
- Camptown Races
- Technology
- Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me
- On Top of Spaghetti
- Skip to My Lou
- The Farmer in the Dell
- Erie Canal
- Oh Susanna
- The Green Grass Grew All Around
- The Man on the Flying Trapeze
- The Sidewalks of New York
- The Bear Went Over the Mountain
- It's a Sunny, Sunny Day
- The Wabash Cannonball
- Down in the Valley
- Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Git Along Little Doggies
- Down by the Station
- Go In and Out the Window
- Apples to Oranges
- John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
- Party at Mickey's House
- Happy Trails to You
- Mickey Mouse March
- Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game
- Yankee Doodle Mickey
- In the Good Old Summertime
- If You're Happy and You Know It
- Over the River and Through the Woods
- Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?
- Pongo
- This Old Man
- Old Blue
- Do Your Ears Hang Low?
- Minnie Had a Little Lamb
- Your Library
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat
- The Spectrum Song
- There's a Hole in My Bucket
- The Muffin Man
- Froggie Went a Courtin'
- Clementine
- A Bicycle Built for Two
- She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
- Home on the Range
- A Mouse Like Me
- Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be
- Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star / Baa, Baa Black Sheep / ABCs
- Stars
- Starlight Magic 2000
- Fantasy in the Sky (1995-1996)
- Stardust Fantasy (1994)
- Magic in the Sky (1993)
- Dancing Starlight Fantasy (1992)
- Deck the Halls
- Sleigh Ride
- Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
- Here We Come A-Caroling
- O Christmas Tree
- Jingle Bells
- Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Frosty the Snowman
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Probier's mal mit Gemütlichkeit
- Ich wär so gern wie Du
- Hör auf mich
- Aristocats
- Thomas O'Mally Song
- Kartzen brauchen furchtbar viel Musik
- Arielles Traum
- Unter dem Meer
- Küss' Sie doch
- Sei hier Gast
- Wer hätt's gedacht
- Die Schöne und das Biest
- Arabische Nächte
- Nur'n kleiner Freundschaftsdienst
- Ein Traum wird wahr
- Jungle Book Groove
- A Whole New World
- Balou de Bruine Beer (Jungleboek)
- Dat moet een kat van adel zijn (De Aristokatten)
- Niet in Nottingham (Robin Hood)
- Fluit dan op je vingers (Pinokkio)
- Het circus is weer in de stad (Dumbo)
- Honderd en één (101 Dalmatiërs)
- Kleine Muis (Mickey Mouse)
- Ga maar in de rij staan (Peter Pan)
- Eens komt mijn prins terug (Sneeuwwitje)
- Bambi (Bambi)
- Als een droom (Doornroosje)
- Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boe (Assepoester)
- Waar is dat wonderland (Alice in Wonderland)
- Wie is er bang voor de boze wolf (Roodkapje)
- Roodkapje en de Wolf (Roodkapje)
- Superformiweldigeindefantkolosachtig (Mary Poppins)
- The Little Mermaid: Part of Your World
- Pete's Dragon: Candle on the Water
- Lady and the Tramp: Bella Notte
- Cinderella: So This Is Love
- The Rescuers: Someone's Waiting for You
- Pinocchio: When You Wish Upon a Star
- Winnie the Pooh: Winnie the Pooh
- The Fox and the Hound: Best of Friends
- Dumbo: Casey Junior
- Mary Poppins: Jolly Holiday
- Sleeping Beauty: Once Upon a Dream
- Sleeping Beauty: One Song
- Sleeping Beauty: I Wonder
- Snow White: Some Day My Prince Will Come
- Peter Pan: The Second Star to the Right
- Dumbo: Baby Mine
- Bambi: Love Is a Song
- Cinderella: A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes
- Winnie The Pooh
- Little Black Rain Cloud
- It's So Much More Friendly with Pooh
- Alphabet Day
- Ship Shapes
- Colorful Present
- Number Hunt
- Pooh, Pooh, the Birthday Bear
- Up, Down, Touch the Ground
- The Beehive
- Part of the Heart of the Sky
- Nothing to Do
- Main Street U.S.A. - Walt Disney's Dedication of Disneyland - Disneyland's Dedication - July 17th, 1955
- Main Street U.S.A. - All Aboard - Main Street Station
- Main Street U.S.A. - Meet Me Down on Main Street (The Mellomen)
- Main Street U.S.A. - Alexander's Ragtime Band (Rod Miller) - Coke Corner
- Adventureland - The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room - The Enchanted Tiki Room
- Adventureland - Indiana Jones and the Forbidden Eye
- Adventureland - Tarzan Medley - Tarzan's Treehouse
- New Orleans Square - Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) - The Pirates of the Caribbean
- New Orleans Square - Grim, Grinning Ghosts - The Haunted Mansion
- Critter Country - Bear Band Serenade - Country Bear Jamboree
- Critter Country - Splash Mountain Medley
- Critter Country - The Great Outdoors - Country Bear Vacation Hoedown
- Critter Country - The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Frontierland - Rainbow Caverns - Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland and the Rainbow Caverns
- Fantasyland - It's a Small World
- Mickey's Toontown - Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin
- Tomorrowland - Star Tours
- Tomorrowland - There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow - Carousel of Progress
- Tomorrowland - Space Mountain
- Tomorrowland - Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters
- Tomorrowland - Space Mountain (New Daytime Track)
- Disneyland 50th Anniversary - Remember When (Performed by LeAnn Rimes) - Disneyland 50th Anniversary Theme Song
- Jingle Bells
- Frosty the Snowman
- Joy to the World
- Deck the Halls
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Sleigh Ride
- Here Comes Santa Claus
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- The Santa Wrap
- Winter Wonderland
- The Science of the Season
- Jolly Old St. Nicholas
- Bring a Torch Jeannette, Isabella
- Carol of the Bells
- Silent Night
- What Child Is This
- Away in a Manger
- Oh Come All Ye Faithful
- Rare Old Christmas
- Angel Time
- Audio Tour For The Blind: Main Street
- Audio Tour For The Blind: Adventureland
- Audio Tour For The Blind: New Orleans Square
- Audio Tour For The Blind: Bear Country
- Audio Tour For The Blind: Frontierland
- Audio Tour For The Blind: Fantasyland
- Audio Tour For The Blind: Tomorrowland
- Your Trip To Disneyland: Intro to Disneyland
- Your Trip To Disneyland: Adventureland
- Your Trip To Disneyland: Frontierland
- Your Trip To Disneyland: Fantasyland
- Your Trip To Disneyland: Tomorrowland
- A Musical Tour Of The Magic Kingdom: Overture/Main Street
- A Musical Tour Of The Magic Kingdom: Adventureland
- A Musical Tour Of The Magic Kingdom: Frontierland
- A Musical Tour Of The Magic Kingdom: Fantasyland
- A Musical Tour Of The Magic Kingdom: Tomorrowland
- I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)
- Jungle Rhythm
- Wild
- The Bare Necessities
- I've Got You Beat
- Right Where I Belong
- Colonel Hathi's March (The Elephant Song)
- Braver
- Queen of the Jungle
- He's a Lucky, Lucky Snake
- The Elephant's Face
- Never Smile at a Crocodile
- Se Provi a Volare
- Start of Something New
- Get'cha Head in the Game
- What I've Been Looking For
- Se Provi a Volare (acoustic)
- Start of Something New (acoustic)
- Get'cha Head in the Game (acoustic)
- What I've Been Looking For (acoustic)
- Start of Something New
- Get'cha Head in the Game
- What I've Been Looking For
- What I've Been Looking For (reprise)
- Stick to the Status Quo
- When There Was Me and You
- Bop to the Top
- Breaking Free
- We're All in This Together
- I Can't Take My Eyes Off You
- Get'cha Head in the Game
- Start of Something New (karaoke)
- Get'cha Head in the Game (karaoke)
- What I've Been Looking For (karaoke)
- When There Was Me and You (karaoke)
- Bop to the Top (karaoke)
- Breaking Free (karaoke)
- We're All in This Together (karaoke)
- I Can't Take My Eyes Off You (karaoke)
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"Watch Me" from Disney Channel's "Shake It Up"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:13
- Published: 24 Jun 2011
- Updated: 20 Sep 2012
To download Watch Me visit www.smarturl.it Performed by Bella Thorne and Zendaya
http://wn.com/Watch_Me_from_Disney_Channel's_Shake_It_Up
Disney Channel Girls VS Nickelodeon Girls
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:14
- Published: 01 Nov 2011
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
You can click on these links to vote: 1. www.proprofs.com 2. www.proprofs.com 3.www.proprofs.com 4. www.proprofs.com 5. www.proprofs.com 6. www.proprofs.com 7. www.proprofs.com 8. www.proprofs.com (I am getting tired of counting votes..... lol..so plz click on the links above. These are your Votes: 1. - Ariana Grande VS Zendaya Coleman = Ariana Grande 2. - Keke Palmer VS Stefanie Scott = Stefanie Scott 3. - Miranda Cosgrove VS Bella Thorne = Bella Thorne 4. - Elizabeth Gillies VS Debby Ryan = Debby Ryan 5. - Daniella Monet VS Vanessa Morgan = Vanessa Morgan 6. - Jennette McCurdy VS Tiffany Thornton = Jennette McCurdy 7. - Victoria Justice VS Selena Gomez = Victoria Justice 8. -Cymphonique Miller VS Bridgit Mendler = Bridgit Mendler Disney - 5 Nick - 4
http://wn.com/Disney_Channel_Girls_VS_Nickelodeon_Girls
Zendaya & Bella Thorne - 'Something to Dance for/TTYLXOX' (Mash-Up)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:08
- Published: 11 Apr 2012
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Check out Zendaya and Bella's music mash up using their new songs 'Something to dance for' and 'TTYLXOX'. The Shake it Up girls have got together and shaken up their own singles by making this music mash up! For more Disney Channel fun and games, head to www.disneychannel.co.uk
http://wn.com/Zendaya_Bella_Thorne_'Something_to_Dance_for_TTYLXOX'_Mash-Up
Stars Disney - "You're Watching Disney Channel" #3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:06
- Published: 20 Aug 2010
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Disney Channel Stars :Demi Lovato . Tiffany Thornton , Allisyn Ashley Arm , Sterling Knight, Doug Brochu , Selena Gomez, David Henrie,Jake T. Austin, Jennifer Stone,Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Brenda Song, Debby Ryan, Mia Talerico, Bridgit Mendler, Jason Dolley, Bradley Steven Perry, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, Kevin Jonas, Chelsea Stub, Nicole Anderson, Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles.Moisés Arias
http://wn.com/Stars_Disney_You're_Watching_Disney_Channel_3
body of evidANTs - Minibyte - ANT Farm - Disney Channel Official
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:05
- Published: 10 Apr 2012
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Olive realizes her electronic pet, Hegel, was murdered! WhoDunit? Watch ANT Farm on Disney Channel! Play games and watch full length episodes of ANT Farm at www.DisneyChannel.com Click the SUBSCRIBE button to get notification when new Disney Channel videos are posted!
http://wn.com/body_of_evidANTs_Minibyte_ANT_Farm_Disney_Channel_Official
Whodunit Up? - Minibyte - Shake It Up - Disney Channel Official
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:02
- Published: 10 Apr 2012
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Something really weird is going on at Shake It Up, Chicago!Watch Shake It Up on Disney Channel! Watch videos, play games, and learn how to dance like Rocky and CeCe at www.DisneyChannel.com Click the SUBSCRIBE button to get notification when new Disney Channel videos are posted!
http://wn.com/Whodunit_Up?_Minibyte_Shake_It_Up_Disney_Channel_Official
Final Flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour Makes Special Flyover at Walt Disney World Resort
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:32
- Published: 19 Sep 2012
- Updated: 20 Sep 2012
In a place where fairies fly, Space Shuttle Endeavour made a "ferry flight" today, mounted atop a NASA-modified 747 airliner. The historic flight took place in the early morning hours and was a space-explorer surprise for early-rising guests across Walt Disney World Resort. As part of its flight path, Endeavour soared over the Magic Kingdom Park and could be seen from various points across property. Read more at the Disney Parks Blog: bit.ly Check out the blog: disneyparks.disney.go.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com Find more videos: www.youtube.com
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Let It Shine - Me And You ft. Coco Jones, Tyler Williams
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:43
- Published: 16 Jun 2012
- Updated: 20 Sep 2012
The soundtrack from the Disney Channel original movie "Let It Shine" is available now!! Get it on iTunes - smarturl.it Want more video online? For Full Length Episodes of Disney Channel shows visit www.DisneyChannel.com Let It Shine: Tyler James Williams, Coco Jones performing Me And You. (C) 2012 Walt Disney Records
http://wn.com/Let_It_Shine_Me_And_You_ft_Coco_Jones,_Tyler_Williams
Disney Channel Circle of Stars
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:44
- Published: 22 Sep 2006
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Original music video for "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes", performed by the Disney Channel Circle of Stars. Video Copyright © Disney.
http://wn.com/Disney_Channel_Circle_of_Stars
Disney Channel's "Jessie" Cast Interviews
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:59
- Published: 29 Sep 2011
- Updated: 20 Sep 2012
Daemon's TV - Interviews with the cast of Disney Channel's new series Jessie, including Debby Ryan, Kevin Chamberlain, Peyton List, Cameron Boyce, Karan Brar, and Skai Jackson. Jessie premieres on Friday, September 30 at 9pm on Disney Channel.
http://wn.com/Disney_Channel's_Jessie_Cast_Interviews
disney channel orginial movies
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- Duration: 6:17
- Published: 27 May 2008
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
all the disney channel orginial movies from 1997 - 2008
http://wn.com/disney_channel_orginial_movies
Good Luck Charlie - Disney Channel Trailer
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:31
- Published: 31 Dec 2009
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
HIGH QUALITY promoshoot image: www.bridgitmendler.org Enjoy! Good Luck Charlie trailer released by Disney. The show stars Bridgit Mendler, who has been seen in Jonas, Wizards of Waverly Place, The Clique, and more! The show comes out in 2010. It looks like a great show! I'm excited to see it! bridgitmendler.org No copyright infragment intended.
http://wn.com/Good_Luck_Charlie_Disney_Channel_Trailer
Disney Channel Stars
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:13
- Published: 29 Apr 2006
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
disney channel stars
http://wn.com/Disney_Channel_Stars
Ross Lynch Hair Secrets, Music & More on Radio Disney
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:58
- Published: 12 Sep 2012
- Updated: 20 Sep 2012
Watch Ross Lynch's Radio Disney "Take Over" with Ernie D! Check out the "Austin & Ally" Soundtrack at smarturl.it
http://wn.com/Ross_Lynch_Hair_Secrets,_Music_More_on_Radio_Disney
Ross Lynch New Music on Radio Disney
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:01
- Published: 05 Sep 2012
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Ross Lynch Planet Premieres a new song on Radio Disney every day this week! Tune in with Candice at 5pm PT/8pm ET.
http://wn.com/Ross_Lynch_New_Music_on_Radio_Disney
Disney Channel: Cheetah Girls
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:08
- Published: 26 Aug 2008
- Updated: 29 Aug 2012
The Cheetah Girls Sabrina Bryan, Kiely Williams and Adrienne Bailon visit Hollywood 411 and tell Madison Michele about their overseas adventure as they traveled to India to shoot their new movie.
http://wn.com/Disney_Channel_Cheetah_Girls
Disney Channel Circle of Stars - The Circle of Life
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:13
- Published: 13 Oct 2006
- Updated: 20 Sep 2012
Disney channel stars including Hilary Duff, Orlando Brown, Tahj Mowry, Kayla Pratt, Raven Symone, Christy Carlson Romano, AJ Trauth & Anneliese Van Der Pol Video Copyright © Disney.
http://wn.com/Disney_Channel_Circle_of_Stars_The_Circle_of_Life
Disney Channel Games 2011 // Team Lists
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:30
- Published: 22 May 2011
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Disney's Friends For Change Games 2011 Blue Team playing to benefit Ocean Conservancy Captain: Debby Ryan ("Jessie"), Allisyn Ashley Arm ("So Random"), Olavo Cavalheiro (Disney Channel Brazil), Hutch Dano ("Zeke and Luther"), Roshon Fegan ("Shake It Up"), Doc Shaw ("Pair of Kings"), Stefanie Scott ("ANT Farm") and Jake Short ("ANT Farm"). Green Team playing to benefit Fauna and Flora International Captain: Brandon Mychal Smith ("So Random"), Valeria Baroni (Disney Channel Argentina), Paula Dalli (Disney Channel Spain), Adam Hicks ("Zeke and Luther"), David Henrie ("Wizards of Waverly Place"), Sterling Knight ("So Random"), Ryan Ochoa ("Pair of Kings"), Eve Ottino (Disney Channel France) and Bella Thorne ("Shake It Up"). Yellow Team playing to benefit UNICEF Captain: Bridgit Mendler ("Good Luck Charlie"), Jorge Blanco (Disney Channel Mexico), Valentina Colombo (Disney Channel Italy), Adam Irigoyen ("Shake It Up"), China Anne McClain ("ANT Farm"), Sierra McCormick ("ANT Farm"), Logan Miller ("I'm In The Band") and Gregg Sulkin ("Wizards of Waverly Place" and Disney Channel UK). Red Team playing to benefit World Wildlife Fund Captain: Mitchel Musso ("Pair of Kings"), Jake T. Austin ("Wizards of Waverly Place"), Doug Brochu ("So Random"), Kelsey Chow ("Pair of Kings"), Davis Cleveland ("Shake It Up"), Dean Delannoit (Disney Channel Holland and Belgium), Carlon Jeffrey ("ANT Farm"), and Zendaya ("Shake It Up"). You can catch new episodes beginning on Friday, June 24 on Disney <b>...</b>
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How to Audition for Disney Channel (Part 1)
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- Updated: 15 Sep 2012
Here I teach you how to audition for Disney channel! 1. You can get an agent 2. You can get an account at exploretalent.com or another website that has auditions. 3. You can go to the link I supply to you in this video for disney channel submissions! www.youtube.com www.facebook.com
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Disney Channel Bumpers!
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- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Your Watching Disney Channel Bumpers! Including the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, and many more *No Copyright Infringent Intended. Credit goes to Disney and the Disney Channel please comment & rate!!
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Disney Channel All Star Party -- game intro video
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Disney Channel All Star Party -- game intro video Facebook: www.facebook.com Available now: amzn.to Check out the DISNEY CHANNEL ALL STAR PARTY Wii™ game intro! Jump into the party, and mix up Disney Channel shows and characters! Play as favorites, and challenge your friends...
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Disney Channel Intros
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- Published: 04 Dec 2011
- Updated: 20 Sep 2012
Some of them are no longer shows, I know that Good Luck Charlie Intros At: 0:00 So Random/Sonny With a Chance Intros At: 0:52 Shake It Up Intros At: 1:57 Wizards of Waverly Place Intros At: 3:07 Suite Life Intros At: 4:04 Hannah Montana Intros At: 5:00 Lizzie McGuire Intros At: 5:57 ANT Farm Intros At: 6:22 Mrs. Piggy Intro At: 7:18 Jessie Intros At: 7:27
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Disney Channel: Game On - Make Your Mark Ultimate Jam [Official Club Penguin]
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For the Disney Channel in other countries, see Disney Channel (international).
| Disney Channel | |
|---|---|
| 200px | |
| Launched | April 18, 1983 |
| Owned by | Disney-ABC Television Group (The Walt Disney Company) |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Nationwide (see Disney Channel (international) for information on international versions of Disney Channel) |
| Headquarters | Burbank, California |
| Sister channel(s) | ABC ABC Family Disney Junior Disney XD Soapnet |
| Website | www.disneychannel.com |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | Channel 290 (East, SD/HD) Channel 291 (West) 1290 (VOD) |
| Dish Network | Channel 172 (East) Channel 173 (West) |
| Cable | |
| Available on most cable systems | Check your local listings |
| Verizon FiOS | Channel 250 (SD) Channel 780 (HD) |
| AT&T U-verse | Channel 302 (East) Channel 303 (West) Channel 1302 (HD) |
Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company, and headquartered in Burbank, California. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. Disney Channel International Networks, currently run by President Carolina Lightcap, is a group of more than 90 entertainment channels and/or channel feeds for children and families available in over 160 countries and 30 languages. The platform brands are Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Junior, Disney Cinemagic, Hungama TV and Radio Disney.
The channel specializes in television programming for children through original children's television series and movies, as well as third-party programming. It is marketed mostly toward young children, with the exception of their weekend primetime block that is aimed at pre-teens and teenagers ages 9–14, and the Disney Junior programming block aimed towards children ages 2–5. In recent years, the diversity of viewers has increased with an older audience, typically teenagers, young adults and young families.
Since November 19, 2010, the channel is offered with an alternate Spanish-language audio feed, either via a separate channel as part of a Spanish-language network package sold by cable and satellite providers or via a separate audio track with the SAP option, depending on the system.
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History[link]
Conception and launch (1977–1983)[link]
In early 1977, Jim Jimirro of Walt Disney Productions brought forth the idea of a cable television network with material from the studio.[1] Since the company was focusing on the Epcot Center, Disney chairman Card Walker[2] turned down the proposal.[3] Disney tried again in 1982, planning a partnership with the satellite unit of Group W, though the deal never came to fruition.[3] In late 1982, the Disney Channel was formed under the leadership of its first president, Alan Wagner.[4] Disney later invested US$11 million on two transponders of Galaxy 1, a Hughes Communications satellite, and spent US$20 million on programming.[3]
In 1983, Walt Disney Productions announced its launch of the family-oriented cable channel. The Disney Channel launched nationally on April 18, 1983 at 7 a.m. ET[5] with the Disney Channel-produced series Good Morning, Mickey![6] The channel's programming during its run as a premium channel, carrying through to its transition to a basic cable channel, targeted children and teenagers during the daytime, families during primetime and adults at night. At the time of its launch, Disney Channel was a premium channel that aired for 16 hours a day,[4] from 7 a.m.-11 p.m. ET/PT.[5] During its first full year, the channel was available to more than 532,000 subscribers in the U.S.[7] In April 1984, the channel extended its programming day to 18 hours a day by adding two hours to its late night schedule, with the channel now broadcasting daily from 7 a.m.-1 a.m. ET/PT.[8]
Early years (1983–1997)[link]
In the channel's first years, shows that aired during its broadcast day included Welcome to Pooh Corner and You and Me Kid along with several foreign animated series and movies including Asterix, The Raccoons, Paddington Bear, and the Australian western Five Mile Creek; the original late night schedule featured reruns of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. As filler material, the channel also featured D-TV, a series of MTV-style music videos which showed popular music interwoven with classic Disney animation. Outside of daytime programs for children, the network also aired movies and original specials (largely concert specials), primarily during the nighttime hours.
Subscribers initially received a monthly program guide/magazine, though it was phased out by the time the channel began targeting itself as a commercial-free basic channel.[5] Disney Channel received a special citation from President Ronald Reagan in 1984.[citation needed] As a premium channel, The Disney Channel would air week-long free previews four times a year, as well as two free preview weekends periodically (with ads targeted to non-subscribers), in the same manner as other premium channels such as HBO, Cinemax and Showtime. On December 1, 1986, Disney Channel began broadcasting 24 hours a day.[9]
Early in 1986, the musical sitcom Kids Incorporated, about a pre-teen (and later teen-to-young adult) gang of friends who formed a pop group, mixing their everyday situations with variety-show and music video style performances. It became a hit for the channel, spawning many future stars in both music and acting during its nine-year run, including Martika (who went by her real name of Marta Marrero in the show's first season), eventual Party of Five co-stars Scott Wolf and Jennifer Love Hewitt (billed as Love Hewitt), and Stacy Ferguson (later known as "Fergie" of The Black Eyed Peas).
In 1988, Good Morning, Miss Bliss, a starring vehicle for Hayley Mills of Polyanna and The Parent Trap fame, made its debut; the series was cancelled after 13 episodes due to low ratings. NBC picked up the series in 1989, retooled as Saved by the Bell, with Miss Bliss actors Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Dustin Diamond, Lark Voorhies and Dennis Haskins carried over to the new show; Saved by the Bell achieved major success on NBC's Saturday morning lineup (producing two spinoffs in the process) and in worldwide syndication.
In early 1989, the channel revived one of the company's early TV staples with The All-New Mickey Mouse Club, which was an immediate hit that proved Disney's basic variety show formula could still work, unlike in the short-lived 1970s revival. The latest version contained many of the classic elements from "theme days" to updated mouseketeer jackets, but the scripted and musical segments were more contemporary. MMC had a stellar young cast, launching the careers of future stars Christina Aguilera, JC Chasez, Ryan Gosling, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Keri Russell and others.
By 1989, The Disney Channel had a total of about five million pay subscribers nationwide. In 1991, eight cable providers volunteered to move The Disney Channel to their expanded basic cable packages, instead of offering it as a premium channel; Jones Intercable was the first provider to carry the channel as a basic network, initially carried on the Basic Plus tier on its Fort Myers and Broward County, Florida systems as a test run.[10][11] Soon after, other cable systems began to transition the channel to their basic tiers, either as an experiment or full-time.[11] Even as larger multiple system operators such as Cox Communications and Marcus Cable began to offer The Disney Channel on their basic tiers, Walt Disney Company executives continued to deny any plans to convert the channel to an ad-supported basic service, referring to the switches to basic on some systems as part of a five-year "hybrid" strategy; allowing providers to offer it as either a pay service or a basic service.[12]
Also in 1991, The Disney Channel tested a two-channel multiplex service on two cable systems.[13] By 1992, Nielsen Media Research estimated that a third of The Disney Channel's subscriber base were adults without children in the home;[14] and by 1995, its subscriber base expanded to 15 million cable homes,[15] eight million of which received the channel through a premium subscription.[16] In 1996, Anne Sweeney was appointed to oversee The Disney Channel, and the channel began offering a nightly primetime film.[17]
Transition to basic cable (1997–2002)[link]
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Logo used from April 6, 1997 to October 6, 2002; various designs were used during this period, depending on the daypart. The "channel" in the logo was typically omitted from on-air usage except during end credit tags on its original programs.
In 1997, the channel continued its transition from a premium cable channel to a basic cable service, with some markets not carrying the channel on basic cable until as late as 2004.[18] It was at this time that the channel began increasing its viewership. Around this time, the channel began to shift its target audience more toward kids, but continued to cater to families at night.[19] Though Disney Channel was no longer considered a premium channel, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association had long continued to register the channel among the U.S. premium channels in its subscription base rankings (however, the channel now appears in the NCTA's list of the top-ranked basic cable channels by number of subscribers).
On April 6, 1997, The Disney Channel shortened its name to simply "Disney Channel" (however, promos that ran until September 2002 often referred to the channel only as "Disney" and the logo often omitted the "Channel" in the network's name) took on a revamped look including the introduction of a new logo, which featured a 1930s-era Mickey Mouse on a black Mickey ear-shaped TV.[20] The channel also began to carry break interruptions within shows, featuring promos for its programming (and eventually promotions for Disney feature film and home video releases); the reasons for the channel's decision not to include traditional commercial advertising include the possible confusion to younger viewers as to the difference between regular programming and advertisements, and the prevention of license fee increases for acquired feature films (however while Disney Channel does not air commercial advertisments, it does utilize underwriter sponsorships by companies such as Best Western and Mattel).[21]
By this point, the network was split into three programming blocks: Playhouse Disney, comprising shows aimed at preschoolers; Vault Disney, featuring classic Disney material such as Zorro,[22] The Mickey Mouse Club, the Walt Disney anthology television series, older television specials and features such as The Love Bug; and the most distinct one, running from afternoon to late evening for teenagers, called Zoog Disney (which was introduced in August 1998,[23] shortly after the Toon Disney cable channel was launched), that used anthropomorphic robot-like characters with human voices called "Zoogs" as its hosts.
The Zoog Disney brand later expanded from September 2001 to August 2002, when the entire weekend lineup outside of the Vault Disney and Playhouse Disney blocks was branded as "Zoog Weekendz" at that point. The Zoogs' original looks were two-dimensional, though they were given a three-dimensional design and mature voices in 2001, which was phased out after less than a year. Disney Channel's original programming during this period began with Flash Forward in 1997 and continued with shows like The Famous Jett Jackson, So Weird, Lizzie McGuire, Even Stevens and Kim Possible, among others.
In 1999, Disney Channel began notifying cable operators who continued to carry the network as a premium service that they must move the channel to their basic cable tiers or remove it altogether, stipulating that it would not renew carriage agreements with providers (such as Time Warner Cable and Comcast, which were the last remaining major cable providers offering the channel as a premium service) that chose to continue carrying the network as a pay channel.[24] By 2001, Disney Channel was available to approximately 70 million cable and satellite subscribers, largely consisting of those who already received the channel via a basic tier as well at the remnants of its pay subscriber base.[25] By this time, the music videos and concert specials that the channel ran since the 1997 rebrand were dropped, citing the inability to receive a stake in revenue from the artists' CD sales and lack of exclusivity for the videos;[26] soon after, the channel began to incorporate music videos from songs featured in Disney's feature films and performed by artists on Radio Disney and signed by Disney's in-house record companies Hollywood Records and Walt Disney Records.
Success and changing focus in the 2000s (2002–2007)[link]
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Logo officially used from October 7, 2002 to May 27, 2010 and September 2008 to May 2010 only during on-air promos.
By 2002, Disney Channel was seen in 80 million cable homes nationwide.[27] That September, Disney Channel was gradually remodeled once more with the "Zoog" brand phased out from on-air usage (though Zoog Disney continued as a separate website until 2003, when it was merged with Disney Channel's primary website). On September 16, 2002, the Vault Disney block was discontinued in favor of same-day repeats of the channel's original and off-network series, primarily to contribute to the network's then-upcoming "hip" image; the removal of the block resulted in Disney Channel not featuring any programming targeted at adult audiences for the first time in the channel's history – with the only programming that intentionally targets the entire family being the channel's primetime feature films; as of June 2011, Disney Channel is the only one of the largest American children's cable networks that does not target both kids during the daytime, and a family/adult audience at night (Nickelodeon, The Hub and Cartoon Network each feature program blocks that target such a dual audience).
Primetime movies were also cut from two-three features per night to a single primetime feature per night.[28] The channel also phased out original drama and reality series, shifting its original programming focus to live-action sitcoms and animated series. A month later on October 7, 2002, Disney Channel introduced a new on-air appearance with a new logo designed by CA Square (using an outline of Mickey Mouse's head as its centerpiece) that was adopted by its international sister channels in May 2003, and unveiling a new graphics designed to fit the network's new look. After these changes, Playhouse Disney became the only program block introduced in 1997 to remain (however, it was rebranded as Disney Junior in February 2011). Around the same time, Disney Channel began supplying its original programming to corporate sister ABC for the network's Saturday morning children's program block. Moreover, Disney Channel began using a series of bumpers that are still in use, primarily featuring actors and animated characters from its original programs, drawing the Disney Channel logo using a glow stick.
Anne Sweeney, a veteran cable executive, took control of Disney-ABC Television Group in 2004 and successfully remade Disney Channel into "the major profit driver in the company."[29] By 2008, Condé Nast Portfolio was reported that the channel "[had] been adding a million viewers a month—every month—for the last five years", and also called it "the greatest teen-star incubator since the NBA stopped drafting high schoolers."[29] Sweeney's successful strategy was to discover, nurture and aggressively cross-promote teen music stars whose style and image were carefully targeted to pre-teens and teenagers.
Around that time as Disney Channel's intended target audience became preschoolers, pre-teens and young adolescents, the channel began to quickly gain in popularity, even outside its main target audience, created increased competition with Viacom-owned Nickelodeon and made teen idols out of some of its stars. Though Disney Channel has increased its viewership to rival that of Nickelodeon, Disney Channel has yet to officially unseat Nickelodeon in the Nielsen ratings as the highest-rated basic cable channel among total viewers (ages 2+) and all kid demos in its annual ratings.
In 2003, Disney Channel premiered its first ever musical made-for-cable film, The Cheetah Girls; it received 84 million viewers worldwide. The success of The Cheetah Girls led to the creation of other music-themed original programming such as the original movie High School Musical and the original sitcom Hannah Montana. In 2005, That's So Raven became the network's highest-rated series since the network's move to basic cable; as well as being the first original series to beat the 65-episode limit (the highly controversial programming rule implemented in 1998, had guaranteed any original series would end after 65 episodes to prevent production costs from increasing; however this rule is no longer enforced); the series eventually hit 100 episodes, becoming the channel's longest-running original series until 2012 and became the first to spawn a spin-off, Cory in the House. The Suite Life of Zack & Cody also debuted in 2005, becoming a hit for the channel. 2006 saw the debut of the hit original movie High School Musical and the series Hannah Montana, the latter of which launched the career of its star Miley Cyrus (who appeared alongside her father, popular 1990s country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, in the series). On July 28 of that year, the channel saw the debut of the its first multiple-series crossover, That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana (involving That's So Raven, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and Hannah Montana).
Disney Channel today (2007–present)[link]
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Logo used from 2008 to 2010 on air only, to keep the logo more towards the center of the screen with the introduction of HD
On January 1, 2007, the channel modified its on-air presentation with promos featuring its logo turning into a ribbon, swirling around the screen until forming the Disney Channel logo instead of bouncing around the screen. Promo cards and bumpers were changed to an abstract atmosphere with ribbon theming and themed to the programs, as opposed to abstract objects bouncing and moving in the screen. The font was changed from Digital to Placard MT Bold and the "hip" image was deleted completely. Instead of the Disney Channel logo popping up into a bumper and delivering a message, the ribbon swirled onward and formed the logo, and another ribbon swirled out with the message. With the presentation changes, the female announcer was dropped entirely outside of Playhouse Disney programming with Cam "Buzz" Brainard became the channel's sole continuity announcer. Promo bumpers for shows airing after the current program began to only advertise the program airing immediately after and were moved from between shows to near the end of the final promo break of an episode, while a ribbon banner promoting the current and the two following programs now appeared on the bottom of the screen after the end of each promo break from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. ET.
During that year, Disney Channel limited the number of original movie and series premieres to four movies and two series premiering over the course of the calendar year, and abandoned its uniform schedules for weekday and weekend afternoons (with the exception of the 7–8 p.m. ET time period), to run a five-hour (at one point six-hour) rotating schedule of hour-long blocks of its various original series and the off-network programming that remained on the channel. During this time, Disney Channel also began phasing out reruns of defunct primetime series originally aired on the U.S. broadcast networks from its schedule, with whatever programs the channel acquired from outside distributors thereafter consisting of imported programs from other English-speaking countries (such as Canada and the United Kingdom) and select animated series from the Disney Television Animation program library. That year also saw the debut of the most successful Disney Channel Original Movie to date, High School Musical 2, which premiered on August 17, 2007 to 17.2 million viewers, the highest-rated scripted cable telecast ever at that time.
In September 2008, slightly modified high-definition compatible versions of the previous graphic scheme were introduced, as well as an altered logo (right). The channel also moved its original series, mostly the live-action shows, from late afternoon to prime time on weekends from 8–9 p.m. ET (the Friday block is preempted when a Disney Channel Original Movie is scheduled to premiere that night). The Saturday block has aired on a periodic basis since the change and now serves as a block repeating the previous week's new episodes, and the Sunday block was added in January 2008. In July 2009, Disney Channel extended its Friday lineup to two hours in prime time from 8–10 p.m. ET, dropping the primetime movie. A double-movie feature which was added on Saturday nights, which was dropped in March 2010 in favor of repeats of recent episodes of its original series and occasional primetime films.
Two series debuted in 2007, the That's So Raven spin-off Cory in the House (which ended after two seasons), and the more successful Wizards of Waverly Place, starring Selena Gomez, David Henrie and Jake T. Austin. 2008 saw the debut of Phineas and Ferb, the first original animated series to be broadcast in HD, and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody spin-off, The Suite Life on Deck, along with Disney Channel Original Movies such as Camp Rock, Minutemen and The Cheetah Girls: One World. The Suite Life on Deck became the number one series in kids ages 6–12 in 2008.[30]
Disney Channel launched two new series in 2009: Sonny with a Chance (starring Demi Lovato) in February, and JONAS (starring the Jonas Brothers) in May; along with the original movies Dadnapped, Hatching Pete, Princess Protection Program and Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (the four original movies for 2009 each featured at least two stars from Disney Channel's original series). Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie also became the highest-rated cable program of 2009, excluding sporting events, premiering to 11.4 million viewers and becoming the second highest-rated DCOM premiere in history. The premiere of the crossover special Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana (involving Wizards of Waverly Place, The Suite Life on Deck and Hannah Montana) also beat out its competition, both cable and broadcast network programming, on the night of its premiere with 9.1 million viewers (making it the highest-rated episodes of Wizards and On Deck to date). In October 2009, Disney Channel premiered a new short series, Have a Laugh!,[31][32] which features 4 to 5-minute segments including re-dubbed versions of classic Disney cartoons. The first of which premiered on October 26, 2009: Lonesome Ghosts.
The logo was updated on May 7, 2010 (though this revision was first seen in March 2010, solely during weekend evening programming), with a slow roll-out of a new imaging campaign that was completed in that month's Memorial Day weekend; the logo was now encased in a rounded box resembling a smartphone application icon; it was done to allow the logo to be placed more towards the middle of the screen (like what was done starting in 2008). The original 2002 variant without the box is still used in older promos for original programs that debuted before the logo revision, and bumpers aired in-between shows.
In 2010, the channel launched its first original sitcom intentionally targeted at family audiences: Good Luck Charlie, starring Bridgit Mendler and Jason Dolley, which some[who?] have compared to the shows on sister network ABC's 1989–2000 TGIF comedy lineup. Two returning series had formats retooled that year, with Hannah Montana being branded as "Hannah Montana Forever" for its final season (which debuted in June 2010), while Jonas (which was cancelled that October) was retitled Jonas L.A. due to a change in setting and a shift to a comedy-drama format. That fall, the animated series Fish Hooks, and the buddy sitcom Shake It Up debuted. 2010 also saw the premieres of four original movies: Starstruck, Den Brother, Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam and Avalon High. Two other made-for-TV movies produced for Disney Channel in association with Canadian specialty cable channels debuted as well (Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars, produced in association with pay services Movie Central and The Movie Network; and 16 Wishes, produced in association with Family Channel).
Hannah Montana and The Suite Life on Deck ended their runs in 2011; Sonny with a Chance meanwhile, was retooled as So Random! due to Demi Lovato's announcement that she would not return to the series following her treatment for bulimia and bipolar disorder, in order to focus on her music career. In addition, five new series (So Random!, A.N.T. Farm, PrankStars, Jessie and Austin & Ally) were also added to the lineup in 2011, along with six Disney Channel Original Movies (The Suite Life Movie, Lemonade Mouth, Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure, Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension, Geek Charming and Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas!). The Teletoon original movie My Babysitter's a Vampire, premiered on June 10, 2011 with its spin-off television series premiering two weeks later on June 27. Since August 2011, Disney Channel no longer includes the "Disney Channel Original Series" vanity card at the end of its original series.
In January 2012, Wizards of Waverly Place ended its run on the channel, becoming Disney Channel's longest-running original series with 106 episodes (the record for the channel's longest-running series was formerly held by That's So Raven, which ran for 100 episodes).
Programming[link]
Main articles: List of programs broadcast by Disney Channel and List of Disney Channel series
Disney Channel broadcasts original series such as Phineas and Ferb, Fish Hooks, Good Luck Charlie, Shake It Up, So Random!, A.N.T. Farm, Jessie, and Austin & Ally. Repeats of former Disney Channel original series include The Suite Life on Deck and Wizards of Waverly Place. Reruns of Disney XD original series includes Pair of Kings, Kickin' It, Lab Rats and Kick Buttowski. Acquired programing from other networks includes My Babysitter's a Vampire. Upcoming original series includes Gravity Falls, and Code 9. Unlike the most basic cable channels in the U.S., Disney Channel's original scripted programs (including those featured on the Disney Junior block) feature tag scenes during the closing credits. The channel also airs short-form programs known as "short shows", which air more commonly on the Disney Junior block. Music videos, mainly featuring Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records artists as well as songs featured in newer Disney feature films are frequently aired, though the full versions of these music videos typically air only during the video's premiere and as filler between programs, while shorter versions usually air during promo breaks during the current program).
The original sitcoms produced for Disney Channel that are geared toward teenage girls (with shows like Hannah Montana and Lizzie McGuire) and also airs a moderate amount of animated series geared more towards upper-elementary and middle school-age children. Disney Channel has aired some programming more appealing to teenage boys with Aaron Stone and other such Disney XD shows in 2009. Acquired series produced by Walt Disney Television, Touchstone Television and other production companies outside of the Walt Disney Company portfolio previously made up most of the schedule; however since Disney Channel began increasing its reliance on original series, television series acquired for broadcast on the channel have become very limited and primarily confined to the Disney Junior block.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Disney Channel aired classic Disney animated shorts that were made when Walt Disney headed his namesake company; they were removed from the lineup in 2000, however their presence has returned as of 2009 with the addition of the short series have a laugh!. On December 14, 2008, it was announced that Disney Channel in the U.S. would bring back the animation block, which aired from 12–6 a.m. ET. The animated block was added to Disney Channel during the late night hours after Christmas Day 2008.
Since 2003, Disney Channel has typically imposed an unwritten "6-to-a-cast" rule as its original series generally have a maximum of six contract cast members, with So Weird being the last series before 2003 to have more than six actors appearing as series regulars (since then however, Shake It Up had become the first series to feature seven contract cast members in season two). The channel's series also have a smaller writing staff compared to other broadcast and cable network scripted television series (usually around 6 and 8 credited staff writers, instead of the 8 to 11 writers standard with most scripted series). Most of its series also employ are produced in the videotaped multi-camera setup that involves filming before a studio audience or utilizing a laugh track; its multi-camera series also utilize a simulated film look (the FilmLook image processing for series that debuted between 2003 and 2008; the HD-compatible 'filmizing' technique for all newly-commissioned and returning original series produced in high definition after 2009, which reduce the videotape frame rate to 24 frames per second).
Movie library[link]
Main article: List of Disney Channel Original Movies
A film is broadcast every weekday afternoon and most nights during the week, but not necessarily a theatrically released feature film. Disney Channel airs new original films, called Disney Channel Original Movies (or DCOMs), about 4–6 times a year, and those are frequently broadcast during the prime-time slot. In 2000, Disney Channel claimed to produce a new movie each month; this only lasted throughout that same year. Disney Channel began producing its Original Movies in 1997 with the premiere of Northern Lights. The number of DCOMs per year began to increase – from two in 1997 to three in 1998 to a high of twelve in 2000.
High School Musical 2 is currently the most successful DCOM in popularity and awards, setting a cable record for most viewers of a basic cable program, when its August 2007 debut scored 17.2 million, a record that stood until the December 3, 2007 Monday Night Football matchup between the New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens on corporate sibling ESPN surpassed it with 17.5 million viewers (it still remains the most-watched scripted program in cable television history). The Cheetah Girls films are also notably successful, with huge merchandise sales, sold-out concert tours and soundtrack sales. The first film was the first TV movie musical in Disney Channel history. It saw over 84 million viewers worldwide. The second movie was the most successful of the series, bringing in 8.1 million viewers in the U.S. It scored an 86-date concert tour, and was on the top 10 tours of 2006; the tour broke a record at the Houston Rodeo that was set by Elvis Presley in 1973. The concert sold out with 73,500 tickets sold in three minutes.
Film rights for much of the channel are shared by sister network ABC Family. The network also has rights to many films not released by Disney (either because the studio does not have a children's network or has one that is incompatible with their focus), such as Warner Bros.' (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (known in the US as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), Universal Pictures (Beethoven, An American Tail, The Land Before Time), The Weinstein Company (Hoodwinked, The Magic Roundabout), Sony Pictures (Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2, Hook), Lionsgate (Happily N'ever After), 20th Century Fox (Ice Age, the Home Alone film series, Catch That Kid), Paramount (Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)). Also, another non-Disney Christmas themed film, such asThe Polar Express have aired. Other non-Disney films over the years have included Little Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Another Cinderella Story and Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown just to name a few. Films produced by current Disney subsidiary The Jim Henson Company have also aired on Disney Channel in the past, although most of them are not presently owned by Disney, including The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Buddy, The Muppet Movie, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets From Space, The Muppets' Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. Bagdasarian Productions films have also aired on Disney Channel, although most of them are not presently owned by Disney, including The Chipmunk Adventure, Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein, Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman, Spirited Away and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Between 1986 and 1998, films made up most Disney Channel's evening and overnight schedule. It now only airs films usually each afternoon and in primetime Monday through Thursday nights. Many of the channel's earliest original movies (particularly those made from 1997 to 2002) have seldom been aired by Disney Channel in recent years, except for some holiday-themed movies; in January 2009, the channel began airing these older original movies on Friday and Saturday nights at 3 am ET/PT; since June 2010, movies also air on Sundays in late night and since July 2010, the movies start at 2:30 am ET/PT and some of the late-night weekend movies are aired without promo breaks. A Disney Channel Original Movie used to air twice in a row on the night of its premiere; this tradition ended with the January 2006 premiere of High School Musical. Encore presentations of Disney Channel Original Movies however, still sometimes air on the channel in prime time on the Saturday and Sunday after its original Friday night debut (Camp Rock, Dadnapped, Starstruck, and Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars are the only exceptions to this rule). Camp Rock and Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior are currently the only DCOMs to air on a non-Disney Channel branded network domestically as they have both aired on sister channel ABC Family, and Camp Rock has also aired on ABC as part of The Wonderful World of Disney. On September 13, 2010, Disney Channel began airing theatrically released films in a 4:3 letterbox format on the channel's primary SD feed, broadcasting them in a similar manner to how they are aired on the HD feed.
Disney Channel occasionally airs "special edition" airings of its high-profile original movie premieres: sing-along versions of The Cheetah Girls trilogy, High School Musical, High School Musical 2 and Camp Rock have aired in which lyrics are displayed on screen for viewers to sing with the songs in the films; the channel also airs "What's What" editions of its high-profile original movies using a format that mimics the former VH1 series Pop-Up Video in which facts about the movie and its stars pop up on screen at various points during the film.
In part because the network does not air commercials and advertises only network programming, films typically run short of their allotted time slot interstitial programming airs to fill an entire two-hour slot, usually an episode of a Disney Channel original series for a film running about 90 to 100 minutes, an 11-minute-long episode of an original animated series for a film running 105 minutes, and any film longer than 105 minutes has the remaining time filled with a music video, promotions, and/or shorts such as Shaun the Sheep, Have a Laugh! or Take Two with Phineas and Ferb.
Programming blocks[link]
Current[link]
- Disney Junior - Disney Channel currently programs shows targeted at preschool-age children on Monday through Fridays from 6 a.m.–2 p.m. and weekends from 6–9 a.m. ET/PT, called Disney Junior, which debuted on February 14, 2011. During the summer months, the block ends at 9 am ET/PT on weekdays. As of 2010[update], the only programming featuring classic Disney characters is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on Disney Junior, and the Have a Laugh! short films on the network itself. Current programming in this block includes Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Special Agent Oso, Imagination Movers, Handy Manny, Little Einsteins, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Jungle Junction, 3rd and Bird, Babar and the Adventures of Badou and Doc McStuffins. Disney Junior is the successor to Playhouse Disney, another preschool-targeted block which debuted in September 1997. Disney Junior became its own basic cable and satellite channel on March 23, 2012, replacing Soapnet. The Disney Junior channel is a direct competitor to Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. channel, NBC and ION's qubo and PBS and Comcast's PBS Kids Sprout.[33]
- Weekend evening blocks - Disney Channel airs first-run or recent episodes of its original series over the course of three nights, branded as "Disney Channel (day of week) Night", with first-run episodes premiering on Friday and/or Sunday evenings. The Friday night schedule features A.N.T. Farm, Phineas & Ferb, Jessie and Fish Hooks, while Sunday nights feature Good Luck Charlie, So Random!, Shake It Up and Austin & Ally. Since October 2010, programming on both night's schedules has been somewhat fluid as while all series have a permanent place on the Friday and Sunday primetime schedules, episode premieres of all Disney Channel original series are subject to being rotated on and off the schedule depending on the schedule for that given week as they usually air as part of a 90-minute block from 8–9:30 p.m. ET/PT on Friday evenings and 7:30–9 p.m. ET/PT on Sunday evenings. Saturday nights usually feature repeats of recent episodes of the channel's original series and occasional film telecasts, after an attempt in early 2009 to use the night to launch a beachhead against Nickelodeon's Saturday night block with the premiere of JONAS and the move of Wizards of Waverly Place from Fridays to Saturdays proved unsuccessful. Encores of each night's programs typically air between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. ET/PT each night.
- Toonin' Saturdays - A Saturday morning animation block that debuted on June 17, 2011, the "Toonin' Saturdays" lineup primarily consists of double-episode airings of Disney Channel original animated series Fish Hooks and Phineas and Ferb. Occasionally, new first-run episodes of either series will be featured in the block, though new episodes may also sometimes air in their original Friday night time slots.
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- Zoog Disney – Launched in August 1998, Zoog Disney was a program block that aired on weekend afternoons. The hosts for the block were "Zoogs", animated anthropomorphic characters resembling robots, but given human voices, with most of the Zoog characters acting like teenagers. The block tied television and the internet together, allowing viewer comments and scores from players of ZoogDisney.com's online games to be aired on the channel during regular programming in a ticker format (which the channel continued to use after the block was discontinued, and is used in a significantly decreased capacity as of May 2010).[23] The Zoogs were given a more three-dimensional redesign and mature voices in 2001, but were phased out after less than a year. With the entire block phased out by September 2002. From September 2001 to August 2002, the entire Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoon and primetime lineup was branded as "Zoog Weekendz".
- Disney Nighttime – From 1983 to 1997, Disney Channel, during the premium channel era featured programming aimed at adult audiences, during the nighttime hours under the banner name "Disney Nighttime"; unlike the nighttime content aired on the channel's then-competitor premium channels at the time of its launch, the "adult" programming featured on Disney Channel was devoid of sexual and violent content. Disney Nighttime featured older feature films (similar to those seen at the time on American Movie Classics, and eventually Turner Classic Movies, with both Disney and non-Disney titles mixed in) and the traditional premium channel fare of original concert specials from artists ranging from Rick Springfield to Elton John.
- Vault Disney – Disney Nighttime was reworked into "Vault Disney" in September 1997, upon Disney Channel's first major rebrand. Originally a Sunday-only block, Vault Disney expanded to seven nights a week by 1999, and aired late nights from midnight to 6 am ET (except on Sunday nights from 1997 to 1999, when the block had a 9 pm ET start time on Sundays). The classic programming changed to feature only Disney-produced television series and specials such as Zorro, Spin and Marty, The Mickey Mouse Club and the Walt Disney anthology television series,[22] along with older Disney television specials; older Disney feature films also were part of the lineup from 1997 to 2000, but aired in a reduced capacity. The block also featured The Ink and Paint Club, featuring classic Disney animated shorts, which became the only remaining program on the channel to feature these shorts by 1999, upon the removal of Quack Pack from the schedule.
This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.Seasonal programming blocks[link]
- Summer - The network runs summer programming blocks every year with differing themes and names; generally most of the network's series run new episodes through the summer and original movies premiere in these months to take advantage of the largest possible children's audience, as do most children's networks.
- Halloween - In October, Disney Channel airs Halloween programming in an annual event; since 2011, the Halloween program block has been titled "Monstober", which Disney announced they would continue to use due to its popularity in 2011.[34] Halloween films such as the Halloweentown series have premiered in this month, along with Twitches, Twitches Too, The Scream Team, Mostly Ghostly, and Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, along with Halloween episodes of the network's original series.
- Christmas - The network's December schedule usually focuses on Christmas programming, with the title of the branding changing every year. Christmas films such as the The Christmas Visitor, The Ultimate Christmas Present, 'Twas the Night, Beethoven's Christmas Adventure, and Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! have premiered in this month, along with Christmas episodes of the network's original series such as Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation, and several So Random! Christmas Specials. A Christmas in July week with encores of Christmas-themed programming is featured in that summer month.
- New Year's - A tradition going back to the Zoog Disney days in 2000, the network airs a marathon into the early morning of New Year's Day of programs, films and moments deemed the best by viewer vote on disneychannel.com, followed by an original series marathon on New Year's Day (the exception was 2011 due to New Year's Eve occurring on a Saturday that year). As with summer, Christmas, and Halloween, the New Year's block has a name change yearly.
- Disney's Friends for Change Games - The Disney's Friends for Change Games are an Olympic-based televised event aired on Disney Channel and is part of The Walt Disney Company's Friends for Change initiative. It replaces the Disney Channel Games and premiered on June 24, 2011, and is a annual event on Disney Channel.
Ratings[link]
In the May 2010 Nielsen ratings, Disney Channel ranked No.1 for the 63rd consecutive month in the Kids 6–11 demographic and for the 62nd straight month among Tweens 9–14. Disney Channel is ranked as the second most watched cable channel among total viewers during primetime, behind USA Network in first place with an average of 2.8 million people.
According to Nielsen Media Research, the month of February 2011 had finished as Disney Channel’s most-watched February sweeps period in Total Day ratings in the network's history ever, earning an average of 1.7 million viewers among Total Viewers, along with 590,000 viewers with a 2.1 rating share among Kids 6–11 and 459,000 viewers with a 1.9 rating share among Tweens 6–9; 9–15; among the first two demos, the channel posted its 14th consecutive month of year-to-year gains in both demos. First-run episodes of Shake It Up, Wizards of Waverly Place and Good Luck Charlie earned six of television’s top 10 telecasts that month in key child demographics, with Phineas and Ferb ranked as the No.1 animated series on TV among Kids 6–11 and Tweens 9–14 for that month and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse ranked among TV’s top 10 programs for that month in Playhouse Disney's Kids 2–5 target demographic.
Sister networks[link]
Current networks[link]
Disney XD[link]
Main article: Disney XD
Disney XD is a digital cable and satellite television channel in the United States, which is aimed at males aged 7–14. The channel was launched on February 13, 2009,[35] replacing predecessor Toon Disney, carrying action and comedy programming from Disney Channel and the former Jetix block from Toon Disney along with some first-run original programming and off-network syndicated shows. Like its predecessor Toon Disney and unlike parent network Disney Channel, Disney XD is advertiser-supported. The channel carries the same name as an unrelated mini-site and media player on Disney.com, which stood for Disney Xtreme Digital,[36] though the "XD" in the channel's name is said to not have an actual meaning.
Disney Junior[link]
Main article: Disney Junior
On May 26, 2010 Disney-ABC Television Group announced the launch of a new 24-hour preschool-targeted digital cable and satellite channel called Disney Junior, which made its debut on March 23, 2012; the Disney Junior channel (which is commercial-free, like parent network Disney Channel but unlike SOAPnet, which it replaced, and Disney XD) will compete with other preschooler-skewing cable channels such as Nick Jr., qubo and PBS Kids Sprout.[33] The channel will feature programs from Disney Channel's existing library of preschool programs and movies from the Walt Disney Pictures film library. Disney Junior took over the channel space currently held by Disney-ABC Television Group-owned SOAPnet (a channel airing soap operas), with the closure of SOAPnet citing the continued decrease in popularity of the soap opera genre on broadcast television and the growth of video on demand (including the online streaming availability for soap operas) and digital video recorders negating the need for a linear channel devoted to the format. The former Playhouse Disney block on Disney Channel was rebranded as Disney Junior on February 14, 2011, and the 22 existing cable channels and program blocks bearing the Playhouse Disney name outside the United States have been in the process of rebranding under the Disney Junior name.[37] Disney had previously announced plans for a preschool-targeted network in the U.S. in 2001,[38] however the planned Playhouse Disney Channel did not come to fruition, though dedicated Playhouse Disney Channels did launch internationally.
Former networks[link]
Toon Disney[link]
Main article: Toon Disney
This television channel, that launched on April 18, 1998,[39] was aimed at children ages 6–12; the network's main competition were Turner Broadcasting/Time Warner's Cartoon Network and Boomerang, and Viacom/MTV Networks' Nicktoons. Unlike Disney Channel, Toon Disney was an advertiser-supported cable channel. The channel carried a format of reruns of Walt Disney Television Animation and Disney Channel-produced animated programming, along with some third-party programming, animated films and original programming. In 2002, the channel debuted a nighttime program block aimed at children ages 7–14 called Jetix, which featured action-oriented animated and live-action series. During Toon Disney's first year on the air, Disney Channel ran a sampler block of Toon Disney programming on Sunday nights for interested subscribers. The network ceased operations and was relaunched as the preteen male-oriented Disney XD, featuring a broader array of programming, on February 13, 2009.
Other services[link]
- Disney Channel HD is a high definition simulcast feed, broadcasting a moderate amount of Disney Channel's programming in 720p HD (Disney/ABC Television Group's standard resolution format for its HD simulcast channels); it began broadcasting on March 19, 2008. Most of the channel's post-2009 program content is broadcast in high definition, along with feature films produced by Walt Disney Pictures and other film studios, Disney Channel original movies made after 2005 and select episodes, films and series produced before 2009. Many cable providers carry the HD simulcast feed, along with DirecTV, AT&T U-verse and Verizon FIOS. Dish Network currently does not carry the Disney/ABC Cable Networks' HD simulcast channels due to a retransmission consent dispute with the Walt Disney Company.
- Disney Channel On Demand is the channel's video-on-demand service, offering select episodes of the channel's original series and Disney Junior programming, along with select original movies and behind-the-scenes features to digital cable and IPTV providers.
International[link]
Main article: Disney Channel (international)
Disney Channel has established channels in various countries worldwide including South Africa, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, Scandinavia, the Baltic states, United Kingdom, Ireland, Caribbean, the Netherlands, and Flanders. Disney Channel also licenses its programming to air on certain other broadcast and cable channels outside the United States, regardless as to whether an international version of Disney Channel exists in the country.
Criticism[link]
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Disney Channel has received some criticism for their current programming direction. Experts[who?] criticize the company for programming that has pulled away from the characters that the network's parent company, The Walt Disney Company was based on: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy and thus more "traditionalist" fans[who?] of the network have gone so far to say that the network is no longer really a Disney Channel. Other critics disapprove of the marketing strategy made by Anne Sweeney, the President of ABC-Disney Television Group,[40] which makes the programs on Disney Channel geared mainly toward pre-teen girls and teenage girls.[41] Sweeney had also said that the main goal of the programming on Disney Channel was not to entertain, but to solely make money, officially stating that Disney Channel would be "the major profit driver for the (Walt Disney) Company."[42]
In December 2011, Disney Channel has pulled an episode from its original series Shake It Up, titled "Party It Up". The network had also pulled an episode from its other original series So Random!, titled "Colbie Caillat". They both were pulled from the network's airing cycle due to eating disorder references.[43][44][44][45][46]
Branding[link]
From 1983 to 1997, Disney Channel's logo involves a Mickey Mouse head inside a TV screen. When the network split in 1997, a new logo was launched, with a 1930s Mickey Mouse inside a Mickey Mouse-shaped TV. The logo was slightly modified in 1999. In 2002, a new logo (designed by CA Square) was adopted internationally, which continued until the 2010. In 2010 the logo was altered to look better in HD Widescreen format, the original 2002 logo was incased inside a rounded box, and has been used ever since.
See also[link]
- DisneyChannel.com
- Disney XD
- Disney Junior
- Disney Cinemagic
- Family (TV channel)
- ABC Family
- ABC News Now
- Jetix
- Jetix Play
- Family Channel
References[link]
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- ^ Grover 1991, p. 15.
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- ^ Jones to offer Disney on basic tier in Fla., Multichannel News (via HighBeam Research), February 25, 1991.
- ^ a b More systems trying Disney on expanded basic, Multichannel News (via HighBeam Research), September 30, 1991.
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- ^ Disney Channel plans two-feed multiplex test, Multichannel News (via HighBeam Research), June 10, 1991.
- ^ Disney audience grows up, Multichannel News (via HighBeam Research), April 27, 1992.
- ^ The Disney Channel achieves milestone in cable television industry with 15 million subscribers, Business Wire (via HighBeam Research), November 13, 1995.
- ^ Bryant, J. Alison (November 7, 2006 (2006-11-07)). The Children's Television Community. Lawrence Erlbaum. p. 149. ISBN 0-8058-4996-3.
- ^ Sweeney makes first changes at Disney Channel, Multichannel News (via HighBeam Research), July 22, 1996.
- ^ Disney move to basic keys system campaigns, Multichannel News (via HighBeam Research), February 17, 1997.
- ^ After 14 Years, One Network For Children Refocuses . . ., The New York Times, July 27, 1997.
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- ^ a b Digital L.A. : Truly It's All Happening at the Zoog, Los Angeles Daily News (via HighBeam Research), December 26, 1998.
- ^ Disney Serves Notice, Multichannel News (via HighBeam Research), August 30, 1999.
- ^ Disney Channel Springs Into April With 70 million Subscribers; Network's Transition From Premium to Basic Service Nears Completion, Business Wire (via HighBeam Research), April 4, 2001.
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- ^ Disney to Pull the Plug on 'Vault', The Cincinnati Post (via HighBeam Research), September 5, 2002.
- ^ a b Greenfeld, Karl Taro (May 2008). "How Mickey Got His Groove Back". Condé Nast Portfolio: 126–131, 150. http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/04/14/Disneys-Evolving-Business-Model. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
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- ^ a b PreSchool Programs Replace SOAPnet, New York Times, May 27, 2010
- ^ Better grab some sunglasses, the future around here is bright, Disney Channel Medianet
- ^ Disney XD Set to Launch on TV and Online, Targeted News Service (via HighBeam Research), January 7, 2009.
- ^ Disney to offer safe social site for kids, Chicago Tribune (via HighBeam Research), January 17, 2007.
- ^ SOAPnet Will Go Dark to Make Way for Disney Junior, Entertainment Weekly, May 26, 2010
- ^ Play nice now; Walt Disney Co. plans to introduce Playhouse Disney Channel, Broadcasting & Cable (via HighBeam Research), June 25, 2001.
- ^ Disney Channel to Take Wing of Running 24 Hours of Cartoons, Daily News (via HighBeam Research), December 9, 1997.
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- ^ Marcus, Stephanie (December 23, 2011). "Demi Lovato Slams Disney For Eating Disorder Joke On 'Shake It Up' (UPDATE)". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/23/demi-lovato-slams-disney-for-eating-disorder-joke-on-shake-it-up_n_1168436.html.
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Bibliography[link]
- Flower, Joe (1991). Prince of the Magic Kingdom: Michael Eisner and the Re-Making of Disney. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-52465-4.
- Grover, Ron (1991). The Disney Touch: How a Daring Management Team Revived an Entertainment Empire. Business One Irwin. ISBN 1-55623-385-X.
External links[link]
- Official website
- Disney Channel International
- ABC Cable Networks Group page
- Disney Channel's YouTube Page
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| Genres | Dance-pop, electropop |
| Occupations | Actress, singer, model, Dancer |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2003–present (actress) 2011–present (singer) |
| Labels | Walt Disney |
| Associated acts | Zendaya |
| Website | bellathorneofficial.com |
Annabella Avery "Bella" Thorne (born October 8, 1997) is an American teen actress, dancer, singer, and model. She is a child model and actor with appearances in more than 20 films and television series and more than 60 commercials, she is best known for her role as the aspiring young dancer CeCe Jones on the Disney Channel original series Shake It Up!.
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Early life[link]
Bella Thorne was born on October 8, 1997, in Pembroke Pines, Florida.[2] She is the youngest of four children, the others being Kaili (born in 1992), Dani (born in 1993), and Remy (born in 1995), who are also actors and models.[2] Thorne, who is of Italian, Cuban, and Irish descent, spoke Spanish as her first language, although she has forgotten it.[3]
Career[link]
Thorne's first film appearance was an uncredited role as a sidelines fan in the 2003 film Stuck on You. She has since appeared in film and television projects including Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Entourage, The O.C. (as a younger version of Taylor Townsend), the third-last episode of October Road (as Angela Ferilli, the pre-adolescence crush of the main characters; her older brother Remy also guest-starred in the same episode as a younger Eddie Latekka), and five episodes of Dirty Sexy Money (as Margaux Darling).[4] In 2007 Thorne appeared as a young girl plagued by supernatural visions in The Seer.
In 2008, Thorne starred alongside Christian Slater and Taylor Lautner in the short-lived drama series My Own Worst Enemy, for which she won a Young Artist's Award for her portrayal of the character Ruthy Spivey; Thorne described her Enemy casting as a major breakthrough as this was the first recurring role in her career. She then appeared in the ten-episode web series Little Monk, which depicted characters from the series Monk as children. In 2009, she filled the role of the vengeful antagonist in the horror film Forget Me Not.[5]
In 2010, Thorne joined the cast of HBO's Big Love in its fourth season, replacing Jolean Wejbe in the role of Bill Henrickson's daughter Tancy 'Teeny' Henrickson (though she had actually auditioned for a different role). She also guest starred on Wizards of Waverly Place, as Max's girlfriend Nancy Lukey.[2] In addition, Thorne took on a supporting role in the family drama Raspberry Magic.
Thorne enjoyed an extensive career as a child model. Since appearing in her first pictorial for a parenting magazine at the age of 6 weeks, Thorne has starred in television ad campaigns for Digital Light Processing, Publix, and KFC, and appearing in print ads for brands including Barbie, ALDO K!DS, JLO by Jennifer Lopez, Kaiya Eve Couture, LaSenza Girl, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Guess?, Target, Justice and Mudd for Kohls. She also modelled for Sears back to school.[2] In an interview with Seventeen magazine, Thorne described her appointment as the spokesperson for Texas Instruments as her big break, but admitted that she has lost much more projects than she has booked and credited the support of her family for helping her get over disappointments.
Thorne currently co-stars on the Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up!, (originally titled Dance, Dance Chicago). Thorne plays CeCe Jones, a dancer with heavy ambitions for a career in the spotlight.[6] The show is a buddy comedy centered around a teen dance show (in a show-within-a-show format) co-starring Thorne and Zendaya.[7] The multi-camera series began production in Hollywood, California, in July 2010 and premiered on November 7, 2010 on Disney Channel. While she had a substantial portfolio of work in television and film, Thorne had no experience in professional dancing before being cast. After signing onto the show in October 2009, she began taking three dance classes every night.[8]
Personal life[link]
Originally from Pembroke Pines, Florida, Thorne has been living with her family in California since early 2006.[2] Her interests include dancing, playing soccer, spending time with her family and playing with her two dogs, a Cocker Spaniel and a wolf hybrid, six cats and a turtle.[2] She also admits to being a collector of hardcover books, listening to 1980s music, and using YouTube as a research tool for getting into character. Thorne is an avid supporter of the Humane Society, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and The Nomad Organization, which provides education, food and medical supplies to children in Africa.[2][5]
Thorne lost her father to a vehicle accident in 2007.[5] Thorne disclosed her father's death in a live interview on the local television talk show "View from the Bay" in December 2008.[5]
Thorne was diagnosed with dyslexia in second grade.[5] She is currently being home-schooled after previously attending a public school, where she had suffered peer abuse.[5] Thorne improved in her learning after attending a Sylvan Learning center and is currently reading and writing a grade ahead.[5][8][9] Thorne also talked about her dyslexia in an April 2010 interview with American Cheerleader Magazine, and explained that she overcame her dyslexia by rigorously reading everything she could find, including the labels of cereal boxes.[10][11]
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Stuck on You | MC Sideline's Fan | Introduced as Annabella Thorne |
| 2007 | Finishing the Game | Sue | Introduced as Annabella Thorne |
| 2007 | Blind Ambition | Witbert Daniel | Minor role |
| 2007 | The Seer | Young Claire | Minor role |
| 2007 | Craw Lake | Julia | |
| 2009 | Water Pills | Psych Out Girl | |
| 2009 | Forget Me Not | Young Angela | Supporting role |
| 2010 | One Wish | Messenger | Main role |
| 2010 | Raspberry Magic | Sarah Patterson | |
| 2012 | Frenemies | Avalon Greene | Lead role; Disney Channel Original Movie |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Entourage | Kid | "I Wanna Be Sedated" (season 3: episode 10) |
| 2007 | The O.C. | Young Taylor Townsend | "The Case of the Franks" (season 4: episode 13) |
| 2007–2008 | Dirty Sexy Money | Margaux Darling | "The Chiavennasca" (season 1: episode 4) "The Family Lawyer" (season 2: episode 2) "The Silence" (season 2: episode 4) "The Summer House" (season 2 episode 7) |
| 2008 | October Road | Angela Ferilli | "Stand Alone by Me" (season 2: episode 11) |
| 2008 | My Own Worst Enemy | Ruthy Spivey | Main role |
| 2009 | In the Motherhood | Annie | "Practice What You Preach" (season 1: episode 4) |
| 2009 | Mental | Emily | "Pilot" (season 1: episode 1) |
| 2009 | Little Monk | Wendy | Main role |
| 2010 | Big Love | Tancy Henrickson | "Strange Bedfellows" (season 4: episode 3) "The Mighty and Strong" (season 4: episode 4) "Sins of the Father" (season 4: episode 5) "Next Ticket Out" (season 4: episode 8) "End of Days" (season 4: episode 9) |
| 2010 | Wizards of Waverly Place | Nancy Lukey | "Max's Secret Girlfriend" (season 3: episode 19) |
| 2010–present | Shake It Up | CeCe Jones | Co-Lead role |
| 2011 | Good Luck Charlie | CeCe Jones | "Charlie Shakes It Up" (season 2: episode 13) |
| 2011 | PrankStars | Herself | "Adventures in Dogsitting" (season 1: episode 5) |
Discography[link]
Albums[link]
Soundtrack albums[link]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||
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| US [12] |
US OST [12] |
US Kids [12] |
CAN | MEX [13] |
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| Shake It Up: Break It Down |
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22 | 1 | 1 | — | 65 |
| Shake It Up: Live 2 Dance |
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13 | 2 | 1 | 99 | — |
| "—" denotes items which were not released in that country or failed to chart. | ||||||
Singles[link]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |||
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| US [15] |
US Heat [16][17] |
CAN [15] |
UK [18] |
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| "Watch Me" (with Zendaya) | 2011 | 86 | 9 | — | 192 | Shake It Up: Break It Down |
| "TTYLXOX" | 2012 | 97 | 15 | 71 | — | Shake It Up: Live 2 Dance |
| "—" denotes a title that was not released or did not chart in that territory. | ||||||
As featuring artist[link]
| Year | Song | Album |
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| 2011 | "Bubblegum Boy" (with Pia Mia)[19] | non-album song |
Other appearances[link]
| Year | Song | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | "Time to Mystery, Time to Winter" | Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings |
Awards and Nominations[link]
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Young Artist Awards | Best Performance in a TV Series (Guest Starring Young Actress) | The O.C. | Nominated |
| 2009 | October Road (TV series) | Nominated | ||
| Best Performance in a TV Series (Supporting Young Actress) | My Own Worst Enemy (TV series) | Won | ||
| 2010 | Best Performance in a TV Series (Guest Starring Young Actress) | Mental | Nominated | |
| 2011 | Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) – Leading Young Actress | Shake It Up (TV series) | Won | |
| J-14's Teen Icon Awards | Icon of Tomorrow | Nominated | ||
| Imagen Awards | Best Young Actress – Television | Nominated | ||
| 2012 | Young Artist Awards | Best Performance in a TV Series — Leading Young Actress | Nominated[20] | |
| Outstanding Young Ensemble in a TV Series (shared with Zendaya, Davis Cleveland,Roshon Fegan, Adam Irigoyen, Kenton Duty and Caroline Sunshine) |
Nominated[20] |
References[link]
- ^ Cherrie, Chrysta. "AllMusic Biography Bella Thorne". AllMusic. Archived from the original on January 29, 2012. http://www.webcitation.org/653n5IYDP.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Bella Thorne is "CeCe Jones"". Disney Channel Medianet. http://www.disneychannelmedianet.com/web/showpage/showpage.aspx?program_id=3129298&type=thorne. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
- ^ https://twitter.com/#!/bellathorne/statuses/60426861733355520
- ^ "Bella Thorne Interview". Buzzinefilm.com. http://www.buzzinefilm.com/interviews/film-bella-thorne-interview-11282008. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Get To Know 12-year-old Bella Thorne". ABC7news.com – View from the Bay. December 9, 2008. http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=view_from_the_bay/arts_entertainment&id=6546909. Retrieved 2011-01-31. [dead link]
"Sit down with 12-year-old actress Bella Thorne" (video). ABC7news.com – View from the Bay. December 9, 2008. http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=6546919. Retrieved 2012-01-27. - ^ Kroll, Justin (2009-12-14). "Bella Thorne – Entertainment News – Variety'". Variety.com. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012738. Retrieved 2011-01-31.
- ^ "Bella Thorne & Zendaya 'Shake It Up'". OceanUp.com. http://oceanup.com/2010/05/21/bella-thorne-zendaya-shake-it-up. Retrieved 2010-07-10.
- ^ a b "Bella Thorne: Dancing Queen". faqs.org – Girl's Life. http://www.faqs.org/periodicals/201012/2198891211.html. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
- ^ "Introducing Bella Thorne". Film Monthly.com. http://www.filmmonthly.com/interviews/introducing_bella_thorne.html. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
- ^ "Time Out with 'Big Love's' Bella Thorne". American Cheerleader Magazine. http://www.americancheerleader.com/2010/04/time-out-with-big-loves-bella-thorne/. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
- ^ "Bella Thorne, I'm Dyslexic". OceanUp.com. http://oceanup.com/2010/05/16/bella-thorne-im-dyslexic. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
- ^ a b c List of Zendaya's soundtracks:
- Shake It Up: Break It Down: "Billboard Chart History: Shake It Up". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/album/soundtrack/shake-it-up-break-it-down/1509523. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
- * Shake It Up: Live 2 Dance: "Billboard Chart History: Shake It Up: Live 2 Dance". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/charts/kids-albums#/charts/kids-albums. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
- ^ "Soundtrack - Shake It Up: Break It Down". mexicancharts.com. http://mexicancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Soundtrack&titel=Shake+It+Up%3A+Break+It+Down&cat=a. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ ""Something To Dance For" Featured On The New Shake It Up Soundtrack". Zendaya.com. http://zendaya.com/2012/02/09/something-to-dance-for-featured-on-the-new-shake-it-up-soundtrack/. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
- ^ a b "Billboard Chart History: Bella Thorne". Billboard. http://allmusic.com/artist/bella-thorne-p2435050/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
- ^ "Top Heatseekers Songs - Week of July 30, 2011". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/charts/heatseekers-songs?chartDate=2011-07-30#/charts/heatseekers-songs?chartDate=2011-07-30. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
- ^ "Bella Thorne Music News & Info". Billboardaccessdate=2010-05-13. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/bella-thorne/1720529.
- ^ "Bella & Zendaya Chart History: Watch Me". Zobbel. http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/110625cluk.txt. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
- ^ "Bubblegum Boy - Single by Pia Mia & Bella Thorne". iTunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bubblegum-boy-single/id485248204. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
- ^ a b "33rd Annual Young Artist Awards". YoungArtistAwards.org. http://www.youngartistawards.org/noms33.html. Retrieved April 06, 2012.
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| Walt Disney | |
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 Walt Disney on January 1, 1954 |
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| Born | Walter Elias Disney (1901-12-05)December 5, 1901[1] Hermosa, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | December 15, 1966(1966-12-15) (aged 65) Burbank, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Lung Cancer |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S. |
| Residence | Burbank, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | McKinley High School |
| Occupation | Film producer, Co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, formerly known as Walt Disney Productions |
| Years active | 1920–1966 |
| Home town | Chicago, Illinois |
| Political party | Republican |
| Board member of | The Walt Disney Company |
| Religion | Christian (Congregationalist)[2] |
| Spouse | Lillian Bounds (1925–1966; his death) |
| Children | Diane Marie Disney Sharon Mae Disney |
| Parents | Elias Disney Flora Call Disney |
| Relatives | Ronald William Miller (son-in-law) Robert Borgfeldt Brown (son-in-law) Roy Edward Disney (nephew) |
| Family | Herbert Arthur Disney (brother) Raymond Arnold Disney (brother) Roy Oliver Disney (brother) Ruth Flora Disney (sister) |
| Awards | 7 Emmy Awards, 22 Academy Awards, Cecil B.DeMille Award |
| Signature |  |
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon,[3] and philanthropist, well known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and had an annual revenue of approximately US$36 billion in the 2010 financial year.[4]
Disney is particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice. During his lifetime he received four honorary Academy Awards and won 22 Academy Awards from a total of 59 nominations, including a record four in one year,[5] giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history.[6] Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland.
The year after his December 15, 1966 death from lung cancer in Burbank, California, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.
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1901–1937: Beginnings[link]
Childhood[link]
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Walt’s parents, Elias and Flora (Call) Disney
Disney was born on December 5, 1901, at 2156 N. Tripp Avenue in Chicago's Hermosa community area to Irish-Canadian father Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney, who was of German and English descent.[7][8] His great-grandfather, Arundel Elias Disney, had emigrated from Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland where he was born in 1801. Arundel Disney was a descendant of Robert d'Isigny, a Frenchman who had travelled to England with William the Conqueror in 1066.[9] With the d'Isigny name anglicised as "Disney", the family settled in a village now known as Norton Disney, south of the city of Lincoln, in the county of Lincolnshire.
In 1878, Disney's father Elias had moved from Huron County, Ontario, Canada to the United States at first seeking gold in California before finally settling down to farm with his parents near Ellis, Kansas, until 1884. Elias worked for the Union Pacific Railroad and married Flora Call on January 1, 1888, in Acron, Florida. The family moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1890,[10] hometown of his brother Robert[10] who helped Elias financially for most of his early life.[10] In 1906, when Walt was four, Elias and his family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri,[11] where his brother Roy had recently purchased farmland.[11] In Marceline, Disney developed his love for drawing[12] with one of the family's neighbors, a retired doctor named "Doc" Sherwood, paying him to draw pictures of Sherwood's horse, Rupert.[12] His interest in trains also developed in Marceline, a town that owed its existence to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway which ran through it. Walt would put his ear to the tracks in anticipation of the coming train[8] then try and spot his uncle, engineer Michael Martin, conducting the train.
The Disneys remained in Marceline for four years,[13] before moving to Kansas City in 1911[14] where Walt and his younger sister Ruth attended the Benton Grammar School. At school he met Walter Pfeiffer who came from a family of theatre aficionados, and introduced Walt to the world of vaudeville and motion pictures. Before long Walt was spending more time at the Pfeiffers' than at home.[15] As well as attending Saturday courses at the Kansas City Art Institute,[16] Walt often took Ruth to Electric Park, 15 blocks from their home, which Disney would later acknowledge as a major influence of his design of Disneyland.[citation needed]
Teenage years[link]
In 1917, Elias acquired shares in the O-Zell jelly factory in Chicago and moved his family back to the city,[17] where in the fall Disney began his freshman year at McKinley High School and took night courses at the Chicago Art Institute.[18] He became the cartoonist for the school newspaper, drawing patriotic topics and focusing on World War I. Despite dropping out of high school at the age of sixteen to join the army, Disney was rejected for being underage.[19]
After his rejection by the army, Walt and a friend decided to join the Red Cross.[20] Soon after joining he was sent to France for a year, where he drove an ambulance, but only after the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918.[21]
Hoping to find work outside the Chicago O-Zell factory,[22] in 1919 Walt moved back to Kansas City to begin his artistic career.[23] After considering whether to become an actor or a newspaper artist, he decided on a career as a newspaper artist, drawing political caricatures or comic strips. But when nobody wanted to hire him as either an artist or even as an ambulance driver, his brother Roy, then working in a local bank, got Walt a temporary job through a bank colleague at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio[23] where he created advertisements for newspapers, magazines, and movie theaters.[24] At Pesmen-Rubin he met cartoonist Ubbe Iwerks[25] and when their time at the studio expired, they decided to start their own commercial company together.[26]
In January 1920, Disney and Iwerks formed a short-lived company called, "Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists". However, following a rough start, Disney left temporarily to earn money at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, and was soon joined by Iwerks who was not able to run their business alone.[27] While working for the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he made commercials based on cutout animations, Disney became interested in animation, and decided to become an animator.[28] The owner of the Ad Company, A.V. Cauger, allowed him to borrow a camera from work to experiment with at home. After reading the Edwin G. Lutz book Animated Cartoons: How They Are Made, Their Origin and Development, Disney considered cel animation to be much more promising than the cutout animation he was doing for Cauger. Walt eventually decided to open his own animation business,[29] and recruited a fellow co-worker at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, Fred Harman, as his first employee.[29] Walt and Harman then secured a deal with local theater owner Frank L. Newman, arguably the most popular "showman" in the Kansas City area at the time,[30] to screen their cartoons at his local theater, which they titled Laugh-O-Grams.[30]
Laugh-O-Gram Studio[link]
Presented as "Newman Laugh-O-Grams",[30] Disney's cartoons became widely popular in the Kansas City area[31] and through their success, he was able to acquire his own studio, also called Laugh-O-Gram,[32] for which he hired a vast number of additional animators, including Fred Harman's brother Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, and his close friend Ubbe Iwerks.[33] Unfortunately, studio profits were insufficient to cover the high salaries paid to employees. Unable to successfully manage money,[34] Disney's studio became loaded with debt[34] and wound up bankrupt[35] whereupon he decided to set up a studio in the movie industry's capital city, Hollywood, California.[36]
Hollywood[link]
Disney and his brother Roy pooled their money and set up a cartoon studio in Hollywood[37] where they needed to find a distributor for Walt's new Alice Comedies, which he had started making while in Kansas City[35] but never got to distribute. Disney sent an unfinished print to New York distributor Margaret Winkler, who promptly wrote back to him that she was keen on a distribution deal for more live-action/animated shorts based upon Alice's Wonderland.[38]
Alice Comedies[link]
Virginia Davis, the live-action star of Alice’s Wonderland and her family relocated from Kansas City to Hollywood at Disney's request, as did Iwerks and his family. This was the beginning of the Disney Brothers' Studio located on Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district, where it remained until 1939. In 1925, Disney hired a young woman named Lillian Bounds to ink and paint celluloid. After a brief courtship, the pair married that same year.
The new series, Alice Comedies, proved reasonably successful, and featured both Dawn O'Day and Margie Gay as Alice with Lois Hardwick also briefly assuming the role. By the time the series ended in 1927, its focus was more on the animated characters and in particular a cat named Julius who resembled Felix the Cat, rather than the live-action Alice.
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit[link]
Main article: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
By 1927, Charles Mintz had married Margaret Winkler and assumed control of her business. He then ordered a new all-animated series to be put into production for distribution through Universal Pictures. The new series, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, was an almost instant success, and the character, Oswald — drawn and created by Iwerks — became a popular figure. The Disney studio expanded and Walt re-hired Harman, Rudolph Ising, Carman Maxwell, and Friz Freleng from Kansas City.
Disney went to New York in February 1928 to negotiate a higher fee per short and was shocked when Mintz told him that not only did he want to reduce the fee he paid Disney per short but also that he had most of his main animators, including Harman, Ising, Maxwell, and Freleng—but not Iwerks, who refused to leave Disney—under contract and would start his own studio if Disney did not accept the reduced production budgets. Universal, not Disney, owned the Oswald trademark, and could make the films without Walt. Disney declined Mintz's offer and as a result lost most of his animation staff whereupon he found himself on his own again.[39]
It subsequently took his company 78 years to get back the rights to the Oswald character when in 2006 the Walt Disney Company reacquired the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from NBC Universal, through a trade for longtime ABC sports commentator Al Michaels.[40]
Mickey Mouse[link]
Main article: Mickey Mouse
After losing the rights to Oswald, Disney felt the need to develop a new character to replace him, which was based on a mouse he had adopted as a pet while working in his Laugh-O-Gram studio in Kansas City.[41] Ub Iwerks reworked the sketches made by Disney to make the character easier to animate although Mickey's voice and personality were provided by Disney himself until 1947. In the words of one Disney employee, "Ub designed Mickey's physical appearance, but Walt gave him his soul."[41] Besides Oswald and Mickey, a similar mouse-character is seen in the Alice Comedies, which featured "Ike the Mouse". Moreover, the first Flip the Frog cartoon called Fiddlesticks showed a Mickey Mouse look-alike playing fiddle. The initial films were animated by Iwerks with his name prominently featured on the title cards. Originally named "Mortimer", the mouse was later re-christened "Mickey" by Lillian Disney who thought that the name Mortimer did not fit. Mortimer later became the name of Mickey's rival for Minnie – taller than his renowned adversary and speaking with a Brooklyn accent.
The first animated short to feature Mickey, Plane Crazy was a silent film like all of Disney's previous works. After failing to find a distributor for the short and its follow-up, The Gallopin' Gaucho, Disney created a Mickey cartoon with sound called Steamboat Willie. A businessman named Pat Powers provided Disney with both distribution and Cinephone, a sound-synchronization process. Steamboat Willie became an instant success,[42] and Plane Crazy, The Galloping Gaucho, and all future Mickey cartoons were released with soundtracks. After the release of Steamboat Willie, Disney successfully used sound in all of his subsequent cartoons, and Cinephone also became the new distributor for Disney's early sound cartoons.[43] Mickey soon eclipsed Felix the Cat as the world's most popular cartoon character[41] and by 1930, despite their having sound, cartoons featuring Felix had faded from the screen after failing to gain attention.[44] Mickey's popularity would subsequently skyrocket in the early 1930s.[41]
[edit] Silly Symphonies
Following in the footsteps of Mickey Mouse series, a series of musical shorts titled, Silly Symphonies were released in 1929. The first, The Skeleton Dance was entirely drawn and animated by Iwerks, who was also responsible for drawing the majority of cartoons released by Disney in 1928 and 1929. Although both series were successful, the Disney studio thought it was not receiving its rightful share of profits from Pat Powers,[45] and in 1930, Disney signed a new distribution deal with Columbia Pictures. The original basis of the cartoons was their musical novelty with the first Silly Symphony cartoons featuring scores by Carl Stalling.[46]
Iwerks was soon lured by Powers into opening his own studio with an exclusive contract, while Stalling would also later leave Disney to join Iwerks.[47] Iwerks launched his Flip the Frog series with the first voiced color cartoon Fiddlesticks, filmed in two-strip Technicolor. Iwerks also created two other cartoon series, Willie Whopper and the Comicolor. In 1936, Iwerks shut down his studio in order to work on various projects dealing with animation technology. He would return to Disney in 1940 and go on to pioneer a number of film processes and specialized animation technologies in the studio's research and development department.
By 1932, although Mickey Mouse had become a relatively popular cinema character, Silly Symphonies was not as successful. The same year also saw competition increase as Max Fleischer's flapper cartoon character, Betty Boop, gained popularity among theater audiences.[48] Fleischer, considered Disney's main rival in the 1930s,[49] was also the father of Richard Fleischer, whom Disney would later hire to direct his 1954 film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Meanwhile, Columbia Pictures dropped the distribution of Disney cartoons to be replaced by United Artists.[50] In late 1932, Herbert Kalmus, who had just completed work on the first three-strip technicolor camera,[51] approached Walt and convinced him to reshoot the black and white Flowers and Trees in three-strip Technicolor.[52] Flowers and Trees would go on to be a phenomenal success and would also win the first 1932 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. After the release of Flowers and Trees, all subsequent Silly Symphony cartoons were in color while Disney was also able to negotiate a two-year deal with Technicolor, giving him the sole right to use their three-strip process,[53][54] a period eventually extended to five years.[46] Through Silly Symphonies, Disney also created his most successful cartoon short of all time, The Three Little Pigs (1933).[55] The cartoon ran in theaters for many months, featuring the hit song that became the anthem of the Great Depression, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf".[56]
First Academy Award[link]
In 1932, Disney received a special Academy Award for the creation of "Mickey Mouse", a series which switched to color in 1935 and soon launched spin-offs for supporting characters such as Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto. Pluto and Donald became standalone cartoons in 1937,[57] with Goofy following in 1939.[58] Of all Mickey's partners, Donald Duck, who first teamed up with Mickey in the 1934 cartoon, Orphan's Benefit, was arguably the most popular, going on to become Disney's second most successful cartoon character of all time.[59]
Children[link]
The Disneys' first attempt at pregnancy ended in miscarriage. Lillian became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter, Diane Marie Disney, on December 18, 1933.[60] Later, the Disneys adopted Sharon Mae Disney (December 31, 1936 – February 16, 1993).[61]
Diane married Ron Miller at the age of 20 and is known as Diane Disney Miller. The Millers established and own a winery called Silverado Vineyards in California.[62] Diane and Ron Miller have seven children: Christopher, Joanna, Tamara, Jennifer, Walter, Ronald and Patrick.[63] Years later, Diane went on to become the cofounder of The Walt Disney Family Museum, with the aid of her children.[60] The museum was created to preserve her father's image and reach out to millions of Disney fans worldwide.[64] The museum displays a chronological view of Walt Disney's life through personal artifacts, interactive kiosks and various animations.[64]
Sharon Mae Disney was born December 31, 1936, in Los Angeles, California and was later adopted by the Disneys, due to Lillian's several birth complications.[63][65] In 1950, Sharon went on to star as herself in the Walt Disney Studios special One Hour in Wonderland.[66] Sharon married Robert Brown in 1958, with whom she had one child, and they remained married until his death in 1967.[65] Sharon married William Lund in 1969 and had two children with him, but six years later they divorced.[65][67] Sharon was a philanthropist and had contributed to charities such as the Marianne Frostig Center of Educational Therapy and the Curtis School foundation.[68] In 1993 at the age of 57, Sharon died from cancer at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California.[65] After Sharon's death, her estate donated $11 million to the California School of Performing Arts, where she was a member of the board of trustees for almost two decades. Sharon's donation was commemorated by renaming the School of Dance the Sharon D. Lund School of Dance.[60][69]
1937–1941: Golden age of animation[link]
[edit] "Disney's Folly": Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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Following the creation of two cartoon series, in 1934 Disney began planning a full-length feature. The following year, opinion polls showed that another cartoon series, Popeye the Sailor, produced by Max Fleischer, was more popular than Mickey Mouse.[70] Nevertheless, Disney was able to put Mickey back on top as well as increase his popularity by colorizing and partially redesigning the character to become what was considered his most appealing design to date.[41] When the film industry learned of Disney's plans to produce an animated feature-length version of Snow White, they were certain that the endeavor would destroy the Disney Studio and dubbed the project "Disney's Folly". Both Lillian and Roy tried to talk Disney out of the project, but he continued plans for the feature, employing Chouinard Art Institute professor Don Graham to start a training operation for the studio staff. Disney then used the Silly Symphonies as a platform for experiments in realistic human animation, distinctive character animation, special effects, and the use of specialized processes and apparatus such as the multiplane camera – a new technique first used by Disney in the 1937 Silly Symphonies short The Old Mill.[71]
All of this development and training was used to increase quality at the studio and to ensure that the feature film would match Disney's quality expectations. Entitled Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the feature went into full production in 1934 and continued until mid-1937, when the studio ran out of money. To obtain the funding to complete Snow White, Disney had to show a rough cut of the motion picture to loan officers. The film premiered at the Carthay Circle Theater on December 21, 1937 and at its conclusion the audience gave Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs a standing ovation. Snow White, the first animated feature in America made in Technicolor, was released in February 1938 under a new distribution deal with RKO Radio Pictures. RKO had been the distributor for Disney cartoons in 1936, after it closed down the Van Beuren Studios in exchange for distribution.[72] The film became the most successful motion picture of 1938 and earned over $8 million on its initial release. These initial release earnings for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would be the equivalent of $122,487,945 in 2010.[73]
Golden age of animation[link]
Following the success of Snow White, for which Disney received one full-size, and seven miniature Oscar statuettes, he was able to build a new campus for the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, which opened for business on December 24, 1939. Snow White was not only the peak of Disney's success, but also ushered in a period that would later be known as the Golden Age of Animation for the studio.[74][75] Feature animation staff, having just completed Pinocchio, continued work on Fantasia and Bambi as well as the early production stages of Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and Wind in the Willows while the shorts staff carried on working on the Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto cartoon series, ending the Silly Symphonies at this time.[clarification needed More info needed on end of the Silly Symphonies to make a new and separate sentence.] Animator Fred Moore had redesigned Mickey Mouse in the late 1930s after Donald Duck overtook him in popularity among theater audiences.[76]
Pinocchio and Fantasia followed Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs into the movie theaters in 1940, but both proved financial disappointments. The inexpensive Dumbo was then planned as an income generator, but during production most of the animation staff went on strike, permanently straining relations between Disney and his artists.
1941–1945: World War II era[link]
In 1941, the U.S. State Department sent Disney and a group of animators to South America as part of its Good Neighbor policy, at the same time guaranteeing financing for the resultant movie, Saludos Amigos.[77]
Shortly after the release of Dumbo in October 1941, the US entered World War II. The U.S. Army and Navy Bureau of Aeronautics[78] contracted most of the Disney studio's facilities where the staff created training and instruction films for the military, home-front morale-boosting shorts such as Der Fuehrer's Face and the 1943 feature film Victory Through Air Power. However, military films did not generate income, and the feature film Bambi underperformed on its release in April 1942. Disney successfully re-issued Snow White in 1944, establishing a seven-year re-release tradition for his features. In 1945, The Three Caballeros was the last animated feature released by the studio during the war.
In 1944, Encyclopædia Britannica publisher William Benton, entered into unsuccessful negotiations with Disney to make six to twelve educational films per annum. Disney was asked by the US Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Office of Inter-American Affairs (OIAA), to make an educational film about the Amazon Basin, which resulted in the 1944 animated short, The Amazon Awakens.[79][80][81][82][83]
1945–1955: Post-war period[link]
Disney studios also created inexpensive package films, containing collections of cartoon shorts, and issued them to theaters during this period. These included Make Mine Music (1946), Melody Time (1948), Fun and Fancy Free (1947) and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949). The latter had only two sections, the first based on The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, and the second on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. During this period, Disney also ventured into full-length dramatic films that mixed live action and animated scenes, including Song of the South and So Dear to My Heart. After the war ended, Mickey's popularity would also fade.[84]
By the late 1940s, the studio had recovered enough to continue production on the full-length features Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, both of which had been shelved during the war years. Work also began on Cinderella, which became Disney's most successful film since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In 1948 the studio also initiated a series of live-action nature films, titled True-Life Adventures, with On Seal Island the first. Despite its resounding success with feature films, the studio's animation shorts were no longer as popular as they once were, with people paying more attention to Warner Bros. and their animation star Bugs Bunny. By 1942, Leon Schlesinger Productions, which produced the Warner Bros. cartoons, had become the country's most popular animation studio.[85] However, while Bugs Bunny's popularity rose in the 1940s, so did Donald Duck's,[86] a character who would replace Mickey Mouse as Disney's star character by 1949.[87]
During the mid-1950s, Disney produced a number of educational films on the space program in collaboration with NASA rocket designer Wernher von Braun: Man in Space and Man and the Moon in 1955, and Mars and Beyond in 1957.
Disney and the Second Red Scare[link]
Disney was a founding member of the anti-communist group Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. In 1947, during the Second Red Scare,[88] Disney testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), where he branded Herbert Sorrell, David Hilberman and William Pomerance, former animators and labor union organizers, Communist agitators. All three men denied the allegations and Sorrell went on to testify before the HUAC in 1946 when insufficient evidence was found to link him to the Communist Party.[89][90]
Disney also accused the Screen Cartoonists Guild of being a Communist front, and charged that the 1941 strike was part of an organized Communist effort to gain influence in Hollywood.[88]
1955–1966: Theme parks and beyond[link]
Planning Disneyland[link]
On a business trip to Chicago in the late-1940s, Disney drew sketches of his ideas for an amusement park where he envisioned his employees spending time with their children. The idea for a children's theme park came after a visit to Children's Fairyland in Oakland, California. It also said that Disney may have been inspired to create Disneyland in the park Republic of the Children located in Manuel B. Gonnet, La Plata, Argentina, and opened in 1951.[91] This plan was originally intended to be built on a plot located across the street to the south of the studio. These original ideas developed into a concept for a larger enterprise that would become Disneyland. Disney spent five years developing Disneyland and created a new subsidiary company, WED Enterprises, to carry out planning and production of the park. A small group of Disney studio employees joined the Disneyland development project as engineers and planners, and were dubbed Imagineers.[citation needed]
As Disney explained one of his earliest plans to Herb Ryman, who created the first aerial drawing of Disneyland presented to the Bank of America during fund raising for the project, he said, "Herbie, I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train."[92] Entertaining his daughters and their friends in his backyard and taking them for rides on his Carolwood Pacific Railroad had inspired Disney to include a railroad in the plans for Disneyland.
Disneyland grand opening[link]
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Walt Disney giving the dedication day speech July 17, 1955
Disneyland officially opened on July 18, 1955. On Sunday, July 17, 1955, Disneyland hosted a live TV preview, among the thousands of people in attendance were Ronald Reagan, Bob Cummings and Art Linkletter, who shared cohosting duties, as well as the mayor of Anaheim. Walt gave the following dedication day speech:
| “ | To all who come to this happy place; welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past .... and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams and the hard facts that have created America ... with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world. | ” |
Carolwood Pacific Railroad[link]
Main article: Carolwood Pacific Railroad
During 1949, Disney and his family moved to a new home on a large piece of land in the Holmby Hills district of Los Angeles, California. With the help of his friends Ward and Betty Kimball, who already had their own backyard railroad, Disney developed blueprints and immediately set to work on creating a miniature live steam railroad for his backyard. The name of the railroad, Carolwood Pacific Railroad, came from his home's location on Carolwood Drive. The railroad's half-mile long layout included a 46-foot (14 m) long trestle bridge, loops, overpasses, gradients, an elevated berm, and a 90-foot (27 m) tunnel underneath his wife's flowerbed. He named the miniature working steam locomotive built by Disney Studios engineer Roger E. Broggie Lilly Belle in his wife's honor and had his attorney draw up right-of-way papers giving the railroad a permanent, legal easement through the garden areas, which his wife dutifully signed; however, there is no evidence of the documents ever recorded as a restriction on the property's title.[clarification needed]
Expansion into new areas[link]
As Walt Disney Productions began work on Disneyland, it also began expanding its other entertainment operations. In 1950, Treasure Island became the studio's first all-live-action feature, soon followed by 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (in CinemaScope, 1954), Old Yeller (1957), The Shaggy Dog (1959), Pollyanna (1960), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), and The Parent Trap (1961). The studio produced its first TV special, One Hour in Wonderland, in 1950. Disney began hosting a weekly anthology series on ABC entitled Disneyland, after the park, on which he aired clips of past Disney productions, gave tours of his studio, and familiarized the public with Disneyland as it was being constructed in Anaheim. The show also featured a Davy Crockett miniseries, which started the "Davy Crockett craze" among American youth, during which millions of coonskin caps and other Crockett memorabilia were sold across the country.[93] In 1955, the studio's first daily television show, Mickey Mouse Club debuted on ABC. It was a groundbreaking comedy/variety show aimed specifically for children. Disney took a strong personal interest in the show and even returned to the animation studio to voice Mickey Mouse in its animated segments during its original 1955-59 production run. The Mickey Mouse Club would continue in various incarnations in syndication and on the Disney Channel into the 1990s.
As the studio expanded and diversified into other media, Disney devoted less of his attention to the animation department, entrusting most of its operations to his key animators, whom he dubbed the Nine Old Men. Although he was spending less time supervising the production of the animated films, he was always present at story meetings.[94] During Disney's lifetime, the animation department created the successful Lady and the Tramp ( the first animated film in CinemaScope) in 1955, Sleeping Beauty ( the first animated film in Super Technirama 70mm) in 1959, One Hundred and One Dalmatians (the first animated feature film to use Xerox cels) in 1961, and The Sword in the Stone in 1963.
Production of short cartoons kept pace until 1956, when Disney shut down the responsible division although special shorts projects would continue for the remainder of the studio's duration on an irregular basis. These productions were all distributed by Disney's new subsidiary, Buena Vista Distribution, which had taken over all distribution duties for Disney films from RKO by 1955. Disneyland, one of the world's first theme parks, finally opened on July 17, 1955, and was immediately successful. Visitors from around the world came to visit Disneyland, which contained attractions based on a number of successful Disney characters and films.
After 1955, the Disneyland TV show was renamed Walt Disney Presents. It switched from black-and-white to color in 1961 and changed its name to Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, at the same time moving from ABC to NBC,[95] and eventually evolving into its current form as The Wonderful World of Disney. The series continued to air on NBC until 1981, when it was picked up by CBS.[96] Since then, it has aired on ABC, NBC, the Hallmark Channel and the Cartoon Network via separate broadcast rights deals. During its run, the Disney series offered some recurring characters, such as the newspaper reporter and sleuth "Gallegher" played by Roger Mobley with a plot based on the writings of Richard Harding Davis.
Disney had already formed his own music publishing division in 1949 and in 1956, partly inspired by the huge success of the television theme song The Ballad of Davy Crockett, he created a company-owned record production and distribution entity called Disneyland Records.
Early 1960s successes[link]
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(Left to right) Robert B. Sherman, Richard M. Sherman and Walt Disney sing "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" (1964)
By the early 1960s, the Disney empire had become a major success, and Walt Disney Productions had established itself as the world's leading producer of family entertainment. Walt Disney was the Head of Pageantry for the 1960 Winter Olympics.
After decades of pursuit, Disney finally acquired the rights to P.L. Travers' books about a magical nanny. Mary Poppins, released in 1964, was the most successful Disney film of the 1960s and featured a memorable song score written by Disney favorites, the Sherman Brothers. The same year, Disney debuted a number of exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair, including Audio-Animatronic figures, all of which were later integrated into attractions at Disneyland and a new theme park project which was to be established on the East Coast.
Although the studio would probably have proved major competition for Hanna-Barbera, Disney decided not to enter the race and mimic Hanna-Barbera by producing Saturday morning TV cartoon series. With the expansion of Disney's empire and constant production of feature films, the financial burden involved in such a move would have proven too great.
Plans for Disney World and EPCOT[link]
In early 1964, Disney announced plans to develop another theme park to be called Disney World a few miles southwest of Orlando, Florida. Disney World was to include "the Magic Kingdom", a larger, more elaborate version of Disneyland. It would also feature a number of golf courses and resort hotels. The heart of Disney World, however, was to be the Experimental Prototype City (or Community) of Tomorrow, known as EPCOT for short.
Mineral King Ski Resort[link]
During the early-to-mid 1960s, Walt Disney developed plans for a ski resort in Mineral King, a glacial valley in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. He brought in experts such as the renowned Olympic ski coach and ski-area designer Willy Schaeffler, who helped plan a visitor village, ski runs and ski lifts among the several bowls surrounding the valley. Plans finally moved into action in the mid 1960s, but Walt died before the actual work started. Disney's death and opposition from conservationists ensured that the resort was never built.
Death[link]
Like many people of the time, Walt Disney was a chain smoker his entire adult life, although he made sure he was not seen smoking around children.[97] In 1966, Disney was scheduled to undergo surgery to repair an old neck injury[98] caused by many years of playing polo at the Riviera Club in Hollywood.[99] On November 2, during pre-operative X-rays, doctors at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, across the street from the Disney Studio, discovered a tumor in his left lung.[100] Five days later a biopsy showed the tumor to be malignant and to have spread throughout the entire left lung.[100] After removal of the lung, doctors informed Disney that his life expectancy was six months to two years.[100] After several chemotherapy sessions, Disney and his wife spent a short amount of time in Palm Springs, California.[98] On November 30, Disney collapsed at his home. He was revived by fire department personnel and rushed to St. Joseph's where on December 15, 1966, at 9:30 a.m., ten days after his 65th birthday, Disney died of acute circulatory collapse, caused by lung cancer.[98] The last thing he reportedly wrote before his death was the name of actor Kurt Russell, the significance of which remains a mystery, even to Russell.[101]
Roy O. Disney continued out with the Florida project, insisting that the name be changed to Walt Disney World in honor of his brother.
The final productions in which Disney played an active role were the animated feature The Jungle Book and the animated short Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, as well as the live-action musical feature The Happiest Millionaire, all released in 1967. Songwriter Robert B. Sherman recalled of the last time he saw Disney:
| “ | He was up in the third floor of the animation building after a run-through of The Happiest Millionaire. He usually held court in the hallway afterward for the people involved with the picture. And he started talking to them, telling them what he liked and what they should change, and then, when they were through, he turned to us and with a big smile, he said, 'Keep up the good work, boys.' And he walked to his office. It was the last we ever saw of him.[102] | ” |
Hibernation Urban Legend[link]
A long-standing urban legend maintains that Disney was cryogenically frozen, and his frozen corpse stored beneath the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland.[103] In fact, Disney was cremated on December 17, 1966, and his ashes interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. The first known human cryogenic freezing did not occur until January 1967, more than a month after Disney's death.[103]
According to "at least one Disney publicist", as reported in the French magazine Ici Paris in 1969, the source of the rumor was a group of Disney Studio animators with "a bizarre sense of humor" who were playing a final prank on their late boss.[104]
Although the rumor is acknowledged as false by most historians, Robert Mosley (in Disney’s World (1986)) and Marc Eliot (in Walt Disney – Hollywood’s Dark Prince (1993)) argue that Disney may have known of cryonics and may have had an interest in the science.[105] However his daughter Diane wrote in 1972, "There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that my father, Walt Disney, wished to be frozen. I doubt that my father had ever heard of cryonics."[104]
Legacy: 1967–present[link]
Continuing Disney Productions[link]
After Walt Disney's death, Roy Disney returned from retirement to take full control of Walt Disney Productions and WED Enterprises. In October 1971, the families of Walt and Roy met in front of Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom to officially open the Walt Disney World Resort.
After giving his dedication for Walt Disney World, Roy asked Lillian Disney to join him. As the orchestra played "When You Wish upon a Star", she stepped up to the podium accompanied by Mickey Mouse. He then said, "Lilly, you knew all of Walt's ideas and hopes as well as anybody; what would Walt think of it [Walt Disney World]?". "I think Walt would have approved," she replied.[106] Roy died from a cerebral hemorrhage on December 20, 1971, the day he was due to open the Disneyland Christmas parade.
During the second phase of the "Walt Disney World" theme park, EPCOT was translated by Disney's successors into EPCOT Center, which opened in 1982. As it currently exists, EPCOT is essentially a living world's fair, different from the actual functional city that Disney had envisioned. In 1992, Walt Disney Imagineering took the step closer to Disney's original ideas and dedicated Celebration, Florida, a town built by the Walt Disney Company adjacent to Walt Disney World, that hearkens back to the spirit of EPCOT. EPCOT was also originally intended to be devoid of Disney characters which initially limited the appeal of the park to young children. However, the company later changed this policy and Disney characters can now be found throughout the park, often dressed in costumes reflecting the different pavilions.
The Disney entertainment empire[link]
Today, Walt Disney's animation/motion picture studios and theme parks have developed into a multi-billion dollar television, motion picture, vacation destination and media corporation that carry his name. Among other assets The Walt Disney Company owns five vacation resorts, eleven theme parks, two water parks, thirty-nine hotels, eight motion picture studios, six record labels, eleven cable television networks, and one terrestrial television network. As of 2007, the company had annual revenues of over U.S. $35 billion.[107]
Disney Animation[link]
Walt Disney was a pioneer in character animation. He was one of the first people to move away from basic cartoons with just "impossible outlandish gags" and crudely drawn characters to an art form with heartwarming stories and characters the audience can connect to on an emotional level. The personality displayed in the characters of his films and the technological advancements remain influential when animating today. He was also considered by many of his colleagues to be a master storyteller and the animation department did not fully recover from his demise until the late 1980s in a period known as the Disney Renaissance. The most financially and critically successful films produced during this time include Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992) and The Lion King (1994). In 1995, Walt Disney Pictures distributed Pixar's Toy Story, the first computer animated feature film. Walt Disney's nephew Roy E. Disney claimed that Walt would have loved Toy Story and that it was "his kind of movie".[108] With the rise of computer animated films a stream of financially unsuccessful Traditional hand-drawn animated features in the early years of the 2000s (decade) emerged. This led to the company's controversial decision to close the traditional animation department. The two satellite studios in Paris and Orlando were closed, and the main studio in Burbank was converted to a computer animation production facility, firing hundreds of people in the process. In 2004, Disney released what was announced as their final "traditionally animated" feature film, Home on the Range. However, since the 2006 acquisition of Pixar, and the resulting rise of John Lasseter to Chief Creative Officer, that position has changed with the largely successful 2009 film The Princess and the Frog. This marked Disney's return to traditional hand-drawn animation and the studio hired back staff who had been laid-off in the past. Today, Disney produces both traditional and computer animation.
CalArts[link]
In his later years, Disney devoted substantial time to funding The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Formed in 1961 through a merger of the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and the Chouinard Art Institute, which had helped in the training of the animation staff during the 1930s, when Disney died, one-fourth of his estate went to CalArts, which helped in building its campus. In his will, Disney paved the way for the creation of several charitable trusts which included one for the California Institute of the Arts and other for the Disney Foundation.[109] He also donated 38 acres (0.154 km2) of the Golden Oaks ranch in Valencia for construction of the school. CalArts moved onto the Valencia campus in 1972.
In an early admissions bulletin, Disney explained: "A hundred years ago, Wagner conceived of a perfect and all-embracing art, combining music, drama, painting, and the dance, but in his wildest imagination he had no hint what infinite possibilities were to become commonplace through the invention of recording, radio, cinema and television. There already have been geniuses combining the arts in the mass-communications media, and they have already given us powerful new art forms. The future holds bright promise for those who imaginations are trained to play on the vast orchestra of the art-in-combination. Such supermen will appear most certainly in those environments which provide contact with all the arts, but even those who devote themselves to a single phase of art will benefit from broadened horizons."[110]
Walt Disney Family Museum[link]
In 2009, The Walt Disney Family Museum opened in the Presidio of San Francisco. Thousands of artifacts from Disney's life and career are on display, including 248 awards that he received.[111]
Antisemitism accusations[link]
Disney was long rumored to be antisemitic during his lifetime, and such rumors have persisted after his death. Indeed, in the 1930s he welcomed German filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl to Hollywood.[112] Disney biographer Neal Gabler, the first writer to gain unrestricted access to the Disney archives, concluded in 2006 that available evidence does not support such accusations. In a CBS interview Gabler summarized his findings:
| “ | That's one of the questions everybody asks me... My answer to that is, not in the conventional sense that we think of someone as being an antisemite. But he got the reputation because, in the 1940s, he got himself allied with a group called the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, which was an anti-Communist and antisemitic organization. And though Walt himself, in my estimation, was not antisemitic, nevertheless, he willingly allied himself with people who were antisemitic, and that reputation stuck. He was never really able to expunge it throughout his life.[113] | ” |
Disney eventually distanced himself from the Motion Picture Alliance in the 1950s.[114]
The Walt Disney Family Museum acknowledges that Disney did have "difficult relationships" with some Jewish individuals, and that ethnic stereotypes common to films of the 1930s were included in some early cartoons, such as Three Little Pigs and The Opry House. However, the museum points out that Disney employed Jews throughout his career, donated to several Jewish charities (The Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Yeshiva College[disambiguation needed 
], Jewish Home for the Aged, The American League for a Free Palestine)[114] and was named "1955 Man of the Year" by the B'nai B'rith chapter in Beverly Hills.[114][115]
Academy Awards[link]
Walt Disney holds the record for both the most Academy Award nominations (59) and the number of Oscars awarded (22). He also earned four honorary Oscars. His last competitive Academy Award was posthumous.[116]
- 1932: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: Flowers and Trees (1932)
- 1932: Honorary Award for creation of Mickey Mouse.
- 1934: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: Three Little Pigs (1933)
- 1935: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: The Tortoise and the Hare (1934)
- 1936: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: Three Orphan Kittens (1935)
- 1937: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: The Country Cousin (1936)
- 1938: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: The Old Mill (1937)
- 1939: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: Ferdinand the Bull (1938)
- 1939: Honorary Award for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) The citation read, "For Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field." (The award, unique in the history of the Oscars, is one large statuette and seven miniature statuettes.)[5]
- 1940: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: Ugly Duckling (1939)
- 1941: Honorary Award for Fantasia (1940), shared with: William E. Garity and J.N.A. Hawkins. The citation for the certificate of merit read, "For their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia."[5]
- 1942: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: Lend a Paw (1941)
- 1943: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: Der Fuehrer's Face (1942)
- 1949: Best Short Subject, Two-reel: Seal Island (1948)
- 1949: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (Honorary Award)
- 1951: Best Short Subject, Two-reel: Beaver Valley (1950)
- 1952: Best Short Subject, Two-reel: Nature's Half Acre (1951)
- 1953: Best Short Subject, Two-reel: Water Birds (1952)
- 1954: Best Documentary, Features: The Living Desert (1953)
- 1954: Best Documentary, Short Subjects: The Alaskan Eskimo (1953)
- 1954: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom (1953)
- 1954: Best Short Subject, Two-reel: Bear Country (1953)
- 1955: Best Documentary, Features: The Vanishing Prairie (1954)
- 1956: Best Documentary, Short Subjects: Men Against the Arctic
- 1959: Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects: Grand Canyon
- 1969: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
Other honors[link]
Walt Disney was the inaugural recipient of a star on the Anaheim walk of stars awarded in recognition of his significant contribution to the city of Anaheim and specifically Disneyland, which is now the Disneyland Resort. The star is located at the pedestrian entrance to the Disneyland Resort on Harbor Boulevard. Disney has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and the other for his television work.
Walt Disney received the Congressional Gold Medal on May 24, 1968 (P.L. 90-316, 82 Stat. 130–131) and the Légion d'Honneur awarded by France in 1935.[117] In 1935, Walt received a special medal from the League of Nations for creation of Mickey Mouse, held to be Mickey Mouse award.[118] He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on September 14, 1964.[119] On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Walt Disney into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.
A minor planet, 4017 Disneya, discovered in 1980 by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina, is named after him.[120]
The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, opened in 2003, was named in his honor.
Waltograph, a freeware typeface, is based on his signature and handwriting.
In 1993, HBO began development of a Walt Disney biopic, directed by Frank Pierson and produced by Lawrence Turman, but the project never materialized and was soon abandoned.[121] However, Walt - The Man Behind the Myth, a biographical documentary about Disney, was later made.[122]
| Preceded by None |
Voice of Mickey Mouse 1928–1947, 1955-1959 |
Succeeded by Jimmy MacDonald |
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References[link]
- Thomas, Bob (1994). Walt Disney: An American Original. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 0-7868-6027-8.
Further reading[link]
- Barrier, Michael (1999). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-516729-5.
- Broggie, Michael (1997, 1998, 2005). Walt Disney's Railroad Story. Virginia Beach, Virginia. Donning Publishers. ISBN 1-56342-009-0
- Eliot, Marc (1993). Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince. Carol. ISBN 1-55972-174-X
- Mosley, Leonard. Disney's World: A Biography (1985, 2002). Chelsea, MI: Scarborough House. ISBN 0-8128-8514-7.
- Gabler, Neal. Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination (2006). New York, NY. Random House. ISBN 0-679-43822-X
- Schickel, Richard, and Dee, Ivan R. (1967, 1985, 1997). The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher. ISBN 1-56663-158-0.
- Sherman, Robert B. and Sherman, Richard M. (1998) "Walt's Time: From Before to Beyond" ISBN 0-9646059-3-7
- Thomas, Bob (1991). Disney's Art of Animation: From Mickey Mouse to Beauty and the Beast. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 1-56282-899-1.
- Watts, Steven, The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life, University of Missouri Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8262-1379-0
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| Name | Disney, Walter Elias |
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| Short description | Producer, director and animator |
| Date of birth | December 5, 1901 |
| Place of birth | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Date of death | December 15, 1966 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles, California, United States |
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| Tyler James Williams | |
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| Born | (1992-10-09) October 9, 1992 (age 19) Westchester County, New York, United States |
| Other names | Tyler Williams Tyler J. Williams T.J. Williams |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2000–present |
Tyler James Williams (born October 9, 1992) is an American actor,rapper and voice actor. He is most recognizable for having played the title character of the Chris Rock-inspired sitcom Everybody Hates Chris.
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Life and career[link]
Williams was born in Westchester County, New York, and raised in Yonkers, New York.[1] His mother, Angela Williams, is a singer/songwriter, and his father, Le'Roy Williams, is a police sergeant.[1][2] Williams has two younger brothers: Tyrel Jackson Williams (b.1997) and Tylen Jacob Williams (b.2002). His younger brother Tyrel is also an actor, and stars on the Disney XD show Lab Rats.
Williams previously starred in Little Bill as the voice of Bobby, briefly replacing Devon Malik Beckford in 2000, and played himself (or an eponymous character, "Tyler") on the children's show Sesame Street from 2002–2005. He has also guest-starred in Two for the Money, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and the show Hi-Jinks along with his Everybody Hates Chris co-star Tichina Arnold. He dated True Jackson, VP star Keke Palmer from early 2007 to late 2008. In late 2009, Williams appeared in the second season of True Jackson, VP as Justin in the episode "Flirting with Fame". He played a rapper named Lil' Shakespeare
Filmography[link]
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Little Bill | Bobby | (unknown episodes) |
| Sesame Street | himself | (various episodes, 2000–2005) | |
| 2003 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Kids Say the Darnedest Things | (unknown episodes) |
| Saturday Night Live | Jack Black's adopted son | episode: Jack Black/John Mayer | |
| 2005 | Law & Order:SVU | Kyle McGovern | (1 episode- "Parts") |
| Everybody Hates Chris | Chris Rock | Lead role | |
| Hi-Jinks | Himself | (1 episode) | |
| 2006 | Unaccompanied Minors | Charlie Goldfinch | |
| The Ant Bully | Blue Teammate #1 | (voice) | |
| Everyone's Hero | Additional Voices | (voice, as James Williams) | |
| 2009 | The Cleaner | Kenji Simon | (1 episode- "Last American Casuality") |
| True Jackson, VP | Justin "Lil' Shakespeare" Weber | (2 episodes) | |
| 2010 | Batman: The Brave and the Bold | Firestorm | (voice, 1 episode - "A Bat Divided!") |
| 2011 | House, M.D. | Landon Parks | (1 episode- "Carrot or Stick") |
| 2012 | Let It Shine | Cyrus DeBarge | Disney Channel Original Movie |
| 2012 | Go On | Owen |
Awards[link]
- In 2007, Williams won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series. Receiving the prize at age 14, he is the youngest person ever to receive this award.
- In 2010, Williams was nominated for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series.
References[link]
- ^ a b Tyler James Williams filmreference.com
- ^ http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/tyler-james-williams/bio/193951
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| Short description | American actor |
| Date of birth | October 9, 1992 |
| Place of birth | Westchester County, New York, United States |
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