by Jeff Dixon | Mar 1, 2012 | Disney Trivia
In 1931 Walt Disney released a Mickey Mouse cartoon called Traffic Troubles. The animation director for the film was a man named David Hand. After finishing one sequence for the cartoon he sat down with Walt Disney and watched the pencil drawn screen test. After the...
by Jeff Dixon | Feb 24, 2012 | Disney Trivia
Years ago when the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction was being built at Disneyland, Walt Disney noticed that one of the construction workers on the project was from the Louisiana bayou country. The Louisiana bayou is the setting of the first part of the attraction....
by Jeff Dixon | Feb 20, 2012 | Disney Trivia
The history of Walt Disney is full of amazing stories where people recall their memories of the man and the legend that was Disney. This is one that makes me laugh and makes me wonder what I would do in this situation. This story begins with a man named Bob Broughton...
by Jeff Dixon | Feb 14, 2012 | Disney Trivia
Walt Disney once said, “Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great. Make a fifty-year master plan. A fifty-year master plan will change how you look at the opportunities in the present.” The people who knew Walt, the people who...
by Jeff Dixon | Feb 10, 2012 | Disney Trivia
During the last couple of years of Walt Disney’s life, every Friday afternoon he would visit with the famous Sherman Brothers who worked there in the Disney Studio. (The Sherman Brothers are the famous award winning writing duo that created so many of the...
by Jeff Dixon | Feb 6, 2012 | Disney Trivia
Walt Disney spent the last decade of his life “plussing” the experience people would have at Disneyland. “Plussing” was a term that Walt coined in the 1940s that built on the idea of what it meant to “plus” something. If you were to...
by Jeff Dixon | Jan 20, 2012 | Disney Trivia
It was in the 1950’s when Walt Disney placed a phone call to Santa Monica High School and asked the drama teacher if there were any promising students that year in their graduating class. The teacher mentioned one, a talented actor, named Ken Wales. So Walt...
by Jeff Dixon | Jan 15, 2012 | Disney Trivia
The place is the Walt Disney Studios. It is in the early 1960’s. The place is a beehive of activity and the studio is on the cutting edge of creating entertainment for television, film, and of course…theme parks. In a story first recalled by animator Floyd...
by Jeff Dixon | Jan 11, 2012 | Featured, Photos
by Jeff Dixon | Jan 9, 2012 | Disney Trivia
Sometimes it is easy to forget that back in 1955 Disneyland was one of the biggest gambles in the history of American business. Now all of these years later, with Disney theme parks all over the world, we can look back and conclude that the risk paid off. Did the risk...
