The Making of The Little Mermaid (1989)
This is the first of the Making Of specials that aired on the Disney Channel at the time of their latest animated film releases. As each successive film was released, some felt they became monotonous but each film is a different story with different challenges behind it. The objective of The Little Mermaid was the jumpstart Walt Disney Feature Animation with a classic film and this documentary demonstrates how much the filmmakers revered those earlier films from Walt's time. As we all know, they succeeded.
A Highlight of this documentary include the only interviews with Howard Ashman who died before Beauty & the Beast and Aladdin were released. He was regarded as the instrumental figure in rebooting Disney animated features. He understood the past and was able to build the future on it. Many of the filmmakers who worked with him were still utilizing lessons he'd taught them on story, character, and music well into the 2000's. He only cared about story and character, he wasn't for this wokeness. In recent years, there's been a push by the woke to make Ursula a drag queen in reimaginings and performances of the music because one of Ashman's inspirations for the character was a drag queen known as Divine. However, this was NOT the only inspiration for the character and when the animators were going too far with the Divine influence, it as Howard who told them to pull it back. Howard Ashman didn't just write the songs and work on the stories and characters for The Little Mermaid. He was one of the film's producers and that made a huge difference in what came later in the late 90's and early 2000's. His influence was pivotal in restoring Walt Disney animated features to the artform they became known for again.
In this documentary, you also get to see many of the actors and artists who worked on this special film. It's interesting to see these people at the beginning of their journey, not realizing just how much Walt Disney history legacy was before them that they'd all play a role in rebuilding. Alyssa Milano is the host as she was one of the models for the design of Ariel but not the only one.
Original air date November 11, 1989
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The Making of Beauty & the Beast (1991)
This is the second of the Making Of specials that aired on the Disney Channel at the time of their latest animated film releases. As each successive film was released, some felt they became monotonous but each film is a different story with different challenges behind it. The objective of The Little Mermaid had been to jumpstart Walt Disney Feature Animation with a classic film, the objective of Beauty & the Beast was to solidify it. This documentary demonstrates how that was accomplished.
The Walt Disney Studios knew they had something extra special with Beauty & the Beast and that would be affirmed in the coming months with unprecedented box office returns, award wins and nominations.
David Ogden Stiers, who plays Cogsworth and the Narrator in the film, hosts this documentary in what would become the standard template for such Making of specials. Stiers would go one to portray several more characters in both Disney live action and animated films but Cogsworth was his first Disney role.
We meet the voice cast, the animators and many of the behind the scenes figures who produced this film. Given how much of this sort of thing we see today, the unique novelty of this may have worn off. There was still a lot of Walt Disney history legacy ahead of this team and it's exciting looking back at this time knowing the heights they would reach in only a few short years.
Original air date November 16, 1991
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Walt Disney's Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs Live at Radio City Music Hall (1979)
In the late 1970's, Radio City Music Hall was in danger of being torn down. They needed a miracle. They found it with Snow White Live!
Walt Disney had a history with Radio City Music Hall going back to the beginning of his career. That relationship remained in place after he died with many Walt Disney films premiering there. That loyalty carried on when the Music Hall needed an attraction to bring in audiences and remain open. That attraction was a Broadway show based on Walt Disney's Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs and it saved the Music Hall at a time when movie palaces were being demolished across the country. While there had been traveling stage productions using Disney characters for some time, this marked the first time Walt Disney Productions allowed an outside company to adapt one of their films in a stage production. That production was overseen by longtime Disney Parks vet, Robert F. Jani and first debuted in St. Louis in 1969 returning again in 1972. The decision was made to bring this production to New York City at a time when America's future looked bleak. Originally only intended for a 14 day run, it proved immensely popular and was not only held over but returned after Christmas.
The original production opened on October 18, 1979, closing November 18, 1979 after 38 performances in order to put on the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. It then reopened on January 11, 1980 running 68 performances and closed on March 9, 1980, a total of 106 performances. It also went on national tour. A cast recording LP was released in 1979 and was the final Buena Vista label LP record release. The performance was recorded and released on home video as Snow White Live! at Radio City Music Hall in 1981. The Walt Disney Company had stated they would never release Walt's actual animated feature to home video and this took the place of it. This stage production was the only way to see Walt Disney's Snow White story for a generation of people. It aired on HBO in the early 1980's and, starting in 1987 to coincide with the original film's 50th anniversary, it aired on the Disney Channel.
The VHS of this production is long out of print, fetching hundreds of dollars on Ebay and has never been released to DVD. The entire production is here.
While the Walt Disney Company began a string of Broadway adaptations of their modern day animated features, this is the original and a faithful adaptation it is. The story was expanded to give the Prince more to do and added a great character moment for Dopey in the finale. It also added additional characters such as Luna, the servant of the evil Queen, and for the first time we got to meet Snow White's father the King. Verses to the established songs cut from the animated film were restored and new songs were written adding to the score and they fit rather well. In casting the role of Snow White a national casting call went out looking for an unknown to create the PR of the fairy tale discovery story.
A fan produced documentary on the stage production featuring interviews with man of the key players can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR-AyeartfM
It should also be noted that Howard Ashman attended a few of these performances. He would go one to revitalize Walt Disney animated features starting with 1989's The Little Mermaid.
Cast
Mary Jo Salerno as Snow White
Richard Bowne as The Prince
Anne Francine as The Evil Queen
Charles Hall as The Hag & Magic Mirror
Don Potter as Doc
Benny Freigh as Grumpy
Richard Day as Happy
Jay Edward Allen as Bashful
Louis Carry as Sneezy
Jerry Riley as Sleepy
Michael E. King as Dopey
Bruce Sherman as The Huntsman
Thomas Ruisinger as The King
Yolande Bavan as Luna
Heidi Coe as Greta
Lauren Lipson as Mother
David Pursley as Chamberlain
Songs by Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline, & Paul Smith
Additional songs by Joe Cook & Jay Blackton
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Walt Disney World Happy Easter Parade (1985)
This is the very first Walt Disney World Happy Easter Parade to be aired on network television from 1985. This parade would become a staple for decades and something important in growing up Disney during the 80's and 90's, before being abandoned in the early 2000's by the Eisner regime. This is the only nighttime Easter Parade that aired. From here on out it always aired on Easter afternoon after most Americans had returned home from attending morning church services. The parade always ended with the crowd singing Irving Berlin's Easter Parade as they dispersed after the festivities.
This unique parade in the history of the Easter parade, is more of a concert format with some parade edited in. Although this is a format is much more common today, it was unusual at the time. The Independence Day Parade that would begin airing a few years later was always a nighttime parade closer in format to this debut Easter parade. It's still a time capsule into Walt Disney history past and pop culture past.
Joan Lunden and Rick Dees co-host this parade with magician Doug Henning appearing throughout. There's also an appearance by the dinosaur animatronic from the then upcoming Touchstone Pictures release Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend. The studio had high hopes for this film as their answer to Raiders of the Lost Ark centered around the mythos of the cryptid creature known as Mokele mbembe.
Lunden was then the current co-host of Good Morning America while Dees was a popular comedian and radio personality of the day. Henning was a well-known magician of the time. He later got involved in politics before passing away of liver cancer in 2000. This archetype of hosts for the parade broadcasts would continue with the parade for decades even though the hosts would change.
Joan Lunden is the longest-running host of the Disney parade broadcasts. She would co-host the Easter Parade until 1996.
This parade broadcast was executive produced by Walt Disney's grandson Walter Miller.
Original air date April 7, 1985
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Walt Disney World Happy Easter Parade (1986)
This is the second Walt Disney World Happy Easter Parade to be aired on network television from 1986. This parade would become a staple for decades and something important in growing up Disney during the 80's and 90's, before being abandoned in the early 2000's by the Eisner regime. This is the only time the parade was merged with the New York City Easter Parade in a joint broadcast, making it a unique parade broadcast in its history. The New York City Easter Parade had debuted on TV the year before on CBS while the Walt Disney World Happy Easter Parade aired later that night on ABC. This broadcast aired on CBS and alternated between the two parades. After this year, the Walt Disney World Happy Easter Parade always aired on Easter afternoon after most Americans had returned home from attending morning church services. The parade always ended with the crowd singing Irving Berlin's Easter Parade as they dispersed after the festivities. It's a time capsule into Walt Disney and America's history past and pop culture past.
Robby Benson and Anna Alicia co-host the Disney World portion of the parade with Ken Kercheval and Susan Howard hosting the New York City Easter Parade portions of the show.
Benson was a movie star at the time and would go one to be the voice of the Beast in the 1991 Disney animated feature Beauty & the Beast. Alicia was one of the main cast members on the soap opera Falcon's Crest.
Original air date March 30, 1986
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Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade (1983)
This is the very first Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade to be aired on network television from 1983. This parade would become a staple for decades and something important in growing up Disney in the 80's and 90's, although the "Christmas" name would be dropped near the end of the Eisner age. The Christmas parade telecast really became a 2 hour infomercial for what the Walt Disney Company had in the works for the upcoming year. Eventually annual Easter and Independence Day Parade telecasts would join the Christmas Parade and the Christmas Parade itself would expand to a 2 hour Christmas morning broadcast tradition. Regis Philbin became the figure most associated with these parades, but this was before that. (The Easter and Independence Day Parade broadcasts were dropped near the end of the Eisner years as well.) The Christmas and Easter parades always aired on the ABC Network.
This is a time capsule into Walt Disney history past. This is the final Walt Disney World Christmas Parade before the Eisner regime took over the company. Here, we get a glimpse at what Disney was like BEFORE Pixar, before The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty & the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and the other beloved properties that came later and they could only rely on the characters that Walt Disney personally created. Walt had been dead for nearly 20 years at this point, and they were STILL coasting on the fumes he'd left behind. You can see how this was still a small company that was run like a family. It wasn't anywhere near the global conglomerate people think of today. Many of these characters you don't see any more either and they STILL cared about the legacy of Walt Disney. What a tremendous time capsule this is.
Mike Douglas and Joan Lunden co-host this parade with Carol Lawerence.
Douglas was a popular talk show host of the day while Lunden was then the current co-host of Good Morning America. Lawerence was a well-known actress and singer of the time. This archetype of hosts for the parade broadcasts would continue with the parade for decades even though the hosts would change.
Joan Lunden is the longest-running host of the Disney parade broadcasts and Mike Douglas was later replaced by Alan Thicke with Regis Philbin was later added as an on-street interviewer.
Original air date December 25, 1983
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Walt Disney Interview - Hollywood Past (1959)
In 1959 Tony Thomas interviewed Walt on his early career for the radio show Hollywood Past. This is one of the rare interviews Walt gave that still exists.
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Walt Disney Pictures' Hercules (1997) Trailer
Trailer for the 1997 musical comedy adventure based on ancient Greek mythology.
Plot: Hercules is on a quest to become a true hero while facing the menacing Hades.
This film was an anomaly for the time in that it was primarily a comedy film among a sea of animated epics but it still retained the epic scale of the post-Beauty & the Beast period. The film was a box office disappointment, perhaps in large part due to the Christian boycott of Disney that was ongoing at the times. It's really James Woods' masterful performance as Hades that carries this film and it deserves to be more than only a cult classic.
Starring
Tate Donovan as Hercules
Josh Keaton as Young Hercules
Roger Bart as Young Hercules' Singing Voice.
Danny DeVito as Philoctetes
James Woods as Hades
Susan Egan as Megara
Rip Torn as Zeus
Samantha Eggar as Hera.
Lillias White as Calliopes
Cheryl Freeman as Melpomene
LaChanze as Terpsichore
Roz Ryan aa Thaila
Vaneese Thomas as Clio
Bobcat Goldthwait as Pain
Matt Frewer as Panic
Patrick Pinney as the Cyclops
Hal Holbrook as Amphitryon
Barbara Barrie as Alcmene
Amanda Plummer as Clotho
Carole Shelley as Lachesis
Paddi Edwards as Atropo
Paul Shaffer as Hermes
Jim Cummings as Nessus, Tall Theban, & Elderly Theban.
Wayne Knight as Demetrius
Mary Kay Bergman as the Earthquake Lady
Corey Burton as the Burnt Man
Kathleen Freeman as the Heavyset Woman
Keith David as Apollo
Charlton Heston as opening narrator.
Frank Welker as Pegasus.
Songs be Alan Menken & David Zippel
Screenplay by Ron Clements, John Musker, Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw, & Irene Mecchi
Directed by John Musker & Ron Clements
Release date June 13, 1997
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Walt Disney Pictures' The Hurchback of Notre Dame (1996) Trailer
Trailer for the 1996 musical drama based on the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo.
Plot: A physically disabled shut in seeks for a life accepted within the community
This film was another animated epic but is reminiscent of the more experimental animated features Walt Disney attempted to make with Fantasia and the unproduced Hiawatha. The film was released during the height of a national Disney boycott by several Christian denominations over some of the unbiblical agenda that the company was pushing via policies, films, and theme parks. Though written out of history, it's interesting to compare the box office income with this film to its predecessors and ask how could it have not played a role.
Starring
Tom Hulce as Quasimodo
Demi Moore as Esmeralda
Heidi Mollenhauer as Esmeralda's singing voice
Tony Jay as Judge Claude Frollo
Kevin Kline as Captain Phoebus
Paul Kandel as Clopin
Jason Alexander as Hugo
Charles Kimbrough as Victor
Mary Wickes & Jane Withers as Laverne
David Ogden Stiers as the Archdeacon
Songs be Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz
Screenplay by Tab Murphy, Irene Mecchi, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, & Jonathan Roberts
Directed by Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
Release date June 19, 1996
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Walt Disney Pictures' The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Teaser Trailer
Trailer for the 1996 musical drama based on the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo.
Plot: A physically disabled shut in seeks for a life accepted within the community
This film was another animated epic but is reminiscent of the more experimental animated features Walt Disney attempted to make with Fantasia and the unproduced Hiawatha. The film was released during the height of a national Disney boycott by several Christian denominations over some of the unbiblical agenda that the company was pushing via policies, films, and theme parks. Though written out of history, it's interesting to compare the box office income with this film to its predecessors and ask how could it have not played a role.
Starring
Tom Hulce as Quasimodo
Demi Moore as Esmeralda
Heidi Mollenhauer as Esmeralda's singing voice
Tony Jay as Judge Claude Frollo
Kevin Kline as Captain Phoebus
Paul Kandel as Clopin
Jason Alexander as Hugo
Charles Kimbrough as Victor
Mary Wickes & Jane Withers as Laverne
David Ogden Stiers as the Archdeacon
Songs be Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz
Screenplay by Tab Murphy, Irene Mecchi, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, & Jonathan Roberts
Directed by Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
Release date June 19, 1996
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Walt Disney Pictures' Pocahontas (1995) Trailer
Trailer for the 1995 musical epic suggested by the American historical figure Pocahontas.
Plot: Romeo & Juliet set in the settling of America
This film began as a traditional animated feature where the animals talked. Kohn Candy was a deleted turkey character named Redfeather and Stephen fry was the voice of Percy the pug. After the Best Picture Oscar nomination of Beauty & the Beast, Jeffery Katzenberg aborted that version in an attempt to pander for Oscar gold with a tailor-made Best Picture. It was not successful and very few people cite Pocahontas as their favorite Disney film. In recent years, the film is even attacked as being racist even though Disney pandered to every PC "expert" of the time. Katzenberg left Disney before the competition of this film and his debut animated feature there would be another animated epic based on the story of Moses called the Prince of Egpyt.
Starring
Irene Bedard as Pocahontas
Judy Kuhn as singing voice of Pocahontas
Mel Gibson as Captain John Smith
David Ogden Stiers as Governor John Ratcliffe & Wiggins
John Kassir as Meeko
Russell Means as Chief Powhatan
Jim Cummings as singing voice of Chief Powhatan & Kekata
Christian Bale as Thomas
Billy Connolly as Ben
Joe Baker as Lon
Linda Hunt as Grandmother Willow
Danny Mann as Percy
Frank Welker as Flit,
Michelle St. John as Nakoma
James Apaumut Fall as Kocoum
Gordon Tootoosis as Kekatan.
Songs be Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz
Screenplay by Carl Binder, Susannah Grant, & Philip LaZebnik
Directed by Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg
Release date June 10, 1995
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Walt Disney Pictures' Hercules (1997) Teaser Trailer
Trailer for the 1997 musical comedy adventure based on ancient Greek mythology.
Plot: Hercules is on a quest to become a true hero while facing the menacing Hades.
This film was an anomaly for the time in that it was primarily a comedy film among a sea of animated epics but it still retained the epic scale of the post-Beauty & the Beast period. The film was a box office disappointment, perhaps in large part due to the Christian boycott of Disney that was ongoing at the times. It's really James Woods' masterful performance as Hades that carries this film and it deserves to be more than only a cult classic.
Starring
Tate Donovan as Hercules
Josh Keaton as Young Hercules
Roger Bart as Young Hercules' Singing Voice.
Danny DeVito as Philoctetes
James Woods as Hades
Susan Egan as Megara
Rip Torn as Zeus
Samantha Eggar as Hera.
Lillias White as Calliopes
Cheryl Freeman as Melpomene
LaChanze as Terpsichore
Roz Ryan aa Thaila
Vaneese Thomas as Clio
Bobcat Goldthwait as Pain
Matt Frewer as Panic
Patrick Pinney as the Cyclops
Hal Holbrook as Amphitryon
Barbara Barrie as Alcmene
Amanda Plummer as Clotho
Carole Shelley as Lachesis
Paddi Edwards as Atropo
Paul Shaffer as Hermes
Jim Cummings as Nessus, Tall Theban, & Elderly Theban.
Wayne Knight as Demetrius
Mary Kay Bergman as the Earthquake Lady
Corey Burton as the Burnt Man
Kathleen Freeman as the Heavyset Woman
Keith David as Apollo
Charlton Heston as opening narrator.
Frank Welker as Pegasus.
Songs be Alan Menken & David Zippel
Screenplay by Ron Clements, John Musker, Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw, & Irene Mecchi
Directed by John Musker & Ron Clements
Release date June 13, 1997
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Walt Disney Pictures' The Rocketeer (1991) Trailer
Trailer for the 1991 science-fiction historical adventure film based on the comic books by Dave Stevens.
Plot: A pilot finds himself thrust into an adventure with Chicago gangsters, Nai spies, government agents and more when he discovers a wearable engine stowed away in his airplane hanger.
There was a stretch in the late 1980's/early 1990's where the Walt Disney Company was striving to produce films in the tradition of Walt and this is one of them. There was high hopes that this film would launch a new franchise in the tradition of Indiana Jones. Due to a variety of factors, the film didn't find an audience upon initial release but gained a cult following in the years since. Director Joe Johnston was hired to direct the first Captain America movie because of his work on this film.
Starring
Billy Campbell as Clifford Secord ("The Rocketeer")
Alan Arkin as A. "Peevy" Peabody
Jennifer Connelly as Jenny Blake
Paul Sorvino as Eddie Valentine
Terry O'Quinn as Howard Hughes
Timothy Dalton as Neville Sinclair
Ed Lauter as FBI Agent Fitch
James Handy as FBI Agent "Wooly" Wolinski
Jon Polito as Otis Bigelow
Eddie Jones as Malcolm
Robert Guy Miranda as Spanish Johnny
Nada Despotovich as Irma
William Sanderson as Skeets
Margo Martindale as Millie
John Lavachielli as Rusty
Clint Howard as Monk
Melora Hardin as South Seas Singer
Rick Overton as South Seas Patron
Max Grodénchik as Wilmer
Tiny Ron Taylor as Lothar
Don Pugsley as "Goose"
America Martin as Patsy
Michael Milhoan as Jeff
Daniel O'Shea as Mike
Joe D'Angerio as Stevie
Tommy J. Huff as Lenny
Pat Crawford Brown as Mrs. Pye
Paul DeSouza as Pauly
Gene Daily as Clark Gable
Bob Leeman as W.C. Fields
Julian Barnes as Charlie
Songs by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman & Mel Leven and George Bruns.
Story by Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, & William Dear
Screenplay by Danny Bilson & Paul De Meo
Directed by Joe Johnston
Release date June 21, 1991
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Walt Disney's General Electric Industrial Film (1964)
This promotional film was produced to send General Electric executives to show them an update on the attraction they'd sponsored for the NY 1964-65 World's Fair, the Carousel of Progress. This is the debut of when anyone outside of the studio first heard the song Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, here sung by Walt Disney with the Sherman Bros, his right-hand songwriting team. The Shermans said they viewed this song as Walt's theme song and a still from this short was used for the cover of their 1998 autobiographical scrapbook Walt's Time. It also inspired the cover of an early 90's compilation CD of their music. It should also be noted that while Bob Sherman (standing) walked with a cane due to a wound he suffered during WWII, he not only walks without it but does a little jump kick in the end exiting the film. He was willing to do that for Walt.
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Walt Disney's Standard Parade (1939)
This 1939 short film was made to advertise both Walt Disney's Studios and his new animated feature, Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs. It was made at the request of Walt's distributor RKO Radio Pictures and features some footage from an earlier industrial short film never intended for the public called A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios. The animation sequence was adapted from an earlier cartoon created for the Academy Awards and reused animation like the Disney studios would later do in some similar parades in WWII cartoons and 1950's TV episodes. This would have been screened before a feature length film in a movie theater during the evening program that would have included a short cartoon, news real, comedy short like Laurel & Hardy, and other additions to a night's entertainment at the movie's. We're fortunate that this time capsule of Walt's studio was made and still exists today.
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Walt Disney's Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966) Trailer
Trailer for the 1966 adventure film based on the novel Red Hugh: Prince of Donegal by Robert T. Reilly.
Plot: When King Richard is away, Robin Hood battles the corrupt government of Prince John and the Sherrif of Nottingham.
Starring
Peter McEnery as Hugh O'Donnell
Susan Hampshire as Kathleen McSweeney
Andrew Keir as Lord McSweeney
Tom Adams as Henry O'Neill
Gordon Jackson as Captain Leeds
Norman Wooland as Sir John Perrott
Richard Leech as Phelim O'Toole
Peter Jeffrey as Sergeant
Marie Kean as Lady Ineen O'Donnell
Bill Owen as Officer Powell
Maurice Roëves as Martin
Donal McCann as Sean O'Toole
Music by George Bruns
Screenplay by Robert Westerby & Robert T. Reilly
Directed by Michael O'Herlihy
Release date October 1, 1966
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Walt Disney's Guns in the Heather (1969) Trailer
Trailer for the 1969 spy mystery film based on the novel 1963 novel of the same name by Lockhart Amerman. Also released alternatively as The Secret of Boyne Castle and Spy-Busters.
Plot: An American exchange student in europe finds himself pulled into a Hitchcockian style thriller.
Starring
Glenn Corbett as Tom Evans
Alfred Burke as Kersner
Kurt Russell as Rich Evans
Patrick Dawson as Sean O'Connor
Patrick Barr as Lord Boyne
Hugh McDermott as Carleton
Patrick Westwood as Levick
Eddie Byrne as Bailey
Godfrey Quigley as Meister
Kevin Stoney as Enhardt
Shay Gorman as Headmaster
Niall Tóibín as Kettering
Ernst Walder as Vollos
Robert Bernal as Sgt. Clune
Vincent Dowling as Maston
John Horton as Stafford
J. G. Devlin as Muldoon
Nicola Davies as Kathleen
Gerry Alexander as Paddy
Eamon Morrissey as Hennessey
Declan Mulholland as Retchick
Mary Larkin as Mary
Paul Farrell as Groundskeeper
Music by Buddy Baker
Screenplay adapted by Herman Goves
Directed by Robert Butler
Release date July 23, 1969
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Splash Mountain Demo Tape (1989)
Splash Mountain was originally conceived in 1983 by Imagineer Tony Baxter to solve multiple problems facing Disneyland, primarily what to do with all of the audio-animatronics from the recently closed attraction America Sings. The solution was a new ride based on the beloved 1946 Academy Award winning Walt Disney animated feature Song of the South. New CEO Michael Eisner greenlit the attraction and Splash Mountain opened July 17, 1989.
Actor Nick Stewart who had portrayed Br'er Bear in the original film was brough back to reprise his role for the attraction. The attraction became the most popular attraction at Disneyland and was quickly added to the other Disney parks.
After the George Floyd riots the woke social justice warriors demanded the attraction be torn down and replaced with a new version based on the Princess & the Frog. Despite still being the most popular attraction of any theme park, Woke Disney complied and Splash Mountain closed May 31, 2023. The attraction was removed from all Disney parks but Tokyo Disneyland who refused. All of the Splash Mountains were torn down shortly afterward.
This video is the original demo recordings for Splash Mountain with some of the original concept art. If you listen carefully, you can hear Thurl Ravenscroft as one of the singers.
Splash Mountain may be destroyed but we can still protect the film that inspired it, Song of the South.
Celebrate stolen history by nominating a classic film, Song of the South, to the National Film Registry as Woke Disney is purging every aspect of it from existence. In theory, that's why the National Film Registry exists.
Walt Disney's Song of the South is the first Technicolor feature film made that blended live action with animation throughout the film.
The popular song Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah won the Oscar for Best Song. Woke Disney has purged this song from the theme parks and elsewhere.
Actor James Baskett is the first black actor to win an Oscar and it was for this film! He was honored with an eternal Oscar for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in Song of the South.
Actor Nick Stewart played Br'er Bear, started the Ebony Showcase Theater with the earnings from this film. He returned to play Br'er Bear again in Splash Mountain and remodeled the theater. He was a Civil Rights pioneer and said "Walt Disney treated us like kings."
Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel plays a major character in this film. She's the first black actress to win an Oscar for Gone with the Wind.
The characters from this film were a major part of Walt Disney's stable of stars and he frequently revisited them again and again in his television, commercial, theme park ventures and more. The Uncle Remus stories were very special to Walt and so was this film inspired by them.
Don't let Woke Disney erase important black, American, and cinematic history!
Please nominate this historic film to the National Film Registry as Woke Disney purges every aspect of this special film from pop culture.
The form is below.
https://www.research.net/r/national-fim-registry-nomination-form
Posted for historical purposes. Walt Disney's voice is recreated with AI. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.
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Touchstone Pictures' Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Trailer
Trailer for the 1988 fantasy comedy film based on the novel 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf.
Plot: A famed cartoon murder is framed for murder and tries to clear his name.
This film is a love letter to the golden age of Hollywood animated shorts.
Starring
Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant
Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom
Stubby Kaye as Marvin Acme
Joanna Cassidy as Dolores
Alan Tilvern as R.K. Maroon
Richard LeParmentier as Lt. Santino
Richard Ridings as Angelo
Joel Silver as Raoul
Paul Springer as Augie
Mike Edmonds as Stretch
Betsy Brantley as Jessica Rabbit's performance model
Morgan Deare as an editor
Charles Fleischer as Roger Rabbit, Benny the Cab, a Greasy, & Psycho
Kathleen Turner as Jessica Rabbit (speaking voice)
Amy Irving as Jessica Rabbit (singing voice)
Lou Hirsch as Baby Herman
David Lander as Smart Ass
Fred Newman as Stupid
June Foray as Wheezy & Lena Hyena
Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety, & Sylvester the Cat
Joe Alaskey as Yosemite Sam
Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse
Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck
Tony Pope as Goofy & Big Bad Wolf
Mae Questel as Betty Boop
Russi Taylor as Minnie Mouse & Hummingbirds
Pat Buttram, Jim Cummings (imitating Andy Devine) and Jim Gallant (imitating Walter Brennan) as toon bullets
Les Perkins as Mr. Toad
Mary T. Radford as Hyacinth Hippo
Nancy Cartwright as a Toon shoe
Cherry Davis as Woody Woodpecker
Morgan Deare as Bongo the Gorilla
Peter Westy as Pinocchio
Frank Welker as Dumbo
Richard Williams as Droopy
April Winchell as Mrs. Herman & Baby Herman's "baby noises"
Frank Sinatra as Singing Sword
Music by Alan Silvestri
Screenplay adapted by Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seaman
Directed by Robert Zemeckis & Richard Williams
Release date June 22, 1988
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Walt Disney's Uncle Remus Foreword (1945)
Celebrate stolen history by nominating a classic film, Song of the South, to the National Film Registry as Woke Disney is purging every aspect of it from existence. In theory, that's why the National Film Registry exists.
Walt Disney's Song of the South is the first Technicolor feature film made that blended live action with animation throughout the film.
The popular song Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah won the Oscar for Best Song. Woke Disney has purged this song from the theme parks and elsewhere.
Actor James Baskett is the first black actor to win an Oscar and it was for this film! He was honored with an eternal Oscar for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in Song of the South.
Actor Nick Stewart played Br'er Bear, started the Ebony Showcase Theater with the earnings from this film. He returned to play Br'er Bear again in Splash Mountain and remodeled the theater. He was a Civil Rights pioneer and said "Walt Disney treated us like kings."
Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel plays a major character in this film. She's the first black actress to win an Oscar for Gone with the Wind.
The characters from this film were a major part of Walt Disney's stable of stars and he frequently revisited them again and again in his television, commercial, theme park ventures and more. The Uncle Remus stories were very special to Walt and so was this film inspired by them.
Don't let Woke Disney erase important black, American, and cinematic history!
Please nominate this historic film to the National Film Registry as Woke Disney purges every aspect of this special film from pop culture.
The form is below.
https://www.research.net/r/national-fim-registry-nomination-form
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Posted for historical purposes. Walt Disney's voice is recreated with AI. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.
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Walt Disney's Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Rerelease Trailer
Trailer for the 1937 animated fairy tale film based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
Plot: A young girl on the cusp of womanhood is perceived a threat to her wicked stepmother and takes refuge among seven dwarfs.
Starring
Adriana Caselotti as Snow White
Lucille La Verne as the Queen & Witch
Roy Atwell as Doc
Pinto Colvig as Grumpy
Colvig also voiced Sleepy
Otis Harlan as Happy
Scotty Mattraw as Bashful
Billy Gilbert as Sneezy
Eddie Collins as Dopey
Harry Stockwell as the Prince
Moroni Olsen as the Magic Mirror,
Stuart Buchanan as the Huntsman
Songs by Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline, & Paul Smith
Story by Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith
Directed by David Hand
Original Release date December 21, 1937
Rerelease date July 2, 1993
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Walt Disney Pictures' The Little Mermaid (1989) Trailer
Trailer for the 1989 musical fairy tale based on the 1837 story by Hans Christian Andersen.
Plot: A mermaid dreams of marrying a prince.
This film is really when the Walt Disney Company successfully returned to their roots with animated musical fantasies. In the 1940's Walt had developed a sequence based on this story for a proposed co-production with MGM that was abandoned. Storyboards from that early adaptation of the story were used as inspiration in the development of this film. Everything about the marketing tied the film into the studio's roots with Walt. The film was the first in a string of blockbuster animated features.
Starring
Jodi Benson as Ariel & Vanessa
Christopher Daniel Barnes as Prince Eric
Pat Carroll as Ursula
Kenneth Mars as King Triton
Samuel E. Wright as Sebastian
Paddi Edwards as Flotsam & Jetsam
Ben Wright as Grimsby
René Auberjonois as Chef Louis
Edie McClurg as Carlotta
Will Ryan as Harold
Songs be Alan Menken & Howard Ashman
Screenplay by John Musker & Ron Clements
Directed by John Musker & Ron Clements
Release date November 17, 1989
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Walt Disney Pictures' Beauty & the Beast (1991) Trailer
Trailer for the 1991 musical fairy tale based on the story by the Brothers Grimm.
Plot: A young woman learns to not just a book by its cover.
The tradition of Walt Disney's legacy continued in this acclaimed animated feature. It's the only hand drawn animated feature ever nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and won the Best Picture Golden Globe.
Starring
Paige O'Hara as Belle
Robby Benson as the Beast/Prince Adam
Richard White as Gaston
Jerry Orbach as Lumière
David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth
Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Potts
Bradley Pierce as Chip
Rex Everhart as Maurice
Jesse Corti as LeFou
Jo Anne Worley as the Wardrobe
Hal Smith as Philippe
Mary Kay Bergman and Kath Soucie as the Bimbettes
Jack Angel, Phil Proctor, Bill Farmer, and Patrick Pinney as Tom, Dick, Stanley, and Gramp
Brian Cummings as the Stove
Alvin Epstein as the Bookseller
Tony Jay as Monsieur D'Arque
Alec Murphy as the Baker
Kimmy Robertson as the Featherduster/Babette
Frank Welker as Sultan
Songs be Alan Menken & Howard Ashman
Screenplay by Linda Woolverton
Directed by Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
Release date November 22, 1991
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Walt Disney Pictures' Aladdin (1992) Trailer
Trailer for the 1992 musical fairy tale adventure based on the ancient story from the Arabian Nights by Scheherazade.
Plot: A poor boy seeks to win the hand of a princess
The studio after Walt really hit their stride with this film. It even surpassed the Little Mermaid and Beauty & the Beast in success. Notice how the trailer builds on the success of the previous two releases.
Starring
Scott Weinger as Aladdin
Brad Kane as Aladdin's singing voice
Robin Williams as the Genie & Peddler
Linda Larkin as Princess Jasmine
Lea Salonga as Jasmine's singing voice
Jonathan Freeman as Jafar
Frank Welker as Abu, Rajah, & Cave of Wonders
Gilbert Gottfried as Iago
Douglas Seale as the Sultan
Jim Cummings as Captain Razoul
Charlie Adler as Gazeem
Corey Burton as Prince Achmed
Songs be Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, & Tim Rice
Screenplay by John Musker & Ron Clements and Ted Elliott &Terry Rossio
Directed by John Musker & Ron Clements
Release date November 11, 1992
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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf (1933)
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf was the first music hit for Walt Disney Studio. It debuted in the Silly Symphony The Three Little Pigs. The song was recorded by several artists and the popular version included content that doesn't appear in the Oscar winning cartoon. The song created a market for future Disney tunes and led to a contract with Irving Berlin Publishing Co for future Silly Symphony and Mickey Mouse sheet music. It's the most well-known of any of the Sily Symphonies songs today.
Written by by Frank Churchill with additional lyrics by Ann Ronell,[
Performed by Henry Hall & His Orchestra
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