Disney releases the Goofy film Fathers are People to theaters. George Geef (Goofy) rushes to the office to inform his fellow employees, "Hey, fellas! I'm a father!". Unfortunately, Geef later learns that, with fatherhood, comes responsibility and lots of it.
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Disney Channel debuts Bear in the Big Blue House, a new series produced by The Jim Henson Company. The show centers on Bear, a curious brown bear with a good sense of smell, who lives in the Big Blue House with his friends Ojo, Tutter, Treelo, Pip, and Pop. (In 2004, The Jim Henson Company sold the Bear in the Big Blue House franchise to The Walt Disney Company.)
At EPCOT, Body Wars (the park's first thrill ride) begins sending guests through the human blood stream at the brand new Wonders of Life pavilion. A motion simulator ride featuring a film directed by Leonard Nimoy (bestknown to Star Trek fans as Mr. Spock), Body Wars can carry 40 passengers in each of four, 26-ton simulators. The cast of the Body Wars film features Tim Matheson as Captain Braddock, Dakin Matthews as Mission Commander and Elisabeth Shue as Dr. Cynthia Lair, who is investigating white cell response time to a splinter penetration. Also debuting on this day at the MetLife-sponsored pavilion is the theater show Cranium Command (a humorous presentation on the importance of the human brain) and the short films Goofy Over Health (a multimedia show about healthy living hosted by Goofy, using clips from his cartoons) and The Making of Me (about birth and life starring Martin Short).
Disney's 19th animated feature film The Jungle Book has its general release. Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of the jungle is the last animated feature personally supervised by Walt Disney (who passed away during the film's production). Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, the film features the voices of Phil Harris as Baloo, Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera, Louis Prima as King Louie, George Sanders as Shere Khan, Sterling Holloway as Kaa, Bruce Reitherman as Mowgli and Clint Howard as Junior. The song "Bare Necesseties," written by Terry Gilkyson, will be nominated for an Academy Award.Also released is the live-action feature film Charlie the Lonesome Cougar. About a cougar raised by a group of loggers in the Pacific Northwest who reverts to its natural instincts, it is directed by Rex Allen (who also narrates) and Winston Hibler.
Disney's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon Great Guns is released. Directed by Walt Disney, Oswald goes to war, fights in the trenches and is blown apart ... but luckily put back together by his nurse girlfriend. Click the link below to check out the short. This date is considered the start of the Disney company. Originally known as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, with Walt Disney and his brother, Roy, as equal partners, the company soon changed its name, at Roy’s suggestion, to the Walt Disney Studio. The studio was founded as a partnership the day after Walt and his older brother Roy sign a contract with M. J. Winkler (a New York cartoon distributor) to produce a series of animated short subjects entitled Alice Comedies. At this time, the Studio is located on Kingswell Ave in Los Angeles, California. It is a structure (in the back of a realty office) that the brothers are renting - although in February 1924 they will move into the building next door, taking over the whole first floor. On this day, Walt also pens a letter to the parents of actress Virginia Davis persuading them to move to Hollywood (from Kansas City) so that she can star in his new combination live-action and animated shorts.
The Mickey Mouse musical cartoon The Jazz Fool is released. Directed by Walt Disney, it is a salute to two recent Al Jolson films, The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool.
Walt Disney World's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea attraction (based on the 1954 Disney film) opens at the 14-day old Magic Kingdom. It features 12 thirty-eight passenger (39 including the operator) submarines in an 11.5 million gallon tank of water. A very close cousin to Disneyland's Submarine Voyage which opened in 1959, the two rides share many of the same elements and animatronics.
Touchstone Pictures' The Nightmare Before Christmas opens in New York City and other select cities. A stop motion fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced/co-written by Tim Burton, it tells the story of Jack Skellington, a skeleton known as the "Pumpkin King" from Halloween Town who opens a portal to Christmas Town. Burton originally wrote "The Nightmare Before Christmas" as a three-page poem when he was a Disney animator in the early 1980s! (The film will be generally released October 29.)
Walt Disney World Resort welcomes another male calf to the giraffe herd at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Weighing 153 pounds, Bolo is born to second-time mother Big Girl, who first birthed a female calf in November 2005. Bolo is the second baby giraffe to be born in the last 7 days at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
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