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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.
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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.
At the newly opened EPCOT Center, The American Adventure pavilion has an official opening ceremony. A single large building designed in the Colonial style, it contains the American Adventure show and the Hall of Flags exhibit. The American Adventure show, narrated by Audio-Animatronic figures of Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain, takes guests on a trip through America's history. Across from the pavilion is the America Gardens Theatre, an outdoor amphitheater which hosts concerts.
Disney's third television series Zorro has its debut on ABC-TV with the episode "Presenting Senor Zorro." The new adventure series stars Guy Williams in the dual role of Zorro & Don Diego, Henry Calvin as Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia, Gene Sheldon as Bernardo, and George J. Lewis as Don Alejandro. Zorro, which is Spanish for "fox", is the story of a masked rider who battles the unjust rulers of the pueblo of Los Angeles during the days of Spanish rule.
Walt Disney pens a letter to the future (to be placed in a time capsule) from his Burbank, California studio entitled: PREDICTION OF ENTERTAINMENT IN WORLD 50 YEARS FROM NOW. Mr. Disney believes that the world will be overturned by technology.
Mickey's PhilharMagic, a new computer-animated 3-D attraction, has its official grand opening in the PhilharMagic Concert Hall at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom. Pop idols Howie Dorough of The Backstreet Boys and Joey Fatone of 'N Sync are on hand for the premiere. The film is directed by George Scribner (best known for directing Disney's 1988 animated film, Oliver and Company). Mickey's PhilharMagic is a 12-minute long show featuring 3D effects, scents, and water as well as a number of characters from Disney movies. It is shown on the largest purpose-built 3D screen ever made, at 150 feet wide!
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