The Walt Disney Family Museum Blog
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Jul 25, 2018
Hope for the Future – A Story about Walt Disney’s Melody Time
Walt Disney’s Melody Time celebrates its 70th anniversary this year. Released in May of 1948, it was one of the last of the so-called package features, which took precedent from Fantasia (1940) by combining more than a half dozen short subject cartoons, each musically inclined.
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Jun 27, 2018
Ickymay Ousmay: Coat of Arms from Hyperion Studio Buildings
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Jun 14, 2018
A Conversation with Special Exhibition Curator Don Hahn: Part Two
Veteran Disney producer and Walt Disney Family Museum Advisory Board member Don Hahn has recently completed work as Curator of our newest special exhibition, Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men: Masters of Animation. Historian Lucas O. Seastrom sat down with Don to look back on the experience of putting the show together.
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May 30, 2018
A Conversation with Special Exhibition Curator Don Hahn: Part One
Veteran Disney producer and Walt Disney Family Museum Advisory Board member Don Hahn has recently completed work as Curator of our newest special exhibition, Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men: Masters of Animation. Historian Lucas O. Seastrom sat down with Don to look back on the experience of putting the show together.
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Mar 7, 2018
Make Believe: The World of Glen Keane
Make Believe: The World of Glen Keane is open through September 3, 2018 in the Lower Lobby and Theater Gallery at The Walt Disney Family Museum.
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Jan 31, 2018
Walt Disney's PeopleMover
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Jan 18, 2018
A Feathered Family: Creating The Birds of Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room
In June of 1963, Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room opened its doors for the very first time. The birds sang words, the flowers crooned, and the guests stared, awestruck, at the attraction’s feathered inhabitants.
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Jan 9, 2018
“Out of the Night”—60 Years of Walt Disney’s “Zorro”
Like most of Walt’s greatest stories, Zorro unabashedly embraced a sense of fun and adventure.
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Dec 13, 2017
80 Years Later—The Legacy of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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Oct 11, 2017
Walt's Animation and Special Effects Master: Josh Meador
Joshua Meador (1911-1965) had two careers: he is best known for his special animation effects work at The Walt Disney Studios for nearly 30 years and, away from Disney, he established himself as a major California landscape painter.