Kelvin Cedeno at UltimateDisney.com has posted a recent interview with Tony Baxter the Senior Vice President of Creative Development at Walt Disney Imagineering. In it they talk a bit about Tony’s history with the company, his revived Little Mermaid project and the newly released two-disc DVD set entitled Disneyland: Secrets, Stories & Magic. On this… Read More »Tony Baxter provides insight into Disneyland DVD
December 21st will mark the 70th anniversary of the premier of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Carthay Circle Theater in Hollywood, CA. It was the first feature length full color animated film and, to my mind at least, still represents the artform at the top of its game.
Right now residents and visitors to Southern California have the unique opportunity to view two exhibits of rare artwork from the production of Walt Disney’s classic film. The Animation building at California Adventure is currently hosting an one of the exhibits that our Ken Pellman covered previously on LaughingPlace.com. Rehallag at the Arendale Station blog has some photos detailing the exhibit for those of us who can’t make it (with promises of more to come).
While you’re in town you might also want to stop by the Great American Ink gallery to view more art from the film. They’ve also placed a video online that looks "Behind the Scenes of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
Their full press release is below the cut:
BoingBoing links to two Monsanto produced videos about Disneyland’s House Of The Future. Good stuff. The United Football League is coming to Orlando. Not only will a team be based in The City Beautiful, but a spring mini-camp is likely to be held in the area. That makes me wonder if Disney’s Wide World of… Read More »Quick Links – Roundup
Welcome Pie Lovers to the last episode of Pushing Daisies until…well, who knows? The writer’s strike is affecting our precious Pie Hole. There’s not much we can do except relish the deliciousness that was last night’s episode, “Corpsicle”. * snicker * You do remember the previous episode? Ned blurts out that he killed Chuck’s father… Read More »Pushing Daisies: Corpsicle
A few days ago I was reading this post by Kevin Yee where he noticed a new feature that was added to Disney’s famed themed Garbage Can fleet: I saw an unusual sight in Adventureland: near the eggroll cart (oops, it only sells turkey legs now!) there is a new thing, a trashcan that is… Read More »Greening your Disney trip
At one time, the summer 2009 movie season was scheduled to kickoff with two high-profile 3-D films competing over the growing, but limited number of 3-D screens, until one moved to an earlier release. Now, the showdown will be averted altogether. Leslie Simmons reports. James… Read More »Cameron’s “Avatar” Pushed Back to December 2009
Vudu is offering HD movies online the same day they’re released on DVD. Owners of Vudu’s set-top box, which costs $399, use a high-speed Internet connection to watch the movies they rent and to download the ones they buy. Movies usually are released in staggered windows in different formats — DVD, online through Xbox Live… Read More »More Home Viewing News
The Honolulu Advertiser has more details on the events that led up to the players and families of three football teams being evicted from their rooms at 3AM after a few members of the their teams were involved in a fight in an arcade. Shortly after the fight, at about 3 a.m., the 70 players… Read More »More Details on Football Families Kicked Off Property by Disney