disney lexicon, pt. I

Within the Walt Disney universe there are certainly alot of acronyms floating about. From the good ole days of WED and MAPO to more recent vernacular as simple as CMs, but what do all these things mean? We humans have an incredible talent for shortening names, terms,...

walt and el grupo

Acclaimed documentary WALT & EL GRUPO, a festival favorite in Rome, Rio, San Francisco, Palm Springs and Seattle, is set to begin its theatrical run with limited releases in Los Angeles and New York on September 11, 2009. The film, from writer/director Theodore...

the studios I

With the celebration of the 20th anniversay of Disney’s Hollywood Studios, I have been looking in the archives to see what I could pull out, scan/photograph and post here on the site. The first thing that I found were some old maps. Maps This was one of the...

new world fantasy

EPCOT’s (notice the spelling, it was still an acronym at this time) second night-time fireworks display was named New World Fantasy. As I was going through my archives I discovered a cache of original animation cels used to produce portions of the show....

lantern slides

Do you remember the pre-show at the old Country Bear Jamboree? Where they had the slides rotating out while you waited for the show? I have found a cache of original slides from that pre-show. [kml_flashembed fversion=”8.0.0″...