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According to Entertainment Tonight, Disney will plant a tree for everyone who attends the Disneynature film ‘Earth’ this weekend. From advanced sales, Disney has already committed to planting 500,000 trees. The company will plant the trees in critical areas of biodiversity such as Brazil’s Atlantic rain forest.

1887: Actor Christian Rub (Pinocchio in Pinocchio) is born in Austria. 1907: Animator Bernhard August Gramatky, Jr. (worked at Disney from 1929-1936) is born in Dallas, Texas. 1917: Actor Hans Conried (Mr. George Darling/Captain Hook in Peter Pan, The Cat From Outer Space, The Shaggy D.A., Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier) is born in Baltimore, Maryland. [...]

1915: Actor Harry Morgan (The Barefoot Executive, Scandalous John, The Apple Dumpling Gang, Snowball Express, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, The Car From Outer Space) is born in Detroit, Michigan. 1924: Actress Jane Kean (Miss Taylor in Pete’s Dragon) is born in Hartford, Connecticut. 1928: Actor James Garner (Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke in Atlantis: The Lost Empire, [...]

1805: Writer Hans Christian Anderson (The Little Mermaid) is born in Odensk, Funen, Denmark. 1889: Actor Herman Bing (Ringmaster in Dumbo) is born in Germany. 1899: Film pioneer, engineer, and Disney Legend, Bill Garity (put sound to Steamboat Willie, perfected the multiplane camera, and co-invented Fantasound-now known as surround sound) is born in Brooklyn, New York. 1905: [...]

Welcome back to the Disney’s Magic Makers Series here at Netcot. This time, we’ll focus on Milt Kahl, the eighth of Disney’s Nine Old Men… Milt Kahl was born on March 22, 1909, in San Francisco, California. He dropped out of high school to pursue his dream of becoming an illustrator for a magazine or [...]

1901: Animator, and Disney Legend, Ub Iwerks is born Ubbe Ert Iwerks in Kansas City, Missouri. 1907: Composer Leigh Harline (Pinocchio, Snow White) is born in Salt Lake City, Utah. 1909: Animator, Disney Legend, and one of the “Nine Old Men”, Milt Kahl is born in San Fransisco, CA. 1912: Actor Wilfrid Brambell (Willie Bannock in The Three [...]

1883: Actor Colin Campbell (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Alice in Wonderland) is born in Scotland. 1892: Actor Don Barclay (Cinderella, Mary Poppins, 101 Dalmatians, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan) is born in Ashland, Oregon. 1904: Actor J. Pat O’Malley (Robin Hood, Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, 101 Dalmatians, Son of Flubber, The Adventures of Spin [...]

1900: Writer Ted Sears (Sleeping Beauty, Disneyland-the TV series, The Vanishing Prairie, The Living Desert) is born in Massachusetts. 1905: Actor Richard Haydn (Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland) is born in London, England. 1909: Animator Jules Engel (Fantasia, Bambi, and others) is born in Budapest, Hungary. 1911: Animator, Disney Legend, and one of Walt’s Nine Old Men, John [...]

Welcome to part seven of nine focusing on Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men. This week, we’re focusing on Ward Kimball. Content: Before the Studios At the Studios After the Studios Before the Studios : Ward Kimball was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on March 4, 1914. His fascination with drawing and railroads began at a young [...]

The nationwide release of Disney’s hand-drawn “The Princess and the Frog” has been moved from Christmas Day to December 11, 2009, according to Variety. In New York and Los Angeles, the film will have premieres on November 25. The film would have faced “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel” on its old date. Now, it [...]

1910: Actor David Niven (Candleshoe, No Deposit No Return) is born James David Graham Niven in London, England. 1914: Animator, and one of the Nine Old Men, Ward Kimball (Fantasia, Pinocchio, Dumbo) is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1930: Animator Ub Iwerks leaves Disney to start his own Studios, only to return a few years later. 1932: Administrator, and Disney [...]

1895: Actor Edward Brophy (Timothy Q. Mouse in Dumbo) is born in New York City. 1908: Actor, and Disney Legend, John Mills (Father Robinson in Swiss Family Robinson, Father to Hayley Mills of Parent Trap fame) is born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills in Felixstowe, Suffolk, England. 1913: Actor Jim Backus (the Mayor in Pete’s Dragon) is born [...]

Here’s the sixth of nine parts detailing Walt’s Nine Old Men. This time, we’re focusing on Eric Larson. Contents: Before the Studios At the Studios After the Studios Before the Studios Eric Larson was born on September 3, 1905, in Cleveland, Utah. Growing up, Larson was an avid comic reader (he read “Punch” and “Judge” among [...]

Disney has confirmed that High School Musical 4 is in the works, according to TVGuide. com. The newest installment in the series will involve a new cast, but will revolve around the rivalry between the East High Wildcats and the West High Knights.  Gary Marshall, President of Entertainment of Disney Channel Worldwide, has stated that the newest [...]

1899: The wife of Walt Disney, Lillian Bounds, is born in Spalding, Ohio. 1904: Actor James Baskett (Uncle Remus in Song of the South) is born in Indianapolis, Indiana. 1907: Actor Cesar Romero (The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Now You See Him, Now You Don’t, The Strongest Man in the World) is born in New York City. [...]