by Paul F Anderson | May 21, 2012 |
From the Disneyland News March 10, 1956 issue. Like “real” newspapers the News was in need of content. Oddly, with a bevy of the world’s most talented comic strips artists available (within the confines of the Disney Comic Strip Department–see...
by Paul F Anderson | May 19, 2012 |
In celebration of our 700th member on our Facebook Disney History Institute site, I thought I’d share this wonderful (and screamingly rare) concept piece from a 1978 Epcot Prospectus–for the never-realized Space Pavilion, this evocative art suggests a...
by Paul F Anderson | May 6, 2012 |
THE SUNDAY FUNNIESFloyd Gottfredson Goes to Disneylandby Paul F. AndersonFloyd Gottfredson had a long and storied career with Walt Disney, primarily in some facet with the Comic Strip Department. His early Mickey Mouse dailies are legendary, which after a short...
by Paul F Anderson | May 4, 2012
I am not aware that the Disney Company has an official birthday for the Burbank Studio. If they were, my guess is that it would occupy the year 1940. This is reinforced by Disney’s twenty-three which listed 2010 as the 70th anniversary in their Spring...
by Paul F Anderson | Apr 16, 2012 |
A DHI BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOKEN ANDERSONFeaturing Hannibal Crossing the Alpsby Paul F. AndersonI was quite sad that I missed posting something on the March 17th birthday of my “adopted father” Ken Anderson. Many DHI readers know that Ken and I did a 34-hour oral...
by Paul F Anderson | Mar 4, 2012 |
In response to the interest in Disneyland’s Flying Saucers on the Institute’s Facebook page, I took a few minutes to gather these photographs from the Institute’s Flying Saucer Library (including two images that have, to my knowledge, never been seen...
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