Legendary Animator Walt Kimball died yesterday of natural causes. Kimball was hired by Walt Disney himself in 1934 and became one of Walt Disney’’s “Nine Old Men”. Kimball was their right from the start, working as an animator on Snow White before being promoted to director.
He directed many of [...]

Disney Books has recently published, “The Quotable Walt Disney,” compiled by Dave Smith. The book contains over 200 quotes from Walt Disney that were actually put together about 30 years ago at the Walt Disney Studios. The quotes cover several topics ranging from sequals to critics.
The LA Times has the full story:
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010705/t000055416.html

Pearl Harbor has been released in Japan and as many of you may know the film went through some changes in the name of cultural sensitivity. An example of changes would be the calendar that shows the date of the attack as December 7th. It now reads Decemeber 8th which was the day the [...]

The Walt Disney Co. is planning on launching a new television station called Playhouse Disney, named after current programming on the Disney channel. This new station will target two to five year old children and will not have traditional advertisements. Instead, there will be “sponsorship opportunities.