The Walt Disney Family Museum Blog

Posted on Tue, 07/24/2012 - 09:00
Posted on Jul 24, 2012

The Walt Disney Family Museum presents Animate Your Night—a new Museum-wide monthly after-hours party. Experience the galleries in a whole new light and illuminate your imagination with music, performance, film screenings, and hands-on art activities!

Posted on Thu, 07/19/2012 - 15:00
Posted on Jul 19, 2012

On Saturday July 14, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker John Canemaker presented a behind-the-scenes look at how Walt Disney as inpsired by Heinrich Kley and other European artists, and how their art was translated into many Disney versions of famous stories and tales. .

Posted on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 10:02
Posted on Jul 17, 2012

“To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here, age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America, with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.” - Walt Disney

Posted on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 12:00
Posted on Jul 16, 2012

As we're getting close to Disneyland's anniversary tomorrow, we'd like to dedicate this month's Artifactual to Walt's Disneyland TV series!

Posted on Sun, 07/15/2012 - 09:01
Posted on Jul 15, 2012
Continuing our countdown to Disneyland's anniversary, we'd like to share an piece from "Walt's People — Volume 3: Talking Disney wit the Artists Who Knew Him". This excerpt is from an interview with Disney Legend Bill Justice, who worked for The Walt Disney Company from 1937 to 1979, first as an animator, and then as an Imagineer.
Posted on Sat, 07/14/2012 - 11:15
Posted on Jul 14, 2012

Continuing on with our week-long celebration leading up to Disneyland's anniversary, we take a brief look today at the Sword in the Stone attraction in Fantasyland!

Posted on Fri, 07/13/2012 - 09:56
Posted on Jul 13, 2012

In celebration of Disneyland's anniversary this coming Tuesday, we're posting stories all about The Happiest Place on Earth for a week leading up to it. This Friday the 13th, we asked Disney historian and author Jim Fanning to pen this piece about the Golden Horseshoe Revue, and Walt and Lillian's wedding anniversary celebration that happened at the Revue a few days before the park actually opened to the public.

Posted on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 10:30
Posted on Jul 12, 2012

In honor of the recent addition of the beautiful Red Cars to Disney California Adventure’s Buena Vista Street, we here at Storyboard would like to take a look back at the different forms of transportation that have been featured in Disneyland throughout the years...

Posted on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 10:00
Posted on Jul 11, 2012

All throughout this summer, we bring to you "Disneyland - The Quintessential Classics", which covers the must see attractions that made Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom, internationally known as "The Happiest Place on Earth". The tour continues this week with Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln!

Posted on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 11:48
Posted on Jul 6, 2012

2719 Hyperion Avenue — the one location in Disney history that remains a constant fascination for many Disney fans. Eighty-seven years ago today, on July 6, 1925, Walt and Roy Disney made a $400 down payment on Lot 21, Block 18, in the Ivanhoe Track of Los Feliz on the eastern reaches of Hollywood.