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atomic-chronoscaph · 7 months

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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963)

#dr. syn alias the scarecrow #the scarecrow of romney marsh #patrick mcgoohan #walt disney's wonderful world of color #walt disney movies #vintage lobby cards #60s adventure movies #60s tv #james neilson #sixties #1963

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fitsofgloom · 2 years

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The Night The Scarecrow Walked

#the scarecrow of romney marsh #dr syn alias the scarecrow #patrick mcgoohan #walt disney's wonderful world of color #1963

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kwebtv · 2 years

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Kilroy - NBC - March 14 - April 4, 1965

A Presentation of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color

Family (4 episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Celeste Holm as Mrs Fuller

Allyn Joslyn as Mr. Fuller

Philip Abbott as Ed Barrett

Robert Emhardt as the Mayor

Bryan Russell as Billy Fuller

Warren Berlinger as Oscar Kilroy

Arthur Hunnicutt as Seth Turner

Marcus James as Pete

Mike Barton as Whitey

Dennis Rush as Freckles

Joie Russo as Porky

Cheryl Miller as Gladys Fuller

Tom Lowell as Harvey

Vaughn Taylor as Bank President

Chick Chandler as Ben Feeney

Philip Coolidge as Frank

Don Beddoe as Commissioner

Alvy Moore as Hal Dooley

#Kilroy #TV #Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color #Family #1960's #Celeste Holm #Allyn Joslyn #Phillip Abbott #Robert Emhardt #Bryan Russell #Warren Berlinger

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disneyllect · 1 year

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#disney #walt disney #nostalgia #animation #vintage #movie #ludwig von drake #disney's world of color #wonderful world of disney

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elijones94 · 6 months

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🧚🏼‍♀️ Frontierland Tinker Bell ✨🍁🍂

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nerds-yearbook · 2 years

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Donald Duck's Uncle Professor Ludwig Von Drake was introduced on September 24, 1961. He appeared in Disney's first color TV anthology appropriately titled "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color". He debuted in the segment titled "An Adventure in Color" and also showed off his singing skills with the "The Spectrum Song". ("An Adventure in Color/Mathmagicland", Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, TV, Event)

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Wonderful Things That May or May Not Be Wonderful!!! Walt Disney World is 27,000 acres large, the same size as the city of San Francisco and twice the size of Manhattan Island except most of the surface area is roads and swampland. As such, walking everywhere isn’t the best idea. There are a few other options for making your way around the “world” and one way to do so is Disney Skyliner: a gondola system connecting the EPCOT and Disney Hollywood Studios theme parks to four resort hotels and each other. Specifically, four hotels that were originally only connected to everywhere else through WDW’s semi-reliable shuttle service. Now, they have a quick loading and quick moving alternative to half of the theme parks. A big plus if you ask me but there’s more! Riders also get the experience flying over the aforementioned roads and swampland while the wind blows through the vents as they glance below. Fun fact: They look better from above than ground level. The gondolas even come in several designer colors and overlays based on Disney IPs. Really, the only downsides are getting stuck on it and the occasional unflattering backstage view (but I know some people eat that stuff up). Other than that, perfectly wonderful!

#wonderful #disney skyliner #walt disney world #transportation #gondola #roads #swampland #epcot #disney hollywood studios #colors #overlay #orlando florida #travel

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Creator Spotlight: @scottlava

Scott Campbell has illustrated numerous children’s books, including SKULLS!, Sleepy the Goodnight Buddy, and Zombie In Love. He was author/illustrator of the much-loved HUG MACHINE. He enjoyed a long career in video games, where he art directed the critically acclaimed game Psychonauts and Brutal Legend for Double Fine Productions. Great Showdowns is his ongoing online series. Scott’s work has appeared in galleries and publications around the world. You can see more of his work at ScottC.com.

Check out our interview with Scott below!

How did you get your start in art, and more specifically, with Great Showdowns?

I went to art school in San Francisco and have been painting, making comics, and designing video games ever since with Double Fine Productions. The Great Showdowns began at the first Crazy 4 Cult exhibition at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles back in 2007, an exhibition of artwork inspired by the cult classics of cinema. The first 10 little paintings were intended to be snack-sized pieces for people to easily collect. They began with perhaps the most iconic of wild west showdowns from A Fistful of Dollars with Clint Eastwood. I pulled some of my favorite moments from films like Ghostbusters, Predator, Exorcist, and Planet of the Apes and placed them all in simple little dust-colored squares as if they were in the dirt streets of a wild west town. They began as good versus evil but grew to all kinds of showdowns between people and objects and often moments of great love between people. I started a tumblr for them a few years later, and I have been posting them ever since. We have published three Great Showdown books and have had 3 solo exhibitions along with worldwide scavenger hunts. There are over a thousand of them up on the site by now, and i do not plan on stopping any time soon.

Which 3 famous artists (dead or alive) would you invite to your dinner party?

I would like to gather Jim Henson, Walt Disney, and Richard Scarry together for dinner and chats. They have all created my favorite and most joyful worlds. I think we would have some of the most delightful chats.

What is a medium that you have always been intrigued by but would never use yourself?

I love collage, but every time I try it, I get frustrated and just quit. Someday I will get into it when my kids are old enough to really mess around with various mediums. I plan to have boxes of textiles and magazines for them to just annihilate.

What does your work set up look like?

Oh, it’s just a table with an old mug for water and an old plate for my watercolors and not much else. I share a studio with a bunch of very inspiring people who make wonderful things, from fabricated creatures to VR experiences and films. I have probably the simplest little area in the space. I do have an old oak flat file that I love to look at.

Advice you would give to an aspiring creator?

The biggest thing I would push upon everyone would be to not fret about one’s visual style. The style will grow and present itself as you experiment with mediums and expose yourself to various cultural delights. Just have fun and try all kinds of things.

What is one interaction you had from a fan of yours that has stuck with you over the years?

I gave a game design presentation many years back on a game I had art directed at the time called Brutal Legend at a game conference in Leeds. The game followed a roadie to the age of metal in the land of metal, with demons and chrome volcanoes and hot rods growing from the ground, and rivers of happy and cheering fans. After the talk, I spoke with someone whose work I had seen in earlier portfolio reviews at the conference. She was very shy but incredibly talented. She came up to me after the talk feeling pretty emotional and inspired to the point of tears and sobbing. It was probably the most extreme reaction I have ever gotten from someone, and it touched me deep down in my guts. That’s why we make things! To bring on the tears!

From video games, to illustrations, and children's books, you've worked on many projects. What was the most challenging, yet rewarding one?

Video games take an enormous amount of work over a long period of time and rely on the skills and talent of many like-minded people. It is sometimes difficult to corral such an effort, but it is incredibly rewarding to see it all come together to create such epic worlds. That said, though, children’s books are very enjoyable in a cozy way. It’s just me right there working on a world and all the pressure is on me. I cannot rely on all the talented people around me to make it look great.

Who on Tumblr inspires you and why?

I love perusing old fashion and film blogs and artists like Bob Jinx and Neil Sanders and collections like Its Colossal.

Thanks for stopping by, Scott! Be sure to check out the Great Showdowns over at @scottlava!

#creator spotlight #artists on tumblr #scott campbell #great showdowns

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callmearcturus · 1 year

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my blog title is from a pamphlet handed out at Janelle Monae's Electric Lady tour, which I have carried in my heart ever since.

THE TEN DROID COMMANDMENTS

I BELIEVE IN THE ARCHANDROID.

IF YOU SEEN YOUR NEIGHBOUR JAMMING HARDER THAN YOU, COVET HIS OR HER JAM.

BE AWARE THAT JAMMING HARDER MEANS: NO TWEETING WITHOUT CLAPPING, NO SEX WITHOUT SCREAMING, AND NO FREEDOM WITHOUT DANCING.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THE SONGS YOU WILL HEAR ARE ELECTRIC: BE CAREFUL AS YOU EXPERIENCE THEM AND INTERACT WITH ELECTRICAL DEVICES, DRINK WATER, OR TOUCH OTHERS. THE WONDALAND ARTS SOCIETY WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR MELTED TELECOMMUNUCATIONS DEVICES OR INJURIES RESULTING FROM LOCKBACK, SWEAT-TECH, LEAVEWEAVE, POPARM, SHOCKJAW, ELECTROBUTT, OR ANY OTHER MALADIES OR MALFUNCTIONS CAUSED BY THE JAM.

ANY SONG LYRIC YOU KNOW MUST BE SUNG. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW ENGLISH, SING LOUDLY IN ANY LANGUAGE OF YOUR CHOOSING. BE AWARE THAT THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG LANGUAGE, FOR THE ARCHANDROID WAS RECORDED ALL OVER THE WORLD.

ABANDON YOUR EXPECTATIONS ABOUT ART, RACE, GENDER, CULTURE, AND GRAVITY.

BEFORE THE SHOW FEEL FREE TO WALK ABOUT THE PREMISES IMPERSONATING ONE OF THE MANY INSPIRATIONS OF THE ARCHANDROID EMOTION PICTURE: (CHOOSE ONE) SALVADOR DALI, WALT DISNEY, OUTKAST, STEVIE WONDER, OCTAVIA BUTLER, DAVID BOWIE, ANDY WARHOL, OR JOHN WILLIAMS.

IF YOU HAVE BEEN TO THE PALACE OF THE DOGS, PLEASE DO NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE PALACE OF THE DOGS. IN ADDITION, DO NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE DROID CONTROL, THE WOLFMASTERS, OR THE GREAT DIVIDE. ALL THESE TERMS OR CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THEM ARE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN, SO SAYETH THE ZOIDS.

BY SHOW'S END YOU MUST TRANSFORM. THIS INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO EYE COLOR, PERSPECTIVE, MOOD, OR HEIGHT.

LASTLY, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT CHILDREN CONCEIVED DURING THE SHOW OR WITHIN 48 HOURS THEREAFTER MAY BE BORN WITH WINGS. THE WONDALAND ARTS SOCIETY WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR THIS PHENOMENON OR BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR PARENTING OR PROVIDING FOR YOUR FLYING CHILDREN.

#janelle monae #real life role model

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bellagrimfox · 2 months

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Mickey Mouse Headcanons/Ideas for Epic Mickey

Headcanons

Mickey's connection to the blot means that he can communicate with the Shadow Blot telepathically.

Mickey would prefer to use Paint but he has used Thinner for both fights and for light pranks.

Mickey doesn't believe the Thinner is entirely evil but is aware of the consequences of overusing it.

The blot is a manifestation of Mickey's concern with how Walt's dream is being treated nowadays.

Mickey has rare vision dreams that predict his fate or the fate of his friends.

Mickey can speak to Tints and Turps and is the only one who can understand them.

Mickey can temporarily morph himself into his previous designs, mostly for tricks and jokes.

One of his favorite parades is the Main Street Electrical Parade and he was so happy to see it come back.

Mickey remembers his clubhouse/preschool shows fondly, even if people in the Real World don't.

Mickey does what he can to make sure Toons don't stay forgotten, though some things are out of his hands.

Ideas

This is gonna use a mix of original ideas and scrapped content to see if I can use any of them in a way that fits with the canon lore.

Mickey's connection with the paintbrush technically allows him to use his ink powers with his hands. The issue is that the more he does it, the more fragile his body becomes, draining his colors and messing up his body. Will appear in Epic Mickey 2.

Due to recent issues involved with Disney, Mickey wonders if he's better off being forgotten since his image is stuck in a place between being loved and being hated by the public. This idea may be expanded in Epic Mickey 2.

Mickey can fuse with the Tints and Turps to create temporary forms that strengthen either Paint or Thinner or both at the same time. The downside is that the Guardians magic is very limited and too much can erase them completely.

Mickey getting new types of Paint and Thinner colors. (To be extended in world-building post)

Mickey getting a gas mask inspired by the real life WW2 masks that was supposed to be for kids so he can avoid getting too much Thinner in his lungs. This would only be for cases in which he has to use so much or he's in an environment that forces him to wear one. Of course he finds absolutely nothing wrong with the mask itself, nope not at all.

He still hates war at least.

And finally, his Tints and Turps get special designs in Epic Mickey 2 thanks to their strong connection to him. These designs would be inspired by the Tokyo Disney Resort Summer Splash water drop mascot designs.

I might draw my own design using these during the times I'm not doing college work.

That's all for now but up next is Oswald and boy do I have plenty of ideas for him.

#epic mickey rebrushed #epic mickey #epic mickey 2 #oswald the lucky rabbit #mickey mouse #headcanon #my post #story ideas #disney

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thewaltcrew · 9 months

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Imagineer Rolly Crump (February 27, 1930 – March 12, 2023) in "Disneyland's 10th Anniversary" from the anthology series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, aired January 3, 1965

Roland "Rolly" Crump started his career at Disney as an animator in his 20s. The man who ran the animation department at the time of Crump's hiring reportedly told him years later that "what you showed us was the worst portfolio of anyone ever hired in animation."

His first three years as at WED Enterprises provided little interaction with Walt.

Crump: All I did was absorb. I watched how everyone reacted to Walt, and the strengths and the weaknesses of the different guys. I studied Walt Disney and what it was like to work with him, but I wasn't participating until after three years. That's when I started talking. I learned that if you show something to Walt, it has to be something he hasn't seen before.

He called the period working with Walt "the happiest time of my life."

Crump: It was a great job. You were thrilled to do what you were doing. I was, anyway.

Rolly Crump's strange, bold, chaotic, and graphic style stands out strongly among his Imagineering peers. With his distinct touch, Crump was able to create some of the most visually memorable iconography for Disneyland, including the façade of It's a Small World (based on Mary Blair's styling) and the tiki god and goddess statues in the Enchanted Tiki Room.

Always a man who was protective of artist identity and integrity, he would often refer to rides by their primary visionary. The Haunted Mansion was Yale Gracey's ride, It's a Small World was Mary Blair's.

Crump: I was given the job of kind of supervising It's a Small World. I knew it was only going to work if everything looked like Mary Blair. As far as I was concerned, this is a Mary Blair ride.

And had the Museum of the Weird been built, it would've been Rolly Crump's.

It started out with Crump creating drawings and concepts for the Haunted Mansion. All the strange objects he describes in the "10th Anniversary" episode are all ideas and visuals he came up with. His peers told him his ideas would be "too weird" for Walt but after a presentation to the boss, Crump found Walt sitting in his office chair the next morning.

Crump: The first thing he said to me was, "You son of a bitch. All that stuff you showed me yesterday? I couldn't sleep."

Crump: The next day, what happened was Walt came in and said, "OK, we're going to do a Museum of the Weird, that's where we're going to use all that funny stuff you showed me yesterday." All he had to do was go home and spend some time with himself and he'd come up with everything. He was a delight to work with... You never felt like you worked for Walt. You felt like you worked with Walt because that's the way he made you feel. He encouraged your creativity. He was part of the magic. He was part of everything we did.

Unfortunately, the project died with Walt. After his unexpected passing, the project was dropped.

Crump: Management didn't like it. Walt passed, and he took the museum with him. No one else wanted to fool with it.

But the Museum of the Weird lives on. Marvel created a comic book based on the attraction called Seekers of the Weird. The fortune teller character Crump designed, Madame Zarkov, is referenced in Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and was written into the the elaborate Easter egg SEA (the Society of Explorers and Adventurers, a fictional secret society incorporated in many Disney attractions to tie their lore). And the window on Main Street USA that honors Crump for his work features three of his most famous pieces: the Tower of the Four Winds from It's a Small World (built for the 1964 World's Fair and unfortunately torn down because it was too big to move to Disneyland), Maui from the Enchanted Tiki Room, and the coffin clock.

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#rolly crump #disneyedit #walt disney #imagineer #my gif #my edit #q #the chicago tribune article i linked is locked for subscribers only unfortunately #i'm not a subscriber to the chicago tribune #but for some reason i was able to view it temporarily #no idea how #i also had never heard of SEA until reading that sfgate article!

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Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color featuring Ludwig Von Drake

#disney #walt disney #cartoon #cartoons #Youtube

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disneytva · 10 months

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Disney Television Animation X Walt Disney Imagineering Collaboration "San Fransokyo Square" Sets Opening Date, Confirms Big Hero 6 The Series Easter Eggs

After being promised at the recent D23 Expo, we are now getting an update from Walt Disney Imagineering, revealing that San Fransokyo Square is arriving at Disney California Adventure, August 31, 2023 as part of the 100 Years of Wonder at the Disneyland Resort.

The area will have some elements debuting in the month and a half as a lead-up.

During a PR Preview provided by Laughing Place, it was confirmed that the area will be featured with easter eggs from the various iterations of the Big Hero 6 story, including the Disney Television Animation's Big Hero 6 : The Series and Walt Disney Animation Studios Baymax! provided by both studios.

Starting in mid-July, you’ll be able to sample new San Fransokyo selections at Lucky Fortune Cookery, and the Port of San Fransokyo Cervecería will officially open. In the weeks following, additional dining options, unique shopping and more will be introduced as the transformation of this thriving seaside plaza continues through its official debut on August 31st.

When the transformation is completed, locations across the area – from the Cappuccino Cart outside the San Fransokyo Gate Bridge to The Bakery Tour – will be decked out in street art and colorful banners celebrating the Big Hero 6 team after their victory over Yokai.

The diverse array of flavorful fare in San Fransokyo Square will include current favorites and new creations inspired by Asian cuisine, as well as the Big Hero 6 themselves. Aunt Cass Café, the second bakery café operated by Hiro’s loving aunt, will serve dishes, soups in freshly-baked Boudin sourdough bread bowls and more inspired by Japanese cuisine. On the outside of this quick service restaurant, you’ll find a mural of Aunt Cass’ lucky pet cat, Mochi.

An old fishing net tannery across from the café is being converted to Rita’s Turbine Blenders, a giant drink dispenser offering delicious margaritas and icy beverages. This refreshment stand is owned and named after the repair technician who maintains the floating wind turbine, resembling a giant koi fish, that sits atop the structure.

Guests will also be able to meet with Baymax, who will talk for the very first time!

"San Fransokyo Square" is the lastest Disney Television Animation X Walt Disney Imagineering collaboration between "Mickey And Minnie's Runaway Railway" at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Toontown, "Aqua-Mouse" at Disney Wish from Disney Cruise Line, Passholder Magnets for Disney Springs and Disneyland with animations from "The Wonderful World Of Mickey Mouse", redesings from Paul Rudish and Asia Ellington for "Orange Bird","Dumbo" and "Figment", "DuckTales World Showcase Adventure" and providing redesings and decoring for the "Toontown" refreshment with "Goofy’s How-To-Play Yard","Donald's Boat",Chip ‘n’ Dale’s GADGETcoaster,"The EngineEar Souvenirs Shop" featuring various Disney Afternoon characters and locations.

#San Fransokyo Square #Big Hero 6 #Big Hero 6 : The Series #Big Hero 6 The Series #Baymax #Baymax!#Disney TVA Rides #Walt Disney Imagineering #Walt Disney Animation Studios #Disney's California Adventure #Disneyland #Disney XD

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disneyparksattractionstournament · 4 months

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Extinct Disney Parks and Attractions tournament round 1: Group C2

Reminder, you don't have had to experience any of the attractions/experiences to vote! Just read in the info and/or watch the vid,then vote for which you wish you would have experienced more/which sounds cooler!

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Spectromagic: Magic Kingdom (1991-1999, 2001-2010)

Propaganda:

"It was the best parade of all time, I will literally never get over them getting rid of it."

THE ACTUAL GOAT HERE FOLKS! TRULY THE BEST AND MOST MAGICAL PARADE DISNEY HAS EVER DONE AND PROBABLY WILL EVER DO! I cry about it everyday tbh. Video doesn't capture just how freaking magical this parade was. The soundtrack is just pure magic and wonder. The lighting effects were absolutely amazing. They even had a Fantasia section with freaking Chernabog! Then the finale part, YALL, it was gorgeous, and would change from black and white to color!!!! I seriously cannot overstate the magic of this parade. It is SUCH a core memory. This is when the parks were at peak magic in my opinion. Don't even get me started on why it ultimately retired, it was literally CAUSE THEY DIDN'T STORE THE FLOATS PROPERLY! LIKE WHAT THE HELL DISNEY! YOU KNOW FLORIDA WEATHER. Makes me burst at the seams that the greatest parade of all time is lost and 99% sure not ever coming back (cause they are waaaay to cheap to produce this parade nowadays) and nkehewnc2jbvif2. Gosh, Id give anything for the parks to go back to this type of entertainment. But just please, PLEASE bring back night parades! There is nothing as magical as a disney night parade !

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Mickey Mania: Magic Kingdom(1994-1996), Tokyo Disneyland (1995)

Propaganda:

This is one of those, its so bad its good, things. Its horrifying in the best way and was pure and unadulterated 90s

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#disney parks #extinct disney parks attractions tournament #poll #polls #tournament poll #round 1 #retired disney #disney world #defunctland #magic kingdom #spectromagic #mickey mania #parades #disney parades #Youtube

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The 1964/1965 New York World’s Fair was the third major world’s fair to be held in New York City. The fair’s theme was “Peace Through Understanding," symbolized by a 12-story high, stainless-steel model of the earth called the Unisphere.

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color on NBC (Season 10, Episode 27) offered a preview of Disney attractions at the New York World's Fair. Walt also explained "Audio-Animatronics," the then-new Disney process that helps bring inanimate objects to life.

Originally posted January 26, 2014 (via gameraboy).

#World's Fair #1964 #New York #DIsney #Animatronics

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homomenhommes · 6 months

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more …

1766 – Christoffel Bosch van Leeuwarden, a seventy year old porter in the Netherlands, was convicted of seduction to sodomy and sentenced to three years of prison labour.

1880 – A medical journal publishes an article, "Notes upon Sodomy," which claims that men who engage in sodomy have a different type of penis from those who don't.

1918 – James Daly (d.1978) was an American theater, film, and television actor, who is perhaps best known for his role as Paul Lochner in the hospital drama series Medical Center, in which he played Chad Everett's superior.

Daly was born in Wisconsin Rapids in Wood County in central Wisconsin, to Dorothy Ethelbert (Hogan) Mullen, who later worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, and Percifer Charles Daly, a fuel merchant. During the 1930s, Daly studied drama and acted in shows before he worked for the armed services, and served with the United States Navy as World War II ended.

Daly was a music major at the University of Wisconsin, a drama major at Iowa State University, and attended Carroll College before receiving a degree from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa.[3] Cornell College later presented him with an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree.

Daly was an accomplished stage actor, starting out in 1946 as Gary Merrill's understudy in Born Yesterday. His starring roles on Broadway included Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize- winning J.B. and Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment.

Between 1953 and 1955, Daly appeared in the TV series Foreign Intrigue. He guest-starred on many television series, including Appointment with Adventure (two episodes), Breaking Point, Mission: Impossible, The Twilight Zone ("A Stop at Willoughby"), The Tenderfoot (1964) for Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, The Road West (1966 episode "The Gunfighter"), Custer, Gunsmoke, Combat!, The Fugitive, The Virginian, and Twelve O'Clock High. He portrayed Mr. Flint (an apparently immortal human) in the Star Trek episode "Requiem for Methuselah" (1969).

In 1958, Daly signed a contract with the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company to do television commercials for Camel cigarettes. He served as the Camel representative for seven years, being flown by Reynolds throughout the United States to be filmed smoking a Camel cigarette at various locations.

According to his son Tim Daly during an interview on CBS News Sunday Morning, James Daly came out to Tim as gay a decade after divorcing his wife Hope. His struggle to come to terms with his sexual orientation nearly put a rift between him and his family. As homosexuality was still considered a mental illness until the early 1970s, he and his wife tried and failed at "curing" him. After their divorce, Daly decided to limit his contact with his children out of fear that they would end up mentally ill themselves.

Two of Daly's children, Tyne Daly and Tim Daly, and his granddaughter, Kathryne Dora Brown, and grandson, Sam Daly, are actors. Tyne appeared on Daly's TV series, Foreign Intrigue, as a child. The elder Daly and his daughter both guest-starred separately in the original Mission: Impossible TV series. Tim appeared as a child with his father in Henrik Ibsen's play, An Enemy of the People. Daly had two other children: daughters, Mary Glynn and Pegeen Michael.

Daly died on July 3, 1978, of heart failure in Nyack, New York, two years after Medical Center ended, and while he was preparing to star in the play Equus in Tarrytown, New York. His ashes were sprinkled into the Atlantic Ocean.

1923 – The American composer Ned Rorem, American composer, was born today. He is most well-known and praised for his song settings. He was born in Richmond, Indiana and received his early education in Chicago. He later travelled in Europe and North Africa.

During the time he lived in Morocco and Paris (1949-57), his song texts came from several languages. An avid diarist, in 1969 he published his Paris Diary, which, with his later diaries, has brought him some degree of notoriety, as he is honest about his and others' sexuality, describing his relationships with Leonard Bernstein, Noël Coward, Samuel Barber, and Virgil Thomson, and outing at least a few people.

Rorem has written extensively about music as well. These essays are collected in anthologies such as "Setting the Tone", "Music From the Inside Out", and "Music and People". His music prose is much admired, not least for its barbed observations about prominent musicians such as Pierre Boulez.

1954 – Ang Lee, the Oscar-winning Taiwanese-born director was born today. Lee decided to take on a small-budget, low-profile independent film based on Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-finalist short story originally published in The New Yorker, Brokeback Mountain. In a 2005 article by Robert K. Elder, Lee was quoted as saying, "What do I know about Gay ranch hands in Wyoming?" In spite of the 'straight' director's removal from the subject at hand, Brokeback Mountain showcased Lee's skills in probing depths of the human heart.

The 2005 movie about the forbidden love between two Wyoming cowboys immediately caught public attention and initiated intense debates. The film was critically acclaimed at major international film festivals and won Lee numerous Best Director and Best Film awards worldwide. In addition, "Brokeback" became a cultural phenomenon and a box office hit. "Brokeback" was nominated for a leading eight Oscars and was the frontrunner for Best Picture heading into the March 5 ceremony, but lost out to Crash, a story about race relations in Los Angeles, in a controversial upset. There was speculation that the film's depiction of homosexuality might have been the reason for that upset, while others speculate that Crash was simply a better movie. Lee said he was disappointed that his film did not win Best Picture, but was honored to win Best Director, becoming the first Asian to ever win the award.

If you're a fan of Brokeback but don't know Ang Lee's other work, we'd recommend his brilliant and touching 1993 film "Wedding Banquet." The film about an interracial Gay couple and the meeting of cultures is a treasure.

He also managed to successfully film Life of Pi, the claustophobic story of a castaway boy and a Bengal tiger togetther adrift in a lifeboat - in widescreen 3D, yet!

1971 – Matthew Williamson is an English fashion designer.

Williamson is openly gay. He counts celebrities such as Cat Deeley, Sienna Miller, Kelis, Jade Jagger and Plum Sykes amongst his friends, but has often been criticised by others in the fashion industry for using them to promote his designs.

He was born in Manchester, England, and studied in Manchester at Loreto College until he was 17. He then moved to London to attend school at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design, graduating in 1994.

His eponymous fashion house was founded in February 1997. That same year, Williamson debuted his collection 'Electric Angels' at London Fashion Week. His collections were displayed during New York Fashion week in 2002. His store at 28 Bruton Street, in Mayfair, London, followed in 2004.

In 2005, he launched his own perfume range; the following year he was appointed Creative Director at Emilio Pucci. In 2007, a runway show of his designs was incorporated into the video for Prince's song "Chelsea Rodgers" from his Planet Earth album. In 2007, the Design Museum, London, hosted a restrospective of his work entitled "Matthew Williamson – 10 years in Fashion".

In 2008, Williamson was awarded the "Red Carpet Designer" accolade at the British Fashion Awards where he has also received three nominations for Designer of the Year. In September 2008 Matthew Williamson returned to London full-time to focus fully on his own label's forthcoming ventures and expansion. He made a guest appearance on season 7 of Project Runway. The episode aired on 28 January 2010.

In October 2010 it was announced that Matthew Williamson signed a new licensing deal with MBFG. The deal began a new line – Muse by Matthew Williamson.

His collections are shown twice a year during New York Fashion Week, and they often have an Indian influence, perhaps related to the time Williamson spent working in India for the clothing store Monsoon.

1993 – In Helena, Montana, the state supreme court ruled that transvestitism is not a sufficient reason to deny a father joint custody of his 3-year old child.

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