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  • Beauty and the Beast, the Epitome of the Disney Renaissance
    Beauty and the Beast is the 30th animated feature made by Walt Disney Studio. Based on the traditional French fairytale made popular by Madame Beaumont's story published in 1756, the film premiered at Disney's El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles in 1991. Beauty and the Beast is still one of the best known and beloved films in the Disney canon.
  • The Shaggy Dog - Disney's First Live Action Comedy
    The Shaggy Dog is a black and white 1959 Walt Disney movie about a youngster who is turned into a sheep dog by a cursed ring. Aside from its comic merit, it is noteworthy as being the first Walt Disney live-action comedy ever made. A testament to its appeal is the number of remakes and spin-offs based on this source material.
  • The Birth of the Pioneering Disney Studios
    The Walt Disney Company was created in 1923 by brothers Walt and Roy Disney in Los Angeles. The Disney brothers started by producing a series of live-action/animated short films communally named The Alice Comedies. Within four months of the initial screenings, the brothers were urged to move to larger facilities, dubbed "Disney Bros. Studio." According their official website, in 1925 the Disney brothers placed a deposit on a lot on Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. This lot would house the Disney Studio for the next 14 years, seeing the dawn of such beloved characters as Mickey Mouse, Pluto, Goofy, and Donald Duck.
  • Dumbo, Disney's 4th Animated Classic
    In 1941, Walt Disney distributed his fourth animated feature, Dumbo. Based on the children's book of the same name, written by Helen Aberson and drawn by Harold Perl, Dumbo follows the adventures of Jumbo, Jr., a baby elephant. Because of his unnaturally large ears, which give him the power to fly, Jumbo, Jr. is nicknamed "Dumbo." His only friend, other than his mother, is Timothy the mouse.
  • Bambi, Disney's Moving Masterpiece
    In 1942, Walt Disney released his fifth animated movie, Bambi. It was based on the Austrian book Bambi, A Life In The Woods, by Felix Salten. Published in 1923, the book followed the adventures of a male roe deer from birth to maturity. The book was popular both in Europe and the United States. Salten, whose real name was Siegmund Salzmann, was Hungarian by birth but spent most of his time in Vienna. The popularity of the book inspired Salten to write a sequel entitled Bambi's Children.
  • The Country Bear Jamboree
    When Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom premiered in 1971, it featured a great audio-animatronic show called The Country Bear Jamboree. As the name suggests, the show featured bears performing country music. The show was such a hit that capacity was expanded, Disneyland got its own Jamboree, and a second theatre was built to accommodate the crowds.
  • Sharkboy and Lavagirl, A Quirky Classic
    The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl takes viewers on a wild ride in the grand tradition of fantastical films such as Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, which is set in a bizarre world, and films such as The Never-ending Story, in which mistreatment by bullies sends the victim into a dream world where he can be a hero. The merger of fantasy and reality in the film is intriguing.
  • The Internet Is Now Portable In New and Exciting Ways
    Imagine yourself in a problem: you are supposed to be meeting a client for dinner to seal an important deal and you have been made late because a meeting in a nearby town ran late. When you go to phone your client, you realize you forgot to charge your mobile phone. The battery is dead, and the client's cell phone number is in your dead phone! What do you do? Your contract is suddenly in jeopardy just because you did not remember to plug in your cell phone?!
  • When XBox Meets Disney, the Results are Great
    Because of the internet, the world is a different place, and changes happen overnight. It has metamorphosed the way we make friends with one another, the way we study, and the way we entertain ourselves. About a year ago, for instance, the Xbox Live Marketplace was started to allow users to download movie rentals on demand. This innovative service was embraced immediately. Within seven months, more than 10 million movies had been accessed via Xbox's online downloading service. Currently, it is the only company renting on demand movies in high definition.
  • Disney DVDs are Not Just for Children to Enjoy
    Nobody wants to be the parent who permits their children watch movies all the time or who uses the television as a baby sitter. However, on a rainy day or for a special occasion, it is welcoming to be able to have a shelf of movies that are favorite fare for kids. It is also a wonderful idea to have a portable DVD player to entertain kids on long car rides or airplane flights or on the occasional days when your children have to accompany you to the office!
  • Kimberly Clark Gloves Offer the Comfort of Nitrile Rubber
    Many careers call for the use of gloves, both for the protection of workers and for cleanliness. Where once the manner of disease transmission was unknown and care for employees' health and safety was minimal, now such things are a matter of vital concern. Today, people in all sorts of jobs rely heavily on gloves. Day care workers and food handlers wear gloves to avoid the spread of germs, as do health care employees. Laboratory workers need protection from harmful chemicals, and industrial workers use gloves to guard against injury as well as harmful chemicals. The variety of gloves manufactured is amazing.
  • Purell Hand Sanitizer Protects You Wherever You Are
    Have you ever been in a situation where you badly needed to wash your hands and there was no running water available? Maybe you just shook fifty hands at an outdoor wedding, any one of them contaminated with who knows what. Or maybe you petted a dog in the park. Or the worst yet-the port-a-potty at your son's football field provided no way to clean your hands. The feeling that there are germs setting up camp all over your hands is enough to make you sick--literally!
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - a new step in Film Making
    The production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs began sometime in early 1934. This was Walt Disney's first crack at producing an animated film. To this point, Disney had effectively drawn a series of animated shorts entitled The Alice Comedies as well as Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies.
  • Baby Boomers still remember the Micke Mouse Club
    Older Americans remember with fondness coming home from school in the latter years of the 50's to watch Walt Disney Studios' Mickey Mouse Club. The second television show offered by Disney, The Mickey Mouse Club was televised in part to help finance the creation of the Disneyland theme park. From 5:00-6:00 in its first two seasons and from 5:00-5:30 in its last two, U.S. teens were glued to the set.
  • The Importance of Good Concert Sound
    Recording and sound professionals are among the most essential professionals in the field of entertainment. From the sound of live events, concerts and television broadcasts, and film sound recording, the work of technical sound is crucial. The truth is; sound is only as good as the equipment. For concert sound engineers, it is necessary to have high-quality, reliable sound mixing equipment. Regardless of whether they are live or in the studio, musicians demand great sound. Requests for these two types of concert sound, however, are not the same.

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