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  • When XBox Meets Disney, the Results are Great
    Because of the internet, the world is a radically altered place, and changes happen overnight. It has metamorphosed the way we make friends with one another, the way we learn, and the way we entertain ourselves. About a year ago, for instance, the Xbox Live Marketplace was introduced to let users to download movie rentals on demand. This innovative service was embraced immediately. Within seven months, more than 10 million movies had been rented via Xbox's online downloading service. Currently,
  • The Country Bear Jamboree
    When Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom opened in 1971, it featured a great audio-animatronic show called The Country Bear Jamboree. As the name suggests, the show featured bears playing country music. The show was such a hit that capacity was expanded, Disneyland got its own Jamboree, and an additional theatre was built to satisfy the demand.
  • 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 creating a series of live-action/animated short films communally named The Alice Comedies. Within four months of the first screenings, the brothers were forced to relocate 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. Th
  • Mary Poppins, An Oscar-Winning Masterpiece
    Mary Poppins is the beloved musical produced by Walt Disney and starring Julie Andrews. Released in 1964, the film was based on the best-selling children's book written by P.L. Travers and illustrated by Mary Shepard. It enjoyed phenomenal success when it was released, and was ranked by the American Film Institute as the 6th best musical of all time, just above A Star Is Born and below Cabaret.
  • 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.
  • Beauty and the Beast, the Highlight 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.
  • Bambi, Disney's 5th Animated Classic 
    In 1942, Walt Disney released his fifth animated feature, Bambi. It was based on the Austrian story Bambi, A Life In The Woods, by Felix Salten. Published in 1923, the book chronicled the adventures of a male roe deer from birth to maturity. The book was well received both in Europe and the United States. Salten, whose actual name was Siegmund Salzmann, was Hungarian by birth but spent most of his life in Vienna. The popularity of the book prompted Salten to write a sequel entitled Bambi's Children.

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