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• Wednesdays with Wade: The bored animator who helped create "Corpse Bride"

  With Tim Burton's latest film now in theaters, Wade Sampson takes a look back at Tim's tenure at Disney Feature Animation. Back when Burton seemed far too depressed to do all that much animating. Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: Disney

• Wednesdays with Wade: Fantasound Follies

  Wade Sampson looks back on how Walt Disney's experimentation with stereophonic sound help lead to the creation of the "surround sound" systems that we all enjoy at the multiplexes and/or in our own home theaters today. Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: Disney

• Wednesdays with Wade: 25 years of "Disney on Ice"

  Wade Sampson looks back at how the Walt Disney Company and Feld Entertainment wound up partnering to create a quarter century's worth of ice spectaculars. Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: Disney

• Wednesdays with Wade: The Disney / New Orleans Connection

  As that city along the Mississippi continues to struggle as it tries to recover from the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, Wade Sampson reminds us why New Orleans occupied such a special place in Walt Disney's heart. Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 07, 2005 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: Disney

• Walt Disney remembers his studio's "Growing Pains"

  Following up on yesterday's JHM article, Wade Sampson shares an old magazine article where the "Old Mousetro" recalls all the extra effort involved with turning Disney Studios from an outfit that made animated shorts to a company that made full-length animated features. Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: Disney

• How Walt Disney himself helped to usher in the age of Technicolor

  Wade Sampson shares a tale from the 1930s. Where the founder of Technicolor worked with Walt Disney Studios to help convince Tinsel Town to start making its movies in color. Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2005 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: Disney

• Wednesdays with Wade: A guided tour of Disneyland circa 1963

  Wade Sampson unearths a "Vacationland" article about what it was like to take a guided tour of the "Happiest Place on Earth" back in the early 1960s. Which he now shares with JHM readers. Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 10, 2005 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: Disney

• Wednesdays with Wade: The Florida Neverlands

  Using SeaWorld's proposed expansion as his jumping-off point, Wade Sampson talks about many of the other theme parks that were once proposed for Central Florida that never quite made it up out of the swamp. Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 03, 2005 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: Disney

• Wednesdays with Wade: The Story of "Ben and Me"

  Though the Fourth of July was weeks ago, Wade Sampson pays tribute to a particular patriotic animated featurette that Walt Disney Studios released back in 1953. Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2005 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: Disney

• Wednesdays with Wade: Disneyland's Forgotten Founding Fathers

  Wade Sampson wants us to remember that while it was Walt who actually dreamed up "The Happiest Place on Earth," it took a lot of talented artists to make Disney's dream a reality. Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: Disney

• Wednesdays with Wade: Disneyland U.S.A.

  In honor of Disneyland's 50th anniversary, Wade Sampson talks about one of the very first times the Anaheim theme park was featured in a Disney-produced featurette. Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 13, 2005 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: Disney

• Wednesdays with Wade: Walt Disney -- Greatest American?

  Wade Sampson keeps the Fourth of July fun going for just a few days longer by detailing Walt's love for the U.S.A. Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: Disney

• Wednesdays with Wade: Tinker Bell Talks!

  Wade Sampson shares some of Disney historian Jim Korkis's notes from and interview with original Tinker Bell model Margaret Kerry. Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: Disney

• Wednesdays With Wade: The Educational Walt

  School's out for Summer! But, some of you need to stay in for summer school. Your teacher? The ever knowledgeable Professor Wade Sampson. The subject? Walt Disney and education. Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: Disney

• Wednesdays with Wade: 50 years of "Lady and the Tramp"

  This week, Wade Sampson is going to the dogs. Literally. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of "Lady and the Tramp," Wade takes a look back at the creation of this much beloved Disney classic. Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 15, 2005 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: Disney