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Blog Post: "it's a small world" composer looks back on his big career at Disney

Jim Hill

It wasn't always easy directly working for Walt Disney. Sometimes you found yourself dealing with some very weird assignments. "My brother and I were in our office one day when we got a phone call. 'Walt wants you down on Stage 4,' " Disney Legend Richard M Sherman recalled during...

on8 Jan 2012
Blog Post: Company insiders share all sorts of great stories at the Disneyana Fan Club's annual convention

Jim Hill

Disneyland Park celebrated its 56 th anniversary of its opening yesterday. But for those who couldn't wait to get that party started, there was the Disneyana Fan Club 's annual convention . Photo by Paul Schnebelen Held just down the road from the Park at the Anaheim Crowne Plaza Resort in Garden...

on17 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Mist Direction or How DAK Operations just slipped Joe Rohde a Mickey

Jim Hill

Folks who visited Disney's Animal Kingdom late last month got something of a treat. In that -- for a while there, anyway -- most of " Expedition Everest " 's effects were actually working. The scenic mist that's supposed to drift off of Forbidden Mountain top actually did that. The fog bank that your...

on26 May 2008
Blog Post: WDI's X-Scream Makeover of WDW's Haunted Mansion: Part 3

Jim Hill

Picking up where we left off on Tuesday ... I know that this is going to sound a bit bizarre. Particularly given that -- back in 1955 -- Walt Disney built an entire theme park for just $17 million . But $30 million doesn't go as far as you might think these days. Which is why WDI really had to pick...

on23 Oct 2007

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Blog Post: "it's a small world" composer looks back on his big career at Disney

Blog Post: Company insiders share all sorts of great stories at the Disneyana Fan Club's annual convention

Blog Post: Mist Direction or How DAK Operations just slipped Joe Rohde a Mickey

Blog Post: WDI's X-Scream Makeover of WDW's Haunted Mansion: Part 3