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●     “Feature Film” – The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

○     Young Clara needs a magical, one-of-a-kind key to unlock a box that contains a priceless gift left to her by her recently deceased mother. The family goes to a Christmas Eve ball, hosted by the children's godfather and skilled engineer Drosselmeyer.  At this ball Clara argues with her father and runs off, finding a golden thread leads her in a Narnia-esque way to another land where she finds the key to the box her mother left to her, but it is taken by a mouse. While clara pursues the mouse, she meets a soldier named Phillip, and the regents who preside over three realms. They tell Clara they are at war with the Land of Amusements which they refer to as "the Fourth Realm" led by the evil mother ginger.  One of the regents, The Sugar Plum Fairy, explains that Clara's mother Marie created this world as a young girl, and that she animated everyone with a machine that can turn toys into real people. Sugar Plum says this machine can be used to defend the three realms against Mother Ginger, the Regent of the Fourth Realm, but it needs a key matching the one for Clara's box. Clara and Phillip must now enter a fourth realm to retrieve the key and restore harmony to the unstable land.

○     Film Trivia - IMDB

■     At the beginning of the ballet telling the story of the Four Realms, the conductor mounts the podium and conducts an orchestra appearing in silhouette. This is a tribute to the Disney classic Fantasia (1940), which included a segment based on "The Nutcracker Suite."

■    Marie was name of the heroine of E.T.A. Hoffmann's original Nutcracker tale. She was renamed Clara in Alexandre Dumas' adaptation, on which the ballet was based. This movie's heroine is Clara, daughter of Marie.

■    The Nutcracker's name, Hoffmann, comes from the author of the source story: E.T.A. Hoffmann.

■    Third collaboration between Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen since Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Anna Karenina (2012).

■    Jack Whitehall: as a Harlequin palace guard. Whitehall has a history of publicly stating his love for Disney and his wishes to be cast in any role for their films.

●      Comedian Lion King rant (Language warning) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfcApowdmxs

■    The score follows the ballet's story, hinting what is about to happen throughout the whole movie. For example: When Clara first crosses the threshold to Mother Ginger's fair while leading the group of soldiers, the true villain of the film is foreshadowed, as the music in the background is a fragment of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from "The Nutcracker Suite." and also Towards the end of the movie, Clara's father recognized the song from the egg as the song to which he shared his first dance with Marie. This song is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Pas de Deux," which is played in the ballet when the Nutcracker is dancing with Clara for the first time.

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○     Live Action Little Mermaid Was Last Night

○     Disney Plus launches next week on the 12th

●     Segment: Miscellaneous “Whosits & Whatsits Galore”

○     Disney Trivia - Mandela Effect

●     Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business”

○     Top 4 Live Action Female Leads

○     1.Elizabeth Swann

○     2.Mary Poppins

○     3.Cinderella

○     4.Eglantine

Tease Next Week: Tarzan 2

Top 4: Favorite Sequels

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●     “Feature Film” – Escape to Witch Mountain

○     Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony "escape to witch mountain," while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.

○     Film Trivia - IMDB

■     The character of Tia in the flashback sequences was played by Kim Richards' real-life younger sister Kyle Richards.

■     Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann, who play the children in this movie and in Return from Witch Mountain (1978), appeared in a scene in Race to Witch Mountain (2009). Eisenmann is "Sheriff Antony" in the bar, and Richards is "Tina" the waitress. In this movie and its 1978 sequel, their names were similar: "Tony" and "Tia", respectively.

■     At one point during the fight scene between Tony and Truck, Dermott Downs punched the bat so hard, it hit Ike Eisenmann. In some scenes, despite the make-up department's best efforts, you can see a greenish bruise under his left eye.

■     Knowing that it was an integral part of the story, Ike Eisenmann (Tony) bought a harmonica and taught himself to play it, unaware that he would be dubbed in the end by professional harmonica player Tommy Morgan.

■     The primary cat who portrayed Winky was temperamental and difficult with which to work, particularly for Ike Eisenmann (Tony), who sustained numerous cuts and scratches from the feline.

■     The Pine Woods Orphanage was actually Peninsula School of Creative Education in Menlo Park, California. The secluded sixty-room mansion was built in 1880 and converted into a school in 1925. There are countless stories of hauntings in the mansion, which were played up in the original press materials for this movie.

■     The marionettes from the playroom sequence continue to be used for performances at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, which has been designated as a historic landmark in Los Angeles, California.

■     The name of the mysterious item that Tia carried around, which contained a map, was a "star case". Tia's star case, which housed the map to Witch Mountain, had an additional purpose in the novel. In Key's novel, Tia was mute (but communicate telepathically with Tony) and carried pencils and paper in the star case to write notes to people.

■     In one scene, Tony and Tia go on an outing to see the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○     New Jim Henson series “earth to Ned” coming to Disney +

○     Rise of Skywalker Ticket Sales prove fan boycott to be empty threat

■     When tickets for The Rise of Skywalker went on sale this past Monday, media outlets were quick to publish stories that the film’s pre-sales outpaced Avengers: Endgame for its first hour on Atom Tickets. This caused the TLJ fans to claim victory over the boycotters and tout that their side has won. However, while the first hour sales may have been really high, the total first-day sales fell behind Endgame. It’s still impressive though and those first-day sales are 2.5 times what TLJ did.

■     Hocus Pocus Sequel

●     Segment: whozits and whatzits

○     Disney Trivia

■     Haunted Mansion Trivia Quiz Link

●     Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business”

○     Top 4 animated non-human extraterrestrials

○     1. Captain Amelia

○     2. Stitch

○     3. Pleakly

○     4. John Silver

Tease Next Week: Nutcracker and the Four Realms

Top 4: Live Action Female Leads

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●     “Feature Film” – The Shaggy Dog (1959 - not the 2006 Tim Allen version)

○     LOOSELY based on The Hound of Florence by Felix Salten (author of Bambi), a German novel, which is, frankly, just very upsetting

○      The Shaggy Dog is the story of dog-hating mailman Wilson Daniels, and his two sons - apparently the only 2 child actors Disney had access to prior to 1965. Kevin Corcoran as younger son “Moochie”, and Tommy Kirk as the lead, “Wilby”. Wilby Daniels is an awkward teenage inventor that seems to be capable of financing his best friend “Buzz”’s romantic life, but has not been able to date himself. He wants to change this when he and Buzz both catch sight of their new French neighbor Francesca,  - Francesca needs to go to  the local museum, so Buzz and Wilby trip over themselves to take her. While at the museum, they split up, and Wilby runs into Dr. Plumcutt, a former customer on his paper route. Dr. Plumcutt tells Wilby all about the Borgia family, their sinister reputation, and their secret dog magic. Afterward, Wilby knocks over a display of antique jewelry, only to realize that he has stolen, ahem, “acquired” a Borgia ring and smuggled it out of the museum in the cuff of his pants. Wilby reads the inscription on the ring aloud and inadvertently turns himself into a dog - which happens to be identical to Francesca’s “Bratislavan sheepdog”, Chiffon. Wilby returns to Dr. Plumcutt at the museum, who takes talking to a dog in impressive stride, and basically is told there isn’t anything he can do except perhaps an act of bravery to break the curse. Wilby switches uncontrollably back and forth between dog and boy, and manages to cause mayhem at a dance and discover a spy ring trying to steal government secrets led by none other than Francesca’s adoptive father. Through another long series of events, and the police refusing to listen to the Daniels family about the spies, and Wilby, in dog form, steals Buzz’s car and leads the police to the harbor, where the spies are escaping with Francesca in tow. Wilby tries to board the boat himself to stop them, but Francesca is knocked into the water and dog-Wilby leaps into the water and drags her to safety, breaking the curse (although no one actually realizes it, and all credit is given to Chiffon). Wilby’s dog-hating father is also commended for his role in the discovery of the spy ring, and is photographed with Chiffon for the paper - for an article about Chiffon being given a medal for bravery.

●     Trivia

○      The initial release of The Shaggy Dog grossed more than $9 million on a budget of less than $1 million – an almost unprecedented return on a film investment, making it more profitable than Ben-Hur, released the same year.

○     This movie has been remade a few times - a 1994 TV version featuring Scott Weinger and Ed Begley Jr, which kept the same general story intact, and the aforementioned 2006 horror movie version featuring Tim Allen

○     “Shaggy” was actually an Old English Sheepdog named Sam - he was a pet, and was recommended for the role by his obedience trainer, William Koehler, who trained many animals for Disney movies, including The Incredible Journey, That Darn Cat, and The Ugly Dachshund.

○     Sam was prepared for the car chase scene by using rubber bands to keep his hair out of his eyes and running him around in a wheel barrow, gradually increasing the intensity and speed as he got comfortable with the situation. A custom seat was made for Sam, with fur-covered “mittens” attached to the steering wheel, and a matching fur-covered seatbelt that blended in with his body.

○     Some of the stunts, such as jumping off of the boat were done by a child or a little person in a sheepdog suit. (The child was Johnny Kirk, Tommy Kirk’s little brother)

○     Sam accidentally stepped onto Tim Considine’s eye during filming, and scratched it.

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○     Not a real surprise, but Disney release windows are not expected to vary after the release of Disney+

○     Disney released a TON of content that is going to be available on Disney+

○     Maleficent: Mistress of Evil scheduled for release on October 18, 2019

●     Segment: Whosits and Whatsits Galore

○     Disney Trivia

●     Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business”

○     Top 4 Most Powerful Mages

○     1. Maleficent

○     2. Merlin

○     3. Jafar

○     4. Eglantine

Tease Next Week: Escape to Witch Mountain 1975

Top 4: animated non-human extra-terrestrials

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●     “Feature Film” – Enchanted (2007)

○     This movie is an insane amount of nods to other movies to there is a ton of trivia I will need to limit myself.

○     According to director Kevin Lima, "thousands" of references are made to past and future works of Disney in Enchanted (2007), which serve as both a parody of and a "giant love letter to Disney classics". As Lima worked with Bill Kelly, the writer, to inject Disney references to the plot, it became "an obsession"; he derived the name of every character as well as anything that needed a name from past Disney films to bring in more Disney references.

○     The animated scenes were not actually done by the Disney Animation wing. It was done by James Baxter Animation, the studio responsible for Curious George

○     The first feature-length Disney live-action/traditional animation hybrid since Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

○     One of the elderly male dancers appeared in Mary Poppins (1964) as a chimney sweep.

○     When Prince Edward is knocking on apartment doors in search of Giselle, the very first door is opened by Judy Kuhn, the singing voice of the title character of Pocahontas (1995).

○     While Giselle is looking in the fish tank "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid (1989) is playing as background music. In the same scene, Jodi Benson plays the secretary - she also played the lead as Ariel in The Little Mermaid (1989).

○     When Prince Edward is flipping through TV channels in the hotel room, the soap opera he watches features Paige O'Hara, the voice of Belle in Beauty and the Beast (1991)

○     At the beginning, Giselle is creating a mannequin of her 'true love'. The outfit it is wearing is never worn by the prince - but it is worn by Robert at the ball, near the end of the film.

○     As we see Giselle progress into a modern woman, so does her wardrobe. She begins in the over-the-top wedding gown, then to the very princessy long gown, then to a very girly but short dress, and finally, into a modern evening gown. In the same way, Robert's wardrobe regresses from suit and tie to more casual clothing, and ending in a very prince-like outfit at the ball.

○     At the end of Robert and Giselle's dance, when Nancy cuts in, the camera angle makes it look as though she is wearing a crown. This foreshadows that she will become the future ruler of Andalasia when she returns there and marries Edward.

○     Thoughts on the film?

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○     TOM HOLLAND IS BACK!!!

○     Daveed Diggs in talks to be Sebastian in Little Mermaid Remake?

●     Segment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”

○     We have gone a full year I realize we may need to change up what we do so I'm going to ask Deanna and Cori some trivia questions and pit them against each other to see who will be this week’s top disney fan.

●     Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business”

○     Top 4 Disney Princes

○     1. The Beast

○     2. Simba

○     3. Prince Phillip

○     4. Prince Naveen

Tease Next Week: The Shaggy Dog

Top 4: Most Powerful Magician/Sorcerer/Wizard

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●     “Feature Film” – Tron (1982)

○     Trivia from IMDB

○     When talented computer engineer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) finds out that Ed Dillinger (David Warner), an executive at his company, has been stealing his work, he tries to hack into the system. However, Flynn is transported into the digital world, where he has to face off against Dillinger's computerized likeness, Sark, and the imposing Master Control Program. Aided by Tron (Bruce Boxleitner) and Yori (Cindy Morgan), Flynn becomes a freedom fighter for the oppressed programs of the grid.

○     The film was disqualified from receiving an Academy Award nomination for special effects, because the Academy felt at the time that using computers was "cheating".

○     To inspire the actors, arcade games were placed on the production sets and could be played during downtime. Jeff Bridges apparently was the most adept at the games and found it hard to tear himself away from a game to shoot a scene.

○     Although the film was an initial failure, the arcade video games based on it proved to be a tremendous hit and actually out-grossed the film.

○     Many Disney animators refused to work on this movie because they feared that computers would put them out of business. In fact, 22 years later Disney closed its hand-drawn animation studio in favor of CGI animation. Hand-drawn animation was ultimately resumed at Disney at the behest of new creative director John Lasseter, also head of Pixar- ironically a computer animation company.

○     In the initial scenes with Flynn at the arcade, he is playing a game he invented called Space Paranoids. The game he is playing bears remarkable resemblance to 3-D graphics game engines, which would not be invented for ten more years.

○     The state-of-the-art computer used for the film's key special effects had only 2MB of memory and 330MB of storage

○     The programmers' cubicles at Encom were shot using the actual programmers' cubicles at The Walt Disney Company's Information Technology group. A matte painting was used to expand the area to a size more appropriate to a software company.

○     The ENCOM laser bay was real. It was actually the target bay for the twenty-beam SHIVA solid-state laser facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It was used for nuclear fusion research in the late seventies and early eighties, and was capable of delivering up to 28 trillion watts of power on target.

○     All the live action that occurred inside the computer was filmed in black and white, and colorized later with photographic and rotoscopic techniques.

○     HIDDEN MICKEY: At 1:12:26 in the "solar sailer" sequence, you'll see, for a brief moment, the silhouette of Mickey Mouse on the ground made to look like part of the terrain.

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○     Disney + is available for Pre-Order $6.99/month $69.99/year

○     New Frozen 2 Trailer!!

○     Kevin Feige Developing a new Star Wars movie

●     Segment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”

○     September 27th 1996 - Sabrina the Teenage Witch, a new sitcom based on the Archie Comics series of the same name, premieres on ABC-TV (which Disney acquired earlier in the year).

●     Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business”

○     Oh my disney “Only a true Disney Princess fan can get 100% on this quiz”

Tease Next Week: Enchanted

Top 4: Disney Princes.

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●     “Feature Film” – Bolt  (2008)
This film is about a German Shepherd puppy adopted by a little girl named Penny. Penny is also a child actress, and when we fast forward 5 years, Bolt actually believes he is actually a lab-enhanced superdog in the spy movie like setting of the TV show he and Penny star in. He spends every filming believing that he is actually saving Penny from the evil green-eyed man.

One day when filming ends at a cliffhanger, Bolt freaks out, thinking Penny is actually still in danger and needing to be rescued. He manages to find his way into a shipping crate and ends up in New York, where he begins his mission to find the green-eyed man and save Penny. In New York, he meets a streetwise alley cat named Mr. Mittens, that is coerced into helping him find his way back home to Hollywood. Along the way, the two bond and find a new friend - Rhino, a hamster and a huge fan of Bolt. Along the way, Bolt has to come to grips with the fact that he is not really a superdog, and that maybe it’s okay just being a dog. And eventually, just being a loyal “regular dog” helps him find penny and save her from a studio fire before they retire together to just be friends instead of co-stars.

○     Trivia

○     First Disney animated feature conceived and produced in 3-D. (Chicken Little and Meet the Robinsons were converted to 3D after the fact)

○     Chloe Moretz voiced THE ENTIRE FILM before they got Miley Cyrus on board

○     Developed by Chris Sanders, the creator of Lilo & Stitch - Bolt was originally a VERY different film

○     In order to properly animate Rhino, the crew adopted a real hamster which they called Doink and filmed it from beneath while it was walking on a sheet of Plexiglas. Thus they were able to see how Rhino would walk in his plastic ball.

○     Ironically, Mittens’ family left her when they moved to California

○     Bolt - A Reference to Thunderbolt from 101 Dalmations?

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○     Arendelle opening in Disneyland Paris

○     Check out our d23 episode for those announcements

●     Segment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”

○     Sept 13, 1979 - Don Bluth quits Disney and takes ⅓ of the top artists with him

Aristocats reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNY-qzp7pD0

●     Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business”

○     Top 4 Experimental Era Disney Films

○     1. Lilo and Stitch

○     2. Meet the Robinsons

○     3. The Emperor’s New Groove

○     4. Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Tease Next Week: Tron (original 1982)

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D23 News!

• Robert Downey Jr, Jon Favreau, and Ming-Na Wen Receive Disney Legend Awards

Disney Parks

• Disney World and Disneyland

  • Star Wars Hotel: Galactic Starcruiser

  • Epcot updates

  • Avengers Campus coming to California Adventure and Disneyland Paris

• New Cruise Ship called The Disney Wish

  • Featuring Rapunzel on the stern

Disney+

• Lady and the Tramp

• Noelle with Anna Kendrick

• The World according to Jeff Goldblum

• Raya and the Last Dragon announced

• Lizzie McGuire

Star Wars

• The Rise of Skywalker Special Look

• Kenobi Reveal- Ewan McGregor is back

• Mandalorian Trailer

Marvel

• Ms. Marvel

• Moon Knight

• She Hulk

• Eternals

  • Got to see images of the eternals

  • Kit Harrington joins the cast as Black Knight

• Black Panther 2 (working title)

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●     “Feature Film” – The Princess and the Frog  (2009)
Hardworking and ambitious, Tiana dreams of one day opening the finest restaurant in New Orleans. Her dream takes a slight detour when she meets Prince Naveen, who has been turned into an amphibian by evil Dr. Facilier. Mistaking her for a princess and hoping to break the spell, Naveen plants a kiss on poor Tiana -- thereby turning her into a frog as well. The pair hop along on an adventure through the bayous to seek the help of a powerful voodoo priestess.

○     Trivia

○     The first Disney movie to feature an African-American princess.

○     This is Disney's first 2-D film in which all of the voice actors do both the speaking and singing parts since, Beauty and the Beast (1991).

○     The animation style was influenced primarily by Lady and the Tramp (1955), for the city scenes, and Bambi (1942), for the bayou scenes. Those films were, in the directors' opinion, "the peak of animation in the classic Disney animation style."

○     This was supposed to spearhead a return to hand-drawn animation but subsequent research after the film's disappointing box office run indicated that audiences thought it was old-fashioned.

○     First Disney film since The Lion King (1994) to have more than one song be nominated for Best Original song at the Academy Awards. ( It Lost Best Animated Picture to UP)

○     For much of the film, Naveen calls Tiana "Princess" and later "Waitress", symbolizing his objectification of women as a whole. He doesn't call her by her real name until after the song 'Ma Belle Evangeline', when he starts to fall in love with her.

○     The last line of Dr. Facilier's Friends On the Other Side song is "You got what you wanted but you lost what you had", which is in direct contrast to Mama Odie's song about finding who you are and learning what you need; accentuating the evil side vs good side of voodoo. It means you may have gotten what you wanted but you lost what you already had that you needed.

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○     There will be a new party, Oogie Boogie Bash, debuting in Disney California Adventure Park come September. It’s like Micky’s Halloween Party but with some major upgrades, especially in the villain department. The Nightmare Before Christmas-inspired event is jam-packed with wild rides, Oogie Boogie, and all his villain friends.

○     The Little Mermaid Live Musical will air on ABC on November 5. The production will star "Moana's" Auli'i Cravalho as Ariel and Queen Latifah as the evil sea witch Ursula.

●     Segment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”

○     August 8, 1942 - Bambi has its world Premiere in London and opens in the US 5 Days Later

○     August 9, 1969, Haunted Mansion has its Official Grand opening!

○     August 11, 2014 - Robin Williams Passed Away

●     Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business”

○     Top 4 Disney Female Vocalists

○     1.  Lea Salonga

○     2.  Judy Kuhn

○     3.  Anika Noni Rose

○     4.  Susan Egan

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• “Feature Film” – The Lion King (2019)

  • Trivia

  • Jeremy Irons expressed interest in reprising his role as Scar.

  • Benedict Cumberbatch turned down the role of the voice of Scar.

  • James Earl Jones, Hans Zimmer, Elton John, and Tim Rice are the only people who worked on the original animated film that reprise their respective roles, as the voice of Mufasa, the composer of the film, and songwriters.

  • Donald Glover grew up watching the original film and mentioned that while recording the music for the remake, he didn't need anybody to teach him how to sing the songs, he had been singing since he was a child.

  • Billy Eichner did not have to audition for the voice of Timon. Jon Favreau happened to be a fan of his and suggested the thought to Eichner's agent, who told him about it; he accepted it in a heartbeat.

  • Jon Faverau revealed in an interview that he brought James Earl Jones back as the voice of Mufasa because: "I see it as carrying the legacy across. Just hearing him say the lines is really moving and surreal, the timbre of his voice has changed. That served the role well because he sounds like a king who's ruled for a long time."

  • Scar's villainous song "Be Prepared" was originally to be left out of the film due to its Nazi themes which Disney executives were afraid to tackle and also because Chiwetel Ejiofor's voice was not fit for the singing. This drew a lot of ire from film critics and fans. However, the studio relented and put the song back in the film.

  • The hyenas Shenzi, Kamari, and Azizi are named after the Swahili words for "savage," "mighty", and "moonlight", respectively. Kamari and Azizi were originally named Banzai and Ed in the 1994 animated film, but were given African names for this film.

• Segment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”

  • In London on July 26, 1951, and in New York City on July 28, 1951 Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951) Premiered

  • July 29: The Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith opens in 1999

  • August 3rd 1990 The animated feature film, DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp is released in the U.S., under the Disney MovieToons label.

• Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

  • San Diego Comic Con Announcements

    • Marvel Phase 4 lineup

      • Natalie Portman returns as Mighty Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder

• Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business” 

• How do we each feel about all these remakes?

  • Top 4 Disney Animated film Remakes we want to see: List

  • 1. The Chronicles of Prydain (the Black Cauldron)

  • 2. The Sword in the Stone

  • 3. Mulan

  • 4. Lady and the Tramp

Tease Next Week:  The Princess and the Frog

Top 4:  Female Vocalists 

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●     “Feature Film” – Cinderella (1950 version)

●     If you aren’t familiar with the story of Cinderella…

○     Trivia:

■     Ilene Woods beat out 309 girls for the part without even knowing it

■     Escape coach has 2 hidden Mickeys

■     The prince was originally supposed to play a larger role, and the early characterization was incorporated into Prince Kit in 2015.

■     Originally ALL of the animals were supposed to talk - Major even had a song

■     Voice actors doubled up:

●     Eleanor Audly - Lady Tremaine/Maleficent/Madame Leota

●     Verna Felton - Fairy godmother AND:

○     Flora

○     Queen Leah

○     Alice in Wonderland

○     Dumbo

○     The Jungle Book

○     Lady and the Tramp

●     James MacDonald :

○     Jaq

○     Gus

○     Bruno

○     Mickey

○     Pluto

Not Disney’s first Cinderella - Original was a Laugh-O-Gram short in 1922

●     Segment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”

○     July 18, 1955 - Disneyland officially opened to the Public - admission was $1, and the first ticket was sold to a Dave Macpherson - 22-year-old student who waited all night to get it - he was awarded the first Golden Pass

○     July 18, 1989 - Splash Mountain opens

○     July 22, 1994 - Tower of Terror opened

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○     Lion King!!

●     Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business”

○     Top 4 Disney Dresses:

○     1. Tiana’s Lilly Pad Dress

○     2. Elsa’s Ice Dress

○     3. Ariel’s Sparkly Dress

○     4. Belle’s Yellow/Gold Dress

Tease Next Week: New Lion King,

Top 4 animated Movies we want a live action remake for.

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