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self penned he stated i feel if people can twist a knob and see me in their living rooms every week they will not leave the house to pay to see me in a film in fairness walt disney is not without blame in the matter the studio agreed not to use the footage in subsequent airings of where do the stories come from and whether by error or design failed to live up to that accord in response to the suit walt stated publicly that the entire appearance of mr douglas on television was for 26 seconds and it is inconceivable that a man who has appeared so extensively in motion pictures magazines and television could be damaged on a television screen in that amount of time but had the studio excised the footage as promised the entire matter would have been over before it started posted by jeffrey pepper 0 comments departments disney studio history disney s hollywood the 1950s monday march 23 2026 the art of the title card home made home everyman goofy became handyman goofy in the cartoon home made home released seventy five years ago today on march 23 1951 the title was a riff on the traditional home sweet home saying which originated in the early 19th century it became a popular embroidery motif which inspired disney artists in the design of this particular title card layouts were credited to al zinnen backgrounds to dick anthony posted by jeffrey pepper 0 comments departments the art of the title card monday march 16 2026 windows to the past donald duck and easter seals seventy five years ago on march 16 1951 donald duck and his nephews were helping the easter seals charity by way of this one panel comic that appeared in newspapers across the country christmas seals and easter seals were popular fundraising programs throughout the early to mid 20th century multiple seals were sold in blocks individual seals would then be affixed to backs of envelopes of seasonal greeting cards hence the seal moniker the easter seals organization was founded in 1919 as the national society for crippled children as reflected in the seals issued in 1951 and subsequently promoted with the help of the walt disney company posted by jeffrey pepper 0 comments departments the 1950s windows to the past thursday march 12 2026 long ago magic along 31st street in kansas city revisited editor s note restoration efforts continue on the mcconahy building in kansas city tremendous progress has been made in the eighteen years since i created this post detailing walt s history in kansas city the grass roots efforts of thank you walt disney continue as documented by their newsletters that are well worth checking out needless to say donations are happily and gratefully accepted consider adding your support to this very worthy cause revisiting this post brought back some wonderful memories most especially that it came to the attention of diane disney miller who shared the following reminiscence we have a bit of wonderful film shot by my dad of the entire disney family on what appears to be the screened porch of that home on belfontaine he pans around the room and we see little dorothy disney with her parents flora perched on the arm of elias chair laughing and talking animatedly when i saw this film not too many years ago i understood why my dad always said my mother was a beautiful woman a short time back 2719 hyperion reader steve pierson shared with me photographs he had taken on a recent visit to kansas city missouri walt disney lived in that midwestern city during his youth and it was there as a young man he established his first animation studio steve sought out some of the landmarks associated with this period of early disney history seeking to identify places such as walt s childhood home and the locations of the early laugh o grams studios steve then very generously gave me permission to use the pictures in a post detailing the kansas city of walt disney s formative years what began as the simple task of putting together a post showcasing steve s efforts quickly grew into a geographical and historical research vignette encompassing vintage photos satellite imagery and resources such as the animated man by michael barrier and walt in wonderland by russell merritt and j b kaufman having never been to kansas city i wanted to be able to better understand walt s time there in a geographical context i was also curious to discover just how much of walt disney s kansas city had survived into the 21st century michael barrier visited kansas city a few years back and noted walt disney s old neighborhood is so badly blighted and so radically different from what he knew that making that imaginative leap back to 1922 is i m afraid very difficult barrier s observation is sadly very accurate but despite the urban decay of the area vestiges of walt s life there do remain and out of one of those vestiges a project of both historical commemoration and neighborhood renewal may hopefully be realized some time in the near future walt disney arrived with his family in kansas city in the spring of 1911 their first residence was a rented house at 2706 east 31st street in a neighborhood a few miles southeast of downtown for the next twelve years the very significant events of walt s life would transpire within a twenty block stretch of that particular boulevard 31st street would form the southern border of kansas city star delivery route that elias disney would purchase that following summer the area of route stretched north to 27th street and was bordered on the west by prospect avenue and on the east by indiana avenue walt his brother roy and elias would deliver morning and sunday newspapers to over seven hundred customers in september of 1911 walt enrolled at the nearby benton grammer school he was required to repeat the second grade despite having completed that level while still living in marceline eleven years later he would audition students from that school for roles in tommy tucker s tooth an educational film commissioned by a local dentist benton student jack records then eleven years old won the part of jimmie jones the school closed in 2002 and subsequently became the da holmes apartments two blocks away from the benton grammer school walt and a childhood friend set up a pop stand at the corner 31st and montgall during the summer of 1912 according to the friend it ran about three weeks and we drank up all the profits no trace remains of the disney family s original kansas city residence on 31st street in the fall of 1914 elias disney purchased a small house a few blocks east at 3028 bellefontaine street just off 31st street that home would remain in the disney family until 1921 when walt s oldest brother herbert moved his family to portland oregon elias and flora disney followed their son west a few months later the house on bellefontaine remains to this day as does the garage that elias disney built sometime in 1920 it was in this garage that walt produced the newman laugh o grams and later little red riding hood the first independent laugh o gram cartoon when the house and garage at bellefontaine became unavailable walt took to renting rooms and set up studios in a few different locations in an area surrounding the intersection of 31st street and troost avenue about 20 blocks west of his childhood neighborhood a now somewhat iconic design that graced an envelope shows the 3028 bellefontaine address scratched out and replaced with a handwritten 3241 troost undoubtedly the first of those locations in early 1920 walt took a job with the kansas city slide company that was located at 1015 central street the job paid forty dollars a week later that year that company moved to a location on charlotte street and became the kansas city film ad company the building on central street still survives in the heart of downtown kansas city 2249 51 charlotte street has since become the location of the truman medical center and children s mercy hospital in may of 1922 walt incorporated laugh o grams films and set up the new studio on the upper floor of the mcconahy building located at 1127 east 31st street the mcconahy building survives still and has become the focus of a grass roots restoration and urban renewal effort the details of which can be found at the website thank you walt disney walt often took his meals at the forest inn cafe on the first floor of the building the restaurants owners frequently extending him much needed credit it was at this location that walt and his staff produced the laugh o grams series as well as tommy tuckers tooth and the song o reel martha a live action sing along the studio was just beginning production of the first alice comedy alice s wonderland in june of 1923 when a lack of rent money forced them from the building some sources assert that the studio moved to the nearby wirthman building at the corner of 31st street and troost that building was also home to the large and elaborate isis theater whose resident organist was carl stalling stalling s musical talents would be employed notably and famously by warner brothers in hollywood some years later but according to michael barrier in the animated man it is likely that walt returned to one of his former locations at 3239 troost avenue it would have been there that the studio wrapped up production on alice s wonderland and walt disney and laugh o grams films essentially went broke shortly thereafter walt headed for hollywood while former colleagues hugh harman rudolf ising and max maxwell launched their own studio within the walls of the wirthman building arabian nights cartoons would purchase and employ many of the assets and equipment of the former laugh o grams studio the wirthman building and the isis theater went on to experience tragedy and adversity over the next five decades the theater survived fires in 1928 1939 and 1954 in march of 1970 the isis became the center of racial unrest and rioting and closed permanently shortly thereafter other tenants continued to occupy the wirthman building but it was ultimately demolished in 1997 a mural by kansas city artist alexander austin was unveiled on the wall of an adjacent building in 2006 celebrating the history of troost avenue images of walt disney and mickey mouse are depicted on the design posted by jeffrey pepper 0 comments departments disney studio history monday march 09 2026 snapshot posting of advertisements is prohibited harambe is one of my most favorite locations in all of walt disney world the attention to detail on the part of the imagineers is simply staggering it is a wonderful place to explore in the hour or so before closing as the crowds have diminished and you can truly immerse yourself in the atmosphere of africa this particular snapshot is a humorous homage to the vintage post no bills vignettes of the early to mid 20th century and for more information on kinga hot air balloon trips explore the 2719 hyperion archives kinga hot air balloon trips posted by jeffrey pepper 0 comments departments snapshots thursday march 05 2026 disney s hollywood gower gulch and the drugstore cowboy it s always fun to find trace evidence of bygone popular culture lingering in the background of a classic disney cartoon such evidence is on display in the 1943 goofy short victory vehicles and it serves to remind us of a long faded but still quite memorable hollywood archetype the drugstore cowboy in victory vehicles goofy briefly played the part of a drugstore cowboy aptly demonstrating lasso powered mobility as a form of alternate transportation the narrator even refers to him as a hollywood drugstore cowboy so just what exactly is a drugstore cowboy at least in context to the hollywood of walt disney s time the answer can be found in that very same scene if one looks beyond the mugging goofy to the background behind him the gower gulch pharmacy is the clue that unravels the story of this particular piece of silver screen folklore gower gulch is the nickname for a very specific piece of hollywood geography the intersection of sunset boulevard and gower street this was a location central to a number of well known movie studios including columbia rko paramount and republic pictures located at the southeast corner of gower and sunset was the columbia drug co famous for both its soda fountain and newsstand both columbia and republic specialized in westerns during this time period and aspiring actors many of whom were actual working cowboys would congregate in and around the drugstore hoping to be selected by the studio casting agents who would frequent the area many of these hopefuls would come to gower gulch fully outfitted in their cowboy clothing and gear and thus the moniker drugstore cowboy was born goofy image walt disney company posted by jeffrey pepper 0 comments departments classic animation disney s hollywood the 1940s tuesday march 03 2026 the art of the title card dude duck today marks the 75th anniversary of the classic donald duck cartoon dude duck released on march 2 1951 directed by studio veteran jack hannah the short showcased the battle of wits between donald and the horse rover boy 6 at the bar none dude ranch layout was by yale gracey background by art riley image walt disney company posted by jeffrey pepper 0 comments departments the art of the title card monday march 02 2026 the true life winston hibler while he certainly has one of the most recognizable voices in the history of disney entertainment winston hibler has ironically remained one of the more quiet giants behind so many studio success stories and productions both animated and live action most famous as the narrator of the true life adventure films hibler s creative efforts however extended far beyond the award winning nature documentaries that were the hallmark of his more than thirty year career with the disney studios a pennsylvania native who arrived in hollywood in the early 1930s to pursue an acting career in motion pictures hibler ironically found work with disney in 1942 behind the cameras he began his studio career as a camera operator but quickly became a technical director on many of the government commissioned training films being produced for the u s military hibler s first entertainment based endeavor was writing the johnny appleseed sequence from the 1948 package feature melody time one of the most underrated gems of disney animation johnny appleseed was an auspicious debut that walt disney himself took notice of hibler quickly found himself fast tracked into feature animation providing story content for films such as the adventures of ichabod and mr toad alice in wonderland cinderella peter pan and sleeping beauty but paralleling his contributions to the animation department was his involvement in a series of films that would ultimately become his legacy at disney for work both as a performer and as a writer while the true life adventures literally pioneered the nature documentary genre and collected countless awards and accolades decades later it s...