According to a press conference held in Winter Park, Florida, on February 2, 1967, by Disney Vice President Donn Tatum, the Improvement District and Cities were created to serve " the needs of those residing there ", and the company needed its own government to " clarify the District's authority to services within the District's limits " and because of the public nature of the planned development.

According to Neal Gabler, one of the reasons Disney had hired Rapf to work with Reymond was to temper what Disney feared would be Reymond's white Southern slant.

According to Rapf, Walt Disney " ended every conference by saying ' Well, I think we've really licked it now.

According to John Canemaker, in Paper Dreams: The Art and Artists of Disney Storyboards ( 1999, Hyperion Press ), the first storyboards at Disney evolved from comic-book like " story sketches " created in the 1920s to illustrate concepts for animated cartoon short subjects such as Plane Crazy and Steamboat Willie, and within a few years the idea spread to other studios.

According to Christopher Finch in The Art of Walt Disney ( Abrams, 1974 ), Disney credited animator Webb Smith with creating the idea of drawing scenes on separate sheets of paper and pinning them up on a bulletin board to tell a story in sequence, thus creating the first storyboard.

According to biographer Neal Gabler, Walt Disney disliked the Goofy cartoons, thinking they were merely " stupid cartoons with gags tied together " with no larger narrative or emotional engagement and a step backwards to the early days of animation.

According to Disney archivist David Smith, the sequence was aired uncut on television in 1966 before the edits were made for the film's 1969 theatrical reissue.

According to Nielsen Media Research, the month of February 2011 had finished as Disney Channel ’ s most-watched February sweeps period in Total Day ratings in the network's history ever, earning an average of 1. 7 million viewers among Total Viewers, along with 590, 000 viewers with a 2. 1 rating share among Kids 6 – 11 and 459, 000 viewers with a 1. 9 rating share among Tweens 6 – 9 ; 9 – 15 ; among the first two demos, the channel posted its 14th consecutive month of year-to-year gains in both demos.

According to Bob Thomas's book on Roy Disney, the studio was in debt after World War II and they were focusing on trying to get their own films out on time.

According to the 1970 U. S. Census, the Deltona Lakes CDP had an estimated population of 4, 868, and a median age of 62 ; however, prior to the development of the Walt Disney World Resort, and the growth of the regional population, the subdivision was marketed to broader interests.

According to Floyd Norman, who was working at Disney at the time, it felt like the end of an era.

According to Disney, Chip is the logical schemer, and Dale is the goofy, dim-witted one.

According to a Los Angeles Times article, part of this effort was to allow directors more creative control as collaborators on their projects and to give them the creative freedom to use traditional animation techniques — a reversal of former CEO Michael Eisner's decision that Disney would do only digital animation, which Catmull thought was the wrong idea of how Pixar's films did well.

According to Chuck Jones, Disney was able to bring the movie in for about half of what it would have cost if they'd had to animate all the dogs and spots.

According to Christopher Finch, author of The Art of Walt Disney:

According to the Disney Encyclopedia, the character was voiced by Jim Cummings, however the character is also listed in the voice credits of Peter Cullen.

* According to the limited yet official sources given by Disney in their merchandising, Fishkill also happens to be the birthplace of Milo Thatch, from Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

However, in his 2004 book The Gospel According to Disney, Mark Pinsky asserts that a child in the current environment ( as opposed to in the late 1960s ) would not discern any racial dimension to the portrayal.

According to the documentary on the Splash: 20th Anniversary Edition DVD in 2004, producer Brian Grazer had pitched the film to numerous studios but was turned down repeatedly until Walt Disney Productions, then headed by Ron Miller, agreed to produce the film.

According to one story, Walt Disney once saw a Frontierland cowboy walking through Tomorrowland at Disneyland.

Pastor Shirley has made several notable appearances including the televised Live from Disney World Night of Joy, the Gospel According to VH1, a White House performance for George Bush, and a speech on the Evolution of Gospel Music to the US Treasury Department

According to the stories, the derelict disappeared ; others elaborating further that the derelict reappeared minus the prize crew, then disappeared again with a second prize crew on board.

According to scholars including Neil Forsyth and John L. McKenzie, the Old Testament incorporates stories, or fragments of stories, from extra-biblical mythology.

According to Every, one example may be " the myth of St. George " and other stories about saints battling dragons, which were " modelled no doubt in many cases on older representations of the creator and preserver of the world in combat with chaos ".

According to Lorena Laura Stookey, " many scholars " see a link between stories in " Irish-Celtic mythology " about journeys to the Otherworld in search of a cauldron of rejuvenation and medieval accounts of the quest for the Holy Grail.

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

According to " Twenty rules for writing detective stories ," by Van Dine in 1928: " The detective story is a kind of intellectual game.

According to one version of the legend, Chūai's son was born three years after the death of Chūai, which lends further support to the notion that the stories surrounding him are based on myth rather than actual events.

According to literary critic Terry Eagleton, Le Fanu, together with his predecessor Maturin and his successor Stoker, form a sub-genre of Irish Gothic, whose stories, featuring castles set in a barren landscape, with a cast of remote aristocrats dominating an atavistic peasantry, represent in allegorical form the political plight of colonial Ireland subjected to the Protestant Ascendancy

According to the stories that developed about him, Chauvin was born in Rochefort, around 1780.

According to several stories, this displeased the Hatano family, and a short while later several of Hideharu's retainers murdered Akechi Mitsuhide's mother ( or aunt ).

According to Holmes, it was an encounter with the father of one of his classmates that led him to take up detection as a profession, and he spent the six years following university working as a consulting detective, before financial difficulties led him to take Watson as a roommate, at which point the narrative of the stories begins.

According to Saint historian Burl Barer, Charteris made the decision to remove Templar from his usual confidence-game trappings, not to mention his usual co-stars Holm, Uniatz, Orace and Teal, as they weren't appropriate for the post-war stories he was writing.

According to some stories the Helen who was taken by Paris was a fake, and the real Helen was in Egypt, where she was reunited with Menelaus.

According to stories that may have legendary elements, an attempt was made to seize William at Valognes, but he escaped under cover of darkness, seeking refuge with King Henry.

According to one historian of the show, the idea of the format was to make the hosts the reporters, to always feature stories that were of national importance but focused upon individuals involved with, or in conflict with, those issues, and to limit the reports ' airtime to around thirteen minutes.

According to the Roman Catholic faith the first Pope was a fisherman, the Apostle Peter, a number of the miracles, and many parables and stories reported in the Bible involve it.

According to these early recorded stories, gods and kings, like the 7th century BC scholar-king Assurbanipal, paid close attention to dreams.

According to this view the psychological ‘ I ’ is a narrative fiction, something created only from intake of symbolic data and its own ability to create stories about itself from that data.

According to Aristotle, writing nearly two centuries later, Thespis was a singer of dithyrambs ( songs about stories from mythology with choric refrains ).

According to a number of moralistic stories, there was a golden tripod ( or, in some versions of the story, a bowl or cup ) which was to be given to the wisest.

According to screenwriter David Gerrold, the show's producers noticed similarities in the two stories and asked Heinlein for permission to use the idea.

According to the documentary hypothesis, the story of Potiphar and his wife derives from the Yahwist source, and stands in the same place that the stories of the butler and the baker and Pharaoh's dreams stand in the Elohist text.

According to the narrative of the synoptic Gospels, an anonymous disciple remarks on the greatness of Herod's Temple, a building thought to have been some 10 stories high and likely to have been adorned with gold, silver, and other precious items ( Kilgallen 245 ).

According to the stories Gangnihessou came from a dynasty that in the 16th century had come, from Tado on the river Moro, a place that now lies in Togo, to Allada, and there became kings of Great Ardra.