According to one anecdote ( from Al Capp Remembered, 1994 ), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.

According to Barks, this period of his life would later influence his best known fictional characters: Walt Disney's Donald Duck and his own Scrooge McDuck.

According to biographer Bob Thomas, she responded, " I think Walt would have approved.

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

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 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 Christopher Finch, author of The Art of Walt Disney:

According to IMDb, Mercer is claimed to have voiced the Rough House attraction statue in the Pleasure Island sequence of Walt Disney's Pinocchio.

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 Walt Disney's The Truth About Mother Goose ( 1957 ) the rhyme refers to the deterioration of the original London Bridge ( built in 1176, which had been considered a wonder of the world ) due to a combination of age and the Great Fire of London of 1666.

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

According to the New York Daily News, when Dawkins made his debut with the 76ers, New York Knicks guard Walt Frazier took one look and said, " I bet his teachers called him ‘ Mr. Darryl .’"

According to the 2012 Fortune 500 list, The Walt Disney Company is America's largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue, with News Corporation, Time Warner, Viacom, and CBS Corporation completing the top 5.

According to Parker himself, when the Walt Disney Company was looking for an actor to play Davy Crockett, they originally considered James Arness for the title role.

According to a story published in the Los Angeles Times, in March 1995, Hudson was dismissed from his job at Walt Disney Corp. because of unproven allegations by female employees that he had engaged in sexual harassment.

According to Zheng Chengsi, the first major copyright case involving a foreign party was Walt Disney Productions vs. Beijing Publisher and Co.

Chavarria has landed numerous television roles including the lead role of Laura Ingalls on Walt Disney's ABC miniseries Little House on the Prairie, According to Jim, Gilmore Girls and the CBS hit television series Ghost Whisperer.

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 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 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 Disney stories written and drawn in the post-Barks period, the capital of Brutopia is Brutengrad.

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 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 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.

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 Edward Barlow, a captain employed by the English East India Company, Kidd attacked a Mughal convoy here under escort by Barlow's East Indiaman, and was repelled.

According to the Slovenian Motorway Company Act valid since December 2010, the construction and building of highways in Slovenia is carried out and financed by private companies, primarily the Motorway Company in the Republic of Slovenia ( Slovene:, acronym DARS ), while the strategic planning and the acquisition of land for their course is carried out and financed by the Government of Slovenia.

According to the UK National Audit Office, the total cost of The Dome at the liquidation of the New Millennium Experience Company in 2002 was £ 789 million, of which £ 628 million was covered by National Lottery grants and £ 189 million through sales of tickets etc.

According to Hyundai Motor Company, the total investment to developed the BlueOn, its first production electric car, was around 40 billion won ().

According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ( ATSDR ), approximately 99 percent of the PCBs used by U. S. industry were produced by the Monsanto Chemical Company.

According to Hugh Nibley, much of the rain forest west of Portland, Oregon was acquired by the Oregon Lumber Company by illegal claims under the Act.

According to Michael Durant's book In the Company of Heroes, the Somalis counted 25 of their militia dead after the firefight.

According to the report, there were aircraft components factories ; a poison gas factory ( Chemische Fabrik Goye and Company ); an anti-aircraft and field gun factory ( Lehman ); an optical goods factory ( Zeiss Ikon AG ); as well as factories producing electrical and X-ray apparatus ( Koch & Sterzel AG ); gears and differentials ( Saxoniswerke ); and electric gauges ( Gebrüder Bassler ).

* According to a Royal warrant of October 31, 1786, the Swedish East India Company had the right to use the triple-tailed war ensign in " Indian waters ", when not being under immediate protection by the Swedish navy.

According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ( ATSDR ), approximately 99 percent of the PCBs in the United States were produced by the Monsanto Chemical Company.

According to their statistics, until Strangers in Good Company came along it was their top grossing film.

According to some, the Six Cailloux name was appropriated to this region by Stephen Meek, another Hudson's Bay Company trapper who was known for his " discovery " of Scott Valley, in regard to a crossing on the Klamath River near Hornbrook.

According to Don Williams, who founded the Salt Company coffeehouse in the summer of 1968, Norman " heard ‘ The Agape ,’ a hard rock Christian group, play songs about Jesus ", which " convinced Larry that he could use his rock music to communicate the gospel ".

According to the indenture dated 25 January 1870 James Cole Copeman conveyed to The Loddon Town Hall Company ( Limited ), for the sum for £ 30, the site on which to build the Town Hall.

According to Belleview history expert Gene Scroggie, the name Lillian was thought to belong to the wife of one of the men who formed the Marion Land and Improvement Company.

According to available local sources, it was in 1883 that Charles Louis Fleischmann ( born near Budapest, Hungary, educated in Vienna and Prague, founder of the Fleischmann Company famous for its yeast and whiskey ), bought property west of the village near the Ulster & Delaware railroad station from John M. Blish.

According to the Tuttle 50th anniversary book published in 1961, Tuttle was named for Col. William P. Tuttle, an official in the Dakota Land & Townsite Company which platted the town in 1910.

According to contemporary Gramophone Company publicity material, the dog, a fox terrier called Nipper, had originally belonged to Barraud's brother Mark.

According to a poll by the Peruvian Research and Marketing Company conducted in 1997, 40. 6 % of Lima residents considered President Fujimori an authoritarian.

According to historian Keith Glass, the Windrock Coal and Coke Company, a subsidiary of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company of Birmingham began operating a coal mine near Oliver Springs circa 1904.

According to Ford Motor Company, the Model T had fuel economy on the order of.

According to Cuse, Bob Greenblatt, an executive at Fox Broadcasting Company, engaged him and Boam to develop a television series " because of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ".

According to the company's 2006 Annual Report, Boston Beer Company was considering a possible new brewery in Freetown, Massachusetts.