In May, Disney had Gottfredson assigned to the daily strip, promising it would be only a temporary arrangement until someone else could be found to take over.

While not part of the original attractions when Disneyland opened in 1955, Disney assigned Imagineer Ken Anderson to make a story around the Harper Goff idea and the design of his new ' grim grinning ' adventure.

Following the success of the Disney-branded PG-13 rated Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003, and other films that in the 1980s and ' 90s would have been assigned to the Touchstone ( or Hollywood Pictures ) label, Disney has decided to weigh distribution of films more toward Disney-branded films and away from Touchstone films, though not entirely disbanding them as it is continues to regularly employ the Touchstone label for R and most PG-13 rated fare.

Taking on Rhapsody in Blue also allowed Disney to keep the animators assigned to their feature Kingdom of the Sun ( later released as The Emperor's New Groove ) busy while Kingdom went through an extensive rewrite.

As at Fleischer's, the head animators carried out the tasks that were assigned to animation directors at other studios, while the credited directors — Kneitel, Sparber, Gordon, and Disney / Terrytoons veteran Bill Tytla — acted more as supervisors.

She began her visual effects career at Cinesite in Los Angeles as part of the complex restoration team assigned to the major task of digitally reconstructing the classic Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ).

" However, the newly assigned Disney CEO Michael Eisner and WDI president Marty Sklar decided the idea was strong enough to lead an entire new theme park.

Each villa is assigned to one of three booking categories: Magic Kingdom View, Bay Lake View, or Standard View ; with the relative cost or number of required Disney Vacation Club points assigned accordingly.

Like many of the WED attractions of the 1960s including " It's A Small World ", the Carousel of Progress and the Enchanted Tiki Room, Walt Disney assigned his staff songwriters, the Sherman Brothers, the task of writing an opening and closing song for the " Adventure Thru Inner Space " attraction.

In the summer of 1929 Lundy started working for Walt Disney Productions, first assigned in the ink and paint department.

* 1914 – Bill Justice, American Disney animator ( d. 2011 )

Being busy with these projects and others, Disney turned The Mickey Mouse Club over to Bill Walsh to create and develop the format, initially aided by Hal Adelquist.

Pecos Bill made the leap to film in the 1948 Disney animated feature Melody Time.

Piedmont is home to a number of notable individuals in the political, business, sports, and academic communities, including: ex-Major League Baseball player Dave McCarty ; ex-National Football League player Bubba Paris, San Francisco 49ers ; ex-National Football League player Bill Romanowski ; Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich ; Peter Docter, director of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. and Up and co-writer of WALL-E ; Billie Joe Armstrong of the rock band Green Day ; Eric Whitaker, GC of Tesla Motors ; Thomas Horn, actor ; and Dr. George Rutherford, State Health Officer. Also Dipper and Mabel Pines from the Disney Channel show " Gravity Falls " was born here.

* Vladimir Peter Tytla, ( 1904 – 1968 ) known as Bill Tytla was one of the original Disney animators.

* Bill Peet-American children's book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Studios.

Warner Bros shut down the Original Termite Terrace studio in 1963 and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises assumed production of the shorts, licensed by Warner Bros. After DePatie-Freleng ceased production of Looney Tunes in 1967, Bill Hendricks was put in charge of production of the newly-renamed Warner Bros .- Seven Arts animation studio, and hired veterans such as Alex Lovy and LaVerne Harding from the Walter Lantz studio, Volus Jones and Ed Solomon from Disney, Jaime Diaz who later worked on The Fairly OddParents as director, and David Hanan, who previously worked on Roger Ramjet.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

Disney producer Bill Walsh often mused on whether the concept of the show was inspired by the movie The Shaggy Dog, as in his view they shared " the same dog, the same kids, and Fred MacMurray "..

* Bill Novey ( 1948 – 1991 ), Special Effects Master / Head of Special Effects at Walt Disney Imagineering / co-founder of Art & Technology, Inc.

Famous alumni of Pomona College include Walt Disney Company Executive Roy E. Disney ( 1951 ), writer, actor, and musician Kris Kristofferson ( 1954 ), Civil Rights activist and NAACP chairman Myrlie Evers ( 1968 ), and New York Times executive editor Bill Keller ( 1970 ), and six-time Grammy Winning conductor Robert Shaw ( 1938 ), as well as several Academy Award-winning screenwriters.

Among the artists working on the Disney comic strips were Floyd Gottfredson ( Mickey Mouse, Treasury of Classic Tales, holiday ), Roman Arambula ( Mickey Mouse ), Rick Hoover ( Mickey Mouse, Gummy Bears ), Manuel Gonzales ( Mickey Mouse ), Bill Wright ( Mickey Mouse, Uncle Remus ), Ted Thwaites ( Mickey Mouse ), Riley Thomson ( Uncle Remus ), Chuck Fuson ( Uncle Remus ), John Ushler ( Treasury of Classic Tales, Scamp, Uncle Remus, holiday ), Carson Van Osten ( Mickey Mouse ), Al Taliaferro ( Donald Duck ), Frank Grundeen ( Donald Duck ), Al Hubbard ( Donald Duck ), Kay Wright ( Donald Duck ), Ellis Eringer ( Donald Duck ), Dick Moores ( Uncle Remus ), Paul Murry ( Jose Carioca, Uncle Remus ), Daan Jippes ( Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse ), Tony Strobl ( Donald Duck, holiday ), Jim Engel ( Mickey Mouse ), Ken Hultgren ( Mickey Mouse and His Friends ), Julius Svendsen ( Mickey Mouse and His Friends, Treasury of Classic Tales ), George Wheeler ( True Life Adventures ), Jesse Marsh ( Treasury of Classic Tales ), Richard Moore ( Winnie the Pooh ) and Bob Grant ( Merry Menagerie ).

* Bill Willingham's Eisner Award-winning comic book series Fables, published by Vertigo Comics, features the Jungle Book's Mowgli, Bagheera and Shere Khan ; though their characterisation remains true to Kipling's stories, Willingham and artist Mark Buckingham also make oblique references to the 1967 Disney animation in dialogue and artwork.

But in the early 1930s he moved to Los Angeles followed by his fellow Terrytoon colleague Bill Tytla, and secured a job animating for the Walt Disney Studio, which was expanding at the time.

Animators who would resurface at Leon Schlesinger Productions ( then under contract to produce cartoons for Warner Brothers ) included Bill Meléndez, Frank Tashlin ( who had worked at Schlesinger before moving to Disney ), Emery Hawkins, Basil Davidovich, Maurice Noble, Cornett Wood, Ted Bonnicksen, and Jack Bradbury ( Davidovich and Bradbury would return many years later ).

Bill Peet ( born William Bartlett Peed ; January 29, 1915 – May 11, 2002 ), was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Studios.

'" His good friend Bill Walsh, a producer at Disney Studios, gave Reeves a prominent role in Westward Ho, the Wagons!

All of the episodes and existing material used in the series through 1996 are listed in the book The Wonderful World of Disney Television, by Bill Cotter ( Hyperion Books, 1997 ISBN 0-7868-6359-5.

Following the Kill Bill controversy, Disney, the parent of ESPN, fired Easterbrook in October 2003.

He quickly established himself as one of the PGA Tour's top young stars in the early 1980s ; his first win was at the 1982 Walt Disney World Golf Classic in a playoff with Bill Britton after the two had tied at 19-under-par 269 after 72 holes.

Created by comedian Ross Shafer and based on sketches on KING-TV's sketch program Almost Live !, Bill Nye the Science Guy was produced by Disney Educational Productions and KCTS-TV of Seattle.

Achbar interned in Hollywood on the children's TV programme Bill Daily's Hocus Pocus Gang, followed by a three year stint in Toronto with Sunrise Films on their documentary series Spread your Wings and the CBC / Disney series Danger Bay.

Following college, Peet sent off some of his cartoon action sketches after hearing that the Disney Studio was hiring artists for their animated films.

It was at this time Disney was working on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ), and Peet began work towards the end of its production.

Peet ’ s first encounter with Walt Disney directly was at this time, when Disney reviewed the storyboards Peet had put together.

Fine art had changed dramatically during the years Peet had been at Disney ; abstractionism was in vogue and Peet's realistic paintings were out of date.

Peet decided to continue working at Disney, where he developed a few short cartoons and worked on the feature films of the period.

At this point, he was working very closely with Walt Disney ; Peet respected Disney's creative genius, but found him to be a sometimes difficult man.

Peet described the Disney studio as a " brutal " place, rife with rivalries and jealousy.

As they were both strong-willed and passionately creative men, Peet and Disney quarreled frequently about parts in the films such as the dancing / romance scene in Sleeping Beauty.

Peet left the Disney company over a dispute regarding the contents of his script so his ultimate vision for the king of the Bandar-log remains unknown.