Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz had previous musical theatre experience and wrote songs for animated films during this time, supplanting Disney workhorses the Sherman Brothers.

They also recorded a cover of the Disney song, " There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow " for the movie Meet the Robinsons and wrote and performed the theme song for The Drinky Crow Show.

Next, Burton wrote and produced ( but did not direct, due to schedule constraints on Batman Returns ) The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ) for Disney, originally meant to be a children's book in rhyme.

Disney sent an unfinished print to New York distributor Margaret Winkler, who promptly wrote back to him that she was keen on a distribution deal for more live-action / animated shorts based upon Alice's Wonderland.

After Baskett's death, his widow wrote Disney and told him that he had been a " friend indeed and certainly have been in need.

Bosley Crowther for one wrote in The New York Times, " More and more, Walt Disney's craftsmen have been loading their feature films with so-called ' live action ' in place of their animated whimsies of the past, and by just those proportions has the magic of these Disney films decreased ," citing the ratio of live action to animation at two to one, concluding that is " approximately the ratio of its mediocrity to its charm.

In his excited response dated October 26, 1937, Disney wrote that he felt " all steamed up over the idea of Stokowski working with us ... The union of Stokowski and his music, together with the best of our medium, would be the means of a success and should lead to a new style of motion picture presentation.

Ted Osborne spent a decade ( 1931 – 40 ) at the Walt Disney Studio as a story writer and, between 1932 and 1937, wrote the Mickey Mouse newspaper dailies and Silly Symphonies Sunday comics.

Several years later Evanier began writing foreign comic books for the Walt Disney Studio Program, then from 1972 to 1976 wrote scripts for Gold Key Comics, along with comics for the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate.

Prior to his association with Disney, Van Horn drew and wrote a black and white comic book called " Nervous Rex " for Blackthorne Publishing.

A reviewer for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner wrote, " Certainly, it will outrage some and, indeed, it's not Disney.

In his review for the Washington Post, Desson Howe wrote, " although this Walt Disney movie is based, inspired and even partially informed by a real event referred to as Pearl Harbor, the movie is actually based on the movies Top Gun, Titanic and Saving Private Ryan.

Newman wrote the music for the Walt Disney movie The Princess and the Frog.

Walt Disney's daughter, Diane Disney Miller, wrote a letter to Nixon's daughters saying that Stone had " committed a grave disservice to your family, to the Presidency, and to American history ".

In 1966, Italian Disney comics artist Luciano Bottaro wrote a parody of Orlando Furioso starring Donald Duck, Paperin Furioso.

On May 25, 1960, Kelley wrote a letter to Walt Disney regarding his time at the studio:

He also produced a series of stories based on the Our Gang film series, provided covers for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, illustrated the aforementioned adaptations of two Disney animated features, drew stories featuring Raggedy Ann and Andy and Uncle Wiggily, wrote and drew a lengthy series of comic books promoting a bread company and featuring a character called " Peter Wheat ", and did a series of pantomime ( i. e. without dialogue ) two-page stories featuring Roald Dahl's Gremlins for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 34 – 41.

Almost four years later, broke and in danger of having his house repossessed, he wrote and directed an adaptation of Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huck Finn for Walt Disney Pictures, as well as Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

He later wrote the screenplays for Gunmen and The Adventures of Tom and Huck, which he also executive produced for Disney, and worked as a staff writer at Hollywood Pictures.

Christopher Vogler, a Hollywood film producer and writer, wrote a memo for Disney Studios on the use of The Hero with a Thousand Faces as a guide for scriptwriters ; this memo influenced the creation of such films as Aladdin, The Lion King, and Beauty and the Beast.

Animator Ed Gombert wrote a satirical interoffice memo, allegedly by studio executive Peter Schneider, which gave other Disney films generic titles such as Seven Little Men Help a Girl, The Girl with the See-through Shoes, and Puppies Taken Away.

In 2000, the Sherman Brothers wrote the song score for the Disney film The Tigger Movie.

In later years, with Robert's move to London, the brothers wrote many new songs for the stage musical presentations of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins, produced collaboratively by Disney and Cameron Mackintosh.

Commissioned by Disney and Michael Eisner for the New York Philharmonic's Millennium Celebration, he wrote Four Seasons, an oratorio for chorus and orchestra celebrating various aspects of the months.

* 1901 – Walt Disney, American animated film producer ( d. 1966 )

* Timothy J. Disney ( also credited as Tim Disney ), Walt's great-nephew and an American film writer, producer and director

The next year, along with producer George Lucas, he was able to indulge himself by making Captain EO ( 1985 ), a 12-minute space fantasy for Disney theme parks starring pop superstar Michael Jackson.

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Walter Elias " Walt " Disney ( December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966 ) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century.

Disney is particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design.

By 1942, the Schlesinger studio had surpassed Walt Disney Studios as the most successful producer of animated shorts in the United States.

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Prior to the film's release, executive producer and Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs stated " If Toy Story is a modest hit — say $ 75 million at the box office — we'll and Disney both break even.

In the spring of 1928, Disney traveled to New York City in hopes of negotiating a more profitable contract with his producer Charles Mintz.

By the time producer Charles Mintz took away the Oswald series from Disney, Pete had been established as the most consistently appearing supporting character to Oswald.

The Academy Award that Disney earned for The Living Desert helped the producer make history as the individual with the most Oscar wins in a single year.

It is the hometown of Disney animator and film producer Don Bluth.

Frank Tashlin and John Hubley, were Disney animators who left during the strike, and obtained jobs at Screen Gems, where Tashlin served as head producer while Hubley acted as director for studio.

After Disney's acquisition of Pixar in 2006, Pixar executive producer John Lasseter became Chief Creative Officer at both Pixar and Disney, with a plan to reintroduce two-dimensional animation, starting with The Princess and the Frog in 2009.

He graduated from Pomona College in 1951 and first began working for The Walt Disney Company as an assistant director and producer ( True-Life Adventure ).

In 2008, Roy Disney married Leslie DeMeuse, a CSTV producer, and Emmy winner of various sailing documentaries.

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 "..

When producer Charles Mintz ended his association with Disney, Harman and Ising went to work for Mintz, whose brother-in-law, George Winkler, set up a new animation studio to make the Oswald cartoons.

Other celebrities supporting America First were novelist Sinclair Lewis, poet E. E. Cummings, Washington socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth, film producer Walt Disney, and actress Lillian Gish.

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