* Walt Disney Theatrical, the stageplay and musical production arm

T. H. White's novel was adapted into the Lerner-Loewe stage musical Camelot ( 1960 ) and the Disney animated film The Sword in the Stone ( 1963 ); Camelot, with its focus on the love of Lancelot and Guinevere and the cuckolding of Arthur, was itself made into a film of the same name in 1967.

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.

The 2009 film The Princess and the Frog was considered a throwback to the Disney musical style.

From 1930 to 1933, Disney alumni Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising produced a series of musical cartoons for Leon Schlesinger, who sold the shorts to Warner.

The films produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios became popular once more when the studio returned to making traditionally animated musical family classics such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King.

Song of the South is a 1946 American musical film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

Chevalier appeared in the movie musical Gigi ( 1958 ) with Leslie Caron and Hermione Gingold, with whom he shared the song " I Remember It Well ", and several Walt Disney films.

A large portion of Australia's children's entertainment originates in Sydney including highly successful musical groups The Wiggles and Hi-5 and television programs Play School, Bananas in Pyjamas, Saturday Disney, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Mr. Squiggle and many others.

" With no input from Disney, musical director Ed Plumb and Ben Sharpsteen reduced Fantasia to one hour and forty minutes at first, then to one hour and twenty minutes by removing most of Taylor's commentary and the Toccata and Fugue.

" Dance Magazine devoted its lead story to the film, saying that " the most extraordinary thing about Fantasia is, to a dancer or balletomane, not the miraculous musical recording, the range of color, or the fountainous integrity of the Disney collaborators, but quite simply the perfection of its dancing.

The Living Desert received some criticism for bringing unsubtle humor to its scenes of desert life – Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called Disney to task for adding jokey musical effects to several of the film ’ s scenes, including hoedown music for a sequence involving a scorpion battle.

* The song is referenced in the 1962 Academy Award nominated animated short Disney musical film, A Symposium on Popular Songs during the song, " Although I Dropped $ 100, 000 " written by Robert & Richard Sherman.

In 2003, Disney Channel premiered its first ever musical made-for-cable film, The Cheetah Girls ; it received 84 million viewers worldwide.

The first film was the first TV movie musical in Disney Channel history.

* Babes in Toyland ( 1961 film ), a Disney musical starring Ray Bolger, Annette Funicello and Tommy Sands, again based on the Victor Herbert operetta

Romano first sang on the Disney Channel on a musical episode of Even Stevens which led to more singing on the series and with Disney in general.

Pete's Dragon ( 1977 ) is a live-action / animated musical film from Walt Disney Productions, in which he played a travelling elixir showman / salesman named Doc Terminus.

Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

Hwang was also recently represented on Broadway as the librettist for Tarzan, a musical based on a film by Walt Disney Pictures.

The music inspired Walt Disney to feature a bumblebee in his 1940 animated musical Fantasia and have it sound as if it were flying in all parts of the theater.

In terms of music and sound recording, however, Harman and Ising had one up on Disney as the Warner Bros. provided access to a large musical library with all the popular tunes of the day, lavish orchestras ( e. g. Abe Lyman ) and sound recording equipment and staff free of charge whereas Disney had to pay for all this himself.

In the Disney film, the Dodo plays a much greater role in the story, and plays the role of Pat in Alice's infamous growth-in-the-house scene.

Ambergris is key to the Ian Cameron novel The Lost Ones, from which came the 1974 Disney film, The Island at the Top of the World.

The sound can be heard, for example, when Spike Jones sings " Der Fuehrer's Face " ( from the 1942 Disney animated film of the same name ), repeatedly lambasting Adolf Hitler with: " We'll Heil!

* Uncle Zeke starred as " Digger " in the 2000 Disney film, 102 Dalmatians

* Boomer, a woodpecker in the 1981 animated Disney film The Fox and the Hound

He later appeared as a lonely teenager, Sterling North, in the 1969 Disney film, Rascal, and as Teft in the 1971 film Bless the Beasts and Children.

In 1964, he appeared as Richard Kimble's nephew in ABC's The Fugitive in the 15th episode entitled " Home Is The Hunted "; as Barry in the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour, episode " Sunday Father "; as himself three times in the ABC sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ; in the Disney film For the Love of Willadena ; and as a troubled orphan taken home with Darrin and Samantha Stephens in Bewitched episode " A Vision of Sugarplums " ( December 1964 ).

* Cars ( franchise ), a Disney / Pixar film series

** Cars ( film ), a 2006 computer animated film from Disney and Pixar

He also provided the voice of Jack Skellington, the main character in Tim Burton's animated Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ), and has since reprised the role in many other subsequent productions, including the Disney / Square video games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II and the Capcom sequel to the original film, Oogie's Revenge.

He started at Disney Studios in 1935, more than a year after the debut of Donald Duck on June 9, 1934 in the short animated film The Wise Little Hen.

In the Disney animated film Fantasia, during the Pastoral Symphony, some of the main characters are female centaurs.

" The Dover Boys is also one of the first uses of stylized animation in American film, breaking away from the more realistic animation styles influenced by the Disney Studio.

Tracks include the 1970s Joe Cocker hit " You Are So Beautiful ", the Beach Boys ' " Disney Girls " and jazz standards such as " My Buddy ", which Day originally sang in her 1951 film I'll See You in My Dreams.

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

* Walt Disney Pictures, the film banner

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

In popular fiction, the two are often made as the same, such as in the film Excalibur, as well as the Disney film adaptation of The Sword in the Stone.

British influence can also be seen with the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films, which include Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The Rescuers and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

One short Egmont-licensed Disney comic explained Phooey's sporadic appearances as a freak incident of nature.

One view emphasizes events occurring during and after the U. S. Occupation of Japan ( 1945 – 1952 ), and stresses U. S. cultural influences, including U. S. comics ( brought to Japan by the GIs ) and images and themes from U. S. television, film, and cartoons ( especially Disney ).

One of the best known of the film Merlins is the Merlin of the 1963 animated Disney film The Sword in the Stone, based on T. H. White's novel of the same name.

In 1999, UPN made a deal with Disney to air select programming from ABC's Disney's One Saturday Morning block ( later ABC Kids ) in place of the teen series.

One of two stars dedicated to Walt Disney on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

One is installed at Disney California Adventure Park, sister park to Disneyland and the other is installed at Hong Kong Disneyland.

( 1996, as The First Lady ), the Disney hit 101 Dalmatians ( 1996, as the sinister Cruella de Vil ) and its sequel 102 Dalmatians ( 2000 ), and the blockbuster Air Force One ( 1997 ), as the trustworthy vice-president to Harrison Ford's president.

For example, Santa's Little Helper fathering 25 puppies in " Two Dozen and One Greyhounds " is a parody of the Disney film One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and Mr. Burns ' technique of brainwashing him into an attack dog in " Dog of Death " parodies A Clockwork Orange.

One short Egmont-licensed Disney comic written by Lars Jensen explained Phooey's sporadic appearances as a freak incident of nature.

One way the comics writers explained this discrepancy was to present the characters as " real " cartoon characters who are employed by Disney as actors.

2008 saw the debut of Phineas and Ferb, the first original animated series to be broadcast in HD, and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody spin-off, The Suite Life on Deck, along with Disney Channel Original Movies such as Camp Rock, Minutemen and The Cheetah Girls: One World.

Originally Toon Disney had programming from The Disney Afternoon and One Saturday Morning / ABC Kids.

** One Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1961 animated film by Walt Disney

One of the most notable concerts included two days in November at Walt Disney World Resort's Food and Wine Festival for the Eat to the Beat concert series.

One of Watonga's most notable citizens was Clarence Nash ( 1904 – 1985 ) whom Walt Disney hired to be the voice of Donald Duck in the 1930s.

One of those was The Waltz King, a loosely adapted biopic of Johann Strauss, which aired as part of the Wonderful World of Disney in the U. S. in 1963.

New faces such as Glen Keane, Ron Clements, John Musker, Andreas Deja, and others came to the studio in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a period that produced such features as The Rescuers, Pete's Dragon ( a live-action / animation hybrid ), and The Fox and the Hound, as well as the featurettes The Small One ( Bluth's final Disney credit ) and Mickey's Christmas Carol ( the first screen appearance of Mickey Mouse since 1953 ).

ABC was purchased by Disney in 1995, and Disney transformed ABC's Saturday schedule into a series of Disney-produced animated cartoons collectively named One Saturday Morning.