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Paul Smith (composer)
Paul J. Smith (October 30, 1906 – January 25, 1985) was an American music composer and violinist best known for his work at Disney. Life and career Smith was born in Calumet, Michigan on October 30, 1906. Upon graduating high school, he studied music at The College of Idaho from 1923 to 1925 before he was accepted into the Bush Conservatory of Music in Chicago, Illinois. His abilities in theory and composition earned him a scholarship to study music theory at Juilliard, however, it is unclear if he ever pursued this invitation. Smith spent much of his life working at Disney as composer for many of its films' scores, animated and live-action alike, movie and television alike; from 1962 to 1963, he also composed music for '' Leave It to Beaver''. In '' Fantasia'', he is one of the studio employees in the orchestra. He also composed the scores for several of the ''True-Life Adventures'' episodes. In 1950, Smith and Oliver Wallace composed the musical score of Disney's ''Cinde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calumet, Michigan
Calumet ( or ) is a village in Calumet Township, Houghton County, in the U.S. state of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, that was once at the center of the mining industry of the Upper Peninsula. Also known as Red Jacket, the village includes the Calumet Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The village may itself be included within the Calumet Historic District, a larger area which is NRHP-listed and which is a National Historic Landmark District. It is bordered on the north by Calumet Township, on the south by the unincorporated towns of Newtown and Blue Jacket, on the east by Blue Jacket and Calumet Township, and on the west by Yellow Jacket and Calumet Township. The population was 726 at the 2010 census. Calumet's nickname is Copper Town U.S.A. History What is now Calumet was settled in 1864, originally under the name of " Red Jacket", named for a Native American Chief of the Seneca tribe. Until 1895 the name "Calumet" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Harline
Leigh Adrian Harline (March 26, 1907 – December 10, 1969) was an American film composer and songwriter. He was known for his "musical sophistication that was uniquely 'Harline-esque' by weaving rich tapestries of mood-setting underscores and penning memorable melodies for animated shorts and features." Biography Leigh Harline was born March 26, 1907, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the youngest of 13 children, to soldier Carl Härlin and his wife Johanna Matilda. His parents came from the village of Härfsta in Simtuna parish, Sweden. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1888 and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1891. In the U.S., they changed their surname to Harline. Leigh was baptized a member of the LDS Church at age eight. Harline graduated from the University of Utah and studied piano and organ with Mormon Tabernacle Choir conductor J. Spencer Cornwall. In 1928, he moved to California and worked at radio stations in San Francisco and Los Angeles as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canine Caddy
This is a list of animated short films produced by Walt Disney and Walt Disney Animation Studios from 1921 to the present. This includes films produced at the Laugh-O-Gram Studio which Disney founded in 1921 as well as the animation studio now owned by The Walt Disney Company, previously called the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio (1923), The Walt Disney Studio (1926), Walt Disney Productions (1929), and Walt Disney Feature Animation (1986). This list does not include: * Segments of feature-length package films later released individually (see List of Disney theatrical animated features) * Animated cartoon segments originally made for television (e.g. ''Disney's House of Mouse'' or the '' Mickey Mouse'' TV series) * Short films which contain animation but are primarily live-action (see List of Disney live-action shorts) * Short films which contain no new animation (i.e., films re-edited from other films) * Pixar short films * 20th Century Animation short films Note: A gold star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pluto's Playmate
Pluto is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. He is a yellow-orange color, medium-sized, short-haired dog with black ears. Unlike most Disney characters, Pluto is not anthropomorphic beyond some characteristics such as facial expression. He is Mickey's pet. Officially a mixed-breed dog, he made his debut as a bloodhound in the Mickey Mouse cartoon '' The Chain Gang''. Together with Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, and Goofy, Pluto is one of the "Sensational Six"—the biggest stars in the Disney universe. Though all six are non-human animals, Pluto alone is not dressed as a human. Pluto debuted in animated cartoons and appeared in 24 '' Mickey Mouse'' films before receiving his own series in 1937. All together Pluto appeared in 89 short films between 1930 and 1953. Several of these were nominated for an Academy Award, including ''The Pointer'' (1939), ''Squatter's Rights'' (1946), '' Pluto's Blue Note'' (1947), and '' Mickey and the Seal' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire Chief (film)
''Fire Chief'' is a 1940 Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck and his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Plot The cartoon shows Donald living as a firefighter along with his nephews. When the nephews get tired of Donald's snoring, they sound the fire alarm to wake him up, but Donald instead thinks that there is a fire so he rushes to get on the fire truck. He then comes back up to blow the Horn (acoustic), horn to wake them up. Donald and his nephews march like soldiers, but Donald falls backwards, causing Huey to hit the other nephews, and they fall on Donald, which sounds like the NBC Chimes. Later, Huey puts on coal in the fire truck but Donald puts the entire bucket of coal in the firetruck, causing the house to catch fire. They then try to put out the fire but Donald instead unknowingly puts the hose on the truck's gasoline tank. One of the nephews notices and tries to warn him, but Donald pays no heed. As a result, he causes the fire house and the fire truck to burn down compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bone Trouble
''Bone Trouble'' (1940) is an animated short produced by Walt Disney, and directed by Jack Kinney. It stars Pluto and Butch the Bulldog, in the latter's first appearance. Plot The short begins with Pluto waking up in his dog house. Pluto is hungry, but the birds have eaten his dish. He hears snoring over the nextdoor fence. Butch the Bulldog, who is sleeping nearby, has a bone which Pluto attempts to steal without awakening him. Pluto has to sneak past trees and tires to reach to the bone. After a couple of attempts, he successfully steals it. Before Pluto can enjoy the bone, an angry Butch shows up, having awoken some time before. A surprised Pluto takes the bone and Butch chases him. Butch chases Pluto through town and into a deserted carnival. The chase continues when they passed by posters of a fat man and a belly dancer. They go through the Tunnel of Love ride where Pluto reverses the chase. Butch loses sight of Pluto when Pluto goes into a hall of mirrors. The mirrors ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Practical Pig
''The Practical Pig'' is a ''Silly Symphony'' cartoon. It was released on February 24, 1939, and directed by Dick Rickard. It was the fourth and final cartoon starring The Three Pigs.''The Practical Pig'' ''www.bcdb.com'' Like its prequels, ''The Practical Pig'' incorporates the song "". Unlike its prequels however, its title cards labeled it as a standalone ''Three Little Pigs'' cartoon, suggesting that they were to get their own series of cartoons. It is also the second-to-last ''Silly Symphony'' cartoon. Plot [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald's Nephews
''Donald's Nephews'' (1938) is a Donald Duck animated cartoon which features Donald being visited by his three nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. This cartoon is Huey, Dewey, and Louie's first appearance in animation. Al Taliaferro, the artist for the ''Silly Symphony'' comic strip, proposed the idea for the film, so that the studio would have duck counterparts to Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse, the nephews of Mickey Mouse. The Walt Disney Productions Story Dept. on February 5, 1937, sent Taliaferro a memo recognizing him as the source of the idea for the planned short. The memo indicated, “we have decided to actually put a story crew to work on ''Donald’s Nephews''.” With the short already in production more than eight months before the boys' ''Donald Duck'' comic strip debut (on October 17, 1937), the animation studio's model sheet and storyline would have been Taliaferro and writer Ted Osborne's frame of reference for the comic strip. Because the strip was an adaptation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937 Film)
''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length traditionally animated feature film and the first Disney animated feature film. The story was adapted by storyboard artists Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Merrill De Maris, Otto Englander, Earl Hurd, Dick Rickard, Ted Sears and Webb Smith. David Hand was the supervising director, while William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen directed the film's individual sequences. ''Snow White'' premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, California on December 21, 1937. It was a critical and commercial success and, with international earnings of more than $8 million during its initial release (compared to its $1.5 million budget), it briefly held the record of highest-grossing sound fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Donald
''Don Donald'' is a 1937 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The cartoon follows Donald Duck attempting to woo a female Mexican duck named Donna. It was directed by Ben Sharpsteen and features music by Paul J. Smith which was adapted from the Mexican folk songs "Cielito Lindo" and "Jarabe Tapatío." Clarence Nash voiced both Donald and Donna. Although billed at the time as another '' Mickey Mouse'' cartoon, explaining the face of Mickey Mouse at the beginning of the original release, the film is actually the first installment of the ''Donald Duck'' series, and is the first to feature Donald as the primary starring character. The film also introduces a love interest for Donald. Plot Donald Duck rides Jenny the donkey through the Mexican desert playing a guitar and wearing a sombrero on his way to the house of his girlfriend, Donna Duck. Donna dances the Mexican Hat Dance and eventually lands on Donald's donkey wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thru The Mirror
''Thru the Mirror'' is a Mickey Mouse cartoon short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists in 1936. In this cartoon short, Mickey has a ''Through the Looking-Glass''-type dream that he travels through his mirror and enters a topsy-turvy world where everything is alive. While there, he engages in a Fred Astaire dance number with a pair of gloves and a pack of cards, until the cards chase him out of the bizarre world. It was the 83rd Mickey Mouse short film to be released, the fourth of that year. The title is written as ''Thru the Mirror'' on the title card, but the alternative spelling ''Through the Mirror'' is used on the poster for the film. Plot Mickey falls asleep after reading Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel ''Through the Looking-Glass'' and dreams that he passes through a mirror above a fireplace into an alternate reality. Beyond the mirror, his furniture and possessions have come to life and he clumsily tangles with a rocking chair, a footrest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney Legend
The Disney Legends Awards is a Hall of Fame program that recognizes individuals who have made an extraordinary and integral contribution to The Walt Disney Company. Established in 1987, the honor was traditionally awarded annually during a special private ceremony. Today, it has been awarded biennially during Disney's D23 Expo since 2009. Having been honoured in 1998, Glynis Johns currently holds the record for the oldest living and longest surviving Disney Legend. Criteria Recipients are chosen by a selection committee, formerly appointed and chaired by Disney Legend Roy E. Disney, Walt Disney's nephew, former vice chairman and director ''emeritus'' of The Walt Disney Company. The committee consists of long-time Disney executives, historians, and other authorities. Besides the award statuette itself, each honoree is represented by a bronze commemorative plaque featuring the recipients' handprints and signature if they were living when inducted, or simply an image of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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