Today in Disney History 7/12

[vizsla]

July 12, 1895 – Richard Buckminister Fuller, visionary, designer, architect, and inventor, was born in Milton, Massachusetts. It is widely believed he developed and named the geodesic dome first, from field experiments with Kenneth Snelson and others at Black Mountain College in the late 1940’s. Epcot’s Spaceship Earth attraction is a geodesic sphere.
July 12, 1925 – Disney’s Alice comedy “Alice Wins the Derby,” featuring Margie Gay as Alice, premiered at the Piccadilly Theater in N.Y.C.
July 12, 1942 – First-year Mouseketeer Dennis Day was born in Las Vegas, Nevada.
July 12, 1948 – Four time Academy Award-winning sound designer and sound editor Ben Burtt was born in Jamesville, N.Y. Best known for his work on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Burtt was responsible for the voice of “WALL-E,” “M-O,” and other robots in the 2008 Disney/Pixar computer-animated feature “WALL-E.”
July 12, 1957 – The “Shooting Gallery” attraction opened in Frontierland at Disneyland.
July 12, 1961 – The 1st draft of the screen play was completed for Disney’s film “Mary Poppins”.
July 12, 1961 – Disney’s live action adventure film, “Nikki, Wild Dog of the North”, was released.
July 12, 1967 – The Disney film “The Gnome-Mobile” was released.
July 12, 1971 – Disney’s live action comedy “Now You See Him Now You Don’t”, starring Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, and Jim Backus, was released.
July 12, 1983 – The “Show Biz Is” show opened in Tomorrowland in the Magic Kingdom at WDW. (Ended Sept. 27, 1985)

[CanadianWDWFan]

Thanks Vince!

[Jeff]

I remember "The Gnome Mobile" - loved it as a kid.

[ibrowse17]

Happy Birthday Ben Burtt

[scottgr]

thanks

[jpH/keD]

Thanks Vince! I love the really old stuff!

[BluewaterBrad]

Thanks Vince!

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Vince!