Today in Disney History 1/15

[vizsla]

Jan. 15, 2002 - Disney released “The Jungle Book”; “Adventures of Huck Finn”; and “Tron” on DVD.
Jan. 15, 2002 - Jury selection began in the trail of Bismark Rodriquez who was accused of holding 2 people hostage at Disney’s Boardwalk Resort in June of 2000.
Jan. 15, 2004 – Actor Johnny Depp was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Jan. 15, 2005 – Actress Ruth Warwick, who portrayed Sally in Disney’s 1946 “Song of the South,” passed away at age 88 in New York. (Known for her performance in the classic 1941 film Citizen Kane, Warwick was also a fixture on the ABC-TV soap opera “All My Children.”)
Jan. 15, 2005 – This date marks “Walk In and Win Week” at Who Wants to Be a Millionaire—Play It! At Disney-MGM Studios. Any audience member who makes it to the Heat Seat will be playing for $1 million dollars.
Jan. 15, 2005 – The Disney animated TV series “W.I.T.C.H.” began airing on ABC Family.
Jan. 15, 2005 – Sadly on this day, Pixar lost a member of its creative team when animator Dan Lee passed away at age 35 in Ca. (In Aug. 2003 he had been diagnosed with lung cancer, despite the fact that he was a nonsmoker. Best known as the creator of the title character from “Finding Nemo,” his cedits also included “Toy Story 2,” “A Bug’s Life,” “Monsters, Inc.” and “Ratatouille.” (The 2007 “Ratatouille” would be dedicated to Lee.)
Jan. 15, 2007 – The Disney/Pixar film “Cars” won Best Animated Feature Film at the 2007 Golden Globe Awards. It is the first ever given in the new category of Best Animated Feature. John Lasseter accepted the award.
Jan. 15, 2010 – The local Kansas City group “Thank You, Walt Disney” held a fundraising event and special premiere of Ted Thomas’s documentary Walt and El Grupo at the Screenland Theater. (The film told the story of the Disney Studios goodwill trip to South America in 1941. Also appearing was author J.B. Kaufman discussing his book “South of the Border with Disney: Walt Disney and the Good Neighbor Program,” 1941-1948, “Thank You, Walt Disney was dedicated to preserving Walt’s legacy in Kansas City, and is currently working to save and restore the “Laugh-O-grams Studios (Walt’s very first animation studio) which they saved from collapse and demolition.
Jan. 15, 2010 – The 15th Annual Critics Choice Awards were handed out. Disney/Pixar’s “Up” won Best Animated Feature, beating out 4 nominees including Disney’s “Princess and the Frog.” Best Score went to Michael Giacchino for his music in “Up.”

[Jeff]

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Thanks Vince!