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A First for Disneyana Collectors

Walt Disney World hosts its first Disneyana convention, as told by Dave Smith in 1992.

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Walt Disney’s Heralded Bear Country

Walt Disney's Academy® Award-winning True-Life Adventure, Bear Country is an exciting portrait of wilderness world.

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Do Bears Belong in an Enchanting Magic Kingdom? Any Child Can Tell You They’re a Bear Necessity

The Imagineering geniuses behind Walt Disney World knew perfectly well what they were doing when they included a Country Bear Jamboree among the attractions of the Magic Kingdom—theme park focal point of central Florida's Vacation Kingdom.

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Veteran Comic Gives Voice to Disney’s Winnie the Pooh

Sterling Holloway provided the first speaking voice for one of the most famous and beloved characters in children's literature.

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Hibler and Reitherman Help Carry on Disney Cartoon Tradition, with New Pooh Film

The last animated cartoon featurette to be approved for production by Walt Disney before his untimely death in December, 1966 was Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.

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Model “T” Turns in High Performance for Hilarious Disney Motion Picture

With a gelatinous goo called Flubber, the alchemist in The Absent-Minded Professor transformed a Model "T" into a high-flying fantasy.

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Horse, Motor Car Share Main Street, U.S.A.’s Thoroughfare

WED Enterprises, Walt's planning and designing firm, built the horse drawn streetcars by working from photographs of earlier authentic vehicles.

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Herbie Joins The Mad Mad Race

The biggest names in racing, including Andy Granatelli, Max Balchowsky, Bob Bondurant, and Joe Playan, teamed up for the driving stunts in The Love Bug.

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Autopia Car Built Special for Freeway of Future

Disney Legend Bob Gurr talks through the nuts and bolts of Disneyland's Autopia.

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Walt Disney Brings in Treasure Island Actionful Saga of Fabulous Pirate Gold

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure is now translated to the screen in color by Technicolor, with Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton and Basil Sydney topping a great cast of characters.