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Our 2025 Music Series pays tribute to many of the legendary Disney animators and Imagineers, who were the creative geniuses behind many now beloved Disney animated classics and theme park attractions. Each episode will chronicle the career of the featured artist's work for Walt Disney through the use of music to represent their many Disney career highlights. Episode three of our 2025 Music Series pays tribute to Disney Legend Ward Kimball. We will follow his career as an animator, character designer and director for many classic Disney films and television productions spanning the 1930s through the 1970s as well as his his roles as a dixieland musician and Disneyland consultant. Download (right click / save as)Visit our on-line store for exclusive Jiminy Crickets and DisneyChris Website Merch!!!! https://jcpodcast.threadless.com/If you would like to help support the Jiminy Crickets podcasts and DisneyChris.com - Please consider becoming a Patreon Subscriber and receive exclusive rewards every month. https://www.patreon.com/c/DisneyChris
08/07/20 - In this episode, Michael and Craig are joined by author and podcaster Todd James Pierce to finish their discussion on Disney Legend Ward Kimball!
07/31/20 - In this episode, Michael and Craig are joined by author and podcaster Todd James Pierce to continue their discussion on Disney Legend Ward Kimball!
07/24/20 - In this episode, Michael and Craig are joined by author and podcaster Todd James Pierce to discuss Disney Legend Ward Kimball!
Team Mousetalgia invites you to take a look with us at this week in Disney history, with topics including Disneyland's shooting galleries, Disney Legend Marc Davis's birthday, Disneyland's Grand Canyon Diorama, Disneyland's first Easter parade, Disney Legend Ward Kimball's first day working for Walt, the Midget Autopia, and Snow White's photo reference model Marge Champion. Also, we have book reviews on Fantasia (1940) and Insight Edition's Disney Princess Tiny Books library (2019). Plus - what we're listening to while in quarantine... and more.
One of Disney's “Nine Old Men,” Ward Kimball was already a Disney Legend by the time he was in his late 20's. He'd worked on classic animated films like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and many more. But it was his hobby away from work that may have made his biggest contribution to Disney history. Check out the Word of the Week – Kimball. Disney Legend Ward Kimball's biggest contribution to the history of the Disney Company just might have been a hobby that he worked on in his backyard.
Disney Legend Ward Kimball's biggest contribution to the history of the Disney Company just might have been a hobby that he worked on in his backyard. Read More... The post Word of the Week – Kimball appeared first on Ear To There Travel.
This week, Rose Ivy talks with Team Mousetalgia fresh from winning the "Her Universe Fashion Show" at San Diego Comic Con! She talks about her winning design, perseverance, geek couture, walking the runway, and what she'll be creating in the near future with her co-winners for Her Universe and Disney (so start asking for Hot Topic gift cards for Christmas!) Also, Disneyland Railroad conductor David Wilcox returns to the show to share his personal stories about Disney Legend Ward Kimball, and his opportunity to spend time with Ward, talk about his relationship with Walt Disney, and see some of Ward's railroad collection. Wilcox also tells the story of how he once derailed the Disneyland Railroad. Plus - Walt Disney's trip to the Chicago Railroad Fair in 1948, a listener trip report - and our cosplay costumes for next year's comic con!
Welcome to episode 31! On this week’s show, come with Disney Historian Jim Korkis and I as we board the Mousenger Time Machine to a favorite memory of the Past, the Fort Wilderness Railroad! Operating from 1973 – 1980 it was the brainchild of Disney Legend Ward Kimball and Roger Broggie. For a long time it […]
The Carolwood Foundation recently screened “The Great Locomotive Chase,” and Mousetalgia reports from the event, which also featured a panel discussion with Disney legend Bob Gurr, Michael Broggie (son of Disney legend Roger Broggie and Carolwood Chairman Emeritus), John Kimball (Disney animator and son of Disney Legend Ward Kimball), and Imagineer Ray Spencer (currently heading up the Red Car Trolley project at DCA). This elite panel discussed Fess Parker’s work in “The Great Locomotive Chase,” their current and past transporation projects at Disneyland, and more - including a fascinating comparison of WED's modus operandi vs. current practices at WDI. Also, Toy Story 3 – to CD, or not to CD? And World of Color – will it live up to the hype? SPECIAL NOTE; Meet the whole Mousetalgia crew this weekend, Saturday June 12, at Disneyland Park! Listen to the show for more details.