August 21, 2007
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DISNEY INSIDER PRESENTS: FAN SPOTLIGHT
The Magic Kingdom My Cast Member Guardian Angels
by Jaimee, 18, Woodstock, GA

In April I attended Festival Disney with my high school choir. The first day in the Magic Kingdom was great. I spent the whole day goofing off and bonding with my best friend, but the next day ... read more

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An early artist's rendering for Disneyland Park's Enchanted Tiki Room is ready to be digitized and transformed into mobile art. An early artist's rendering for Disneyland Park's Enchanted Tiki Room is ready to be digitized and transformed into mobile art.

Great Disney Art on Call

The Walt Disney Company is dotted with archives holding the assembled creative treasures of nearly a century of creativity. From the treasure troves of Feature Animation to the Imagineering Library, there are piles of beautiful paintings created as concept art; artist's renderings of attractions that never came to be; and sketches by some of the great artists of the 20th century. Some of these works have appeared in coffee-table books or been released as limited-edition prints, but most are off-limits to all but the lucky few who work with them.

Until now -- it's Disney Mobile artist Rodney Bills' job to go sift through these thousands of artworks old and new, looking for the perfect images to make available to Disney Mobile phone customers as wallpaper images, picture ID images, and even complete phone themes...

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HISTORY AND TRIVIA
Winnie the Pooh DO YOU KNOW DISNEY?
Which talented voice actor gave Winnie the Pooh, Don Karnage, and Darkwing Duck their voices?

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THIS WEEK IN DISNEY HISTORY
August 21, 1920 - Daphne Milne, wife of writer A.A. Milne, gives birth to a son who the couple name Christopher Robin. He will later be immortalized in his father's books "Winnie-the-Pooh" and "The House at Pooh Corner."

August 23, 1986 - The U.S. Senate passes a bill, Public Law 99-391, designating December 5, 1986 as "Walt Disney Recognition Day."

August 25, 1958 - Tim Burton, filmmaker, writer, and producer of such joint Disney films as "James and the Giant Peach" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas," is born in Burbank, California.


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I had heard somewhere that Walt was once an Eagle Scout, but it's not mentioned in the latest authorized biography on Walt Disney. Was he an Eagle Scout?
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Walt Disney was never a Boy Scout, though he had great admiration for the organization.

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