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Disneyland Opens

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Disneyland-Beginnings.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/15/2004 Disneyland Opens Transcript On July 17, 1955 Walt Disney opened the doors to Disneyland and turned his cartoon world into a three-dimensional experience. Disney’s interest in fantasy takes us to the root of understanding what he was trying to achieve with his theme […]

Donald Duck

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Donald-Ducks-First-Quacks.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/12/2002 Donald Duck Transcript Today we sing the praises of a Hollywood personality who has been acting on screen now for sixty-eight years. He has been nominated for eight academy awards. He was drafted in World War II and won an Oscar for his […]

Carl Stalling

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Carl-Stalling-Pioneer-Animator-.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 10/09/2001 Carl Stalling Transcript One of the great unsung heroes of Warner Brothers cartoons was composer, Carl Stalling. In the early 1920s, Stalling met Walt Disney at a theatre in Kansas City where Stalling was employed as a piano accompanist for silent films. At […]

Mickey Mouse Club Premiers

The Mickey Mouse Club marched into the consciousness of American children on October 3rd, 1955, when it first appeared on  national television, and millions of middle schoolers, myself included, tuned in.

Walt Disney Presents

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Disney-Presents.mp3 Author Elaine Needelman Air Date 10/26/1999 Disney Presents Transcript Tomorrow marks the anniversary of one of television’s most successful shows, the first prime-time t.v. show for both children and adults, the show that gave us t.v.’s first mini-series. Here’s Elaine Needelman to tell us about it. On October 27, […]