Post by Dave on May 10, 2014 10:43:56 GMT -5
On its initial release Snow White brought in over $8.5 million – an unbelievable feat when you consider that the average admission price at that time was 25 cents, and children, who made up the bulk of the audience, paid only a dime.
1977: Film, television and theater actress Joan Crawford passed away in New York City at age 72. Known for her appearances in such features as Grand Hotel and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, in 1955 she became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company, through her marriage to company president Alfred Steele. After his death in 1959, Crawford was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors. In 1963, it was Crawford who suggested that Pepsi contact Walt Disney to build a "little boat ride" for the 1964/65 World's Fair in New York. Today, that little boat ride is known as ‘It’s A Small World’.
Toy Story Midway Mania! is one of the most technologically sophisticated attractions yet developed by Walt Disney Imagineering ... costing an estimated $80 million to design and build. It marks the company's first use of industrial ethernet for a ride's control system. (Industrial Ethernet or IE refers to the use of the Ethernet family of computer network technologies in an industrial environment, for automation and process control.) Many of the parts for the attraction's control system actually came from two of Disney's corporate sponsors, Siemens AG and Hewlett-Packard.
Cinderella's Golden Carousel (located in Disney World) came from Olympic Park, a defunct New Jersey amusement park. Disney Imagineers rescued the carousel from destruction and replaced many of its wooden horses with ones constructed of fiberglass. No two horses are alike.