Tag: Animation

• This Day in Pop Culture for November 18

  

  Today is Mickey Mouse’s birthday and Hollywood’s most successful version of Ben Hur was released on this day in 1959.

  Jeffrey Totey

  November 18, 2020

  This Day in Pop Culture

  Animation, Ben Hur, Mickey Mouse, November 18, Oliver and Company, telephone

• Disney’s Brilliant Campaign to Support Make-A-Wish

  

  From now until January 31, 2021, ShopDisney.com will give 25% of the sale price of every vintage Mickey Mouse purchased to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

  Jeffrey Totey

  November 17, 2020

  Pop Culture Finds

  Animation, Disney, Make-A-Wish, Mickey Mouse

• This Day in Pop Culture for November 10

  

  It was on this day in 1969 when children everywhere began asking “Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street.”

  Jeffrey Totey

  November 10, 2020

  This Day in Pop Culture

  Animation, Bill Gates, Micorosoft, November 10, Sesame Street, Walt Disney, Windows

• This Day in Pop Culture for October 23

  

  It was on this day that an elephant learned how to fly in 1941.

  Jeffrey Totey

  October 23, 2020

  This Day in Pop Culture

  Animation, Boston Public, Dumbo, Mole Day, October 23, Walt Disney

• Augh! Peanuts Moves to Apple TV+

  

  This year will mark the first time that It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown will not air on broadcast TV and this makes me sad.

  Jeffrey Totey

  October 21, 2020

  Music, TV

  ABC, Animation, Apple TV+, CBS, Charles Schulz, Charlie Brown, Peanuts, The Peanuts Movie, Vince Guaraldi

• This Day in Pop Culture for October 18

  

  Walt Disney’s 19th animated film was released on this day in 1967. Its sequel didn’t come until 2003.

  Jeffrey Totey

  October 18, 2020

  This Day in Pop Culture

  Animation, Disney, October 18, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book