The Art of Disney: Celebration
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Yesterday was the Character Stamp “First Day of Issue” Product Release & Signing Event of The Art of Disney: Celebration. The event was held at Disneyana Shop, Main Street, U.S.A., DISNEYLAND park. As with last years Art of Disney: Friendship stamps, this is four 37-cent commemorative stamps. Click here for the press release.
This years feature includes Mickey and Pluto, Alice and the Mad Hatter, Ariel and Flounder, and Snow White and Dopey. The character stamps reflect the ways we celebrate through music, food, parties, and dance.
It is interesting to note the Birthday cake with Mickey and Pluto, as this is Pluto’s 75th birthday year. Pluto first appeared in Disney’s 1930’s “The Chain Gang”. Later that year he appeared as Minnie Mouse’s dog Rover in “The Picnic”. It wasn’t until 1931 in “TheMoose Hunt” that Pluto finally became Mickey’s faithful pet dog. Pluto also starred in 48 of his own cartoons.
1951 marks the releases of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland. A 50-piece orchestra provided the music for the movie score. The film is composed of more than 350,000 drawings and paintings. From 1949 to 1951, more than 750 artists worked on the movie development. Eight hundred gallons of special paint, weighing nearly five tons, were required to paint the animated frames. More than 1,000 different shades of watercolor were used to capture the mood of Wonderland.
The Little Mermaid was Disney’s first animated feature, since Sleeping Beauty, three decades. The film probably had more effects than any animated film since “Fantasia;” nearly 80% of the film required some kind of effects work — storms at sea, billowing sails, schools of fish, shadows, raging fire, explosions, magic pixie dust, surface reflections, underwater distortions, ripples, and bubbles.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs made it’s debut in 1937. Shortly after it’s release, the film was the highest-grossing motion picture of all time, until it was finally surpassed by “Gone With the Wind” a couple of years later. The original worldwide gross was $8.5 million, a figure that would translate into several hundreds of millions of dollars today.
