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Disney's American Legends
''Disney's American Legends'' is a 2001 American animated anthology film narrated by James Earl Jones. It is a compilation of four previously released animated musical shorts from Walt Disney Animation Studios based on American tall tales. The film features ''The Brave Engineer'' (1950), ''Paul Bunyan'' (1958), '' John Henry'' (2000), and '' The Legend of Johnny Appleseed'' which is a segment from the 1948 film ''Melody Time''. The film's new short is based on John Henry and stars Alfre Woodard and Tim Hodge. ''John Henry'' was later released on Blu-ray in ''Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection'' on August 18, 2015. Content '' John Henry'' (2000) Based on the story of John Henry, a mighty railroad worker who raced against a steam drill. * production company: Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida * Director: Mark Henn * Producer: Steven Keller * Writer: Broose Johnson, Tim Hodge, Shirley Pierce * Music: Score by Stephen James Taylor, original songs by Gary Hines a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lara Shapiro
Lara may refer to: Places * Lara (state), a state in Venezuela *Electoral district of Lara, an electoral district in Victoria, Australia * Lara, Antalya, an urban district in Turkey * Lara, Victoria, a township in Australia * Lara de los Infantes, a place in Spain * LARA, the airport code for Jacinto Lara International Airport, in Barquisimeto, Venezuela Personal name * Lara (mythology), a naiad nymph, daughter of the river Almo in Ovid's ''Fasti'' * Lara (name), can be a given name or a surname in several languages Art, entertainment, and media * Lara (film), ''Lara'' (film), 2019 film * Lara (character), the biological mother of the comic book character Superman * Lara (novel), 1997 novel-in-verse by Bernardine Evaristo * Lara & Reyes, an instrumental band * ''Lara's Theme'', the generic name given to a leitmotif written for the film ''Doctor Zhivago'' (1965) by composer Maurice Jarre * ''Lara, A Tale'' (1814), a poem by Lord Byron Computing and technology * LaRa, a spac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brave Engineer
''The Brave Engineer'' is a 1950 Walt Disney-produced animated short film, based on the exploits of legendary railroad engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones. It is narrated by comic Jerry Colonna and is a comedically madcap fanciful re-telling of the story related in the Wallace Saunders ballad, later made famous by Eddie Newton and T. Lawrence Seibert. It was also released fifty years after Jones was killed. This short has appeared on many television programs and specials such as ''Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color'' (1954), ''The Mouse Factory'' (1972), ''Good Morning, Mickey!'' (1983), '' Walt Disney Cartoon Classics'' (1983), '' DTV'' (1984), ''American Folk Heroes'' (1985), ''Disney's Sing Along Songs'' (1986), ''Disney's Rootin' Tootin' Roundup'' (1990), ''Mickey's Mouse Tracks'' (1992), ''Donald's Quack Attack'' (1992), ''Sing Me a Story with Belle'' (1995), '' The Ink and Paint Club'' (1997), ''Walt Disney Treasures'' (2001), and ''Disney's American Legends'' (2001). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nurseryman
A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to a desired size. Mostly the plants concerned are for gardening, forestry or conservation biology, rather than agriculture. They include retail nurseries, which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries, which sell only to businesses such as other nurseries and to commercial gardeners, and private nurseries, which supply the needs of institutions or private estates. Some will also work in plant breeding. A nurseryman is a person who owns or works in a nursery. Some nurseries specialize in certain areas, which may include: propagation and the selling of small or bare root plants to other nurseries, growing out plant materials to a saleable size, or retail sales. Nurseries may also specialize in one type of plant: e.g., groundcovers, shade plants, or rock garden plants. Some produce bulk stock, whether seedlings or grafted, of particular varieties for purposes such as fruit trees for orchards, or timber tree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Appleseed
John Chapman (September 26, 1774March 18, 1845), better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Ontario, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples. He was also a missionary for The New Church (Swedenborgian) and the inspiration for many museums and historical sites such as the Johnny Appleseed Museum in Urbana, Ohio. Family Chapman was born on September 26, 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts, the second child of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Chapman (née Simonds, married February 8, 1770). His birthplace has a granite marker, and the street is now called ''Johnny Appleseed Lane''. Chapman's mother, Elizabeth, died in 1776, shortly after giving birth to a second son, Nathaniel Jr., who died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sounds Of Blackness
Sounds of Blackness is a vocal and instrumental ensemble from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota who perform music from several genres music including gospel, R&B, soul, and jazz. The group scored several hits on the ''Billboard'' R&B and Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts in the 1990s. Cynthia Johnson of Lipps Inc. and Ann Nesby are the group's most prominent alumni. History Origins The group was founded in 1969 by Russell Knighton at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the group was called the Macalester College Black Voices. It was in 1971 when current director Gary Hines took leadership over the ensemble, and the group name was officially changed to Sounds of Blackness. The chief lead singer of the group was Ann Nesby until 1995 when Nesby left the group to pursue a solo career. The group continues to perform internationally. The group performed the original songs for the 2000 Disney animated short ''John Henry'' (based on the folklore character) as part of Disney' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen James Taylor
Stephen James Taylor (born 28 September 1954) is an American composer best known for his film and TV scores with four Emmy nominations, two Annie nominations, and a DVD-X Award on "Best Original Score (for a DVD Premiere Movie) to date ('05). Family background Stephen James Taylor was born in Los Angeles, the middle of five children to James Brainard and Jane Carolyn (Johnson) Taylor. His parents were both educators. His father was a math teacher who became one of the first Black principals in the Los Angeles Unified School District. His mother taught Spanish in secondary school and in Adult Education classes. She was also an accomplished pianist, organist, and vocal coach. Taylor's uncle (Jane's brother) was Tommy Johnson a "first call" studio musician who played tuba on over 2,000 recordings including the soundtrack to ''Jaws''. Unusual notes One of the ways he achieves his sound is by working with a larger palette of notes rather than those allowed on conventional instrume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Henn
Mark Alan Henn (born April 6, 1958) is an American animator and film director. His contributions to animation have included several Walt Disney Animation Studios leading or title characters, most notably heroines. His work includes Ariel in ''The Little Mermaid'', Belle in ''Beauty and the Beast'', Jasmine in ''Aladdin'', Young Simba in ''The Lion King'', the title character in ''Mulan'', and Tiana in ''The Princess and the Frog''. Additionally he directed the short film '' John Henry''. Early life Henn grew up in Ohio. In 1978, Henn was accepted into the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied under Disney animators such as Jack Hannah and T. Hee. Fellow students included Joe Ranft, Mark Dindal and John Lasseter. Career Henn joined the Disney studio in 1980 and began work as an inbetweener for Glen Keane on ''The Fox and the Hound''. According to Henn, Keane was finishing the climactic bear fight scene and Henn worked with him on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animation Studios Owned By The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company has owned and operated several animation studios since the company's founding on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio; the current Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California is the company's flagship feature animation studio and claims heritage from this original studio. Adding to the growth of the company and its motion picture studio division the Walt Disney Studios, several other animation studios were added through acquisitions and through openings of satellite studios outside the United States. These expanded the company's animation output into television, direct-to-video, and digital releases, in addition to its primary feature animation releases. Currently Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Lucasfilm Animation (through Lucasfilm) and 20th Century Studios's animation division are parts of the Walt Disney Studios unit. This article does not include other animation studios whose films were r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yahoo! Movies
Yahoo! Movies (formerly Upcoming Movies), provided by the Yahoo! network, is home to a large collection of information on movies, past and new releases, trailers and clips, box office information, and showtimes and movie theater information. Yahoo! Movies also includes red carpet photos, actor galleries, and production stills. Users can read critic's reviews, write and read other user reviews, get personalized movie recommendations, purchase movie tickets online, and create and view other user's lists of their favorite movies. Special coverage Yahoo! Movies devotes special coverage to the Academy Awards with a special Oscars site. The Oscars site includes articles, show coverage, a list of the night's big winners, photos, videos, and polls. From 2002 to 2007, Yahoo! Movies was the home of Greg's Previews of Upcoming Movies, an enhanced version of Upcomingmovies.com, written by its creator, Greg Dean Schmitz. Yahoo! Movies also releases special guides, such as the Summer Movie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blu-ray
The Blu-ray Disc (BD), often known simply as Blu-ray, is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released on June 20, 2006 worldwide. It is designed to supersede the DVD format, and capable of storing several hours of high-definition video (HDTV 720p and 1080p). The main application of Blu-ray is as a medium for video material such as feature films and for the physical distribution of video games for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The name "Blu-ray" refers to the blue laser (which is actually a violet laser) used to read the disc, which allows information to be stored at a greater density than is possible with the longer-wavelength red laser used for DVDs. The polycarbonate disc is in diameter and thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Conventional or pre-BD-XL Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual-layer discs (50 GB) being the industry standard for feature-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry (folklore)
John Henry is an American folk hero. An African American, he is said to have worked as a "steel-driving man"—a man tasked with hammering a steel drill into rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel. The story of John Henry is told in a classic blues folk song, which exists in many versions, and has been the subject of numerous stories, plays, books, and novels. Legend According to legend, John Henry's prowess as a steel driver was measured in a race against a steam-powered rock drilling machine, a race that he won only to die in victory with a hammer in hand as his heart gave out from stress. Various locations, including Big Bend Tunnel in West Virginia, Lewis Tunnel in Virginia, and Coosa Mountain Tunnel in Alabama, have been suggested as the site of the contest. The contest involved John Henry as the hammerman working in partnership with a shaker, who would hold a chisel-like drill against mountain rock, while the hammerman st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melody Time
''Melody Time'' is a 1948 American live-action/animated musical film produced by Walt Disney. The tenth Disney animated feature film, it was released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on May 27, 1948. Made up of seven segments set to popular music and folk music, the film is, like ''Make Mine Music'' before it, the popular music version of ''Fantasia''. ''Melody Time'', while not meeting the artistic accomplishments of ''Fantasia'', was mildly successful. It is the fifth Disney package film following ''Saludos Amigos'', ''The Three Caballeros'', ''Make Mine Music'', and ''Fun and Fancy Free''. Vignettes According to Disney, the film's plot is as follows: "In the grand tradition of Disney's greatest musical classics, such as FANTASIA, MELODY TIME features seven classic stories, each enhanced with high-spirited music and unforgettable characters... feast for the eyes and ears ull ofwit and charm...a delightful Disney classic with something for everyone". Rose Pelswick, in a 1948 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
