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Mousecar
The Mousecar is an in-house award given by The Walt Disney Company for a variety of reasons, including service to the company as well as to the community as a whole. The award was first presented by Disney founder Walt Disney to his brother Roy O. Disney in 1947.Mousecars and Ducksters In 2005, Riley Thomson's Mousecar was auctioned for $5,358. In 2013 Bernie Cobb's Mousecar was auctioned for $8,531. Origin of the word "Mousecar" is a combination of the words "Oscar" and "Mouse" (as in ).List of recipients * |
Manuel Gonzales
Manuel Gonzales (March 3, 1913 – March 31, 1993) was a Spain, Spanish-American Disney comics artist. He worked on the Mickey Mouse (comic strip), ''Mickey Mouse'' comic strip from 1940 to 1981. Gonzales was born in Cabañas de Sayago, Province of Zamora, Zamora, Spain and died in Los Angeles. Biography Gonzales emigrated from Spain to the USA in 1918 via Ellis Island, and was employed at the List of assets owned by Disney#Studio Entertainment, Walt Disney Studios in September 1936, where he worked initially as an "in-betweener" on several short animated stories and on the motion picture ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', and also as an artist in the Publicity Department creating pencil art for publicity drawings and Good Housekeeping Disney children's pages. Later working in the comic strip department, Gonzales took over the illustrating of the Mickey Mouse (comic strip), ''Mickey Mouse'' comic strip's Sunday page from Floyd Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duckster
The Duckster is an in-house award given by The Walt Disney Company for a variety of reasons, including service to the company as well as to the community as a whole. The award was first presented by Disney founder Walt Disney in 1952. Susan Henning ( Hayley Mills' body double for '' The Parent Trap'') was presented with a Duckster by Walt Disney inscribed for "Best Unseen Performance by an Actress". Disney storyman and director Jack Hannah at some point obtained one of the unawarded extra statues from the studio; it was auctioned in 2005 for $4,813. That same year Martha Torge's Duckster was auctioned for $5,701. In 2015 the Duckster awarded to Eddie Fisher was auctioned for $1,565.44. In 2009 a Duckster was awarded at the D23 Expo to Jennifer Sleeper, the winner of a contest to create the official portrait of Donald Duck for his 75th birthday. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherman Brothers
The Sherman Brothers were an American songwriting duo that specialized in musical films, made up of Robert B. Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) and Richard M. Sherman (born June 12, 1928). Together they received various accolades including two Academy Awards, and three Grammy Awards. They received nominations for an Laurence Olivier Award, a BAFTA Award, and five Golden Globe Awards. In 1976 they received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and the National Medal of the Arts in 2008. The Sherman Brothers wrote more motion-picture musical song scores than any other songwriting team in film history. Their work includes the live action films '' The Parent Trap'' (1961), ''Mary Poppins'' (1964), ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' (1968), and ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'' (1971) and the animated films '' The Sword in the Stone'' (1963), ''The Jungle Book'' (1967), '' Charlotte's Web'' (1973), ''The Aristocats'' (1970), and ''The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'' (1977). Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Davis (animator)
Marc Fraser Davis (March 30, 1913 – January 12, 2000) was a prominent American artist and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films, and was revered for his knowledge and understanding of visual aesthetics. After his work on ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians'' he moved to Walt Disney Imagineering to work on rides for Disneyland and Walt Disney World before retiring in 1978. Walt Disney once said of Davis, "Marc can do story, he can do character, he can animate, he can design shows for me. All I have to do is tell him what I want and it's there! He's my Renaissance man." Early life Davis was born in Bakersfield, California, on March 30, 1913. The family moved a lot, so Davis was in 26 schools before he was in high school. As a child, schoolyard bullies were an impetus for Davis to start drawing. He found when he drew that the other kids wanted his art, and the bullies wouldn't beat him up. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Huemer
Richard Huemer (January 2, 1898 – November 30, 1979) was an American animator in the Golden Age of Animation. Career While as an artist-illustrator living in the Bronx, New York City, Huemer first began his career in animation at the Raoul Barré cartoon studio in 1916. He joined the Fleischer Studio in 1923 where he developed the Koko the Clown character. He redesigned the "Clown" for more efficient animation production and moved the Fleischer's away from their dependency upon the Rotoscope for fluid animation. Huemer created Ko-Ko's canine companion, Fitz. Most importantly, Huemer set the drawing style that gave the series its distinctive look. Later he moved to Hollywood and worked as an animator and director for the Charles Mintz studio creating the character Scrappy. He subsequently moved to the Disney Studio, where he remained for the duration of his career, except for a three-year hiatus from 1948–51 when he pioneered animated TV commercials and created with Paul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Gardner (broadcaster)
James Goldman (born May 17, 1948), known professionally as Jim Gardner, is an American retired news anchor. Early life and education Gardner was born in New York City and grew up on the Upper East Side in a Reform Jewish household. His father was Joseph Goldman, a professor and chairman of the ear, nose and throat department of Mount Sinai Medical Center. Through his father, he is the step-grandson of noted Jewish rabbi Mordecai Kaplan. He attended Ethical Culture Fieldston School. In 1970, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Columbia University. As a student, he was a play-by-play announcer for football and basketball, and reported on the Columbia University protests of 1968 for the university's radio station, WKCR-FM. Career In 1970, Gardner became a desk assistant, writer, and producer for 1010 WINS in New York City. In 1972, Gardner became a reporter for WFAS radio in White Plains, New York, and soon became news director. While not finding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmo Williams
James Elmo Williams (April 30, 1913 – November 25, 2015) was an American film and television editor, producer, director and executive. His work on the film ''High Noon'' (1952) received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. In 2006, Williams published ''Elmo Williams: A Hollywood Memoir''. Career Among the films that Williams edited are ''High Noon'' (1952), ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'' (1954) and '' The Vikings'' (1958). Williams was involved in the production of '' The Longest Day'' (1962) and ''Cleopatra'' (1963), and he was a producer of the film ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' (1970). Between 1971 and 1974, Williams was the Head of Production for 20th Century Fox. Williams edited the film ''Design for Death'' (1947), which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Williams won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on 1952's ''High Noon'' (directed by Fred Zinnemann and co-edited with Harry W. Gerstad, although he was subordinate to Gerstad), and was n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Feliz, Los Angeles
Los Feliz (, ; Spanish for "The Feliz amily, ) is a hillside neighborhood in the greater Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, abutting Hollywood and encompassing part of the Santa Monica Mountains. The neighborhood is named after the Feliz family of Californios who had owned the area since 1795, when José Vicente Feliz was granted Rancho Los Feliz. History Indigenous era Long before the Spanish settlers arrived to settle near the banks of the Los Angeles River, Native Americans were the only inhabitants. It is estimated that the first Native Americans came to the area approximately 10,000 years ago. The Native Americans established villages, throughout the countryside. One of these settlements was within the boundaries of what was to become Rancho Los Feliz. Archeological surveys have found evidence of a substantial rancheria that existed in the mouth of Fern Dell Canyon in Griffith Park. The traditional name of this village is not known, but the inhabitants were Tongva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stevenson (director)
Robert Edward StevensonRyall, Tom"Stevenson, Robert Edward (1905–1986)"''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, online edition, May 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2018. (31 March 1905 – 30 April 1986) was an English film screenwriter, director and actor. After directing a number of British films, including ''King Solomon's Mines'' (1937), he was contracted by David O. Selznick and moved to Hollywood, but was loaned to other studios, directing ''Jane Eyre'' (1943). He directed 19 films for The Walt Disney Company in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Stevenson is best remembered for directing the Julie Andrews musical ''Mary Poppins'' (1964), for which Andrews won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Stevenson was nominated for Best Director. His other Disney films include the first two Herbie films, ''The Love Bug'' (1968) and ''Herbie Rides Again'' (1974), as well as ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'' (1971). Three of his films featured English actor David Tomli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Wynn
Isaiah Edwin Leopold (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966), better known as Ed Wynn, was an American actor and comedian. He was noted for his ''Perfect Fool'' comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor.Obituary '' Variety'', June 22, 1966, page 71. Background Wynn was born Isaiah Edwin Leopold in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a Jewish family. His father, Joseph, a milliner, was born in Bohemia. His mother, Minnie Greenberg, of Romanian and Turkish ancestry, came from Istanbul. Wynn attended Central High School in Philadelphia until age 15. He ran away from home in his teens, worked as a hat salesman and as a utility boy, and eventually adapted his middle name "Edwin" into his new stage name, "Ed Wynn", to save his family the embarrassment of having a lowly comedian as a relative. Career Wynn began his career in vaudeville in 1903 and was a star of the ''Ziegfeld Follies'' starting in 1914. During ''The Follies of 1915'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In House
Outsourcing is an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity which otherwise is or could be carried out internally, i.e. in-house, and sometimes involves transferring employees and assets from one firm to another. The term ''outsourcing'', which came from the phrase ''outside resourcing'', originated no later than 1981. The concept, which ''The Economist'' says has "made its presence felt since the time of the Second World War", often involves the contracting of a business process (e.g., payroll processing, claims processing), operational, and/or non-core functions, such as manufacturing, facility management, call center/call center support. The practice of handing over control of public services to private enterprises (privatization), even if conducted on a limited, short-term basis, may also be described as outsourcing. Outsourcing includes both foreign and domestic contracting, and sometimes includes offshoring ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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