The Walt Disney Family Museum celebrates the 2013 Academy Awards season with recently compiled fun facts about the legendary Oscars® and Walt Disney. Twenty-six of these famed Awards are on view at the Museum including the celebrated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Oscar which is on exhibit through April 14, 2013 in the special exhibition, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic.
Museum Registrar and Curatorial Assistant Anel Muller gets us a little closer to our Between Frames: The Magic Behind Stop Motion Animation exhibition. Find out how she curated the show.
If Mickey Mouse is the world’s most famous mouse, Minnie is surely the world's second-most famous. People have often speculated as to just what kind of relationship Mickey and Minnie share...
On Saturday, February 16, San Francisco audiences will have the chance to relive young Walt’s experience when The Walt Disney Family Museum joins forces with the San Francisco Silent Film Festival to present Snow White (1916) at the Castro Theater.
Each month in our Unusual Suspects series, we will examine one character from a classic film, who may not shine as brightly as the main characters, but still plays a distinct role in the story. As we celebrated the Chinese New Year this past weekend, we take a look at one of the most noteworthy Disney sssnakes.
Each month, we ask a museum staff member to answer five questions about their position at The Walt Disney Family Museum, their fondest Disney memories, and other personal tidbits. If you live in San Francisco, you might have seen our month's "What Do YOU Do?" subject's work lining the streets, and zooming around on the side of public transportation. So today, we're asking Nancy Yee-Chan... what do YOU do??
On February 6 we celebrate the anniversary of the birthday of a man who is sometimes overlooked in accounts of Disney history: Elias Disney, Walt’s and Roy’s father. Disney and film historian J.B. Kaufman gives us a closer look at the man who played a very important role in Walt's life.
Each month in our new Unusual Suspects series, we will examine one character from our featured film of the month who may not shine as brightly as the main characters, but still plays a distinct role in the story. Disney Historian Paula Sigman Lowery has written this piece exclusively for Storyboard.
Walt Disney and the Story Department tweaked stories to make them as strong as possible for an animated film and its audience. Sleeping Beauty is no different, drawing influence from French writer Charles Perrault's story with the same name. Here are just a few differences we found between Disney’s Sleeping Beauty and the Grimm fairy tale on which it is partially based: “Briar Rose.”
Huell Howser, the host of TV series "California's Gold", passed away on January 7 earlier this year from prostate cancer. We were so saddened to have read this in the LA Times...