Ollie was a steam train enthusiast and in 1949 built a small model railway in his yard he named the La Cañada Valley Railway. Here’s where La Cañada figures in Disneyland history: Walt Disney visited ...

Frank Thomas, one of Walt Disney ‘ s trusted ” Nine Old Men ” who animated two dogs romantically nibbling a single strand of spaghetti in the 1955 Disney film ” Lady and the Tramp, ” has died. He was ...

The Nine Old Men, a name Walt Disney gave to his core animators in the 1950s, were undeniably brilliant. Still, I’ve always felt that the artists who defined Disney’s style who were no longer at the ...

Pioneering animator Ollie Johnston has died at the age of 95. The last of the team of animators dubbed the "nine old men" by Walt Disney, well before any had become old men, Johnston worked as a ...