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 ...

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 ...

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 ...