http://www.thankyouwaltdisney.org Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:50:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mark your calendars for Thank You Walt Disney’s next Fundraising event. On Saturday, October 16, 2010, beginning at 5:00 pm, we will show the movie, “Frank and Ollie.” After the movie, we will have a reception with food, drinks and both a live-auction and silent auction featuring items donated from the Walt Disney Studios. ... http://www.thankyouwaltdisney.org/?p=459 Tickets are now on sale for our May 15th event, "Dinner With Goofy," featuring our special guest, Bill Farmer. For years, Bill Farmer has been the official voice of Goofy, Pluto, Horace Horsecollar, and many others. For one night only, you can share a special evening with Bill. He'll talk ... http://www.thankyouwaltdisney.org/?p=405 Thank You Walt Disney, Inc., would like to thank all of the attendees of our premiere screening of “Walt & El Groupo: The  Untold Adventures”.  It was a cold dreary night outside, but there was plenty of excitement inside the theater with our special guest speaker, JB Kaufman.  The movie ... http://www.thankyouwaltdisney.org/?p=334 Roy Edward Disney 1930 - 2009 If the Walt Disney Studios were to have a real-life Jiminy Cricket, it would have been vice chairman Roy Edward Disney, son of Roy O. Disney and nephew of Walt Disney, the Company's founders. Besides being its conscience, Roy had also been called the "soul of the Company" ... http://www.thankyouwaltdisney.org/?p=276 “Thank You Walt Disney” invites you to a special Premiere showing of: “Walt & El Grupo” Friday, January 15, 2010 Screenland Theater Doors at 6:30 Pre-movie talk by J.B. Kaufman Movie Begins Promptly at 7:30 J.B. Kaufman Thank You Walt Disney, Inc. is proud to announce that J.B. Kaufman will be our special guest at the Kansas City ... http://www.thankyouwaltdisney.org/?p=283 1918 - 2009 At only 4-years-old, Virginia Davis lit up the screen in Walt Disney’s “Alice’s Wonderland.” This was the first in a series of “Alice Comedies” that Disney made while in Kansas City and California. When Walt moved to California to continue the series, he insisted that Virginia and her ... http://www.thankyouwaltdisney.org/?p=205 A RARE TREAT FROM A DISNEY LEGEND On Saturday, May 30, 2009, over 100 Walt Disney fans gathered at the Screenland Theatre Building to celebrate the progress made thus far in the effort to preserve and restore the site of Walt Disney’s first professional film studio in Kansas City, Missouri. Our ... http://www.thankyouwaltdisney.org/?p=200 NEW MURAL ADDED TO BUILDING! On a typical Saturday morning, four unknown artists gathered together at the corner of 31st and Forrest to create some cartoon characters. While this story could have started 87 years ago with some young men named Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising, this ... http://www.thankyouwaltdisney.org/?p=191