Music Behind the Magic: Artifacts
Disney: The Music Behind the Magic
Artifact Highlights
ANIMATION
Composer Carl Stalling’s Original Score for
Steamboat Willie, 1928 (the first Mickey Mouse cartoon)
Mark Strand Theater Program for the debut of Mickey
Mouse cartoon, The Opry House, 1929
Mickey Mouse Old Maid Card Game, circa 1930s
Mickey Mouse Ingersoll clock, circa 1930s
Frank Churchill’s score, with cartoon notes for
Three Little Pigs, 1933
Preliminary sketch of Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs
Original story sketch of Pinocchio, 1939
Crank device with four glass milk bottles used to
create the sound of Mickey’s car engine
Handwritten score for “A Whole New World,�? Aladdin,
1992
THE SHERMAN BROTHERS & MARY POPPINS
"Sticks, Paper and Strings" original song copy, by
Richard and Robert Sherman, 1964
Jackets worn by Dick Van Dyke and Matthew Garber in
Mary Poppins’ jolly holiday scene, 1964
TELEVISION
Disneyland's Official Davy Crockett Indian Scouting
Board Game, circa 1954
Red velvet robe and white muff worn by Annette
Funicello as Mary Contrary in the closing scene of Babes in Toyland,
1960
Darlene Gillespie's Mickey Mouse Club sweater, 1955
WALT DISNEY RECORDS
Record jacket for Walt Disney Takes You to
Disneyland, 1956, the first
album to be produced and distributed entirely by the Disneyland Records staff.
Billboard Top LP's chart
for the week ending June 19, 1965, with Mary Poppins at number one
after 38 weeks on the chart
THEME PARKS
Audio-Animatronics® parrot, José, one of the four hosts
featured in Disneyland’s Enchanted Tiki Room
Watercolor by Marc Davis for
The Haunted Mansion
BROADWAY
Belle’s peasant dress from the Broadway production of
Beauty and the Beast, 1994
Mufasa and Sarabi cotumes from the Broadway production
of The Lion King, 1994
THE DISNEY CHANNEL & RADIO DISNEY
High School Musical
spreadsheet dated 05/13/2005 with handwritten notations in red ink and pink
highlighter indicating planned songs and songwriters
Hilary Duff concert ticket for her May 16, 2004,
performance at the House of Blues, Los Angeles, presented by Radio Disney
