The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

You have a deeper, wiser, loving self that you can always ask for help.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film

I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.