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