WALT DISNEY’S 75TH ANNIVERSARY

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, October 10th, 1998

SCREEN GUILD PLAYERS (12-25-44) “Pinocchio” starring Fanny Brice and Hanley Stafford as Baby Snooks and Daddy in a radio version of Walt Disney’s 1940 animated fea­ture. Cast includes Arthur Q. Brian as Jiminy Cricket and Lou Merrill as Stromboli. AFRS re­broadcast. (25:37)

TEX AND JINX SHOW (11-4-47) Excerpt. Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, husband and wife morning radio team in New York, present a transcribed interview with Walt Disney who talks about his animated films. NBC. (12:11)

LUX RADIO THEATRE (12-26-38) “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” a radio version of the classic 1937 Disney film, features many of the voices used in the original feature. Host Cecil B. DeMille chats with Walt Disney. This is the first Hollywood Lux broadcast without a studio audience. Lux Soap, CBS. (24:51; 12:23; 20:00)

FRED WARING SHOW (12-5-47) Excerpt. On Walt Disney’s (46th) birthday, Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians offer a salute to Disney films, including “Fun and Fancy Free,” “Saludos Amigos,” “Song of the South” and “Pinocchio.” Green Giant Foods, NBC. (17:23)

CHARLIE MC CARTHY SHOW (9-21-47) With the forthcoming (September 21, 1947) World Premiere of Walt Disney’s “Fun and Fancy Free,” starring Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCar­thy and Mortimer Snerd, the gang offers a pre­view of the movie as they re-create the “Jack and the Beanstalk” part of the film. Guests are Walt Disney and Donald Duck (voice of Clarence Nash). Royal Pudding, Chase and Sanborn Coffee, NBC. (30:00)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST is animation historian and Nostalgia Digest contributor CURTIS L. KATZ who will talk about the films of Walt Disney.