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Years of Ears continues it’s ‘This Day in Disney’ Feature, Sharing Historic Disney Events which occurred on July 24th.
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1985:
Walt Disney’s 25th animated feature The Black Cauldron (based loosely on the first two volumes of Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain) premieres in U.S. theaters. A young boy and a bunch of misfit friends embark on a quest to find a dark magic item of ultimate power before a diabolical tyrant can. The film was 12 years in the making, at a cost of over $25 million. It is the first Disney animated movie to get a PG rating and the first animated movie to ever use 3-D graphics. The Black Cauldron is also the first animated Disney film made in cooperation with Silver Screen Partners II.
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1989:
The Town Square Café, opened since 1971 and located on Disney World’s Main Street USA, re-opens as Tony’s Town Square Café. Originally an open-air dining courtyard, the revised eatery is fully enclosed and themed after the proprietor of the Italian restaurant in Disney’s 1955 film Lady and the Tramp.
