Production information
Air date: June 11, 1961
Season 7, Episode 31 of the series Disneyland
Directors: Robert Stevenson (Title Makers), David Swift (The Parent Trap), James Algar (Nature’s Half Acre)
Special Material by: Lowell S. Hawley
Writers: David Swift (The Parent Trap), Winston Hibler, Ted Sears (Nature’s Half Acre)
Producer: Walt Disney
Editor: Jonathan Palmer
Songs: Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman
Original Score composer: Paul Smith (Nature’s Half Acre)
Cast
Self: Tommy Sands
Self: Annette Funicello
Susan Evers: Hayley Mills
Sharon McKendrick: Hayley Mills
Maggie McKendrick: Maureen O’Hara
Mitch Evers: Brian Keith
Charles McKendrick: Charles Ruggles
Verbena: Una Merkel
Rev. Dr. Mosby: Leo G. Carroll
Vicky Robinson: Joanna Barnes
Host: Walt Disney
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Title and Ice
In an episode of the Disneyland television show, Walt Disney uses the elaborate stop-motion title sequence from The Parent Trap as a springboard to revisit title sequences from his earlier films. Naturally, the first—and most prominently featured—is the original title cel from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. However, this particular cel had actually been created just three years earlier, for the film’s 1958 reissue.
What better place to promote an upcoming release than a Disneyland episode? This one even includes a commercial for Snow White and the Three Stooges, the 20th Century Fox feature.
