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The Whole Picture: Davey Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
American legends were nothing new for Walt Disney and his team of film makers. They had dabbled in American folklore with characters like the tales of Johnny Appleseed and Pecos Bill from the 1948 film...
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The Whole Picture: The Great Locomotive Chase
During the 1950s, Walt truly showed his love of other things beyond animation. Walt’s love for history came into account on the Disneyland television show on ABC when Davy Crockett became a huge hit....
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The Whole Picture: Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Davy Crockett has to be one of the 1950s greatest pop icons. Coon skin hats and toy guns were smash hits with kids. the “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” song became a radio hit, and the Disneyland...
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The Whole Picture: Westward Ho The Wagons!
In case you haven’t read my last few Whole Picture articles, Fess Parker was on top of the world in the mid-1950s. Starring as Davy Crockett, Fess Parker had been part of the biggest culture craze of...
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The Whole Picture: Johnny Tremain
The mid-1950s have been filled with historical representations in Disney films. Thanks to the Disneyland television show, which first brought us Davy Crockett, Walt and his company moved forward with...
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The Whole Picture: Old Yeller
The mid-1950s were chalk full of western films from Disney, mostly starring Fess Parker who had made the role Davy Crockett the most famous character in television and film. The western film genre in...
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