All About Disney Channel

For this blog post, I decided to watch a documentary. I chose to watch the documentary Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood and Corporate Power, which is a documentary that analyzes and critiques the impact of the Disney corporation. The documentary talks about their animated canon, business practice, and how Disney enticed their consumers with their instantly-recognizable products. In this documentary, there are also psychologists, educators, and everyday people getting interviewed for this documentary. This documentary helped me learn about each Disney movie about the innocence and fun of what the movies disguise, the corporate power, global culture, and the documentary also has interviews from many different professional fields. While I watch, I want to see if I can now point out the movie's different cultures. 

When watching Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood and Corporate Power, the documentary unrevealed abuse, violence, racism, and stereotypes in everyday childrens movies. Normally, when Disney makes movies, they always have a lesson, moral, or message in their movie to take away from watching. In some cases– like Peter Pan, Tarzan, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, and many more movies– they make their villains, animals or people different ethnicities. The documentary made me realize that the stigmas they reinforced by characterizing their villains in such ways, which further feeds into untrue stereotypes that society continues to battle against . 

In Peter Pan in the scene when Peter, Wendy, John, and Michael are with the Indian/Native American tribe they start to dance like how the tribe is dancing when looking at it now children think that it's okay to dance like that in front of Indian/Native American. Indian/ Native people feel like they are getting made fun of because of the scene in the movie. 

In the case of Tarzan and Lion King they make their villains or animals a different ethnicity to make fun of the culture of ethnicity. In the movie Tarzan it takes place in an African jungle but the main character is white. The movie depicts that the gorillas in the movie represent a “black person.” Also in the case of the Lion King the documentary says the hyenas are black because they talk like street talk which made them think they were African Americans. When the documentary was interviewing children by asking them if they have ever seen a black person in a disney movie. All of the children gave the response of no because they aren't any. 

By watching this documentary I realized more that these older disney movies cover up the ethnicities of our world. Compared to disney movies now they are more cultured than back then of course. 

Hi Disney Channel watchers. For my primary source, I decided to watch the first ever Disney show called, The Disneyland Story. The Disneyland Story first aired in the USA on October 27, 1954 on ABC network. The Disneyland Story was directed by Robert Florey. 

The show is based on the theme park of Disneyland when it was first getting built. While watching the show, it was very intriguing, and kept the audience engaged by implementing real life scenarios and characters to the show– essentially feeling like you are witnessing two shows in one.

Walt Disney introduced Disneyland in California. Disney showed off the scale model of what Disneyland California’s Main Street will look like by also introducing the four parks. The four parks will include The Frontierland, Tomorrowland, Adventureland, and Fantasyland.  

While watching the show takes you behind the scenes of the upcoming Davy Crockett miniseries with Fess Parker singing “The Ballad of Davy Crockett.” It also shows a portion of Fantasyland with the features of Peter Pan, Alice In Wonderland, Cinderella. The rest of the episode is a Fantasyland episode of the history of Disney’s first success with the cartoon of Mickey Mouse. For the show the cast mostly played themselves if they were in an episode. 

Since the show first premiered in 1954, The Disneyland Story was in black and white. Compared to the TV shows from 1954 to current day,  they changed the picture quality, better sound, and other things that changed regarding the overall condition of each show. When watching I realized how different the show is compared to shows now because the industry changed. Over the years, Disney changed its culture by promoting creativity, positive morals, and overall making their viewers feel like they are in a different world watching Disney. 

Demi Lovato was one of the biggest stars on Disney Channel. Lovato starred in Camp Rock 1 and 2, Sonny with a Chance, Princess Protection Program, and Disney Channel Games. She started her singing career by being in these musical television films. 

In 2009, Demi went on tour with the Jonas Brothers. While on tour, Lovato got into an altercation with a dancer. The fight made headlines, and they sought treatment after the incident. According to People magazine, the singer sought help for "emotional and physical issues." Some of these issues were later revealed to be an eating disorder and self-harm through cutting. After battling her eating disorder, she decided not to return to Sonny with a Chance.  

Disney Channel made Demi and their other stars feel to remain slim and not change how they looked while acting for Disney. Demi tells Bustle, “I came out of the experience with the choice of talking about my struggles or my journey with the possibility of helping people, or keeping my mouth shut and going back to Disney Channel. And I was like that doesn't feel authentic to me. So I chose to tell my story.” 

Disney had Demi between the network, touring, theme parks and film which entailed her to endure an 80 hour work week. While growing up, Demi was always in front of the camera. Since she was always busy, she did not have time for herself– which was detrimental to her mental wellness and self esteem. 

Since leaving Disney, Demi has still struggled with an eating disorder, a drug addiction and mental health. In 2018, Demi overdosed from reliving some of her problems she had while she had her eating disorder. 

During the process of the Library Scavenger Hunt, I have found secondary sources that I can use. I picked to do challenge one, four, and five.

For challenge one, I had to find a physical book to utilize throughout my research process. For the book, I first had to search Disneyland– the TV show– which was difficult at first because I had to continuously rephrase my wording in order to find exactly what I was looking for. After finding the book I went to the front desk to ask where exactly the book was, where they pointed me in the right direction of where to find the book. After looking at the E section I found the book. I picked out the book “As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s” written by Karal Ann Marling.  This book has a chapter all about Disneyland, the TV show which is the topic I am using for my primary source. 

Challenge four was the hardest to complete. It took me a while to find another book regarding my topic. For this book, I found Disney Stories: Getting to Digital which can help me talk about the different approaches Disney has used since their first movie to their most recent one. 

The last challenge I picked was to find challenge five which came the easiest for me by having to find a movie/ documentary. I went to the Kanopy where I found Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood and Corporate Power. This documentary can help me learn about each disney movie about the innocence and fun of what the movies disguise, the corporate power, global culture, and the documentary also has interviews from many different professional fields. 

Have you ever wondered how Miley Steward kept her secret of being Hannah Montana? In this post, we are going to uncover all of Hannah Montana Theories. 

Was Hannah Montana all a dream for Miley? 

In the last episode of Hannah Montana, Miley appeared as a 10 year old girl who was playing with her dolls pretending to be a pop star. This theory was never announced if it was Miley just pretending or if it was real. 

Did Miley’s father, Robbie Ray, hire Lily and Oliver to be friends with Miley?

While she was a normal kid in school, this theory is fake because Lily and Oliver were just students who also went to the same school as Miley. Miley told Lily and Oliver that she was Hannah Montana in later episodes after being best friends with them for years.

Why did no one think Miley was Hannah Montana? 

In the year 2023, the Board of The Walt Disney Company is primarily run by Alan Bergman and Dana Walden as Co Chairmans of Disney Entertainment. Alan Bergman and Dana Walden oversee all of Disney’s entertainment media and content business globally, which includes Disney’s streaming business. 

Alan Bergman leads Disney’s filmmaking studios that produce a high quality detailed storytelling for theatrical and streaming release including Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, and Searchlight Pictures. He also oversees the Disney Music Group and Disney Theatrical Group which is part of the Disney shows on Broadway around the world. Bergman has served in senior leadership roles at The Walt Disney Studios since 2001, most recently as Chairman from 2020 to 2023 and as Co-Chairman from 2019 to 2020. Bergman has been President of the Studios division since 2005 and Disney has released six films that have passed $2 billion. 

You may be wondering what the most popular show from Disney Channel is? Well, in this post, we are going to find out what that show actually is. When researching this question, I found out that Wizards of Waverly Place is the most popular show that ever aired on Disney Channel. 

Disney Channel is an American based satellite and basic cable network owned by Walt Disney Television. Dating back to the 1950s, the first Disney television broadcast came to life to help promote Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951). Walt’s vision grew very quickly by partnering up with the widely recognized ABC Television Network. Once Disney signed the agreement, he developed two series for the new network: Disneyland and Mickey Mouse Club.