On this day 65 years ago (September 24, 1961), Disney introduced the “renowned scientist, lecturer, psychologist [and] world traveler,” Ludwig Von Drake.
The show reused animation from earlier Disneyland TV episodes, “Man and the Moon,” “Man in Space,” and “Mars and Beyond,” which first aired on December 4, 1957, two months after the launch of the world’s first artificial satellite.
With an Austrian accent provided by Paul Frees, Von Drake drew from Haber and Ley’s breadth of knowledge and von Braun’s expertise and personality.
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Von Braun, Haber, and Ley are also said to have influenced Disney, writer Bill Berg, and animator Milt Kahl when they decided on Von Drake’s name and character.
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On this day 65 years ago (September 24, 1961), Disney introduced the “renowned scientist, lecturer, psychologist [and] world traveler,” Ludwig Von Drake. A member of the Duck family (he is the “brilliant and eccentric” uncle of Donald Duck), Von Drake was “the outstanding genius of the century” (per Disney himself) who helped to explain scientific principles and technological concepts to the millions of people who tuned in every Sunday to watch Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color on NBC.
A few years later, after expertly (but often absent-mindedly) addressing topics such as how color television works, the health benefits of exercising, and the history of aviation, Von Drake dove into the topic for which he said he wrote the book on, in the February 10, 1963, episode “Inside Outer Space.”
As it turns out, Von Drake was not wrong—well, maybe not about the cost of his book, but about the part about being obsolete. The show reused animation from earlier Disneyland TV episodes, “Man and the Moon,” “Man in Space,” and “Mars and Beyond,” which first aired on December 4, 1957, two months after the launch of the world’s first artificial satellite.
Von Braun, Haber, and Ley are also said to have influenced Disney, writer Bill Berg, and animator Milt Kahl when they decided on Von Drake’s name and character. With an Austrian accent provided by Paul Frees, Von Drake drew from Haber and Ley’s breadth of knowledge and von Braun’s expertise and personality.
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