Walt Disney "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937), "Pinocchio", "Fantasia" (both 1940), "Dumbo" (1941), and "Bambi" (1942), furthered the development of animated film. New animated and live-action films followed after World War II, including the critically successful "Cinderella" (1950) and "Mary Poppins" (1964), the latter of which received five Academy Awards. In the 1950s, Disney expanded into the amusement park industry, and in 1955 he opened Disneyland. To fund the project he diversified into television programs, such as "Walt Disney's Disneyland" and "The Mickey Mouse Club"; he was also involved in planning the 1959 Moscow Fair, the 1960 Winter Olympics, and
I Was a Teenage Werewolf Gen. Kirk on the short-run TV series "The Time Tunnel". Although today the film is largely regarded as a source of "camp" humor, and while at the time of release the idea of an adult human turning into a beast was nothing new, the idea of a "teenager" doing just that in a movie was considered avant-garde—and even shocking—in 1957. "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" likely paved the way for Walt Disney to do his version of a Felix Salten shapeshifting novel, "The Hound of Florence". Featuring Disney favorite Tommy Kirk as the hapless teenager, and A-lister Fred MacMurray as