1970

January 10

• In Florida, Disney opens the Preview Center for Walt Disney World. [228.399]

January 15

• The Legacy of Walt Disney display opens on Main Street, U.S.A. at Disneyland. [9] [26.26] [228.284]

February 1

• The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring Smoke, part one. [501.508]

February 8

• The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring Smoke, part two. [501.508]

February 11

• Buena Vista releases the live-action feature film The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes to theatres. [43.196] [111.341] (December 1969 [228.101] [370.310]) (1972 [23])
• Buena Vista releases the live-action feature film King of the Grizzlies to theatres. the film is based on the book The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson. [111.366] [228.276] [370.310] (March [23] [43.579])

February

• Disney announces that the film Song of the South has been permanently withdrawn from future consideration for re-release. [370.78]

February 16

• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film It's Tough To Be A Bird for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons. [39.556]

March 1

• The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring Menace on the Mountain, part one. [228.316]

March 8

• The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring Menace on the Mountain, part two. [228.316]

March 10

• The NBC TV network airs Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. [390.253]

March

• Disney releases the animated 16-mm film The New Girl for educational use. The film is part of the "What Should I Do?" series. [23] [228.354]

March 22

• The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, entitled Disneyland Showtime airs, featuring the opening of the Haunted Mansion attraction. [228.137] [395.83]

March 29

• The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, entitled Nature's Strangest Oddballs, with Professor Ludwig Von Drake. [228.352]

April 7

• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Short Subjects, Cartoons) for the film It's Tough To Be A Bird. [23] [38.437] [39.556]

April

• Disney releases the live-action 16-mm film The Bear Family for educational use. It includes footage from films Bear Country and White Wilderness. [23] [228.45]

June

• Disney releases the live-action 16-mm film The Beasts of Burden Family for educational use. [23] [228.45]

June 22

• David R. Smith, a bibliographer at the University of California in Los Angeles, is hired to establish the Walt Disney Archives. [86.56] [97.6] [113.321] [257.24] [267.346] [501.592] [1073.110] [1242.9]

(month unknown)

• Disney releases the animated film compilation Fiesta Magica to theatres in Argentina. [23]
• Disney releases the live-action feature film My Dog, The Thief to theatres in Europe. [23]
• Disney releases the live-action feature film Smoke to theatres in the UK. [23]
• Disney releases the live-action feature film Smoke to theaters in the US. [49.274]
• Disney releases the animated film compilation Donald Duck Parade to theaters in Denmark. [23]
• Disney releases the film Sleeping Beauty to theaters. [25] [501.505] (1971 [85.154])
• The Aunt Jemima's Kitchen restaurant in Disneyland closes. [228.33,305]
• The Magnolia Tree Terrace restaurant opens in Frontierland at Disneyland. [228.33,305]
• In Florida, the Reedy Creek Improvement District passes the EPCOT Building Code, allowing construction of Walt Disney World. [228.166]
• Disney re-releases the film In Search of the Castaways to theaters. [228.253]

July 1

• Buena Vista releases the live-action feature film The Boatniks to theatres. [14] [23] [43.108] [111.335] [228.62] [370.310]

July

• Disney releases the animated 16-mm film Lunch Money for educational use. The film is part of the "What Should I Do?" series. [23] [228.298]

August 6

• The Youth International Party (Yippies) holds an informal "First International Yippie Pow Wow" at Disneyland. After a tense day breaking up groups, Disneyland vice president of Operations Dick Nunis orders the park closed at 7:10 PM. In total, 23 of about 300 Yippies are arrested on a variety of charges. [450.149] [501.626]

September 13

• The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, entitled Cristobalito, the Calypso Colt. [228.109]

September

• The Upjohn Pharmacy display on Main Street in Disneyland closes. [501.582]
• Eighty members of the American Guild of Variety Artists and 48 members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees stage a strike at the Disneyland gates, seeking higher wages. (This is the first employee strike in the park's fifteen-year history.) [424.68] (August [450.69])

September 17

• In the case of the Sierra Club against the U.S. Forest Service over Disney's proposed Mineral King ski resort, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overrules Judge Sweigert, dissolving the injunction against commencing the project. [482.38]

September 20

• The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring The Boy Who Stole the Elephant, part one. [228.67]

September 27

• The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring The Boy Who Stole the Elephant, part two. [228.67]

September

• The Disney on Parade show begins performances in New York City. [425.79]

September 30

• Disney releases the animated and live-action film Dad, Can I Borrow the Car? to theaters. [23] [85.324] [228.113]

(month unknown)

• The tenth (and final) annual Dixieland at Disneyland show is held. [756.42]

October 6

• In the case of the Sierra Club against the U.S. Forest Service over Disney's proposed Mineral King ski resort, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agrees with the Sierra Club to let the injunction against commencing the project stand until the Supreme Court could make its ruling on the case. [482.38]

October 18

• The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring The Wacky Zoo of Morgan, part one. The film is based on the book I'll Trade You an Elk by Charles Goodrum. [501.590]

October 25

• The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring The Wacky Zoo of Morgan, part two. [501.590]

(month unknown)

• In New York City, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held. Included is a large Mickey Mouse balloon. [911.167]

November 1

• The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring Snow Bear, part one. [501.508]

November 8

• The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring Snow Bear, part two. [501.508]

November

• Disney shelves work on making an animated feature of The Bremen Town Musicians. [176.89]

December 11

• Disney premieres the animated feature film The Aristocats in Los Angeles, California. [43.42] [228.29]

December 13

• The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring an extended version of the film It's Tough to Be a Bird. [228.259]

December

• Disney releases the animated 16-mm film The Project for educational use. The film is part of the "What Should I Do?" series. [23] [228.402]

December 22

• San Marino issues ten postage stamps of Walt Disney and various Disney animated characters, including Donald Duck. [97.61] [656.874] [1090.32] (1971 [501.521])

December 24

• Buena Vista releases the animated feature film The Aristocats to theatres. It cost US$4 million to make. It is Disney's first animated feature film completed without Walt Disney. [6] [8] [11] [16] [17] [23] [25] [49.274] [86.53] [97.261] [370.310] [111.330] [190.25] [191] [230.30] (April 24 [15])