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The Walt Disney Company Wikipedia. The Walt Disney Company. Public. Traded as. Industry. Mass media. Entertainment. Predecessors. Laugh O Gram Studio. Founded. October 1. Los Angeles, California, United States1Founders. Walt Disney. Roy O. See also For other related logos and images see The Walt Disney CompanyLogo Variations, Walt. The official website for all things Disney theme parks, resorts, movies, tv programs, characters, games, videos, music, shopping, and more From its beginning in 1939 and continuing today, The Walt Disney Studios has come to symbolize its founders dedication to creating dreams of lasting beauty and. The allstar lineup for director Jon Favreaus new take on Disneys 1994 classic animated film The Lion King includes stars. Walt Disney Television was the name of the television production division of The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Televisions television productions are broadcast. Walter Elias Walt Disney was an American entrepreneur, business magnate, animator, voice actor, producer, director, writer, and the eponymous founder of the Walt. Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Flora Disney ne Call and Elias Disney, a Canadianborn farmer. V E The Walt Disney Company. Notes 1 Disney manages and operates this station owned by Entercom Communications. Disney. Headquarters. South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California, United States. Area served. Worldwide. Bluetake Bt009sx Driver Windows 7. Key people. Bob IgerChairman and CEOProducts. The mission of the Walt Disney Company is to be one of the worlds leading producers and providers of entertainment and information. BbZ8pH44T74/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Walt Disney Buena Vista Productions' title='Walt Disney Buena Vista Productions' />Cable television, publishing, films, music, video games, theme parks, broadcasting, radio, web portals. Services. Licensing. Revenue. US5. 5. US1. US9. 3. 91 billion 2. Total assets. US9. Total equity. US4. Number of employees. Divisions. Subsidiaries. Websitethewaltdisneycompany. The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinationalmass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. It is the worlds second largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue, after Comcast. Disney was founded on October 1. Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, and established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live action film production, television, and theme parks. The company also operated under the names The Walt Disney Studio and then Walt Disney Productions. Taking on its current name in 1. In addition, Disney has since created corporate divisions in order to market more mature content than is typically associated with its flagship family oriented brands. The company is best known for the products of its film studio, Walt Disney Studios, which is today one of the largest and best known studios in American cinema. Disneys other three main divisions are Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Disney Media Networks, and Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, AE Networks, and Freeform publishing, merchandising, music, and theatre divisions and owns and licenses 1. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1. Mickey Mouse, a cartoon created in 1. Disney. 8Corporate history. The building in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz which was home to the studio from 1. The silent era. In early 1. Kansas City, Missouri, animator Walt Disney created a short film entitled Alices Wonderland, which featured child actress Virginia Davis interacting with animated characters. After the bankruptcy in 1. Laugh O Gram Studios,Ch. WDC 1 Disney moved to Hollywood to join his brother, Roy O. Disney. Film distributor Margaret J. Winkler of M. J. Winkler Productions contacted Disney with plans to distribute a whole series of Alice Comedies purchased for 1,5. Disney as a production partner. Walt and Roy Disney formed Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio that same year. More animated films followed after Alice. In January 1. 92. Disney studio on Hyperion Street, the Disney Brothers Studios name was changed to the Walt Disney Studio. Ch. WDC 2After the demise of the Alice comedies, Disney developed an all cartoon series starring his first original character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit,1. Winkler Pictures through Universal Pictures. Ch. WDC 2 The distributor owned Oswald, so Disney only made a few hundred dollars. Disney completed 2. Oswald shorts before losing the contract in February 1. Winklers husband Charles Mintz took over their distribution company. After failing to take over the Disney Studio, Mintz hired away four of Disneys primary animators the exception being Ub Iwerks to start his own animation studio, Snappy Comedies. Ch. WDC 31. 92. 81. Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies. Original poster for Flowers and Trees 1. In 1. 92. 8, to recover from the loss of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Disney came up with the idea of a mouse character named Mortimer while on a train headed to California, drawing up a few simple drawings. The mouse was later renamed Mickey Mouse Disneys wife, Lillian, disliked the sound of Mortimer Mouse and starred in several Disney produced films. Ub Iwerks refined Disneys initial design of Mickey Mouse. Disneys first sound film Steamboat Willie, a cartoon starring Mickey, was released on November 1. Ch. WDC 3 through Pat Powers distribution company. It was the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon released, but the third to be created, behind Plane Crazy and The Gallopin Gaucho. Ch. WDC 3Steamboat Willie was an immediate smash hit, and its initial success was attributed not just to Mickeys appeal as a character, but to the fact that it was the first cartoon to feature synchronized sound. Disney used Pat Powers Cinephone system, created by Powers using Lee De Forests Phonofilm system. Ch. WDC 3Steamboat Willie premiered at B. S. Mosss Colony Theater in New York City, now The Broadway Theatre. Disneys Plane Crazy and The Galloping Gaucho were then retrofitted with synchronized sound tracks and re released successfully in 1. Ch. WDC 3Disney continued to produce cartoons with Mickey Mouse and other characters,1. Silly Symphonies series with Columbia Pictures signing on as Symphonies distributor in August 1. In September 1. 92. Harry Woodin requested permission to start a Mickey Mouse Club which Walt approved. In November, test comics strips were sent to King Features, who requested additional samples to show to the publisher, William Randolph Hearst. On December 1. 6, the Walt Disney Studios partnership was reorganized as a corporation with the name of Walt Disney Productions, Limited with a merchandising division, Walt Disney Enterprises, and two subsidiaries, Disney Film Recording Company, Limited and Liled Realty and Investment Company for real estate holdings. Walt and his wife held 6. Roy owned 4. 0 of WD Productions. On December 3. 0, King Features signed its first newspaper, New York Mirror, to publish the Mickey Mouse comic strip with Walts permission. Ch. WDC 4In 1. 93. Disney signed an exclusive contract with Technicolor through the end of 1. Flowers and Trees 1. Disney released cartoons through Powers Celebrity Pictures 1. Columbia Pictures 1. United Artists 1. The popularity of the Mickey Mouse series allowed Disney to plan for his first feature length animation. The feature film, Walt Before Mickey based on the book by Diane Disney Miller featured these moments in the studios history. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and World War IIDeciding to push the boundaries of animation even further, Disney began production of his first feature length animated film in 1. Taking three years to complete, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, premiered in December 1. Snow White was released through RKO Radio Pictures, which had assumed distribution of Disneys product in July 1. Ch. WDC 5 after United Artists attempted to attain future television rights to the Disney shorts. Using the profits from Snow White, Disney financed the construction of a new 5. Burbank, California. The new Walt Disney Studios, in which the company is headquartered to this day, was completed and open for business by the end of 1. Ch. WDC 6 The following year on April 2, Walt Disney Productions had its initial public offering. Ch. WDC 71. 6The studio continued releasing animated shorts and features, such as Pinocchio 1. Fantasia 1. 94. 0, Dumbo 1. Bambi 1. 94. 2. 1. After World War II began, box office profits declined. The Walt Disney Studios History. The Walt Disney Company started in 1. Holly Vermont Realty in Los Angeles. It was there that Walt Disney, and his brother Roy, produced a series of short live actionanimated films collectively called the ALICE COMEDIES. The rent was a mere 1. Within four months, the ever growing staff moved next door to larger facilities, where the sign on the window read Disney Bros. Studio. A year later, in 1. Disneys made a deposit on a Hyperion Avenue lot in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. Construction began on the new studio shortly thereafter. During the next 1. Disney studio Mickey Mouse was born in 1. Pluto, Goofy, Donald Duck, and the rest of the Disney gang. In 1. 93. 7, Disneys innovative first full length animated feature, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, was released to critical acclaim and worldwide success. In order to expand and meet the expectations of his audience, Walt saw a need to increase the size of his studio. With profits from SNOW WHITE, he made a deposit on 5. Burbank and began designing a modern studio specifically for the purpose of making animated films. Walt was personally involved with all aspects of designing the studio. From the layout of the buildings to design of the animators chairs, nothing was left to chance. His main concern was to produce a self sufficient, state of the art production factory that provided all the essential facilities for the entire production process. The Animation Building, housing the Disney Artists and animators, was planned in the center of the lot. Across a small street were built the Inking and Painting and the Camera buildings, where the artwork was completed and photographed. Next to Camera, in the Cutting building, the post production process occurred. Sound facilities included dubbing, scoring, effects, and voice recording studios. Many of the buildings were linked together by an underground tunnel, so even in bad weather, the process of making animated films was not disrupted. To enhance the campus like setting, all of the utilities were placed underground which was an innovation for 1. During the 1. 94. Burbank, including FANTASIA, BAMBI, CINDERELLA, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, and PETER PAN. Beginning in the late 1. Disney launched into the production of live action features and. The Studio lot was subsequently expanded during the 1. Sound Stages. Many of the interior scenes for Disney films were shot on five live action sound stages. Stage 1 is part of the original lot that was built in 1. It was first used for filming the live action. FANTASIA. Stage 2 was built in 1. Jack Webb, who used the stage. DRAGNET. A popular television show filmed there was THE. MICKEY MOUSE CLUB. Stage 2 is one of the largest sound stages in Los Angeles at approximately. In 1. 95. 4, Sound Stage 3 was built specifically for 2. LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, complete with watertank. Stage 4. completed in 1. DARBY OGILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE. In 1. 98. 8, it was. Stages 4 and. 5. Well known tenants on our stages have included Disney classics such as DAVY CROCKETT, MARY. POPPINS, POLLYANA, THE LOVE BUG, BLACKBEARDS GHOST, PETES DRAGON, and BEDKNOBS BROOMSTICKS. Other well known. ARMAGEDDON, HOME IMPROVEMENT, ELLEN, MTV, MADONNA, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, NATIONAL TREASURE 2, and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN I, II III. Riverside Lot. Across the street from the Studio now stands the new Feature Animation Building and The ABC Building. This is where. Walt was planning to build a place called Mickey Mouse Park. There were to be lifelike statues. Mickey and Donald, and guests could take pictures with their favorite characters and enjoy a. However, as Walts ideas continued to grow, he realized more space was needed to. Shortly thereafter he acquired more than 2. Anaheim. California. Those orange groves became the site of Disneyland. Shops. The back lot shops were built to provide the many crafts and services required by live action productions. The Machine Shop, which is no longer in use, housed machines and equipment that produced innovative camera and projection objects for the film industry. During the construction of Disneyland in the mid fifties, this shops engineers designed and hand built many of the automobiles, train parts, boats, trams and carts that were required by the new park. Hollywood Records now occupies the building. Close by youll find the Electric Plumbing building containing machines and equipment for repairing and maintaining the many systems within the Studio complex. Nearby was the Staff Shop where they made molds, plaster casts, and fiberglass figures, many of which are in use at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. The ElectricPlumbing building. Studio, along with equipment for work in sheet metal, welding, and plastics. Next to ElectricPlumbing was the Special Effects shop, where our craftspeople created the myriad. Disney films. Flying cars, spaceships. The Paint Shop, which is in another large metal. Other prominent shops throughout the back lot include. Sign Graphics, Crafts Service, and the Mill. Back Lot. For more than 3. These consisted of a Western Street, Zorro Pueblo, Residential Street, and Town Square. Most of the buildings on the Western Street were constructed in 1. ELFEGO BACA and. TEXAS JOHN SLAUGHTER television shows. Other productions which modified the structures for. DARBY OGILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE, THE LOVE BUG, THOSE CALLOWAYS, and THE APPLE. DUMPLING GANG. The last major feature films to utilize the street extensively were HOT LEAD AND. COLD FEET and THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG RIDES AGAIN. Sets representing a downtown area were constructed in 1. THE UGLY DACHSHUND and FOLLOW ME. BOYS. They were changed extensively for various films, and then completely demolished in 1. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. There were four original buildings on the Residential Street originally constructed in 1. THE ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR, including the main house and garage used for the laboratory. Other. houses were used for THE SWAMP FOX and the original THAT DARN CAT. A well known set was constructed for the ZORRO television series in the 1. This was once. the Pueblo de Los Angeles with a fort, a jail, a square, an inn, and a church. Later, one of the. Spanish squares was redesigned to become a French village. Hills, pools, berms, and caves. With the increased use of on location shooting, the back lot sets were gradually replaced by. Property building, the Zorro parking structure, the Frank Wells office building, and. Stages 6 7. The Golden Oak Ranch. Walt Disney first leased the Golden Oak Ranch, which is. Santa Clarita area, in the mid 1. SPIN AND MARTY segments of. THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB. Because of the variety of natural settings available there, the Studio. Disney films shot at the Ranch include OLD YELLER, TOBY TYLER, THE PARENT TRAP, THE SHAGGY DOG, FOLLOW ME BOYS, and more recently THE SANTA CLAUSE, PEARL HARBOR, PRINCESS DIARIES II and the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN II III. A western street was created for the renowned television miniseries ROOTS II in the late 1. Other ranch sites include a rural bridge on a lake, an entertainment and event venue, THE GOLDEN OAK HALL, farm houses, barns, fields, country roads, tree groves, a forest area, a creek bed, and a running waterfall. Currently being developed is a pine lake designed to give the feeling of a High Sierra setting. The Golden Oak Ranch is used by the entire industry and has been seen in LASSIE, BEVERLY HILLS.