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Introduction
The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as Disney Brothers Studio; it also operated under the names Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before changing its name to the Walt Disney Company in 1986. In 1928, Disney established itself as a leader in the animation industry with the short film Steamboat Willie. The film used synchronized sound to become the first post-produced sound cartoon, and popularized Mickey Mouse, who became Disney's mascot and corporate icon.
After becoming a major success by the early 1940s, Disney diversified into live-action films, television, and theme parks in the 1950s. However, following Walt Disney's death in 1966, the company's profits, especially in the animation division, began to decline. In 1984, Disney's shareholders voted Michael Eisner as CEO, who led a reversal of the company's decline through a combination of international theme park expansion and the highly successful Disney Renaissance period of animation in the 1990s. In 2005, under new CEO Bob Iger, the company continued to expand into a major entertainment conglomerate with the acquisitions of Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Studios. In 2020, Bob Chapek became the head of Disney after Iger's retirement. However, Chapek was ousted in 2022 and Iger was reinstated as CEO.
The company is known for its film studio division Walt Disney Studios, which includes Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, 20th Century Animation, and Searchlight Pictures. Disney's other main business units include divisions in television, broadcasting, streaming media, theme park resorts, consumer products, publishing, and international operations. Through these divisions, Disney owns and operates the ABC television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, Freeform, FX, and National Geographic; publishing, merchandising, music, and theater divisions; direct-to-consumer streaming services such as Disney+, Star+, ESPN+, Hulu, and Hotstar; and Disney Experiences, which includes several theme parks, resort hotels, and cruise lines around the world. (Full article...)
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The entrance to Disney California Adventure at Anaheim, showing the large letters spelling CALIFORNIA
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- Image 1Walt Disney introduces each of the seven dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937 Snow White theatrical trailer. (from Walt Disney)
- Image 2Fantasyland
(Peter Pan's Flight in the foreground and the Matterhorn Bobsleds in the background) (from Disneyland) - Image 3The original logo of Walt Disney World from 1971 to the mid-1990s (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 4Disney security vehicle, picture taken July 2, 2009 in front of Epcot (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 5Roy O. Disney inspecting design plans on-site in Florida (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 7Alice and characters from her movie host "Disneyland Musical Chairs" at Coca-Cola Refreshment Corner, accompanied by a ragtime pianist. (from Disneyland)
- Image 8Walt, Florida Governor W. Haydon Burns, and Roy announcing the plans for Disney World in November 1965 (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 9Disney bought The Muppets from the Jim Henson Company in 2004. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 10The original animation building at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, which they fully moved into in 1940 (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 11Disney's video streaming subscription service Disney+ was launched in 2019, which has a total of over 135 million subscriptions as of June 2022. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 12An aerial shot of Walt Disney World in 1982 (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 13Disney in 1954 (from Walt Disney)
- Image 14Disney shows the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954 (from Walt Disney)
- Image 15Bob Iger became CEO of Disney in 2005, expanding the company's properties (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 16Disneyland fireworks from Sleeping Beauty Castle (from Disneyland)
- Image 17A Disney Cruise Line bus which takes guest to and from Terminal 8 from Orlando International Airport; as well as around Walt Disney World. (from Disney Cruise Line)
- Image 19Overlay of Walt Disney's original 1966 plans for Disney World and the proposed EPCOT city (orange) and contemporary situation (blue) (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 20Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
(Star Wars: Millennium Falcon – Smugglers Run in 2019) (from Disneyland) - Image 21Main Street at Disneyland, as seen from a horseless carriage (from Disneyland)
- Image 22Excerpt of Steamboat Willie (1928), the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 23The 1996 version of The Walt Disney World logo. (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 25The Walt Disney World Monorail System provides free transport across the resort.
- Image 26The 2018 version of The Walt Disney World logo. (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 27Walt Disney (left) with his brother Roy O. Disney (right) and then Governor of Florida W. Haydon Burns (center) on November 15, 1965, publicly announcing the creation of Disney World (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 28A portrait of Disney with cartoon representations of different nationalities on a 6 cent U.S. postage stamp, 1968 (from Walt Disney)
- Image 29Michael Eisner replaced Ron Miller as CEO. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 30Fantasmic! finale on July 4, 2010 (from Disneyland)
- Image 31Disney drawing Goofy for a group of girls in Argentina, 1941 (from Walt Disney)
- Image 32Walt Disney (center) showing Orange County officials plans for Disneyland's layout, December 1954 (from Disneyland)
- Image 34Jeffrey Katzenberg was chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1995. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 35Roy E. Disney, Roy O. Disney's son, was head of the animation department until 2003. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 36Walt (center) showing the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954 (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 37Monorail Red travels over the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage in Tomorrowland. (from Disneyland)
- Image 38Hollywood Studios' park icon, the Chinese Theatre (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 39An aerial view of Disneyland in 2004 (from Disneyland)
- Image 40Disney's promotional logo for its centennial. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 41New Orleans Square
(the Haunted Mansion and Fantasmic! viewing area in 2010) (from Disneyland) - Image 42Map of the resort as of May 2015 (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 43One of four arches welcoming guests to the resort (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 45Grave of Walt Disney at Forest Lawn, Glendale (from Walt Disney)
- Image 46Team Disney – The Michael D. Eisner Building, the main building at the Walt Disney Studios, which houses the offices of Disney's CEO and several other senior corporate officials. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 48Walt (right) dressed as a gaucho next to Donald Duck in Argentina while on the company's South American goodwill trip in 1941. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 50View of Disney Springs (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 51Disneyland aerial view, 1963, which includes the new Melody Land Theater at the top of the photo (from Disneyland)
- Image 53One of Disney's first animated characters Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which Disney lost the rights to until 2006. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 55The Sherman Brothers, who composed many of the Disney songs throughout the 1960s (pictured in 2002) (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 57Disney's childhood home (from Walt Disney)
- Image 58The "Happiest Homecoming on Earth" celebrated the 50th anniversary of the theme park. Sleeping Beauty Castle was altered for the occasion. (from Disneyland)
Selected biography
One of Iwerks' most long-lasting contributions to animation was a refined version of a sketch drawn by Disney that would later go on to become Mickey Mouse. Iwerks went on to do much of the animation for the early Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies cartoons, including Steamboat Willie, The Skeleton Dance and The Haunted House, before a fallout with Disney led to Iwerks' resignation from the studio in January 1930. Iwerks' final Mickey Mouse cartoon would be 1930's The Cactus Kid. Following his separation with Disney, Iwerks, operating under Iwerks Studio, would go on to create the characters Flip the Frog and Willie Whopper along with the ComiColor Cartoons series as part of a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but the new studio failed to rival its competitors. Iwerks would go on to direct two Looney Tunes cartoon shorts for Leon Schlesinger Productions and several Color Rhapsody cartoons for Screen Gems before joining Disney again in 1940, after which he worked with special visual effects on productions such as 1946's Song of the South.
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- ... that Encanto's Mirabel is the first Disney heroine to wear glasses?
- ... that John Oliver dared Disney to sue him over his version of Mickey Mouse?
- ... that a revival of the comedy series Lizzie McGuire was ordered in 2019, but canceled mid-production after Disney deemed it not family-friendly enough?
- ... that some TikTokers make videos about whether to smash or pass Disney characters?
- ... that Disney once created a political advertisement for Dwight D. Eisenhower (featured)?
- ... that before Foster City was built on Brewer Island, unsuccessful proposals included a hog farm, two military air bases, two civilian airports, and an entertainment complex larger than Disneyland?
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— Donald Duck, Donald in Mathmagic Land, 1955 |
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- ...that former Disney animator Jack Dunham created the official rooster mascot for St-Hubert, a Canadian BBQ restaurant chain?
- ...that Tomorrow's Pioneers is a television program for children produced by Hamas?
- ...that Walt Disney started sketching Disney Characters in 1908?
- ...that The Reedy Creek Improvement District in Florida is the immediate governing jurisdiction for the land on the Walt Disney World Resort.
- ... that Disney CEO Michael Eisner was struck with inspiration for the show, Adventures of the Gummi Bears when his son requested gummi bear candies one day.
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