Portal:Disney
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Introduction
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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 Cartoon 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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed] 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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Epcot Center at night
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Main Street, U.S.A.
(2010) (from Disneyland) - One of Disney's first animated characters Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which Disney lost the rights to until 2006. (from
- Disney drawing Goofy for a group of girls in Argentina, 1941 (from
- Disney's promotional logo for its centennial. (from
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- Roy E. Disney, Roy O. Disney's son, was head of the animation department until 2003. (from
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Florida Governor W. Haydon Burns, and Roy announcing the plans for Disney World in November 1965 (from The Walt Disney Company)Walt,
- Critter Country
- Jeffrey Katzenberg was chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1995. (from
- Tomorrowland
- Michael Eisner replaced Ron Miller as CEO. (from
- Grave of Walt Disney at Forest Lawn, Glendale (from
- Disney shows the plans of
- An aerial view of Disneyland in 2004 (from
- The original logo of Walt Disney World from 1971 to the mid-1990s (from
- Roy O. Disney inspecting design plans on-site in Florida (from
- Team 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
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Happiest Homecoming on Earth" celebrated the 50th anniversary of the theme park. Sleeping Beauty Castle was altered for the occasion. (from Disneyland)The "
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Argentina while on the company's South American goodwill trip in 1941. (from The Walt Disney Company)Walt (right) dressed as a gaucho next to Donald Duck in
- Disney security vehicle, picture taken July 2, 2009 in front of Epcot (from
- A portrait of Disney with cartoon representations of different nationalities on a 6-cent U.S. postage stamp, 1968 (from
- A Disney Cruise Line bus which takes guest to and from Terminal 8 from Orlando International Airport; as well as around Walt Disney World. (from
- Bob Iger became CEO of Disney in 2005, expanding the company's properties (from
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Steamboat Willie (1928), the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon. (from The Walt Disney Company)Excerpt of
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- Disney bought The Muppets from the Jim Henson Company in 2004. (from
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1921 (from Walt Disney)Walt Disney's business envelope featured a self-portrait, c.
- Disney's video streaming subscription service Disney+ was launched in 2019, which has a total of over 135 million subscriptions as of June 2022. (from
- Disneyland aerial view, 1963, which includes the new Melody Land Theater at the top of the photo (from
- Walt Disney (center) showing Orange County officials plans for Disneyland's layout, December 1954 (from
- Fantasmic! finale on July 4, 2010 (from
- Disney in 1954 (from
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Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage in Tomorrowland in 2008. (from Disneyland)Monorail Red travels over the
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Walt Disney World Monorail System provides free transport across the resort.The
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New Orleans Square station. (from Disneyland)Disneyland Railroad Engine 2 at the
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Schiphol Airport (1951) (from Walt Disney)Disney family at
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- The Sherman Brothers in 2002. They composed many Disney songs in the 1960s. (from
- The original animation building at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, which they fully moved into in 1940 (from
- Overlay of Walt Disney's original 1966 plans for Disney World and the proposed EPCOT city (orange) and contemporary situation (blue) (from
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Snow White theatrical trailer (from Walt Disney)Walt Disney introduces each of the seven dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937
- Alice and characters from her movie host "Disneyland Musical Chairs" at Coca-Cola Refreshment Corner, accompanied by a ragtime pianist in 2005. (from
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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)Walt Disney (left) with his brother
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Born in Chicago in 1901, Disney developed an early interest in drawing. He took art classes as a boy and got a job as a commercial illustrator at the age of 18. He moved to California in the early 1920s and set up the Disney Brothers Studio with his brother Roy. With Ub Iwerks, he developed the character Mickey Mouse in 1928, his first highly popular success; he also provided the voice for his creation in the early years. As the studio grew, he became more adventurous, introducing synchronized sound, full-color three-strip Technicolor, feature-length cartoons and technical developments in cameras. The results, seen in features such as 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 July 1955 he opened Disneyland in Anaheim, California. 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 the 1964 New York World's Fair. In 1965, he began development of another theme park, Disney World, the heart of which was to be a new type of city, the "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow" (EPCOT). Disney was a heavy smoker throughout his life and died of lung cancer in December 1966 before either the park or the EPCOT project were completed.
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- ... that Scarlett Johansson filed a lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company alleging that the release strategy for Black Widow breached her contract?
- ... 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 in response to Disney's stance on Florida's House Bill 1557, also known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, Pixar employees stated that Disney removes LGBT references from the studio's films?
- ... that John Oliver dared Disney to sue him over his version of Mickey Mouse?
- ... that vaccine coverage at schools around the Disneyland Resort was too low for herd immunity when measles broke out in 2014?
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- ...that producers hope to use Good Luck Charlie "to debunk the myth that Disney never has the mom in the picture"?
- ...that when Sonny with a Chance actor Demi Lovato bowed out of season three, show-within-a-show So Random! was spun-off into its own sketch comedy series?
- ...that The Nightmare Before Christmas was originally released by Touchstone Pictures, a label owned by the Walt Disney Company, because it was considered inappropriate to use the Walt Disney Pictures banner due to the darker content displayed in this film.
- ...that there is something called a Hidden Mickey, a hidden silhouette of Mickey's ears inserted into many Disney feature films?
- ... that in 1989, a black-and-white drawing from Walt Disney's "Orphan's Benefit" (USA 1934), depicting Donald Duck being punched by an orphan, raised $280,000 at Christie's London, England.
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