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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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- Image 1Disney shows the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954 (from Walt Disney)
- Image 2Disney's childhood home (from Walt Disney)
- Image 3Fantasyland
(Peter Pan's Flight in the foreground and the Matterhorn Bobsleds in the background) (from Disneyland) - Image 4The original logo of Walt Disney World from 1971 to the mid-1990s (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 6The Walt Disney World Monorail System provides free transport across the resort.
- Image 7Overlay 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 8A portrait of Disney with cartoon representations of different nationalities on a 6 cent U.S. postage stamp, 1968 (from Walt Disney)
- Image 9Grave of Walt Disney at Forest Lawn, Glendale (from Walt Disney)
- Image 10New Orleans Square
(the Haunted Mansion in the background and Fantasmic! viewing area in the foreground in 2010) (from Disneyland) - Image 11An aerial view of Disneyland in 2004 (from Disneyland)
- Image 13Fantasmic! finale on July 4, 2010 (from Disneyland)
- Image 14A 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 15Map of the resort as of May 2015 (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 18One of Disney's first animated characters Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which Disney lost the rights to until 2006. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 19Bob Iger became CEO of Disney in 2005, expanding the company's properties (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 20Roy E. Disney, Roy O. Disney's son, was head of the animation department until 2003. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 21Team 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 22Disney'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 24Disney's promotional logo for its centennial. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 27Walt, Florida Governor W. Haydon Burns, and Roy announcing the plans for Disney World in November 1965 (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 28Main Street at Disneyland, as seen from a horseless carriage (from Disneyland)
- Image 29Hollywood Studios' park icon, the Chinese Theatre (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 30Excerpt of Steamboat Willie (1928), the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 31Walt Disney (center) showing Orange County officials plans for Disneyland's layout, December 1954 (from Disneyland)
- Image 33One of four arches welcoming guests to the resort (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 34Walt 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 35Disney bought The Muppets from the Jim Henson Company in 2004. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 36Walt (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 37The Sherman Brothers, who composed many of the Disney songs throughout the 1960s (pictured in 2002) (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 38Roy O. Disney inspecting design plans on-site in Florida (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 40Walt (center) showing the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954 (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 41Michael Eisner replaced Ron Miller as CEO. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 42Disneyland fireworks from Sleeping Beauty Castle (from Disneyland)
- Image 43Disney in 1954 (from Walt Disney)
- Image 44View of Disney Springs (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 45Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
(Star Wars: Millennium Falcon – Smugglers Run in 2019) (from Disneyland) - Image 46Disney drawing Goofy for a group of girls in Argentina, 1941 (from Walt Disney)
- Image 47Monorail Red travels over the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage in Tomorrowland. (from Disneyland)
- Image 49Disney security vehicle, picture taken July 2, 2009 in front of Epcot (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 50An aerial shot of Walt Disney World in 1982 (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 52The original animation building at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, which they fully moved into in 1940 (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 53The "Happiest Homecoming on Earth" celebrated the 50th anniversary of the theme park. Sleeping Beauty Castle was altered for the occasion. (from Disneyland)
- Image 54Walt Disney introduces each of the seven dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937 Snow White theatrical trailer. (from Walt Disney)
- Image 55Disneyland aerial view, 1963, which includes the new Melody Land Theater at the top of the photo (from Disneyland)
- Image 56Jeffrey Katzenberg was chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1995. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 57The 2018 version of The Walt Disney World logo. (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 58Alice and characters from her movie host "Disneyland Musical Chairs" at Coca-Cola Refreshment Corner, accompanied by a ragtime pianist. (from Disneyland)
- Image 59The 1996 version of The Walt Disney World logo. (from Walt Disney World)
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- ... that Disney once created a political advertisement for Dwight D. Eisenhower (featured)?
- ... that the ferry General Joe Potter at Walt Disney World is named in honor of Major General William Everett Potter?
- ... 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 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?
- ... that John Oliver dared Disney to sue him over his version of Mickey Mouse?
- ... that before the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Manhattan opened, its workers were sent to Walt Disney World for training?
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— Donald Duck, "Treasure of the Golden Suns, Part I: Don't Give Up The Ship", DuckTales |
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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 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.
- ...Disneyland cost $17 million dollars to build?
- ... 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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