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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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Sleeping Beauty Castle as decorated for Disneyland's fiftieth birthday.
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- Image 1Map of the resort as of May 2015 (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 2Hollywood Studios' park icon, the Chinese Theatre (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 3Grave of Walt Disney at Forest Lawn, Glendale (from Walt Disney)
- Image 4Disney drawing Goofy for a group of girls in Argentina, 1941 (from Walt Disney)
- Image 5Fantasmic! finale on July 4, 2010 (from Disneyland)
- Image 7Walt Disney (center) showing Orange County officials plans for Disneyland's layout, December 1954 (from Disneyland)
- Image 9Fantasyland
(Peter Pan's Flight in the foreground and the Matterhorn Bobsleds in the background) (from Disneyland) - Image 10Disney shows the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954 (from Walt Disney)
- Image 12View of Disney Springs (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 14One of Disney's first animated characters Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which Disney lost the rights to until 2006. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 15Disneyland aerial view, 1963, which includes the new Melody Land Theater at the top of the photo (from Disneyland)
- Image 16Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
(Star Wars: Millennium Falcon – Smugglers Run in 2019) (from Disneyland) - Image 17Overlay 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 18New Orleans Square
(the Haunted Mansion in the background and Fantasmic! viewing area in the foreground in 2010) (from Disneyland) - Image 19Bob Iger became CEO of Disney in 2005, expanding the company's properties (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 20The 2018 version of The Walt Disney World logo. (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 22The Sherman Brothers in 2002. They composed many Disney songs in the 1960s. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 24Walt (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 25Disney's childhood home (from Walt Disney)
- Image 26Roy O. Disney inspecting design plans on-site in Florida (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 27Jeffrey Katzenberg was chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1995. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 28Michael Eisner replaced Ron Miller as CEO. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 29The Walt Disney World Monorail System provides free transport across the resort.
- Image 30An aerial shot of Walt Disney World in 1982 (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 31Disney in 1954 (from Walt Disney)
- Image 32One of four arches welcoming guests to the resort (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 33Walt 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 34Walt Disney introduces each of the seven dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937 Snow White theatrical trailer (from Walt Disney)
- Image 36The 1996 version of The Walt Disney World logo (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 37An aerial view of Disneyland in 2004 (from Disneyland)
- Image 38Disney'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 39Disney bought The Muppets from the Jim Henson Company in 2004. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 40Alice and characters from her movie host "Disneyland Musical Chairs" at Coca-Cola Refreshment Corner, accompanied by a ragtime pianist in 2005. (from Disneyland)
- Image 41Excerpt of Steamboat Willie (1928), the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 42Disney security vehicle, picture taken July 2, 2009 in front of Epcot (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 43A 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 45The "Happiest Homecoming on Earth" celebrated the 50th anniversary of the theme park. Sleeping Beauty Castle was altered for the occasion. (from Disneyland)
- Image 46Disney's promotional logo for its centennial. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 47A portrait of Disney with cartoon representations of different nationalities on a 6-cent U.S. postage stamp, 1968 (from Walt Disney)
- Image 48The original animation building at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, which they fully moved into in 1940 (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 50Main Street at Disneyland, as seen from a horseless carriage (from Disneyland)
- Image 51Monorail Red travels over the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage in Tomorrowland in 2008. (from Disneyland)
- Image 52Disneyland fireworks from Sleeping Beauty Castle (from Disneyland)
- Image 54The original logo of Walt Disney World from 1971 to the mid-1990s (from Walt Disney World)
- Image 55Walt, Florida Governor W. Haydon Burns, and Roy announcing the plans for Disney World in November 1965 (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 57Roy E. Disney, Roy O. Disney's son, was head of the animation department until 2003. (from The Walt Disney Company)
- Image 58Team 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 59Walt (center) showing the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954 (from The Walt Disney Company)
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- ... that, for the Space 220 Restaurant, Disney reached out to NASA engineers to understand what a space elevator might look like?
- ... that before the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Manhattan opened, its workers were sent to Walt Disney World for training?
- ... 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 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?
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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 Disney Channel veteran Selena Gomez (pictured) sings the theme song for the new Disney series, Shake It Up?
- ...that Mikey Blumberg's singing was voiced by Robert Goulet, who has starred in Rose-Marie and released more than 15 albums.
- ...that press releases for the Phineas and Ferb episode "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror" detailed a cut subplot where the character Lawrence Fletcher searches for a rare bottle cap?
- ... that the most valuable cartoon movie poster was a poster for the Walt Disney short, Alice's Day at the Sea (USA 1924), was sold in London England at $36534.00 in 1994.
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