The Walt Disney Company
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The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American multinational entertainment and media conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California, USA.
History
Founded on October 16, 1923, as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio' by brothers Walter Elias "Walt" Disney and Roy Oliver Disney, it also operated under the names the Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before changing its name to the Walt Disney Company in 1986. 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.
The company established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, broadcasting, streaming media, theme park resorts, consumer products, publishing, and international operations, and since the 1980s, Disney has created and acquired corporate divisions and Intellectual properties in order to market more mature content than is typically associated with its flagship family-oriented brands.
Mascot
The cartoon character Mickey Mouse, created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, serves as the company's mascot.
Animation
From the Alice Comedies, going through the creations of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey, the making of the classic Steamboat Willie (the first post-produced sound cartoon), its Silly Symphonies, Donald Duck and Goofy, the marriage of advanced technologies of the time and its films like Technicolor (which lead to the first feature-length film in Technicolor, 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) or its own, like the multiplane camera, its artistic contribution during the war, or the World populace at the time (Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, Bambi, Song of the South, et al), which, with the creation of its own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution, let them control the future releases of their almost(*) continuous wins with both animated feature films (Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Aristocats, Robin Hood , The Rescuers, and The Fox and the Hound, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King, etc), and TV animation series (Adventures of the Gummi Bears, DuckTales, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, Bonkers and Gargoyles, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, et al).
Not even the deaths of both Walt and Roy Disney stopped the Walt Disney Company continue to spreading out to news/sports media (NBC, American Broadcasting Company, ESPN), on to their own theme parks, cruise liners, the search of new technologies (resulting on Disney's first 3D animated feature film, Chicken Little, and so on, all with the goal of spreading their intellectual properties (including animation), worldwide, resulting in higher earning which made possible for Disney to acquire the third-party, high-profit companies and their own IPs (The Jim Henson Company, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Entertainment, LLC, Lucasfilm ), or their now bulging film and animated portfolio.
This let Disney establish itself as a major animation presence within the whole world's culture.
(*) See The Black Cauldron
Disney and furry
Bambi, being the first Disney film with an all-animal cast, bears mentioning as an influential film in furry fandom, but 1994's The Lion King stands out bar-none as the most popular. It could not have come at a better time, as the emerging furry fandom was finding its way onto the then-infant graphical internet. Many other Disney films are also known for their influences on Furry Fandom, including Robin Hood (the first Disney animated film with an entirely "funny animal" cast), Brother Bear (with its themes of human-to-non-human transformation and animal spirit guides) and its second-most successful animated film Zootopia (emphasizing a city of anthropomorphic animals).
Beauty and the Beast and Lilo & Stitch could be also be considered of interest to the furry community. Beauty and the Beast's protagonist Belle has to fall in love with the prince in his "beast" form, although she is unaware that he is actually a human prince. Lilo & Stitch features the animalistic, "fluffy", alien genetic experiment Stitch, who learns to bond with Lilo Pelekai through ʻohana, a Hawaiian concept of extended family, while its television sequels and spin-offs also feature a large number of other genetic experiments, who are also animalistic artificial alien creatures like him.
See also
External links
- Disney.com - Walt Disney's official website
- Disney on Facebook
- The Walt Disney Company on Twitter
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