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The Walt Disney Studios corporate headquarters in Burbank, California, 2016

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Founded on October 16, 1923, as an animation studio by brothers Walt and Roy Oliver Disney as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Disney operated under the names Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before adopting its current name 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 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 sector, 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 from 1989 to 1999. In 2005, under the new CEO Bob Iger, the company continued to expand into a major entertainment conglomerate with the acquisitions of Pixar in 2006, Marvel Entertainment in 2009, Lucasfilm in 2012, and 21st Century Fox in 2019. 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. Josh D'Amaro became CEO of Disney in 2026.

Disney operates the largest television and film studio in Hollywood. Walt Disney Studios 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 operating 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+, 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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Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC is an American film and television production company and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, which is a business segment of The Walt Disney Company. The studio is best known for creating and producing the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as its leadership in developing special effects, sound, and computer animation for films. Lucasfilm was founded by filmmaker George Lucas in 1971 in San Rafael, California; most of the company's operations were moved to San Francisco in 2005. Disney acquired Lucasfilm on October 30, 2012, for $4.05 billion in the form of cash and stock, with $1.855 billion in stock.

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Ollie Johnston in his home workshop in 1989.

Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr. (October 31, 1912 – April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death. He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company with its Disney Legend Award in 1989. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005.

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Image 1An aerial view of Disneyland in 2004 (from Disneyland)
Image 2The Sherman Brothers in 2002. They composed many Disney songs in the 1960s. (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 3Disney's childhood home in Chicago (from Walt Disney)
Image 4Main Street, USA
(2010) (from Disneyland)
Image 5Disneyland fireworks from Sleeping Beauty Castle (from Disneyland)
Image 6Walt Disney (center) showing Orange County officials plans for Disneyland's layout, December 1954 (from Disneyland)
Image 7The 2018 version of The Walt Disney World logo. (from Walt Disney World)
Image 8The 1996 version of The Walt Disney World logo (from Walt Disney World)
Image 9Mickey's Toontown
(Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway) (from Disneyland)
Image 10Frontierland
(Big Thunder Mountain Railroad) (from Disneyland)
Image 11An aerial shot of the Magic Kingdom from the Seven Seas Lagoon in 1982 (from Walt Disney World)
Image 12Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room was the first attraction to use Audio-Animatronics (from Disneyland)
Image 13Wedding Pavilion at the Seven Seas Lagoon (from Walt Disney World)
Image 14The original animation building at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, which they fully moved into in 1940 (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 15The resort's Friendship Boats can be found providing transportation between Disney's Hollywood Studios (pictured), EPCOT, and the EPCOT Resort Area. (from Walt Disney World)
Image 16Disney (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)
Image 17Disney in 1954 with Wernher von Braun (from Walt Disney)
Image 18The Walt Disney World Monorail System provides free transport across the resort.
Image 19Adventureland entrance
(from Disneyland)
Image 20New Orleans Square
(the Haunted Mansion) (from Disneyland)
Image 21Michael Eisner replaced Ron Miller as CEO. (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 22Excerpt of Steamboat Willie (1928), the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon. (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 23Team 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 24Walt, Florida Governor W. Haydon Burns, and Roy announcing the plans for Disney World in November 1965 (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 25The original logo of Walt Disney World from 1971 to the mid-1990s. This logo is still used on retro merchandise. (from Walt Disney World)
Image 26Main Street at Disneyland, as seen from a horseless carriage (from Disneyland)
Image 27Walt (center) showing the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954 (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 28Monorail Red travels over the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage in Tomorrowland in 2008. (from Disneyland)
Image 29Disney (middle row, right) in a Winkler Pictures advertisement, 1927 (from Walt Disney)
Image 30Disney bought The Muppets from the Jim Henson Company in 2004. (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 31Disney with his family at Schiphol Airport, 1951 (from Walt Disney)
Image 32Tomorrowland
(Space Mountain) (from Disneyland)
Image 33Disney drawing Goofy for a group of girls in Argentina, 1941 (from Walt Disney)
Image 34Roy E. Disney, Roy O. Disney's son, was head of the animation department until 2003. (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 35Disney's business envelope featured a self-portrait, c. 1921 (from Walt Disney)
Image 36Aerial view of the Team Disney Orlando building (from Walt Disney World)
Image 37A portrait of Disney with cartoon representations of different nationalities on a 6-cent U.S. postage stamp, 1968 (from Walt Disney)
Image 38Bob Iger became CEO of Disney in 2005, expanding the company's properties (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 39One of four arches welcoming guests to the resort (from Walt Disney World)
Image 40Characters from Disney Animation's Alice in Wonderland host "Disneyland Musical Chairs" at Coca-Cola Refreshment Corner, accompanied by a ragtime pianist in 2005. (from Disneyland)
Image 41Hollywood Studios' Park icon, the Chinese Theatre (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 42Disney receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964 from President Lyndon B. Johnson. (from Walt Disney)
Image 43Disney with film roll and Mickey Mouse on his right arm in 1935 (from Walt Disney)
Image 44The window of Walt Disney's personal apartment, located on the second-story of the firehouse building (from Disneyland)
Image 45Overlay 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 46Disney Wish docked at the pier at Castaway Cay, August 2022 (from Disney Cruise Line)
Image 47Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (from Disneyland)
Image 48Disney shows the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954 (from Walt Disney)
Image 49Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island (from Disneyland)
Image 50Disneyland aerial view, 1963, which includes the new Melody Land Theater at the top of the photo (from Disneyland)

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Jeff "Swampy" Marsh (born December 9, 1960) is an American television director, writer, producer, storyboard artist, and actor associated with several animated television series. Marsh was born in Santa Monica, California, where he grew up with a heavily blended family dynamic. Marsh has been and continues to be a driving force behind several animation projects, working for over six seasons on the animated television series The Simpsons. Marsh continued to work on other animated television series, including King of the Hill and Rocko's Modern Life, before moving to England in 1996. While in England, Marsh worked on several animated programs, including Postman Pat and Bounty Hamster, and worked for BKN New Media Ltd. to produce several feature films. After six years living in England, Marsh was asked by his longtime partner Dan Povenmire to help produce Phineas and Ferb in 2007, a concept the two had while working together on Rocko's Modern Life. Marsh accepted and moved back to the United States; the series has since garnered Marsh two Emmy Awards nominations for songwriting.

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... that early designs for Aloy were scrapped after market testing revealed that players felt she had an unbelievable "Disney princess" quality?
... that the Miller House in Indiana opened to the public in 2011, drawing high visitor numbers that were likened to the opening of a new Disney ride?
... that Nine Inch Nails wrote the soundtrack to a Walt Disney World ride?
... that the horses pulling the Disneyland Main Street Vehicles' streetcars include Belgians, Brabants, Clydesdales, Percherons, and Shires?
... that Boston's Quincy Market, once described by the city's mayor as an "eyesore", later became more popular than Disney World?
... that the pirate anime streaming site HiAnime had more visitors than legal competitors like Crunchyroll or Disney+?

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...that Dan Povenmire was at a Wild Thyme restaurant in South Pasadena, California, when he first drew the character Phineas Flynn?

...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 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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