The Disney Company: The History Of The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, known generally as Disney, is an american entertainment conglomerate located in Burbank, California. In terms of revenue, it's the second largest media conglomerate behind the cable giant, Comcast.

Disney was founded by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney in 1923. Throughout the earliest years they stabilshed themselves as a leader in animation and live action media. Later on, they would also begin to include other forms of entertainment and theme parks.

The first silent film that was created by Walt Disney, was created in 1928, called "Steamboat Willy" and feature the iconic Mickey Mouse. "Steamboat Willy" was a hit, all signs point to the sicronized sound as well as the appeal of the Mickey Mouse character as a reason

This facility was designed by Ken Weber under the supervision of both Walt Disney and Roy Disney. This collection of buildings are the only remaining ones from the Golden Age of the film industry. The entire Walt Disney Studios production site was created around the concept of animation. This was the central concept for creating the departments such as "Story Development", "Music", "Ink and Paint", etc.

Disney brought on the likes of Howard Ashley, lyricist, and composer Alan Menkin, both of whom had a lot of Broadway experience, as well as having worked on previous productions such as "Little Shop of Horrors", they composed two songs for the film. "The Little Mermaid" beat out Bluth's "All Dogs Go To Heaven" in the box office upon release and eventually grossed more than "The Land Before Time" had when it was initally released, then the highest grossing animated film. The Academy Awards awarded the film "Best Original Song" as well as two additional

Although the Renassaince period of Disney is mostly pertaining to their theatrical endeavours, they were also heavily successful in television animation from the period of 1987 through 1997.

In 2006, Disney outright purchased Pixar for U$7.4 billion and the Pixar executives were the president and chief creator officers of Disney Animation, in addition to continuing to manage Pixar. This reorganization also affected many projects already underways, such as production entitled "American Dog" which was written by Chris Sanders. Eventually this production was rewritten and had some ideas moved around and eventually became "Bolt". Chris Sanders reportedly did not like a lot of the changes to the story and was eventually replaced by Chris Williams and Bryan Howard as directors for the movie.

This movie is seen as a turning point for modern Disney cinema and is now known as the Revival Era of Disney's history. Althoug it should be noted that many people disagree with that statement. "Tangled" was released in 2010 and continued Disney's new direction for the studio with even more positive critical reception. "Tangled" is a fairytale loosely based on the classic tale "Rapunzel". It received several nominations. In 2011, they followed up with "Winnie, the Poo", which only received modest return in the box office, even though it claimed a lot of critical