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'''The Walt Disney Company''' (commonly referred to as '''Disney''') is the largest media group in the world.

In 1934 they decided to go one step further and create their first full-length film, ''[[Snow White and Thethe Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]''. Everybody predicted failure and told them to stop before it was too late. It became the highest grossing movie of all time, until ''[[Gone Withwith the Wind]]'' took the crown 2 years later, and won eight (admittedly honorary) Oscars.

With the success of ''Snow White'' the company could expand and create the films from the forties such as ''[[Dumbo]]'' and ''[[Bambi (Disney)|Bambi]]''. Due to the second world war movie-making was slow, meaning films that were in production from before the war didn't get released until afterwards (such as ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''. This era was the busiest for Disney, releasing five or six pieces every year - many eventually becoming classics. [[Disney Theme Parks|The first Disneyland]] was opened in 1955.

In 1966 [[Walt Disney]] died and his brother, Roy, became CEO of the company and renamed Disney World "Walt Disney World". The last films [[Walt Disney]] worked on, ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'' and ''The Happiest Millionaire'' in 1967.

In the years after that, the company continued with its creative momentum gradually draining with the more ambitious members of the management frustrated by the constant overhang of "What would Walt do?" Through the 1970s, the obvious answer to that of emulating Walt's penchant for taking big budgeted creative dares was not one of them as the company's live action films became largely a bunch of family safe comedies and sequels to their one really successful post-Walt film ''[[The Love Bug]]''.

When the senior management finally fell to Walt's son in law, Ron Miller in that same period, the company was its nadir with only the theme parks being consistently profitable. To his credit, he did make some positive moves like taking a chance with innovative films like ''[[Tron]]'' and planned to create more adult oriented film through the new branch, [[Touchstone Pictures]].

However, these efforts weren't enough and few Board of Directors dissenters like Roy Disney Jr. decided to take action. In a board room coup, Miller was ousted and Michael Eisner, Jeffery Katzenberg and Frank Wells (predominately from [[Paramount]]) took over. In its ten years of existence, this management trio revived the company with inexpensive but well received adult fare like the comedy films with relatively faded stars at the time like [[Nick Nolte]] and [[Bette Midler]].

The trio's faith in Disney's Animation proved a dicier proposition with the department's one grandfather feature film project, ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'' proved a major flop. However, the much cheaper and more successful subsequent film, ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'' in 1986 convinced the trio to give the animators a chance. This paid off handsomely as the expensive later film, ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' proved a sensation 1988 and ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' in 1989 set off the [[The Renaissance Age of Animation|Disney Renaissance]] with a series of spectacular blockbusters that brought the company more money and prestige than they ever dreamed. Meanwhile, the company made their own waves on TV with a new commitment to TV animation with superb big budget animated shows like ''[[Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]'', ''[[DuckDuckTales Tales(1987)]]'' and ''[[Gargoyles]]'' dramatically raising the bar of what TV animation could be.

Unfortunately, the trio fell apart when Frank Wells was killed in a skiing helicopter accident and the moderator to Eisner's ego was removed. This led to infighting with Jeffery Katzenberg who eventually left to form [[Dream WorksDreamWorks]] and Eisner assumed more control with the company declining with his increasingly inept hands. At the same time, the contracted computer animation house, [[Pixar]], transformed feature animation with its largely astoundingly series of smash hit animated features while Disney's in house cel- animated films were increasingly overshadowed. Even worse for Disney, the new field of computer animation allowed competitors to finally sidestep the [[All Animation Is Disney]] public prejudice and allowed new competitors to get their own piece of the pie, most notably [[Dreamworks Animation]].

Over the years, Disney has acquired various other companies to join its mass media productions such as [[Miramax Films]] (in 1993), [[DiC Entertainment]] (in 1995), [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] in 1996 (which included [[ESPN]]), [[Pixar]] in 2006 (before they were merely the publishers of their films), and [[Marvel Comics]] in 2009 and Lucasfilm in 2012. Of those, the first two would be sold away again (Miramax was sold to investors in 2010, and [[Di C]]DiC was sold back to Andy Heyward in 2000).

See: [[Noteworthy Disney Staff]], [[DisneysDisney's Nine Old Men]] and [[Walt Disney]].

** [[Where's My Water (Video Game)|Where's My Water?]]

** [[Peter and Thethe Starcatchers|Peter and the Starcathers]]

** [[Disney Princess|Disney Princesses]]es

** ''[[PetesPete's Dragon (Disney)|Petes Dragon]]'' (1977)

** ''[[Tron (Film)|Tron]]'' (1982)

*** ''[[Tron Legacy (Film)|Tron: Legacy]]'' (2010)

** ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' (1988)

** ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (Film)|Honey, I Shrunk the Kids]]'' (1989)

** ''[[The Rocketeer (Filmfilm)|The Rocketeer]]'' (1991)

** ''[[The Mighty Ducks (Filmfilm)|The Mighty Ducks]]'' (1992)

** ''[[Homeward Bound: theThe Incredible Journey]]'' (1993)

** ''[[Prince of Persia: theThe Sands of Time (Film)|Prince of Persia the Sands of Time]]'' (2010)

** ''[[John Carter (Filmfilm)|John Carter]]'' (2012) (A rather Large Flop, costing over 200 million out of the company vault.)

* [[Disney Onon Ice]]

** [[Marvel Comics]]/[[Marvel Universe]] (2009-present2009–present)

** ''[[The Muppets]]'' (2004-present2004–present)

** [[Touchstone Pictures]] (1984-present1984–present)

** Disneynature (2008-present2008–present)

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