Walt Disney Company• The largest media
and entertainment conglomerate in the world
• October 16, 1923 • Brothers Walt and
Roy Disney • The biggest
Hollywood studio
• Walt arrived in California in the summer 1923
• Short film in Kansas City about cartoon world: Alice’s Wonderland
• New character• With his chief animator he designed a
mouse• First wanted to named it Mortimer• His wife preferred Mickey• A star was born• First sound cartoon
• November 18, 1928
• Immediate sensation around the world
• December 21, 1937
• first full-length animated musical feature
• It took three years that the film was finished
• 1950 live action film: Treasure Island
• Classic animated features: Cinderella
• Fantasia (1940)• Dumbo (1941)
• Bambi (1942)
• 1951
• Peter Pan (1953)
• 1955
• 1967
• Sleeping Beauty (1959)
• 1970
• Winnie The Pooh (1977)
• 1988
• 1989
• Aladdin (1992)
• Beauty And The Beast(1991)
• 1994
• Diseney Princess
Different Way• 1995• Partnership with Pixar
Animation• First computer-
animated feature films
Successful Disney/Pixar Collaborations
• Finding Nemo
• “It all started with a mouse”
• It began with a visionary named Walt Disney