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The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (/ˈdɪzni/), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Studio; 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. Early on, the company established itself as a leader in the animation industry, with the creation of the widely popular character Mickey Mouse, who is the company's mascot, and the start of animated films.

After becoming majorly successful by the early 1950s, the company started to diversify into live-action films, television, and theme parks. Following Walt's death in 1966, the company's profits began to decline, especially in the animation division. Once Disney's shareholders voted in Michael Eisner as the head of the company in 1984, the studio began to see an overwhelming amount of success during a period called the Disney Renaissance. In 2005, under new CEO Bob Iger, the company started to expand and acquire other corporations. Bob Chapek became head of Disney in 2020 after Iger's retirement.

Since the 1980s, Disney has created and acquired corporate divisions in order to market more mature content than is typically associated with its flagship family-oriented brands. 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. Disney's other main business units include divisions in television, broadcasting, streaming media, theme park resorts, consumer products, publishing, and international operations. Through these various segments, Disney owns and operates the ABC broadcast 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+, Star+, ESPN+, Hulu, and Hotstar; and Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, several theme parks, resort hotels, and cruise lines around the world. (Full article...)

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Pixar Animation Studios (/ˈpɪksɑːr/), commonly known as just Pixar, is an American computer animation studio known for its critically and commercially successful computer animated feature films. It is based in Emeryville, California, United States, and is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, which is another studio owned by The Walt Disney Company. Pixar started in 1979 as part of the Lucasfilm computer division, known as the Graphics Group, before its spin-off as a corporation in 1986, with funding from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder.

Disney purchased Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4+ billion by converting each share of Pixar stock to 2.3 shares of Disney stock. Pixar is best known for its feature films, technologically powered by RenderMan, the company's own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan Interface Specification image-rendering API. The studio's mascot is Luxo Jr., a desk lamp from the studio's 1986 short film of the same name. Pixar has produced 26 feature films, starting with Toy Story (1995), which is the first fully computer-animated feature film; its most recent film was Lightyear (2022). The studio has also produced many short films. As of July 2019^[update], its feature films have earned approximately $14 billion at the worldwide box office, with an average worldwide gross of $680 million per film.

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Ollie Johnston in his home workshop in 1989.

Credit: Janke

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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These are images of Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Disney Cruise Line, The Walt Disney Company, and Walt Disney in their respective articles.

Image 1Main Street at Disneyland, as seen from a horseless carriage (from Disneyland)
Image 2The Walt Disney World Monorail System provides free transport across the resort.
Image 3Magic Kingdom, the world's most visited theme park (from Walt Disney World)
Image 4Tree of Life at Disney's Animal Kingdom (from Walt Disney World)
Image 5Mickey's Toontown
(2010) (from Disneyland)
Image 6Entrance to Disney's Blizzard Beach waterpark (from Walt Disney World)
Image 7Fantasyland
(Peter Pan's Flight and the Matterhorn Bobsleds) (from Disneyland)
Image 8Walt Disney (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 World)
Image 9Disney's childhood home
Image 10Walt (center) showing the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954 (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 11Disney family at Schiphol Airport (1951) (from Walt Disney)
Image 12The Hub of Magic Kingdom with Cinderella Castle in the background (from Walt Disney World)
Image 13The park's icon, Sleeping Beauty Castle, in 2019 (from Disneyland)
Image 14Alice and characters from her movie host "Disneyland Musical Chairs" at Coca-Cola Refreshment Corner, accompanied by a ragtime pianist. (from Disneyland)
Image 15Wedding Pavilion at the Seven Seas Lagoon (from Walt Disney World)
Image 16New Orleans Square
(the Haunted Mansion and Fantasmic! viewing area in 2010) (from Disneyland)
Image 17Aerial shot of Disney's Typhoon Lagoon water park (from Walt Disney World)
Image 18Disney drawing Goofy for a group of girls in Argentina, 1941 (from Walt Disney)
Image 19Monorail Red travels over the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage in Tomorrowland. (from Disneyland)
Image 20Main Street, U.S.A.
(2010) (from Disneyland)
Image 21Tomorrowland
(Space Mountain in 2010) (from Disneyland)
Image 22Roy O. Disney finished the building of Walt Disney World. (from Walt Disney)
Image 23Spaceship Earth at Epcot (from Walt Disney World)
Image 24Paddlefish restaurant at Disney Springs (from Walt Disney World)
Image 25One of four arches welcoming guests to the resort (from Walt Disney World)
Image 26The Chinese Theatre at Disney's Hollywood Studios (from Walt Disney World)
Image 27An aerial view of Disneyland in 2004 (from Disneyland)
Image 28View of Disney Springs (from Walt Disney World)
Image 29Critter Country
(Splash Mountain in 2010) (from Disneyland)
Image 30Map of the resort as of May 2015 (from Walt Disney World)
Image 31Cinderella Castle at Magic Kingdom (from Walt Disney World)
Image 32Disney in 1935 in Place de la Concord, Paris (from Walt Disney)
Image 33Roy O. Disney inspecting design plans on-site in Florida (from Walt Disney World)
Image 34Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
(Star Wars: Millennium Falcon – Smugglers Run in 2019) (from Disneyland)
Image 35Adventureland
(themed for a 1950s view of adventure, capitalizing on the post-war Tiki craze) (from Disneyland)
Image 36Slogan: The Most Magical Place on Earth (from Walt Disney World)
Image 37Disneyland aerial view, 1963, which includes the new Melody Land Theater at the top of the photo (from Disneyland)
Image 38Disney in 1946 (from Walt Disney)
Image 39Theatrical poster for Trolley Troubles (1927) (from Walt Disney)
Image 40Disney in 1954 (from Walt Disney)
Image 41The Walt Disney Studios corporate headquarters in Burbank, California, 2016 (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 42The 2018 version of The Walt Disney World logo. (from Walt Disney World)
Image 43Disney Security Vehicle, picture taken July 2, 2009 in front of Epcot (from Walt Disney World)
Image 44A Disney Cruise Line bus which takes guest to and from the terminal from Orlando International Airport; as well as around Walt Disney World. (from Disney Cruise Line)
Image 45Walt Disney introduces each of the seven dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937 Snow White theatrical trailer. (from Walt Disney)
Image 46Walt Disney's business envelope featured a self-portrait, c. 1921. (from Walt Disney)
Image 47Grave of Walt Disney at Forest Lawn, Glendale (from Walt Disney)
Image 48Disneyland Railroad Engine 2 (from Disneyland)
Image 49Disney shows the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954. (from Walt Disney)
Image 50Frontierland
(Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in 2008) (from Disneyland)
Image 51Fantasmic! finale on July 4, 2010 (from Disneyland)
Image 521968 U.S. postage stamp (from Walt Disney)
Image 53Disneyland fireworks from Sleeping Beauty Castle (from Disneyland)
Image 54The original logo of Walt Disney World from 1971 to the mid 1990s; this logo is still used as an alternate logo, mainly for retro-themed merchandise. (from Walt Disney World)
Image 55Walt Disney (center) showing Orange County officials plans for Disneyland's layout, December 1954 (from Disneyland)
Image 56An aerial shot of Walt Disney World in 1982 (from Walt Disney World)

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Steve Jobs (b. 1955, d. 2011) was an American business magnate and inventor. He is co-founder, chairman, and former chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in the 1995 film Toy Story as an executive producer. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until 2011. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1% until its acquisition by The Walt Disney company in 2006. In 2011, Apple announced that Steve Jobs had died at the age of 56.

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... that after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, Admiral José Toribio Merino described ousted President Salvador Allende's GAP security force as "Disney-movie style ... kids playing bandits"?
... that before the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Manhattan opened, its workers were sent to Walt Disney World for training?
... that the Los Angeles Times criticized Disney for contracting their interactive storybooks to independent studios, deeming their series "a mere imitation" of Broderbund's Living Books format?
... that Auliʻi Cravalho was the last person to audition for the role of the eponymous character in Moana and was ultimately cast for the role?
... that in response to Disney's stance on Florida's House Bill 1557, also known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, Pixar employees stated that Disney removes LGBT references from the studio's films?
... that some TikTokers make videos about whether to smash or pass Disney characters?

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Golf? Are they in season?

— Goofy

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...that Walt Disney's grandson Walter Elias Disney Miller produced a film about his grandfather called Walt - The Man Behind the Myth?
... that Elsa the Snow Queen, a protagonist in Walt Disney's Frozen, was originally written as a villain?
... 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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