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The Walt Disney Company, commonly and globally 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 Disney 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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Phineas and Ferb (also known as Disney's Phineas and Ferb) is an American animated television series. Originally broadcast as a preview on August 17, 2007, on Disney Channel, the series follows two suburban stepbrothers on summer vacation. Each day the pair devise ambitious, involved plans and inventions to stave off boredom, often bringing them into conflict with their snoopy sister, Candace. The series follows a standard plot system; running gags occur every episode, and the B-Plot almost always features the boys' pet platypus acting as a secret agent to fight an evil scientist named Heinz Doofenshmirtz. The two plots intersect at the end to erase all traces of the boys' project just before Candace can show it to their mother.

Creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh worked together on the Nickelodeon series Rocko's Modern Life. Phineas and Ferb was conceived after Povenmire sketched a triangular boy — the blueprint for the titular Phineas — in a restaurant. Povenmire and Marsh developed the series concept together and pitched to networks for 16 years before securing a run on Disney Channel. The series is also known for its musical numbers, which have appeared in every episode since the first-season "Flop Starz". Disney's managers particularly enjoyed the episode's song, "Gitchee, Gitchee Goo", and requested that a song appear in each subsequent episode. The show's creators write and record each number, and vary musical tempo depending on each song's dramatic use. The music has gotten the series two Emmy nods for songwriting in 2008.

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Image 1Frontierland
(Big Thunder Mountain Railroad) (from Disneyland)
Image 2Mickey's Toontown
(Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway) (from Disneyland)
Image 3The Sherman Brothers in 2002. They composed many Disney songs in the 1960s. (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 4Grave of Walt Disney at Forest Lawn, Glendale (from Walt Disney)
Image 5Disneyland fireworks from Sleeping Beauty Castle (from Disneyland)
Image 6The Walt Disney World Monorail System provides free transport across the resort.
Image 7Main Street at Disneyland, as seen from a horseless carriage (from Disneyland)
Image 8Bayou Country
(Tiana's Bayou Adventure) (from Disneyland)
Image 9Disney (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 10View of Disney Springs (from Walt Disney World)
Image 11Michael Eisner replaced Ron Miller as CEO. (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 12Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island (from Disneyland)
Image 13Disney's childhood home in Chicago (from Walt Disney)
Image 14Main Street, USA
(2010) (from Disneyland)
Image 15New Orleans Square
(the Haunted Mansion) (from Disneyland)
Image 16Disney drawing Goofy for a group of girls in Argentina, 1941 (from Walt Disney)
Image 17One of Disney's first animated characters, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which Disney regained the rights to in 2006. The initial run of Oswald shorts by Disney entered the public domain in 2024. (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 18The park's "FriendShip" water taxis can be found providing transportation between Disney's Hollywood Studios (pictured), EPCOT, and the EPCOT resort area. (from Walt Disney World)
Image 19Wedding Pavilion at the Seven Seas Lagoon (from Walt Disney World)
Image 20An aerial shot of Walt Disney World in 1982 (from Walt Disney World)
Image 21Disneyland Railroad Engine 2 at the New Orleans Square station. (from Disneyland)
Image 22Walt (center) showing the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954 (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 23The original animation building at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, which they fully moved into in 1940 (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 24A portrait of Disney with cartoon representations of different nationalities on a 6-cent U.S. postage stamp, 1968 (from Walt Disney)
Image 25Tomorrowland
(Space Mountain) (from Disneyland)
Image 26Team 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 27Disney Magic, the first vessel in the fleet, sailing along Tallinn Bay in 2017 (from Disney Cruise Line)
Image 28The "Happiest Homecoming on Earth" celebrated the 50th anniversary of the theme park. Sleeping Beauty Castle was altered for the occasion. (from Disneyland)
Image 29Bob Iger became CEO of Disney in 2005, expanding the company's properties (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 30Monorail Red travels over the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage in Tomorrowland in 2008. (from Disneyland)
Image 31Roy O. Disney inspecting design plans on-site in Florida (from Walt Disney World)
Image 32Disney's video streaming subscription service Disney+ was launched in 2019, which has a total of over 135 million subscriptions as of June 2022. (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 33Disneyland aerial view, 1963, which includes the new Melody Land Theater at the top of the photo (from Disneyland)
Image 34Overlay 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 35Walt (right) dressed as a gaucho next to Donald Duck in Argentina while on the company's South American goodwill trip in 1941. (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 36Disney in 1954 with Wernher von Braun (from Walt Disney)
Image 37Characters 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 38The window of Walt Disney's personal apartment, located on the second-story of the firehouse building (from Disneyland)
Image 39The 1996 version of The Walt Disney World logo (from Walt Disney World)
Image 40Jeffrey Katzenberg was chairman of the Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1995. (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 41Disney family at Schiphol Airport (1951) (from Walt Disney)
Image 42One of four arches welcoming guests to the resort (from Walt Disney World)
Image 43Hollywood Studios' Park icon, the Chinese Theatre (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 44Disney shows the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954 (from Walt Disney)
Image 45Fantasyland
(Peter Pan's Flight in the foreground and the Matterhorn Bobsleds in the background) (from Disneyland)
Image 46An aerial view of Disneyland in 2004 (from Disneyland)
Image 47The 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 48Walt Disney (center) showing Orange County officials plans for Disneyland's layout, December 1954 (from Disneyland)
Image 49Adventureland entrance
(from Disneyland)
Image 50Disney bought The Muppets from the Jim Henson Company in 2004. (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 51Walt, Florida Governor W. Haydon Burns, and Roy announcing the plans for Disney World in November 1965 (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 52Disney Wish docked at the pier at Castaway Cay, August 2022 (from Disney Cruise Line)
Image 53Disney's promotional logo for its centennial. (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 54Excerpt of Steamboat Willie (1928), the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon. (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 55The 2018 version of The Walt Disney World logo. (from Walt Disney World)
Image 56Disney receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964 from President Lyndon B. Johnson. (from Walt Disney)
Image 57alt=The Disney Treasure at Grand Cayman (from Disney Cruise Line)
Image 58Fantasmic! finale on July 4, 2010 (from Disneyland)
Image 59Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
(Star Wars: Millennium Falcon – Smugglers Run) (from Disneyland)
Image 60Disney security vehicle, picture taken July 2, 2009 in front of Epcot (from Walt Disney World)
Image 61Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room was the first attraction to use Audio-Animatronics (from Disneyland)
Image 62Disney with film roll and Mickey Mouse on his right arm in 1935 (from Walt Disney)
Image 63Walt Disney's business envelope featured a self-portrait, c. 1921 (from Walt Disney)
Image 64Roy E. Disney, Roy O. Disney's son, was head of the animation department until 2003. (from The Walt Disney Company)
Image 65Walt Disney introduces each of the seven dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937 Snow White theatrical trailer (from Walt Disney)

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Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and author. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Duff appeared in local theatre plays and television commercials before coming to prominence in the title role of the Disney Channel television series Lizzie McGuire. Established as a teen idol, Duff reprised that role in the The Lizzie McGuire Movie and subsequently ventured into motion pictures, appearing in a string of successful films that include Agent Cody Banks, Cheaper by the Dozen, A Cinderella Story and Cheaper by the Dozen 2. Most recently, she has performed in a legion of television dramas and independent films. Duff expanded her repertoire to include pop music and has released three RIAA-certified platinum albums including Metamorphosis (2002), her debut studio album which was certified triple platinum, Hilary Duff (2004) and Most Wanted (2005), which were both certified platinum. Her most recent studio album Dignity (2007) was certified gold and spawned her highest charting US single to date "With Love". Followed by Best of Hilary Duff (2008), a compilation of her greatest hits, Duff has since sold thirteen million records worldwide. Branching into the fashion industry, Duff has launched her own clothing lines Stuff by Hilary Duff and Femme for DKNY Jeans in addition to being signed with IMG Models and releasing two exclusive perfume collections with Elizabeth Arden. Her other business ventures include writing a series of young adult novel, including Elixir (2010) and Devoted (2011), while working as an executive producer for According to Greta and as a producer for Material Girls and Beauty & the Briefcase.

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... that cyclist Mike Allen compared participating in the Olympics to Disneyland?
... that the horses pulling the Disneyland Main Street Vehicles' streetcars include Belgians, Brabants, Clydesdales, Percherons, and Shires?
... that a popular song has been used by Apple, the White House, an MLB stadium, and a Disney film?
... 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 a Wookiee holiday first depicted in the Star Wars Holiday Special was commemorated at Disney's theme parks 44 years later?
... that Nine Inch Nails wrote the soundtrack to a Walt Disney World ride?

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Who me? Oh, no! I've got a belly ache!

— Donald Duck, The Wise Little Hen (1934)

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...that the Phineas and Ferb episode "Are You My Mummy?" originally aired as part of "Phineas and Ferb-urary," a special event which showed episodes of the series every night in February 2008 on Disney Channel?

...that child actor Joey Pollari was 15 years old when he appeared in the Disney XD film, Skyrunners?

...that Walt Disney's grandson Walter Elias Disney Miller produced a film about his grandfather called Walt - The Man Behind the Myth?
...that Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest set several records in its first three days, with an opening weekend of $136 million.
... that the most valuable cartoon movie poster was a poster for the Walt Disney short, Alice's Day at the Sea (USA 1924), was sold in London England at $36534.00 in 1994.

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