The Walt Disney Company

Mickey Mouse, the hero of the Walt Disney Company.

• The Walt Disney Company is an American mass media company, and has become one of the largest film companies in all of the film industry.
• The ‘Walt Disney Company’ is also known as ‘Disney’, and has number of divisions or segments within the company itself, which include Disney Media Networks, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, The Walt Disney Studios, Disney Consumer products and Disney Interactive.
• The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923 by Walt and Roy Disney, although the company was originally named the ‘Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio’.
• The first films produced by the Walt Disney Company were a series called the Alice Comedies, which were silent films.
• The Walt Disney Company owns the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network, as well as other cable networks, a number of Disneyland theme parks and resorts, and a fleet of cruise ships.

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• The Disney cartoon character, ‘Mickey Mouse’ (originally ‘Mortimer’), was created in 1928, and is a popular mascot of the Walt Disney Company.
• The first full-length animation film produced by the Walt Disney Company was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfsreleased in 1937, with production starting in 1934, and was a huge success at the box office.
• In 2012, the Walt Disney Company had a total revenue of over $42 million USD.
• The Walt Disney Company studio is located in Burbank California, United States.
• The first Disneyland, a fun theme park created by the Walt Disney Company, opened in 1955 which eventually became a success for the company, and within a few years it also housed the first monorail system in America.

Bibliography:
Disney History, The Walt Disney Country, n.d, <http://thewaltdisneycompany.com/about-disney/disney-history/1920-01-01–1929-12-31>

The Walt Disney Company, 2013, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company>

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