The Walt Disney Company was founded by Roy and Walt Disney in 1923. From 1923 to 1928 they made many silent era films in L.A. California. During WW Two Walt and his brother wanted to make everyone around the United States happy by making fun movies. “In 1937, Disney's innovative first full length animated feature, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, was released to critical acclaim and worldwide success. In order to expand and meet the expectations of his audience, Walt saw a need to increase the size of his studio. With profits from SNOW WHITE, he made a deposit on 51 acres of land in Burbank and began designing a modern studio specifically for the purpose of making animated films http://studioservices.go.com/disneystudios/history.html.
After Walt had a dream of making people happy through movies. He had a dream to make people happy in a different way. In 1953 Walt bought 160 acres outside of LA in farmland that is now Orange County. He had an idea of water, mountains, waterfalls and much more. “When the real designing came around, Walt was met with inevitable questions. How do you make believable wild animals, that aren't real? How do you make a Mississippi paddle ship? How do you go about building a huge castle in the middle of Anaheim, California? So, Walt Disney looked to his movie studio staff for the answers. The design of Disneyland was something never done before. There would be five uniquely different lands.” http://www.justdisney.com/disneyland/history.html. At the time there was nothing like this anywhere, but he wanted it done and he said that it could be done. On opening day there was 6,000 invitations that were given out and 25,000 tickets were sold. Walt was 53 on opening day. Today there are four different parks around the world. Disneyland, Disney World, Disney Tokyo and Disney Paris, they are the most profitable theme parks in the world.
Disney also owns ABC. The biggest step that ABC made was EPSN in 1984. They are now considered the worldwide leader in sports. In 1995 there was a up and coming movie studio that started by making movies with only computers and Disney bought them and they are Pixar. They had their big brake through in 1995 with Toy Story. “Nine for nine. Nine movies, nine hits. Since they created the first entirely computer animated feature film in 1995, Pixar Animation Studios have been on an unparalleled winning streak. In addition to grossing over $2 billion domestically, Pixar has won ten Academy Awards, including last month's Oscar for Best Animated Feature for "WALL-E." http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/need-to-know-pixar-history.html.
Disney is not only one of my favorite companies in the world, but I love everything that they do. I think they are a company that does everything the right way and they try their best at everything they do.
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