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