"and officiated a trend of similar films, which followed with ""The Jungle Book"" (2016) and ""Beauty and the Beast"" (2017). By July 2016, Disney had announced development of nearly eighteen of these films consisting of sequels to existing adaptations, origin stories and prequels. Disney identified this line as ""Disney Fairy Tale"" in its enlarged slate announcement on October 8, 2015 with four scheduled without titles attached. Despite the renewed focus on tentpole films, the studio continued to produce successful smaller-budgeted films, such as ""The Muppets"" (2011), ""Saving Mr. Banks"" (2013), and ""Into the Woods"" (2014). Walt Disney Pictures also took"
"evolution of the fairy tale film. Some of the earliest short silent films from the Disney studio were based on fairy tales, and some fairy tales were adapted into shorts in the musical comedy series ""Silly Symphony"", such as ""Three Little Pigs"". Walt Disney's first feature-length film ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", released in 1937, was a ground-breaking film for fairy tales and, indeed, fantasy in general. Disney and his creative successors have returned to traditional and literary fairy tales numerous times with films such as ""Cinderella"" (1950), ""Sleeping Beauty"" (1959) and ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991). Disney's influence"
"Hundred and One Dalmatians"" (1961), ""The Sword in the Stone"" (1963), and ""The Jungle Book"" (1967). Disney first became interested in live-action films as a means of using financial reserves which had built up in Britain, and could not be repatriated owing to exchange controls, by making two films from Scottish and English sources. These were ""Treasure Island"" (1950) and ""The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men"" (1952), which were both successes at the box office. The studio continued to draw on British source material for its animated films after Walt Disney's death in 1967, with the cartoon"
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest Disney animated feature film. The story was adapted by storyboard artists Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Merrill De Maris, Otto Englander, Earl Hurd, Dick Rickard, Ted Sears and Webb Smith. David Hand was the supervising director, while William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce"
"""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937), ""Pinocchio"", ""Fantasia"" (both 1940), ""Dumbo"" (1941), and ""Bambi"" (1942), furthered the development of animated film. New animated and live-action films followed after World War II, including the critically successful ""Cinderella"" (1950) and ""Mary Poppins"" (1964), the latter of which received five Academy Awards. In the 1950s, Disney expanded into the amusement park industry, and in 1955 he opened Disneyland. To fund the project he diversified into television programs, such as ""Walt Disney's Disneyland"" and ""The Mickey Mouse Club""; he was also involved in planning the 1959 Moscow Fair, the 1960 Winter Olympics, and"
"for accusations of racial stereotyping. In 1950, Disney produced ""Cinderella"". ""Cinderella"" was an enormous success, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1950, and became Disney's most successful film since ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" and Disney's first single narrative feature film since ""Bambi"". Disney's company started to diversify, producing live-action feature films beginning with ""Treasure Island"" (1950) and nature documentaries of which ""Seal Island"" (1948) was the first. Due to this, Walt Disney was needed on several different units at one time and was spending less time on animation, although he was always present at story-meetings. In 1951, he released"
"Walt Disney Studios is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Walt Disney Productions began production of their first feature-length animated film in 1934. Taking three years to complete, ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", premiered in December 1937 and became the highest-grossing film of that time by 1939. In the 1940s, Disney began experimenting with full-length live-action films, with the introduction of hybrid live action-animated films such as ""The Reluctant Dragon"" (1941) and ""Song of the South"" (1946). That same decade, the studio began producing nature documentaries with the release of ""Seal Island"" (1948), the first"
"""Alice in Wonderland"" and ""Dumbo"" were among the first movies to be released on home video. They were also among the first Disney films to be released on TV (chosen to promote Disneyland of which the two films have prominent rides). Disney has kept this ""tradition"" by having them always released to the public. It is because of the tradition that Disney has never vaulted these films because they have become so saturated in the market that vaulting it would have been meaningless. Nonetheless they have been very successful on Home Video, equivalent to that of the Disney Vault movies."
"strong Disney influence to the cartoon by choosing an animal for the leading role, and decided to pick a mole after stumbling over a molehill during a walk. The first film called """"Jak krtek ke kalhotkám přišel"""" (""""How the mole got his trousers"""") had premiere on Venice Film Festival in 1957, where it was awarded two Golden Lions. Production for further episodes started in 1963 and since then, around 50 episodes have been created. The first episode of the cartoon was narrated, but Miler wanted the cartoon to be understood in every country of the world, so he decided to"
"My Heart"" (1948) featured animated segments, while the ""True-Life Adventures"" series, which included such films as ""Seal Island"" (1948) and ""The Vanishing Prairie"" (1954), were also popular. Eight of the films in the series won Academy Awards. The release of ""Cinderella"" in 1950 proved that feature-length animation could still succeed in the marketplace. Other releases of the period included ""Alice in Wonderland"" (1951) and ""Peter Pan"" (1953), both in production before the war began, and Disney's first all-live action feature, ""Treasure Island"" (1950). Other early all-live-action Disney films included ""The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men"" (1952), ""The"
"the first film on June 20, 2006. The Special Edition DVD went back into the Disney Vault on January 31, 2007. A new Special Edition was released on a Blu-ray and DVD combo pack on August 21, 2012. The new Special Edition Blu-ray/DVD combo pack went back into the Disney Vault on April 30, 2013. In 1911, just two days before the Fourth of July, two years and a few months after the events of the first film, Lady and Tramp have three well-mannered daughters, Annette, Danielle, and Collette, and a rambunctious son named Scamp. After Scamp makes a mess"
"on story development alone, which proved its worth when the Disney studio released in 1933 the first-ever animated short to feature well-developed characters, ""Three Little Pigs"". In 1935, Tex Avery released his first film with Warner Brothers. Avery's style was notably fast-paced, violent, and satirical, with a slapstick sensibility. Many consider Walt Disney's 1937 ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" the first animated feature film, though at least seven films were released earlier. However, Disney's film was the first one completely made using hand-drawn animation. The previous seven films, of which only four survive, were made using cutout, silhouette or"
"an exclusive contract with Technicolor (through the end of 1935) to produce cartoons in color, beginning with ""Flowers and Trees"" (1932). Disney released cartoons through Powers' Celebrity Pictures (1928–1930), Columbia Pictures (1930–1932), and United Artists (1932–1937). The popularity of the Mickey Mouse series allowed Disney to plan for his first feature-length animation. The feature film ""Walt Before Mickey"", based on the book by Diane Disney Miller, featured these moments in the studio's history. Deciding to push the boundaries of animation even further, Disney began production of his first feature-length animated film in 1934. Taking three years to complete, ""Snow White"
"Snow White (franchise) Snow White is a Disney media franchise that began in 1937 with the theatrical release of ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"". ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" is a 1937 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel animated feature film and the first Disney animated feature film. Disney is planning a live-action spin-off film revolving around the character Rose-Red from the story ""Snow-White and Rose-Red"", who will be added into the plot of"
"the first film, and initially considered the Fountain of Youth as the plot device. They settled on introducing Davy Jones, the ""Flying Dutchman"" and the Kraken, a mythology mentioned twice in the first film. They introduced the historical East India Trading Company (also mentioned in the first film), which for them represented a counterpoint to the themes of personal freedom represented by pirates. Filming for the sequels began on February 28, 2005, with """" finishing on March 1, 2006, and """" on January 10, 2007. The second film was also the first Disney theatrical feature film with the computer-generated Walt"
"(1941), ""Went the Day Well?"" (1942), ""The Way Ahead"" (1944) and Noël Coward and David Lean's celebrated naval film ""In Which We Serve"" in 1942, which won a special Academy Award. These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's ""The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"" (1943), ""A Canterbury Tale"" (1944) and ""A Matter of Life and Death"" (1946), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film ""Henry V"", based on the Shakespearean history ""Henry V"". The success of ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" allowed Disney to make more animated features like ""Pinocchio"" (1940), ""Fantasia"" (1940),"
"Best Picture nomination: ""Mary Poppins"" (1964), ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991), ""Up"" (2009), and ""Toy Story 3"" (2010). Walt Disney Pictures has produced four films that have grossed over $1 billion at the worldwide box office: """" (2006), ""Alice in Wonderland"" (2010), """" (2011), and ""Beauty and the Beast"" (2017); and has released five animated films that have reached that milestone: ""Toy Story 3"" (2010), ""Frozen"" (2013), ""Zootopia"", ""Finding Dory"" (both 2016), and ""Incredibles 2"" (2018). —Includes theatrical reissue(s). Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Pictures, formally known as Buena Vista Pictures, is an American film studio and a subsidiary of"
"(1941) 2. Bambi (1942) 3. Animated Classics of the 40s (1941 – 1948) 1. Song of the South (1946) 2. Cinderella (1950) 3. Peter Pan (1953) 1. Lady And The Tramp (1955) 2. Sleeping Beauty (1959) 3. The Vanishing Prairie (1954) 1. The Later Animated Years (1961 – 1973) 2. The Rescuers (1977) 1. Mary Poppins (1964) 1. Pete's Dragon (1977) 2. Live Music From The Magic Kingdoms 3. Music Of The Magic Kingdom Attractions The Magical Music of Walt Disney The Magical Music of Walt Disney is a 4-volume compilation album of Disney music and songs up through 1978,"
"renamed again to Walt Disney Productions. The studio's streak of success continued in the 1930s, culminating with the 1937 release of the first feature-length animated film, ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", which becomes a huge financial success. With the profits from ""Snow White"", Walt relocated to a third studio in Burbank, California. In the 1940s, Disney began experimenting with full-length live-action films, with the introduction of hybrid live action-animated films such as ""The Reluctant Dragon"" (1941) and ""Song of the South"" (1946). That same decade, the studio began producing nature documentaries with the release of ""Seal Island"" (1948), the"
"past"". The only film not included in this collection was the subsequently released ""Get a Horse!"" (2013) which first premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and was shown ahead of ""Frozen"". Mickey Mouse (film series) Mickey Mouse (originally Mickey Mouse Sound Cartoons) is a character-based series of 130 animated short films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The films, which introduced Disney's most famous cartoon character, were released on a regular basis from 1928 (""Plane Crazy"") to 1953 with four additional shorts released between 1983 and 2013. The series is notable for its innovation with sound synchronization and"
"Mickey Mouse (film series) Mickey Mouse (originally Mickey Mouse Sound Cartoons) is a character-based series of 130 animated short films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The films, which introduced Disney's most famous cartoon character, were released on a regular basis from 1928 (""Plane Crazy"") to 1953 with four additional shorts released between 1983 and 2013. The series is notable for its innovation with sound synchronization and character animation, and also introduced well-known characters such as Minnie Mouse, Pluto, and Goofy. The name ""Mickey Mouse"" was first used in the films' title sequences to refer specifically to the character, but"
"of lions who oversee a large swath of African savanna as their ""kingdom"" known as the Pride Lands, with their leader Simba watching over it as ""king"". The first three animated films are widely known for being influenced by the works of William Shakespeare, as well as other works based on his material. ""The Lion King"" is the original film of the franchise. It was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, premiered in selected cities on June 15, 1994, and widely released to theaters on June 24, 1994 by Walt Disney"
"first and original Disney Princess. A main character in Walt Disney Animation Studios' 1st animated feature film ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937), Snow White is a beautiful young princess, described by her evil stepmother's Magic Mirror as having 'hair as black as ebony, lips as red as the rose, skin as white as snow' and also dubbed by the Mirror as the 'Fairest Of Them All'. She is forced to seek refuge in the home of the seven dwarfs where she hides from her evil stepmother, Queen Grimhilde, who got angered by the fact that Snow White's beauty"
"had its initial public offering. The studio continued releasing animated shorts and features, such as ""Pinocchio"" (1940), ""Fantasia"" (1940), ""Dumbo"" (1941), and ""Bambi"" (1942). After World War II began, box office profits declined. When the United States entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor, many of Disney's animators were drafted into the armed forces. The U.S. and Canadian governments commissioned the studio to produce training and propaganda films. By 1942, 90% of its 550 employees were working on war-related films. Films such as the feature ""Victory Through Air Power"" and the short ""Education for Death"" (both 1943) were"
"series. Examples of this include several ""Silly Symphonies"", ""Don Donald"" (1937), and ""Goofy and Wilbur"" (1939). ""Mickey Mouse"" began production in April 1928 after the Disney studio lost the license to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. The first two films, ""Plane Crazy"" and ""The Gallopin' Gaucho"", were previewed in theaters but failed to pick up a distributor. For the third film, Disney added synchronized sound, a technology that was still in its early stages at the time. ""Steamboat Willie"" debuted in New York in November 1928 and was an instant success. The revenues from the film provided the studio with much"
"Disney, the nephews were usually called Morty and Monty. Earlier books contain three or more nephews with various names, including Maisie and Marmaduke. In animation, Mickey's nephews first appear in the 1933 ""Mickey Mouse"" film ""Giantland"", although the film shows Mickey with as many as 14 nephews at the same time. The following year the nephews appear again in ""Gulliver Mickey"". The following film, ""Mickey's Steam Roller"", is the first to show Mickey with only two nephews, who can be presumed to be Morty and Ferdie, although they are unnamed in the film itself. This was two years after the"
"by cartoons starring Mickey Mouse, Figaro, and in the 1950s, Chip 'n' Dale and Humphrey the Bear. In addition, Disney began reissuing the previous features, beginning with re-releases of ""Snow White"" in 1944, ""Pinocchio"" in 1945, and ""Fantasia"" in 1946. This led to a tradition of reissuing the Disney films every seven years, which lasted into the 1990s before being translated into the studio's handling of home video releases. In 1948, Disney returned to the production of full-length features with ""Cinderella"", a full-length film based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. At a cost of nearly $3 million, the"
"Down Under"" (1990), ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991), ""Aladdin"" (1992), ""The Lion King"" (1994), ""Pocahontas"" (1995), ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1996), ""Hercules"" (1997), ""Mulan"" (1998) and ""Tarzan"" (1999). After the deaths of Walt and Roy O. Disney (in 1966 and 1971, respectively), The Walt Disney Studios were left in the hands of Donn Tatum, Card Walker, and Ron Miller. The films released over an eighteen-year period following this change of management did not perform as well commercially as their prior counterparts. An especially hard blow was dealt during production of ""The Fox and the Hound"" when long-time animator Don"
"the film's initial release in 1989 – Yahoo! users voted """"The Little Mermaid"""" as No. 14 on the top 30 animated films of all time. Later, when Yahoo! updated the list in June of the same year, the film remained on the list but dropped six slots to end at #20. (Only three other traditionally animated Disney animated films - ""Aladdin"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", and ""The Lion King"", respectively - scored above it in the poll even after the update.) In 2011, Richard Corliss of ""TIME"" Magazine named it one of ""The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films"". ""The Little"
"the Seven Dwarfs"" by Disney, ""Gulliver's Travels"" by Fleischer Studios, and ""Pinocchio"" (1940), also by Disney. All of these were loose adaptations of literary sources. After the war, Disney continued to make animated features that could be classified as family films given the scope of its content. According to Wojcik, the most important film adaptations of children's literature in the immediate post-World War II period were the motion pictures ""The Diary of Anne Frank"" by George Stevens (1959), ""Treasure Island"" (1950) by Byron Haskin and Luigi Comencini's 1952 motion picture ""Heidi"". In the 1960s, motion pictures such as ""To Kill"
"in October of each year. ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" was the first film to receive this honor in 2001. The two following titles, ""Beauty and the Beast"" and ""The Lion King"" were both released in IMAX and other giant screen theaters during the holiday season before their October DVD releases. Due to underperforming box office results, this tradition was terminated after ""Aladdin"". In May 2003, Disney announced that they would be adding the next four best-selling titles to the collection. Starting in 2005, a Platinum Editions was released in October and February/March. Another tradition practiced for these releases"
"regained their popularity, with Disney's ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991), ""Aladdin"" (1992), and ""The Lion King"" (1994). During 1995, the first feature length computer-animated feature, ""Toy Story"", was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Disney. After the success of Toy Story, computer animation would grow to become the dominant technique for feature length animation, which would allow competing film companies such as DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox to effectively compete with Disney with successful films of their own. During the late 1990s, another cinematic transition began, from physical film stock to digital cinema technology. Meanwhile, DVDs became"
"of Mickey Mouse in 1928. Here, too, the first color animated film, the ""Silly Symphony"" ""Flowers and Trees"", and the first animated cartoon using the multiplane camera, ""The Old Mill"", were created. In 1937, the Hyperion studio produced the world's first full-length animated feature film, ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"". Disney's staff began to grow to a substantial size at the Hyperion studio, and Disney Legends such as Disney's Nine Old Men began their careers there. The Hyperion studio site was sold in 1940 and divided between two different industrial manufacturers, and in 1966 a subsequent owner demolished what"