The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923 where it

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In this short film made by Disney in 1923, a young girl played by Virginia Davis, visits Disney Studios and the animators show her various scenes on their drawing board. This film also stars Walt Disney who is shown to be the main animator. More information on this film can be found here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013823/


In 1938 Disney started to produce coloured animations. The first one they did was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...

Since this film was released, Disney has produced many more animated stories like this one such as...

• Beauty and the Beast
• Sleeping Beauty
• Little Mermaid
• Pocahontas
• Hercules
• Robin Hood
• Peter Pan
• Pinocchio
• Bambi
• Lady and the Tramp
• The Jungle Book
• Aristo Cats
• The Emperor's New Groove
• And Many more...

The Walt Disney Studios distributes motion pictures under Walt Disney Pictures - which includes Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios and DisneyToon Studios - Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures.

The top ten highest grossing films for Disney are:

• Finding Nemo (2003)
• The Lion King (1994)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
• The Incredibles (2004)
• Monsters, Inc. (2001)
• Toy Story 2 (1999)
• Aladdin (1992)
• Toy Story (1995)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
• Tarzan (1999)

The new and upcoming movies by Disney are:

• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
• Winnie the Pooh
• Cars 2
• Prep and Landing

Disney are widely known for the children's films that they produce. This is shown through the Disney channel that they have; everything is shown to be fun and colourful.

...And also the website is full of colour and child friendly material.

Disney uses a range of technology and software.

• Ptex - A texture mapping system
• SeExpre - Expression Language
• Reposado - is a set of tools written in Python that replicate the key functionality of Mac OS X Server's Software Update Service
• Partio - is an open source C++ library for reading, writing and manipulating a variety of standard particle formats (GEO,BGEO,PTC,PDB,PDA).
• munki - is a set of tools that, used together with a webserver-based repository of packages and package metadata, can be used by Mac OS X administrators to manage software installs (and in many cases removals) on Mac OS X client machines.
• Dynamica - is a plug-in for Maya that provides an interface to the Bullet rigid body engine.
• Pythoscope - is a unit test generator for programs written in Python.