Walt Disney Productions is the former name of The Walt Disney Company, which it held from 1929 to 1986.
Walt Disney Productions was also the studio banner for "Disney movies," since for much of its history the company focused on film production. In 1983, that banner was replaced by Walt Disney Pictures. See List of notable Disney feature films.
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WaltDisney is particularly noted for being a successful storyteller, a hands-on film producer, and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design.
WaltDisney's ancestors emigrated from Gowran, County Kilkenny in Ireland.
Disney began hosting a weekly anthology series on ABC named Disneyland after the park, where he showed clips of past Disneyproductions, gave tours of his studio, and familiarized the public with Disneyland as it was being constructed in Anaheim, California.
Disney founded entertainment giant The WaltDisney Company and is considered the father of the animation industry.
When Disney was a teenager the family returned to Chicago, where he studied art and photography at McKinley High School and attended night classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.
Disney animated features of this period included Peter Pan (1953), Lady and the Tramp (1955), Sleeping Beauty (1959), One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), and The Sword in the Stone (1963).