* March 24 – Michael Eisner, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, and French Prime Minister and future President of France, Jacques Chirac, sign the agreement to construct the Euro Disney Resort ( now called Disneyland Paris ) and to develop the Val d ' Europe area of the new town Marne-la-Vallée in Paris, France.

Before the park debuted on October 1, 1982, Walt Disney World Ambassador Genie Field introduced E. Cardon Walker, Disney's chairman and CEO, who dedicated EPCOT Center.

* March 1, 1978: Walt Disney Productions CEO Card Walker reveals plans for the theme park EPCOT Center

In March 2010, Disney CEO Robert Iger stated that there were no plans to release the movie on DVD, calling the film " antiquated " and " fairly offensive ".

In February 2006, Disney CEO Bob Iger initiated a trade with NBC Universal in which a number of minor assets, including the rights to Oswald, were acquired by The Walt Disney Company in exchange for sending sportscaster Al Michaels from Disney's ABC and ESPN to NBC Sports.

The company is working with the Bob Weis, the recently named new CEO of Disney Imagineering based in Orlando, Florida, to improve the tourist area around Graceland, which is located in an economically depressed area of Memphis, while keeping intact the historic home.

* Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, has a home in Sherman.

* Robert Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company

The Tokyo Disney Resort is headed by Toshio Kagami, who is the secretary general ( CEO ) of the Oriental Land Company.

Disney escaped Steinberg's attempt by paying him greenmail, but in its aftermath CEO Ron W. Miller resigned, to be replaced by Michael Eisner.

Completed in 1990 and designed by Michael Graves, the Team Disney Burbank building contains the office of President and CEO Robert A. Iger, as well as the boardroom for the Board of Directors.

In 2009, following the death of former Walt Disney Feature Animation Chairman, Roy E. Disney, the building was renamed and rededicated in his honor by The Walt Disney Company's president and CEO, Bob Iger.

When he was passed over for the job, though, he left to look for work elsewhere and lobbied for the position of CEO of The Walt Disney Company.

His resignation from the board in 1984, which occurred in the midst of a corporate takeover battle, was the beginning of a series of developments that led to the replacement of company president and CEO Ronald William Miller ( married to Walt's daughter Diane Marie Disney ) by Michael Eisner and Frank Wells.

One of Roy Disney's stated reasons for engineering his second " Save Disney " initiative had been Eisner's well-publicized but financially unjustified dissatisfaction with long-time production partner Pixar Animation Studios and its CEO Steve Jobs, creators of shared hits Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and other critically acclaimed computer animated motion pictures.

Former CEO Eisner, who still holds 1. 7 % of shares, became Disney's second-largest shareholder, and Director Emeritus Roy Disney, with 1 % of shares, became its third-largest owner.

Shamrock Holdings, which Roy Disney chaired and Stanley Gold runs as CEO, is an investment company which managed Roy Disney's personal investments.

According to a Los Angeles Times article, part of this effort was to allow directors more creative control as collaborators on their projects and to give them the creative freedom to use traditional animation techniques — a reversal of former CEO Michael Eisner's decision that Disney would do only digital animation, which Catmull thought was the wrong idea of how Pixar's films did well.

The next year, along with producer George Lucas, he was able to indulge himself by making Captain EO ( 1985 ), a 12-minute space fantasy for Disney theme parks starring pop superstar Michael Jackson.

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 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).

There were tensions during shooting between director Michael Bay and the Walt Disney Company executives who were supervising the production.

Disney chairman Michael Eisner stated " I don't think either side thought Toy Story would turn out as well as it has.

Starting in 1986 when Gladstone took over publishing the title they have also included new stories by American creators Don Rosa, John Lustig, Pat McGreal, Dave Rawson, Michael T. Gilbert and William Van Horn along with translations of European Disney comics by such creators as Daan Jippes, Fred Milton and Romano Scarpa originally published by Oberon, Egmont and Disney Italy / Mondadori.

The emerging potential for success in web video has caught the eye of some of the top entertainment executives in America, including former Disney executive and current head of the Tornante Company, Michael Eisner.

In 1994, the death of Disney President and Chief Operating Officer Frank Wells, and the departure of studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg to co-found DreamWorks, left Michael Eisner in full control of the company.

Public rifts grew between the animation staff and management, as well as between Michael Eisner and Roy E. Disney.

After 30 years of resisting offers to produce television animation, Disney finally relented once Michael Eisner, who had a background in TV, took over.

During the later years of Michael Eisner's management, friction between Disney and Pixar grew to a point that Pixar considered finding another partner when they could not reach an agreement over profit sharing.

Formerly known as the Team Disney Burbank building, Team Disney-The Michael D. Eisner Building is the main building located at The Walt Disney Studios.

On January 23, 2006, in honor of Michael Eisner's 21-year leadership of the company, the Team Disney building was rededicated as Team Disney-The Michael D. Eisner Building.

The Disney Legends plaza, located between the Team Disney: The Michael D. Eisner building and the Frank G. Wells building, is the central hub for the Disney Legends award and pays homage to its recipients.

On 28 February Litvack made an offer ( without the consent of Eisner or Frank Wells ) to split the debts between Euro Disney's creditors and Disney.

Roy Disney, now back on the Board as its Vice-Chairman, convinced Eisner to let him supervise the animation department, whose future was in doubt after the disappointing box office performance of its big-budget PG-rated feature, The Black Cauldron.

In 1990, he was awarded the prestigious Disney Legend award, the company's highest honor, presented to him by Michael Eisner.

Its shareholders Sid Bass and Roy E. Disney brought in Eisner and former Warner Brothers chief Frank Wells to replace Ron W. Miller in 1984 and strengthen the company.

In the early part of the 1990s, Eisner and his partners set out to plan " The Disney Decade " which was to feature new parks around the world, existing park expansions, new films, and new media investments.

When Eisner did not appoint Walt Disney Studios chief Jeffrey Katzenberg to Wells ' now-available post, Katzenberg resigned and formed DreamWorks SKG with partners Steven Spielberg and David Geffen.

Chancellor William B. Chandler, III of the Delaware Court of Chancery, despite describing Eisner's behavior as falling " far short of what shareholders expect and demand from those entrusted with a fiduciary position ..." found in favor of Eisner and the rest of the Disney board because they had not violated the letter of the law ( namely, the duty of care owed by a corporation's officers and board to its shareholders ).

On March 3, 2004, at Disney's annual shareholders ' meeting, a surprising and unprecedented 43 % of Disney's shareholders, predominantly rallied by former board members Roy Disney and Stanley Gold, withheld their proxies to re-elect Eisner to the board.

Diana wanted William and Harry to have a broader range of experiences than previous royal children and took both to venues that ranged from Disney World and McDonald's to AIDS clinics and shelters for the homeless.

Later, when Disney Comics took Gladstone's place, they published some more of his stories, and in 2003, the same happened with Gemstone Publishing, that is publishing his stories in the US at the moment.

As well as attending Saturday courses at the Kansas City Art Institute, Walt often took Ruth to Electric Park, 15 blocks from their home, which Disney would later acknowledge as a major influence of his design of Disneyland.

In 1917, Elias acquired shares in the O-Zell jelly factory in Chicago and moved his family back to the city, where in the fall Disney began his freshman year at McKinley High School and took night courses at the Chicago Art Institute.

It subsequently took his company 78 years to get back the rights to the Oswald character when in 2006 the Walt Disney Company reacquired the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from NBC Universal, through a trade for longtime ABC sports commentator Al Michaels.

By the time producer Charles Mintz took away the Oswald series from Disney, Pete had been established as the most consistently appearing supporting character to Oswald.

The tour, facilitated by Nelson Rockefeller, who had recently been appointed as Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs ( CIAA ), took Disney and a group of roughly twenty composers, artists, technicians, etc.

The use of budget-cutting animation measures in animation dates at least to the 1920s ; a handful of the Bosko cartoons in the early years of the Looney Tunes series used several visible tricks ( such as mirror images and repeated scenes ) to give the shorts the comparable appearance of the Disney shorts of the same era, even though they were produced on a budget of just over half of their Disney counterparts ( Disney himself was known to recycle animation in his early years as well ); meanwhile, Max Fleischer took the obvious shortcut of recording the entire soundtrack in one session after the animation was completed in his 1930's cartoons ; he also made frequent use of " mumbling " to avoid the need to synchronize animating mouths to voices.

On April 6, 1997, The Disney Channel shortened its name to simply " Disney Channel " ( however, promos that ran until September 2002 often referred to the channel only as " Disney " and the logo often omitted the " Channel " in the network's name ) took on a revamped look including the introduction of a new logo, which featured a 1930s-era Mickey Mouse on a black Mickey ear-shaped TV.

Anne Sweeney, a veteran cable executive, took control of Disney-ABC Television Group in 2004 and successfully remade Disney Channel into " the major profit driver in the company.

Disney Junior took over the channel space currently held by Disney-ABC Television Group-owned SOAPnet ( a channel airing soap operas ), with the closure of SOAPnet citing the continued decrease in popularity of the soap opera genre on broadcast television and the growth of video on demand ( including the online streaming availability for soap operas ) and digital video recorders negating the need for a linear channel devoted to the format.

Disney considered continuing the franchise in further films and a prime-time television series with Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo attending high school, which was to be broadcast on ABC, but the plans never took off because Duff's representatives claimed she was not being paid enough for the proposed series.

Mintz revealed to Disney that he had hired most of his staff away from the studio ( except for Ub Iwerks, Les Clark and Wilfred Jackson who refused to leave ) and threatened that unless he took a 20 % budget decrease, he would drop Disney and continue the Oswald series by himself.

Merchandising based on Disney cartoons rescued a number of companies from bankruptcy during the depths of the Depression, and Disney took advantage of this popularity to move forward with further innovations in animation.