He then stopped working for them because the policies of their licensor Disney did not allow for the return of original art for a story to its creators.

Lee's lawsuit claimed that she was due royalties for video tapes, a technology that did not exist when she agreed to write and perform for Disney.

Mainly Scarpa worked on Disney comics, but many years ago he used to do something non-Disney once in a while, so he did one ( Rolf Kauka's ) Lupo story and one ( Hannah and Barbera's ) Yogi Bear story.

In 1992, Chris Carter joined Fox as new writer, being tired of unsuccessful comedy shows which he did mostly while at Disney.

Unlike his prior films ( or any that would follow ), The Straight Story was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures after a successful debut at Cannes, was given a G rating by the MPAA and is the only Lynch film for which Lynch himself did not have a hand in the screenplay ( although it was co-written by his recurring associate, Mary Sweeney ).

Next, Burton wrote and produced ( but did not direct, due to schedule constraints on Batman Returns ) The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ) for Disney, originally meant to be a children's book in rhyme.

Disney went to New York in February 1928 to negotiate a higher fee per short and was shocked when Mintz told him that not only did he want to reduce the fee he paid Disney per short but also that he had most of his main animators, including Harman, Ising, Maxwell, and Freleng — but not Iwerks, who refused to leave Disney — under contract and would start his own studio if Disney did not accept the reduced production budgets.

Originally named " Mortimer ", the mouse was later re-christened " Mickey " by Lillian Disney who thought that the name Mortimer did not fit.

After Walt Disney died in 1966 before his vision was realized, the Disney Company board decided that it did not want to be in the business of running a city, and eventually abandoned many of his ideas for Progress City.

The Disney Company board decided that it did not want to be in the business of running a city.

Disney died before the Magic Kingdom opened and the Walt Disney Company decided that it did not want to be in the business of running a city.

After Disney's death, The Walt Disney Company decided that it did not want to be in the business of running a city without Walt's guidance.

Iwerks then did contract work for Screen Gems ( then Columbia Pictures ' cartoon division ) before returning to work for Disney in 1940.

Unlike the Disney shorts, in which Oswald did not speak, Lantz's cartoons began to feature actual dialogue for Oswald, although most of the cartoons were still silent to begin with.

Curiously enough, however, Pluto was the only standard Disney character not included when the whole gang was reunited for the 1983 featurette Mickey's Christmas Carol, although he did return in The Prince and the Pauper ( 1990 ) and Runaway Brain ( 1995 ).

Disney did contact Taylor about the project, but by then work on Pinocchio, Bambi, and development on his new Burbank studio kept him too busy to work on the new feature.

On September 16, 2002, the Vault Disney block was discontinued in favor of same-day repeats of the channel's original and off-network series, primarily to contribute to the network's then-upcoming " hip " image ; the removal of the block resulted in Disney Channel not featuring any programming targeted at adult audiences for the first time in the channel's history – with the only programming that intentionally targets the entire family being the channel's primetime feature films ; as of June 2011, Disney Channel is the only one of the largest American children's cable networks that does not target both kids during the daytime, and a family / adult audience at night ( Nickelodeon, The Hub and Cartoon Network each feature program blocks that target such a dual audience ).

Their enthusiasm attracted many other artists at Disney, who came by the garage to contribute their time and artistry to the project.

In the Disney film, the Dodo plays a much greater role in the story, and plays the role of Pat in Alice's infamous growth-in-the-house scene.

: A much abridged revision of the adventures of Dr. Syn appeared as a short comic serialized in the monthly publication Disney Adventures.

After reading the Edwin G. Lutz book Animated Cartoons: How They Are Made, Their Origin and Development, Disney considered cel animation to be much more promising than the cutout animation he was doing for Cauger.

Additionally, Walt Disney disliked the businesses that had sprung up around Disneyland and wanted control of a much larger area of land for the new project.

Several Disney attractions employ the use of animatrons, robots that look, move, and speak much like human beings, in some of their theme park shows.

In the spring of 1928, Disney lost control of the Oswald character, and much of his staff was hired away ; Disney left Universal soon afterwards.

The film has never been released in its entirety on home video in the USA, because of content which Disney executives believe would be construed by some as politically incorrect and racist toward black people, and is thus subject to much rumor.

Disney, together with Iwerks, decided to create a second cartoon titled Trolley Troubles featuring a much younger, neater Oswald.

Oscar the Grouch also appeared in the Cartoon Network show MAD, in the episode " WALL-E-Nator ", Wall-E from Disney / Pixar's film WALL-E cubes Oscar the Grouch for too much garbage, then the girl exclaims " A square!

After extensive negotiations and much media and industry speculation, on March 30, 2005, Disney and the Weinsteins announced that they would not renew their contractual relationship when their existing agreements expired at the end of September 2005.

However, Lillian Disney, Walt's wife, believed the name " Mortimer " sounded too much like ' mortified ' and ' mortician ' and suggested the name Mickey instead, so " Mortimer " later became the name of Mickey's rival.

* The 2004 Disney Channel Original Movie, Zenon: Z3 portrays Selene as a native resident of the moon and is addressed ( by alternative spelling ) as " Selena ", who serves as an antagonist to the titicular character ( Zenon herself ) and much of her time in the second latter half of the movie, threatening to prevent the colonization of the moon so she can get back to living in peace.

But the basic philosophy of what we're planning for Disney World is going to remain very much as it is right now ".

In 2005, for example, a proposal to air Kids Incorporated as part of The Disney Channel's Saturday night teen line-up fell through when Disney officials suggested removing much of the music and replacing it with blooper reels.

The hiring of Wein has been championed by the comic book creative community as an alternative to the much disliked former Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter, who had made a favorable impression when interviewed by Disney management.

In July 2009, Disney XD acquired the rights to the series, though it was quickly moved from prime-time to late night airings, and only episodes from seasons 1-3 are aired, mainly because those episodes are more appropriate for young viewers and does not contain as much mature themes and sexual content as later episodes.

Through much of its history, the studio was considered one of the lowest-quality houses in the field, to the point where Paul Terry noted, " Disney is the Tiffany's in this business, and I am the Woolworth's.

On May 29, 1941, shortly after Rough Animation on Dumbo was complete, much of the Disney studio staff went on the Disney animators ' strike.

Like most Disney films, it is based on the general plot of the original story, but much of the substance of the story is considerably changed.

The smaller budgets forced Harman and Ising to recycle footage much more often than Disney did.

Although they contributed to much of what would later be known as the Disney style, they have been dismissed as mere copycats.

None of the early movies hint at the social activism that would become the hallmark of Keller's later life, although a Disney version produced in 2000 states in the credits that she became an activist for social equality.

FutureSplash was used by Microsoft in its early work with the Internet ( MSN ), and also by Disney Online for their subscription-based service, Disney's Daily Blast.

In the early 1990s she retained famed entertainment attorney Neil Papiano to sue Disney for royalties on Lady and the Tramp.

In early August 2007, Disney began offering a similar guided tour in its Disney California Adventure Park park in California.

After the release of Steamboat Willie, Disney successfully used sound in all of his subsequent cartoons, and Cinephone also became the new distributor for Disney's early sound cartoons.

Other publishers of early Westwood games included Infocom and Disney.

* February 15 – The Alice Comedy Alice Solves the Puzzle is released at 6: 54 a. m. by Disney Studios, introducing Bootleg Pete ( an early prototype for Pegleg Pete ) for the first time.

In the early 1990s, the Disney Development Company ( DDC ) established the Celebration Company to spearhead its development within approximately of land in the southern portion of the Reedy Creek Improvement District.

Disney CEO Michael Eisner took an especially keen interest in the development of the new town in the early days, encouraging the executives at Disney Development Company to " make history " and develop a town worthy of the Disney brand and legacy that extended to Walt Disney's vision of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow ( EPCOT ).

( Powers and Disney had an earlier falling-out over Disney's use of the Powers Cinephone sound-on-film system — actually copied by Powers from DeForest Phonofilm without credit — in early Disney cartoons.

In the 1996 The Simpsons episode " The Day the Violence Died ", a relationship similar to Iwerks ' early relationship with Walt Disney is used as the main plot.

While Mulan outgrossed the two Disney films which preceded it, The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1996 film ) and Hercules, its box office returns failed to match those of the Disney films of the early 1990s such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King.

As early as October, 1945, a newspaper strip named Walt Disney Presents " Uncle Remus " and His Tales of Brer Rabbit appeared in the United States, and this production continued until 1972.

The storyboarding process, in the form it is known today, was developed at the Walt Disney Studio during the early 1930s, after several years of similar processes being in use at Walt Disney and other animation studios.

The form widely known today was developed at the Walt Disney studio during the early 1930s.

According to biographer Neal Gabler, Walt Disney disliked the Goofy cartoons, thinking they were merely " stupid cartoons with gags tied together " with no larger narrative or emotional engagement and a step backwards to the early days of animation.

In early 1941, before U. S. entry into World War II, the United States Department of State commissioned a Disney goodwill tour of South America, intended to lead to a movie to be shown in the US, Central, and South America as part of the Good Neighbor Policy.

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.