Starting with 1989's The Little Mermaid, the Disney Renaissance gave new life to the Film Musical.

With the financial and critical success of The Sixth Sense in August 1999, Shyamalan gave the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group a first look deal for Unbreakable.

Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U. S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland.

In the words of one Disney employee, " Ub designed Mickey's physical appearance, but Walt gave him his soul.

Lillian became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter, Diane Marie Disney, on December 18, 1933.

After extensive lobbying, the Government of Florida created the Reedy Creek Improvement District, a special government district that essentially gave the Disney Company the standard powers and autonomy of an incorporated city.

Lantz consulted Disney about Oswald and he gave Lantz his blessing to continue the Oswald series as the Mickey Mouse shorts had become more successful, so the two became close friends.

Pluto was initially a minor character until 1934, when Disney animator Norm Ferguson gave the dog a key role in the cartoon Playful Pluto.

Disney then gave Hench season tickets to the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo with backstage access so he could learn more about it.

Nash left Donald's " footprints " at the Grauman's Chinese Theater | Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Nash went through several of his voices, and Walt Disney happened by when Nash gave his impersonation of a family of ducks.

Disney signed a contract with Technicolor which gave the Disney studio exclusive rights to the new three-strip process through the end of 1935, and had a 60 % complete Symphony, Flowers and Trees, scrapped and redone in full color.

In 1937 Disney invented the multiplane camera which gave an illusion of depth to the animated world.

( This same deal gave back the Walt Disney produced Oswald The Lucky Rabbit cartoons that were originally distributed by Universal.

Although the United States Army gave Walt Disney the first crack at creating the cartoons, Leon Schlesinger of the Warner Bros. animation studio underbid Disney by two-thirds and won the contract.

In 1985, the Walt Disney Company gave away a pair of slippers to promote the film.

Likewise, when the sound era of cartoons began in the late 1920s, early animators such as Walt Disney gave characters like Mickey Mouse ( who already resembled blackface performers ) a minstrel-show personality ; the early Mickey is constantly singing and dancing and smiling.

In the early days of the studio Walt Disney gave 20 % of the profits of the short cartoons to his employees as bonuses.

As a token of appreciation the Disney Company gave Efteling a small statue.

'" His good friend Bill Walsh, a producer at Disney Studios, gave Reeves a prominent role in Westward Ho, the Wagons!

After making some stories for the Dutch publisher Oberon, the publishers of an American Disney children's magazine called DuckTales ( based on of the animated series of the same name ) offered him employment.

Disney also approached him to direct W. I. T. C. H.

After Frankenweenie was completed, Disney fired Burton, under the pretext of him spending the company's resources on doing a film that would be too dark and scary for children to see.

In Marceline, Disney developed his love for drawing with one of the family's neighbors, a retired doctor named " Doc " Sherwood, paying him to draw pictures of Sherwood's horse, Rupert.

Disney sent an unfinished print to New York distributor Margaret Winkler, who promptly wrote back to him that she was keen on a distribution deal for more live-action / animated shorts based upon Alice's Wonderland.

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.

After losing the rights to Oswald, Disney felt the need to develop a new character to replace him, which was based on a mouse he had adopted as a pet while working in his Laugh-O-Gram studio in Kansas City.

After the release of Flowers and Trees, all subsequent Silly Symphony cartoons were in color while Disney was also able to negotiate a two-year deal with Technicolor, giving him the sole right to use their three-strip process, a period eventually extended to five years.

While working for the Kansas City Film Ad Company, Disney decided to take up work in animation, and Iwerks soon joined him.

Walt Disney was impressed with Baskett's talent and hired him on the spot for the lead role of Uncle Remus.

Upon review of his voice, Disney wanted to meet Baskett personally, and had him tested for the role of Uncle Remus.

After Baskett's death, his widow wrote Disney and told him that he had been a " friend indeed and certainly have been in need.

Walt Disney made introductory remarks, introduced the cast, then quietly left for his room at the Georgian Terrace Hotel across the street ; he had previously stated that unexpected audience reactions upset him and he was better off not seeing the film with an audience.

In 1970, several years after his retirement, songwriters Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman got him to sing the title song of the Disney film The Aristocats, which ended up being his final contribution to the film industry.

For example, Santa's Little Helper fathering 25 puppies in " Two Dozen and One Greyhounds " is a parody of the Disney film One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and Mr. Burns ' technique of brainwashing him into an attack dog in " Dog of Death " parodies A Clockwork Orange.

At the request of his editor, Collodi added chapters 16 – 36, in which the Fairy with Turquoise Hair ( or " Blue Fairy ", as the Disney version names her ) rescues Pinocchio and eventually transforms him into a real boy, when he acquires a deeper understanding of himself, making the story suitable for children.

Universal transferred the copyright to the character to Disney, and in exchange, Disney released Michaels from his employment contract, allowing him to sign with NBC.

In August, Disney asked Stokowski's representative to have him return to the studios to select material for the new film, which was initially titled The Concert Feature.

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.

Walt Disney insisted on keeping Hook alive, as he said: " The audience will get to liking Hook, and they don't want to see him killed.

In 1933, Pickford underwent a Technicolor screen test for an animated / live action film version of Alice in Wonderland, but Walt Disney discarded the project when Paramount released its own version of the book.

Meanwhile, other corporations, such as Sony or Disney, simply open their own chains of stores, preventing the competition from even putting their products on the shelves.

Even as DreamWorks switches distribution of live-action films that are not part of existing franchises to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Paramount will continue to own the films released before the merger, and the films that Paramount themselves distributed ( including sequel rights ; such films as Little Fockers will be distributed by Paramount and DreamWorks, since it is a sequel to an existing DreamWorks film – in this case, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, though Paramount will only own international rights to this title, whereas Universal Studios will handle domestic distribution ).

Popular titles included Sega's own series, notably Sonic the Hedgehog ; Disney movie extensions, such as The Lion King ; and 3rd-party developer games like Shaq Fu.

Disney decided to release Unbreakable under their Touchstone Pictures banner, and also helped Shyamalan establish his own production company, Blinding Edge Pictures.

Disney declined Mintz's offer and as a result lost most of his animation staff whereupon he found himself on his own again.

Iwerks was soon lured by Powers into opening his own studio with an exclusive contract, while Stalling would also later leave Disney to join Iwerks.

According to a press conference held in Winter Park, Florida, on February 2, 1967, by Disney Vice President Donn Tatum, the Improvement District and Cities were created to serve " the needs of those residing there ", and the company needed its own government to " clarify the District's authority to services within the District's limits " and because of the public nature of the planned development.

These members, senior employees of The Walt Disney Company, each own undeveloped five-acre ( 20, 235 m² ) lots of land within the District, the only land in the District not technically controlled by Disney or used for public road purposes.

He had made his mark as a Disney child star, but after being fired, was hoping to revive his career with Mars Needs Women treating it as a serious project, to the extent of rewriting some of his dialogue. Reportedly, Buchanan allowed Kirk to create his own soliloquy for his scene in an astronomical observatory as he explains that his world is dying.

Eventually, Iwerks and Disney had a falling out ; their friendship and working partnership were severed when Iwerks accepted a contract with Disney competitor Pat Powers to leave Disney and start an animation studio under his own name.

By 1996, each TV series from the studio typically had its own set of sound effects, including some selected from the classic Hanna-Barbera sound library, as well as some new ones and various sounds from Disney and Warner Bros. cartoons ( this was especially true of Dexter's Laboratory and Cow and Chicken ).

Song of the South was re-released in theatres several times after its original Walt Disney Pictures / RKO Pictures premiere, each time through Buena Vista Pictures: in 1956 ; in 1972 for Walt Disney's 50th anniversary ; in 1973 as the second-half of a double bill with The Aristocats ; in 1980 for the 100th anniversary of Harris ' classic stories ; and in 1986 for the film's own 40th anniversary and in promotion of the upcoming Splash Mountain attraction at three of Disney's theme parks.

He has even starred in his own film, The Tigger Movie ( Disney, 2000 ), along with his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood.

Mintz, meanwhile, opened his own studio consisting primarily of former Disney employees, where he continued to produce Oswald cartoons, among them the first Oswald with sound, Hen Fruit ( 1929 ).

As production costs of The Sorcerer's Apprentice climbed to $ 125, 000, it became clearer to Disney and his brother Roy, who managed the studio's finances, that the short could never earn such a sum back on its own.

But due to a long-frayed relation with the studio, which had little enthusiasm for the producer's documentary releases, Disney opted to sever his relation with RKO and create his own distribution subsidiary – Buena Vista Distribution, which he named after the street where his office was located.