After Milne's death in 1956, his widow sold her rights to the Pooh characters to the Walt Disney Company, which has made many Pooh cartoon movies, a Disney Channel television show, as well as Pooh-related merchandise.

* Phantom Blot, a character made by the Walt Disney Company

: On November 11, 2008 The Walt Disney Company released a limited pressing of 39, 500 issues of The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh in DVD format for the first time as a part of the Disney Treasures collection, and was now called Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.

DC Comics and its major, longtime competitor Marvel Comics ( currently owned by Time Warner's main rival The Walt Disney Company ) together shared over 80 % of the American comic-book market in 2008.

* Devo 2. 0 – project between Devo and the Walt Disney Company

Disney usually refers to The Walt Disney Company.

* Walt Disney ( 1901 – 1966 ), founder of The Walt Disney Company

* Roy O. Disney ( 1893 – 1971 ), Walt's brother and co-founder of The Walt Disney Company

The other 80 % is owned by The Walt Disney Company since 1996.

* A + E Networks ( owns 50 %; shared joint venture with The Walt Disney Company )

Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck are a trio of fictional, anthropomorphic ducks who appear in animated cartoons and comic books published by the Walt Disney Company.

* 1893 – Roy O. Disney, American businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company ( d. 1971 )

* 1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Although the term is often used to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of The Muppet Show, the term is both an informal name and legal trademark owned by the Walt Disney Company in reference to the original characters created by Henson.

After earlier unsuccessful attempts, the Walt Disney Company bought the Muppets in 2004.

The legal trademark on the term " Muppet " is currently held by The Muppets Studio, a wholly owned division of the Walt Disney Company, although Sesame Workshop and the Jim Henson Company continue to occasionally use the term on their characters with certain permissions from Disney.

As Atari was heavily involved with Disney at the time, it was later code-named " Mickey ", and the 256K memory expansion board was codenamed " Minnie ".

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.

According to Christopher Finch in The Art of Walt Disney ( Abrams, 1974 ), Disney credited animator Webb Smith with creating the idea of drawing scenes on separate sheets of paper and pinning them up on a bulletin board to tell a story in sequence, thus creating the first storyboard.

Salonen later took the orchestra on many other tours of the United States, Europe, and Asia, and residencies at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, The Proms in London, in Cologne for a festival of Salonen's own works, and perhaps most notably, in 1996 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for a Stravinsky festival conducted by Salonen and Pierre Boulez ; it was during this Paris residency that key Philharmonic board members heard the orchestra perform in improved acoustics and were re-invigorated to lead fundraising efforts for the soon-to-be built Walt Disney Concert Hall.

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.

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.

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, voted to oppose the re-election of Eisner to the corporate board of directors.

* 1990: A Harrods shop opens on board the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, which was then owned by the Walt Disney Company.

Salonen later took the orchestra on many other tours of the United States, Europe, and Asia, and residencies at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, The Proms in London, in Cologne for a festival of Salonen's own works, and perhaps most notably, in 1996 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for a Stravinsky festival conducted by Salonen and Pierre Boulez ; it was during this Paris residency that key Philharmonic board members heard the orchestra perform in improved acoustics and were re-invigorated to lead fundraising efforts to complete construction of Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Disney shareholders later sued Eisner and Disney's board of directors for awarding Ovitz such a large severance package.

* As expected, the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company unanimously rejects a hostile buyout offer by Comcast, saying the cable television giant's bid is too low, but does not rule out accepting a higher bid in the future.

Disney Studios France, the company's small Parisian production department, was brought on board to complete the project.

At Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, John C. Davis of Fredericksburg, Virginia attacked and seriously injured a Continental Airlines Gate / Ticket agent Angelo Sottile while awaiting to board a flight headed to Orlando, Florida for a vacation at Walt Disney World.

Disney brought him on board to sharpen production, and identify new acts.

* In 2004, with other parties, opposed Michael Eisner as chairman of the board and CEO of The Walt Disney Company ; Eisner was removed as chairman of the board and in 2005 resigned as CEO.

* Dissident investors in Disney, including former board member Roy Disney, nephew of the company founder Walt Disney, announced that they won't nominate a slate of alternate directors for the 2005 annual meeting.

In November 1935, when he learned that Walt Disney was seeking more artists for his Studio, Barks decided to apply.

Although the show remained popular, ABC decided to cancel the show after its fourth season, as Disney and the ABC network could not come to terms for renewal .< ref >

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

While working for the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he made commercials based on cutout animations, Disney became interested in animation, and decided to become an animator.

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.

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

The song " I'll Make a Man Out of You " was performed by Donny Osmond, who commented that his sons decided that he had finally " made it " in show business when he was in a Disney film.

The demotion occurred after Siskel and longtime Chicago film critic colleague Roger Ebert decided to shift the production of their weekly movie-review show — then known as At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert and later known as Siskel & Ebert & The Movies — from Tribune Entertainment to The Walt Disney Company's Buena Vista Television unit.

In 1927, because of cost and technical restrictions, Disney and his chief animator Ub Iwerks decided to end their work on the Alice Comedies series in search of new creative opportunities.

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

While his fellow animators remained at Mintz's studio, Disney decided to quit his job and therefore leave the character he created.

The Weinsteins operated Miramax with more creative and financial independence than any other division of Disney, until 2005 when they decided to leave the company and founded The Weinstein Company.

Saludos Amigos was popular enough that Walt Disney decided to make another film about Latin America, The Three Caballeros, to be produced two years later.

NBC decided not to pick up the pilot, but Disney Channel did and aired the series for one season.

In 1932, Nash happened by the Disney Studio with his team of horses, and decided to leave a copy of his Adohr publicity sheet with the receptionist.

The Disney Studio finally decided to shut down its comic book publishing division in 1993.

The Disney company continued to liaise with the Commission and its director, James Delargy, over the coming decade based on Disney's desire to use Irish folklore as the basis of a film but, to Delargy's disappointment, eventually decided to make an adaptation of Irish-American writer Herminone Templeton Kavanagh's 1903 collection of stories ' Darbie O ' Gill and the Good People.

The Disney-produced English dub was recorded in 1998 and planned for release on video in 1999, but Disney eventually decided to release it to theaters instead.

Peet decided to continue working at Disney, where he developed a few short cartoons and worked on the feature films of the period.

However due to the growing interest of widescreen film amongst movie-goers, Disney decided to animate the film in CinemaScope making Lady and the Tramp the first animated feature made in the process.