Walt Disney Pictures
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Walt Disney Pictures is an American movie studio, with off-shoot studios in Japan and other sites in the United States. It is the main motion picture producing studio of The Walt Disney Company, the media conglomerate based in Burbank, California. Walt Disney Pictures is a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Studio Entertainment sector of the company. Walt Disney Pictures was established as a Disney division 1983, prior to which Disney films were released under the banner of the parent company, then named Walt Disney Productions.
Walt Disney Pictures also includes Walt Disney Feature Animation which in turn includes the DisneyToon Studios and most recently the Pixar Animation Studios, and is a part of the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group. The logo is a silhouette of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland. The most commonly known iteration of the logo (pictured) was in place from 1985, a new CGI logo, created by Weta Digital, was introduced in 2006 with .
Throughout the entire twentieth century, Disney has been the box office leader in animated films and has broken ground in nearly all aspects of animation technique.
Disney only does G and PG rated movies except for ' and ', which were rated PG-13.
See also
- 1940s in Disney
- List of notable Disney feature films for both live-action and animated films released under the Disney label
- List of Disney theatrical animated features for the traditional animated "Disney movies"
- A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios, a documentary from 1937
External links
- [Walt Disney Pictures website]
- [UltimateDisney.com - Guide to all Walt Disney Pictures films and DVD releases]
- [}}}] at the Big Cartoon DataBase
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