Disney Presentation
Disney Presentation
Disney Presentation
G: (introdução)
N: (indice)
G - Disney was founded in October 16, 1923 by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney as the Disney
Brothers Cartoon Studio.
G - They started off on Kansas City in Missouri, with a short film entitled Alice's Wonderland.
Which featured actress Vriginia Davis interacting with animated characters. In January 1926,
with the completion of the first Disney Studio, the name was changed to Walt Disney Studio.
G- In 1928, the iconic character of Mickey Mouse was created while Disney was on a train ride
headed to California. The first film the mouse starred in was Steamboat Willie where the
character immediately gained some notoriety due to its synchronized sound.
N -In 1934 Disney began production on the first feature-length animated film "Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs". The movie took three years to complete and once it premiered it became
the highest-grossing film of that time. After that, the studio continued releasing animated
shorts and features, such as Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi.
N -In December 1950, Walt Disney Productions and the Coca-Cola company teamed up for
Disney's first venture into television, a NBC televison special titled "One Hour in Wonderland"
where it was launched Disney's first regular television series. On this series it was announced
what would become the first Disneyland. But the end of an era came with Walt Disney's death
in 1966 due to complications related to lung cancer.
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G - Walt Elias Disney was born in December 5th, 1901 in Chicago. early in his life Disney had
developed an interest for drawing. He took art classes as a boy and got a job as a commercial
illustrator at the age of 18. Many would consider him a pioneer of the American animation
Industry.
G - He introduced several advancements in the production of cartoons and he also holds the
record for the most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 oscars from 59
nominations.(editado)
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N- Disney has acquired multiple companies throughout the years, with the most notable ones
being Marvel, which Disney bought on December 31st 2009 for 4 billion dollars, a company
notable for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with movies breaking box office records all over
the world.
G- Secondly there's Lucasfim, aquired in October 30 2012 also for 4 billion dollars, a film
company very notable for their most popular franchaises, Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
N- Thirdly, 20th Century Studios, bought on July 27, 2018 for 71.3 billion dollars after a heated
auction agaisnt Comcast to buy it, giving disney the rights to all of their properties, including
the FOX television channels, which are extremely popular worldwide and Blue Sky Studios.
G- Last but not least, Pixar began as part of the Lucasfilm computer division, but after recieving
funds from steve jobs it became a spin-off corporation. This company was bought by Disney in
2006 with a valuations of 7.4 billion dollars in an all-stock deal.
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N- The original Disneyland opened on July 17 1955 to a surprise of double the expected
visitors. The park was the first one to utilise the classical Disney theme park style, with 18
attractions spread across five themed lands.The first one is still running to this day and it is
located Anaheim, California.
N- Disney has since then expanded their resort collection, with the most famous one to date
being Walt Disney World in Florida, recieving an average of fifty million visitors per year. The
second most famous one is Disneyland Paris, which also holds multiple million visitors per year
and is the closest one that we have to Portugal.
N- The one that opened most recently was in 2016 and it is the Shanghai Disney Resort, it is
located in China and it has already registered 11 million visitors in one single year.
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G- In addition to the films produced, Disney produces TV shows on channels such as Disney
channel, Disney junior and Disney XD. Besides this channels, Disney owns another tv channels
like National Geographic, ABC, FreeForms and FX. Some of the films, series and documentaries
can be found on Disney Plus, which is a streaming platform that came out recently and
contains all of Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic.
N- (presentation end)