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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) was founded in 1923 by Walt Disney and is one of the largest entertainment corporations in the world. TWDC had revenues of 22 billion USD in 2002.

Its movie studios include Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Buena Vista, Hollywood Pictures, Dimension Films, and Miramax. It owns the rights to animated and live action films and operates many theme parks including, Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and franchises Eurodisney, and Tokyo Disney.

The company operates the Disney Vacation Club resorts and ESPN Zone restaurants. It owns Hyperion Books, Disney Publishing Worldwide and the Walt Disney Cruise Line. Disney's music division includes Walt Disney Records, Mammoth Records, Lyric Street Records, and Hollywood Records.

TWDC also owns the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network and television and radio stations, Radio Disney, the Disney Channel and ESPN's family of cable television networks. It is also part owner of E! Entertainment Networks, Lifetime Television, A&E, and The History Channel.

The company also owns the Anaheim Mighty Ducks hockey team and owned the Anaheim Angels baseball team, which was later sold to businessman Arturo Moreno. It also handles licensing of Disney products and sales through the Disney Store, Disney Toys, Disney Publishing, and Disney Interactive.

Some librarians have objected to TWDC's lobbying of the world's major legislative bodies into passing repeated retroactive copyright term extensions, calling it "manipulative" and "absurd". As well as the general limitation on the public domain that this implies, critics are quick to point out that Disney has made much of its fortune from stories that have passed out of copyright, such as Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty.

The company has an exclusive right to distribute motion pictures produced by Studio Ghibli led by Miyazaki Hayao.

Table of contents
1 Timeline
2 Notable feature films
3 See also

Timeline

Notable feature films

Notable feature films produced by the studio over the years include:

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

See also