38 Facts About Walt Disney Pictures

1. Walt Disney Pictures developed merchandising connected to its cartoon characters, beginning with a $300 license to put Mickey Mouse on writing tablets in 1929.

2. Walt Disney Pictures began cartooning in Kansas City with a series called Alice's Wonderland, which included live action and animation.

3. Walt Disney Pictures committed $165 million to provide promotional support for InfoSeek.

4. Walt Disney Pictures would regain ownership of Starwave when it completed its purchase of all of InfoSeek in 1999.

5. In 1998 Walt Disney Pictures acquired a 43 percent interest in Internet search engine InfoSeek, with an option to purchase the rest of the company.

6. In 1997 Walt Disney Pictures launched its Daily Blast site for kids.

7. In 1999 Walt Disney Pictures purchased the rest of InfoSeek and launched the Go.

8. In 2001, Walt Disney Pictures suffered when the September 11 terrorist attacks cut revenues at its theme parks.

9. Walt Disney Pictures opened a second theme park in Tokyo in 2001, and made plans to open a park in Hong Kong.

10. Walt Disney Pictures had a new hit TV show with Home Improvement, and it launched its own publishing company, Hyperion.

11. Walt Disney Pictures started a third film company, Hollywood Pictures, which had its own record label.

12. Walt Disney Pictures was struggling to build EPCOT and eventually spent more than $1 billion to complete it.

13. Walt Disney Pictures was actively involved in designing Epcot when he died in 1966.

14. In 1937, Walt Disney Pictures made the world's first full-length animated film, Snow White.

15. Walt Disney Pictures sold the company the right to use the mouse's image for $300.

16. Walt Disney Pictures was the artist, creating characters and developing stories, while Roy handled the business affairs, especially raising money.

17. Walt Disney Pictures airs a two-hour show each Saturday on French television.

18. Walt Disney Pictures required professionalism of his staff and demanded the highest-quality Technicolor available.

19. Walt Disney Pictures made a national hero out of Davy Crockett when he made the folk hero the subject of a three-part program.

20. Walt Disney Pictures required professionalism of his staff and demanded the highest-quality Technicolor available, and as a result his live-action films topped competitors in both creativity and technical standards.

21. Walt Disney Pictures made a national folk hero out of Davy Crockett when he devoted a three-part program to coverage of his life.

22. Walt Disney Pictures is committed to strengthening communities by providing hope, happiness, and comfort to kids and families who need it most.

23. Walt Disney Pictures went on to win the same category at the next seven Oscar ceremonies.

24. Walt Disney Pictures spent his time driving Red Cross officials and doing other tasks before being discharged in 1919.

25. Walt Disney Pictures considered it, but before he could get sucked in by a Kirbyesque scheme, he got a call from a company in New York that wanted him to make shorts for them.

26. Walt Disney Pictures was cremated, and his ashes interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

27. Around this time, Walt Disney Pictures began experimenting with a camera, doing hand-drawn cel animation, and decided to open his own animation business.

28. In 1919, Walt Disney Pictures moved to Kansas City to pursue a career as a newspaper artist.

29. Walt Disney Pictures lived most of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri, where he began drawing, painting and selling pictures to neighbors and family friends.

30. In 1925, Walt Disney Pictures hired an ink-and-paint artist named Lillian Bounds.

31. Walt Disney Pictures was an innovative animator and created the cartoon character Mickey Mouse.

32. Walt Disney Pictures loved the little apartment because it allowed him to watch the people enjoy his park.

33. In 1947, Walt Disney Pictures testified in front of HUAC that former animators of his were actually Communist sympathizers.

34. In 1928, Walt Disney Pictures went to negotiate a better contract for the rabbit and his animators, but Universal had other plans.

35. Walt Disney Pictures has released the first teaser for the much awaited Aladdin film during the Grammys, and we have a first glimpse of Will Smith in action as Genie.

36. Walt Disney Pictures is an American film studio and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company.

37. Walt Disney Pictures identified this line as "Walt Disney Pictures Fairy Tale" in its enlarged slate announcement on October 8, 2015 with four scheduled without titles attached.

38. Walt Disney Pictures, formally known as Buena Vista Pictures, is an American film studio and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company.