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Walt Disney

American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)

11 dated entries naming Walt Disney, drawn from 10 separate years between 1901 CE and 1967 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Walter Elias Disney in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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20th century

  • 1901December 5 – Walt Disney, American animator, film producer (died 1966)source
  • 1923October 16 – Roy and Walt Disney found The Walt Disney Company, at this time known as the Disney Brothers Studio.source
  • 1934June 9 – Donald Duck makes his film debut in Walt Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon The Wise Little Hen.source
  • 1937December 21 – Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first feature-length cel animated film, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles.source
  • 1940February 7 – RKO release Walt Disney's second full-length animated film, Pinocchio.source
  • 1941October 23 – Walt Disney's fourth animated film Dumbo is released in the United States.source
  • 1961December 14 – Walt Disney's first live-action Technicolor musical, Babes in Toyland, a remake of the famous Victor Herbert operetta, is released, but flops at the box office.source
  • 1964August 27 – Walt Disney's Mary Poppins has its world premiere in Los Angeles. It will go on to become Disney's biggest moneymaker, and winner of 5 Academy Awards, including a Best Actress for Julie Andrews. It is the first Disney film to be nominated for Best Picture.source
  • 1966October 27 – Walt Disney records his final filmed appearance prior to his death, detailing his plans for EPCOT, a utopian planned city to be built in Florida.source
  • 1966December 15 – Walt Disney, American animated film producer and founder of The Walt Disney Company and Disneyland Resort (born 1901)source
  • 1967October 18 – Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical success. On a double bill with the film is the (now) much less well-known true-life adventure, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar.source

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