The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, it grew from a small animation studio into one of the largest media companies in the world.
The company first rose to prominence through animated films, beginning with the Mickey Mouse cartoons of 1928 and the feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the first full-length animated feature produced in the United States. It opened its first theme park, Disneyland, in 1955, and today operates parks and resorts on three continents — including the Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resort complexes covered throughout this wiki — through its Disney Experiences division.
Disney's businesses span film and television studios (Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios and others), television networks including ABC and Disney Channel, streaming services led by Disney+, and consumer products. The parks division began as an extension of the studio's storytelling and remains the part of the company with which the public interacts most directly.