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Mickey mouse beginning
Walt made a third Mickey Mouse cartoon with fully synchronized sound, and Steamboat Willie opened to rave reviews at the colony theater in New York. -
Book
The first Mickey Mouse book was published in 1930, as was the first Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip. -
Academy Award
Flowers and Trees, a Silly Symphony and the first full-color cartoon, won the Academy award for best cartoon for 1932, the first year that the academy offered such a category. For the rest of that decade, a Disney cartoon won the oscar every year. -
SWATSD
The idea was brought up by Walt in 1934 to create Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. The film was finished in 1937. Soon it became the highest grossing film of all time. -
Pinocchio and Fantasia
The next two features, Pinocchio and Fantasia, were released in 1940. They were technical masterpieces, but their costs were too high for a company losing most of its foreign markets because of the war. -
Dumbo
Dumbo was made in 1941 on a very limited budget -
Treasure Island
1950 saw big successes at disney; the first completely live action film, Treasure Island, the return to classic animated features with Cinderella and the first Disney television show at christmas time. The company was moving forward again. -
Disneyland anthology
After two christmas specials, Walt Disney went onto television in a big way in 1954 with the beginning of the Disneyland anthology series. This series eventually would run on all three networks and go through six title changes, but it remained on the air for 29 years, making it the longest-running primetime television series ever. -
The Mickey Mouse Club
The Mickey Mouse Club, one of television's most popular children's series, debuted in 1955 and made stars of a group of talented mouseketeers. -
The Love Bug
The Love Bug in 1969 was the highest grossing film of the year. -
Education
Disney got into educational films and materials in a big way with the start of an educational subsidiary in 1969.
