Walt Disney Animation Studios

Walt Disney Animation Studios is the feature animation division of the Walt Disney Company, based in Burbank, California. It traces its origin to 1923, when the brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney set up a cartoon studio after the closure of Laugh-O-Gram Studio, and it is usually described as the longest-running animation studio in the world. The studio worked on short films first, moved into feature production in 1934, and released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, the first hand-drawn animated feature film. It has carried several names, among them Walt Disney Productions and Walt Disney Feature Animation, and took its present name in 2007, a year after Disney acquired Pixar. Its storyboarding practice later became a standard technique across animation and live-action filmmaking, and its early shorts introduced Mickey Mouse and other characters who became mascots of the wider company.