Walt Disney Studios (Studio Walta Disney) is the international headquarters of the media conglomerate of the Walt Disney Company , which is located in Burbank , California .
The relocation of Walt Disney employees from an old studio located on Hyperion Avenue in Los Angeles began on December 24, 1939 . The building complex was designed mainly by Kem Weber under the supervision of Walt Disney and his brother Roy . The buildings are the only studios left over from the Golden Age of cinema. Disney is the only film company out of ten large American film companies that has remained independent of the parent company. .
The Walt Disney Studio in Burbank was originally designed to work on animation : a large building for animation in the center of the campus, the adjacent buildings of the storyboard section, the music department, the ink and paint department, and other studio functions. Together the buildings are connected by ground passage and underground tunnels. There is also a cinema and several sound pavilions on campus. The Disney cartoon "The Shrew Dragon " featuring Robert Benchley served as a tour of the new studio, which is also often featured in various Disney TV shows.
In the late 1940s , the studio began to regularly work on feature films. Despite the fact that the first Walt Disney films were shot in the UK , there was still a need for an actor shooting site. Jack Webb proposed to invest some money in the construction of a site for game surveys in exchange for its use by him (Webb used the constructed platform to shoot most of the television series “ Network of Evil ”). At this time, platforms for outdoor shooting were built and remained standing until changes in the company's management in the mid - 1980s.
In 1986, after the corporate restructuring, Walt Disney Productions was renamed Walt Disney Company , and the buildings were reconstructed to provide more space for gaming and administrative offices. Walt Disney Studios in Burbank is a complex of office and administrative buildings and ten sound halls . The main building of the complex is the Disney Burbank management building, built in 1990 and designed by architect and designer Michael Graves . Disney’s Burbank management building includes the office of the company's president and CEO Robert Aiger , as well as the boardroom. This building also has offices for senior executives, such as Disney’s international head Andy Bird , Disney’s head of parks and resorts, Jay Rasulo, and Disney’s entertainment director Dick Cook . The complex of buildings is sometimes called “the buildings of the seven dwarfs” for the fabulous signboard in front of it and the seven dwarfs holding the roof of the building as a sign of respect for the classic animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , the profit from which allowed Walt Disney to buy land in Burbank.
On January 23, 2006, to the 21st anniversary of the management of the company Michael Eisner , the Disney team building was “re-consecrated” as the building of the “Disney-Michael Eisner Team”.
During the restructuring, the animation departments were rolled up to officially begin the creation of the Walt Disney Feature Animation division, and all of their work was moved to the Air Way warehouse in Glendale , California . In 1995, a new building for Feature Animation was built across the street from the main complex. The new building is a colored building topped with a giant wizard's cap, which previously housed the office of former WDFA head Roy Edward Disney .
Following the acquisition by Disney of the American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ), a headquarters was built next to the Feature Animation building for a television network. The ABC building was designed by Aldo Rossi and was connected to the main complex by a blue winding bridge that was spanned over Riverside Drive. The ABC building also has offices for other parts of Disney, such as Touchstone Television and Buena Vista International .