Disney Events

1901 Dec 5 Walt Disney is born
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901–December 15, 1966) was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and phila...
1928 Nov 18 Mickey Mouse Appears in his First Animated Feature
In the fall of 1928, Walt Disney could claim three dubious assets: a new animated cartoon character called Mickey Mouse, three short silent films featuring the spunky rodent and an idea g...
1937 May 19 Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons
Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons was a Walt Disney animated film released on May 19, 1937 for a limited time to help promote the upcoming release of Snow White and the Seven D...
1937 Dec 21 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is premiered
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated feature based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full length animated feature to be pro...
1940 Feb 7 Pinocchio is premiered
Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based on the story Pinocchio: Tale of a Puppet by Carlo Collodi. It was made after the success of Snow White and ...
1940 Dec 9 Fantasia is released
Fantasia is a 1940 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and the third film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. Fantasia features animation set to classical music and...
1941 Jun 20 The Reluctant Dragon is released
The Reluctant Dragon is a combined live action and animated film produced by Walt Disney, directed by Alfred Werker, and released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 20, 1941. Essentially a tou...
1941 Oct 23 Dumbo is released
Dumbo is a 1941 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released on October 23, 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, D...
1942 Aug 13 Bambi is released
Bambi is a 1942 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based on the book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten. The film was released by RKO Radio Pict...
1942 Aug 24 Saludos Amigos is released
Saludos Amigos (Hello, friends in English, Alô, Amigos in Portuguese) is a 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the 6th animated feature in...
1943 Jul 17 Victory Through Air Power
Victory Through Air Power is a 1942 book by Alexander P. de Seversky, and a 1943 Walt Disney Technicolor animated feature film based on the book. de Seversky appeared in the film which wa...
1944 Dec 21 The Three Caballeros is premiered
The Three Caballeros is a 1944 animated feature film, produced by Walt Disney and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The seventh animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics seri...
1946 Apr 20 Make Mine Music is premiered
Make Mine Music is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 15, 1946. It is the eighth animated feature in the Walt Disney Anim...
1946 Nov 12 Song of the South is released
Song Of The South is a feature film produced by Walt Disney, released on November 12, 1946, by RKO Radio Pictures and based on the Uncle Remus cycle of stories by Joel Chandler Harris. Th...
1947 Sep 27 Fun and Fancy Free is released
Fun and Fancy Free (first released on September 27, 1947) is a feature film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It was one of the "package films" (feature-length c...
1948 May 27 Melody Time is released
Melody Time (first released on May 27, 1948) is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures. Made up of several sequences set to popular mus...
1949 Jan 19 So Dear to My Heart is released
So Dear to My Heart is a feature film produced by Walt Disney, released in Chicago on November 29, 1948 and nationwide on January 19, 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures. Like 1946's Song of the S...
1949 Oct 5 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is released
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theaters on October 5, 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the eleventh animated featur...
1950 Mar 4 Cinderella is released
Cinderella is a 1950 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based on the fairy tale "Cendrillon" by Charles Perrault. Twelfth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, t...
1950 Jul 19 Treasure Island is released
Treasure Island is a 1950 Disney film, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island. It starred Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins, and Robert Newton as Long John Silver. It was Dis...
1951 Jul 26 Alice in Wonderland is released
Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Thirteenth in ...
1952 Jun 26 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men is released
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by hench men of Prince John. Robin takes...
1953 Feb 5 Peter Pan is released
Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based on the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J. M. Barrie. It is the fourteenth film in the Wa...
1953 Jul 23 The Sword and the Rose is released
The Sword and the Rose, (first released on July 23, 1953) is a United States family and adventure film, produced by Disney and directed by Ken Annakin. The film features the story of Mary...
1953 Oct 26 Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue is released
Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue is a 1953 film, made by Walt Disney Productions. This film is about Robert Roy MacGregor. Richard Todd related in his autobiography that the extras were sol...
1953 Nov 10 The Living Desert is released
The Living Desert is a 1953 Walt Disney nature documentary which shows the everyday lives of the animals of the desert of the southwestern United States. The movie was written by James...
1954 Aug 17 The Vanishing Prairie is released
The Vanishing Prairie was a 1954 documentary film by Walt Disney, which won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 1954.
1955 Jun 22 Lady and the Tramp is released
Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and released to theaters on June 22, 1955 by Buena Vista Distribution. The fifteenth animated feature i...
1964 Aug 27 Mary Poppins is Released
Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Ma...
1967 Oct 18 Jungle Book is released
The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated feature produced by Disney Animation Studios. Released on October 18, 1967, it is the 19th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classic...
1970 Dec 11 The Aristocats is premiered
The Aristocats is an animated feature produced and released by Walt Disney Productions in 1970. The twentieth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film is bas...
1973 Nov 8 Robin Hood is released
Robin Hood is an animated feature produced by the Walt Disney Studios, first released in the United States on November 8, 1973. The 21st animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Class...
1977 Mar 11 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is released
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on March 11, 1977. It is the twenty-second animated feature in...
1977 Jun 22 The Rescuers is released
The Rescuers is a 1977 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on June 22, 1977. The twenty-third film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the fil...
1977 Nov 3 Pete's Dragon
Pete's Dragon (first released on November 3, 1977) is a live-action/animated musical feature film from Walt Disney Productions. It is a live-action film but its title character, a dragon ...
1981 Jul 10 The Fox and the Hound is released
The Fox and the Hound is a 1981 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions which premiered in the United States on July 10, 1981. The twenty-fourth animated feature in the Walt ...
1982 Jul 9 Tron is released
Tron is a 1982 science fiction film by Disney. It stars Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn (and his program counterpart inside the electronic world, Clu), Bruce Boxleitner as Tron and his User A...
1983 Oct 20 "Mickey's Christmas Carol" First Airs
Mickey's Christmas Carol is a twenty-four minute animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released in the United Kingdom on October 20, 1983 by Buena Vista D...
1985 Jul 24 The Black Cauldron is released
The Black Cauldron (also known as Taran and the Magic Cauldron in some countries) is the twenty-fifth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It was produced by Walt...
1986 Jul 2 The Great Mouse Detective is released
The Great Mouse Detective is a 1986 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and was originally released to movie theaters on July 2, 1986 by Walt Disney Pictures. The ...
1988 Nov 18 Oliver & Company is released
Oliver & Company is a 1988 animated feature film in which a homeless kitten named Oliver joins a gang of dogs to survive on the 1980s New York City streets. The film was produced by Walt ...
1989 Jun 23 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is released
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 sci-fi/comedy film. The directorial debut of Joe Johnston and released through Walt Disney Pictures and Silver Screen Partners II, the film tells the st...
1989 Nov 17 The Little Mermaid is released
The Little Mermaid is a 1989 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name. Distributed by Walt ...
1990 Aug 3 DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp is an animated non-feature film released by The Walt Disney Company in 1990; it is based on the animated series DuckTales. The film is no...
1990 Nov 16 The Rescuers Down Under is released
The Rescuers Down Under is the twenty-ninth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and first released by Walt Disney Pictu...
1991 Nov 22 Beauty and the Beast is released
Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. It premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on November 13, 1991 and is the thi...
1991 Dec 14 "Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too" First Airs
Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too is a Christmas television special based on the Disney television series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, originally broadcast on Saturday December ...
1992 Jul 17 Honey, I Blew Up the Kid is released
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid is the 1992 sequel to the 1989 film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Directed by Randal Kleiser and released by Walt Disney Pictures, the film stars Rick Moranis, Marcia...
1992 Oct 2 "The Mighty Ducks" is released
The Mighty Ducks is the first film in The Mighty Ducks trilogy, produced by Avnet-Kerner Productions and Walt Disney Pictures, distributed by Buena Vista Distribution, and originally rele...
1992 Nov 11 "Aladdin" Is Released
Aladdin is a 1992 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 31st animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics ...