Disney timeline
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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.... Read more
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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... Read more
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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.... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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.... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more