The Walt Disney Studios

MBart MBart _{on Google}

Mar 21st, 2023

The North American Walter Elias Disney Video Studios had to build a new animation department and their corporate part of their offices in Burbank, California had been designed in a neoclassical style with none to be the well-known other part than the seven dwarfs holding the roof up and the North American Walter Elias Disney Video Studios had to look kinda like the great home to the Walter Elias Disney video character gang and their stories that had to be spun from the purest cinematic movie magic.

Kio (KIOONTHEROAD) _{on Google}

Mar 2nd, 2023

One of the coolest studios in Burbank!!!!

Cary Brown _{on Google}

Mar 17th, 2023

WALT DISNEY STUDIOS is a working entertainment factory. Organized confusion that somehow makes beautiful movies and television. This is a city dedicated to the making of fantasy. It is as real as magic can be; and just as wonderful. Tours are available. Check the internet.
I've spent my life in the "Business." To me, movie factories are as magical as my imagination can make them. I was visiting the studio for a screening of the 2018's musical, Mary Poppins Returns. Our family, including our ten year old granddaughter, loved it. I know this sounds silly, but the three of us had tears in our eyes. My wife and grandchild just loved the actors and the characters they play. I was mesmerized by the quality of production. This was a complex, difficult film and it was pulled off brilliantly. In the years since my retirement, movie makers have become more able to deliver the story that the screenwriter dreamed.
The Disney lot looks like a "hot set," polished and perfect, ready for production. The buildings are beautiful. Particularly the executive offices' top floor which is held up by statues of the Seven Dwarfs. In the lobby, in front of the elevators, is a hugh mosaic of Walt Disney looking down at you. Yes, it is intimidating.
On the plaza, in front of the executive office building is a statue of Mr. Disney holding hands with a three foot tall statue of Mickey Mouse. Mr. Disney has been quoted as crediting Mickey as the Mouse that built the studio. A few steps away are statues of Mr. Disney and Minnie Mouse, sitting on a bench in conversation.*
Under the plaza is the multi-level parking structure. Parking is wheelchair accessible, easy and efficient. Elevators bring you up to plaza level.
Here's an interesting background story. When Walt Disney was developing, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," he needed additional work space for his animators. So he went to bankers applying for a rather large loan. Now remember, no had ever made a feature length cartoon before. The bankers found the loan to be too much of a risk. However, if the artists' animation rooms could include oxygen and water, and could be used as hospital rooms, the loan will be approved. (St Joseph Hospital is next door.) So, if "the worst came to the worst", the dwarfs would have good medical care. The rest is history.
The image of animated charactors, holding up the roof, with Walt looking on, holding Mickey with his left hand, directing with his right, is just as it should be. Thanks for keeping the tradition alive.
*Studio tours of the Burbank lot is offered through D23 Events, Disney Movie Insider Rewards, and Adventures By Disney.