The Walt Disney Company
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The Walt Disney Company was founded by Walt Disney and his brother Roy in 1923. A huge company, it includes making movies, the themeparks of Disneyland and Disney World, and merchandizing stores as well as buying out many other companies. The scope and size of the company has grown considerably since Walt's death. While Walt Disney was conservative, the company is now a secular-progressive organization.
Disney's movie stable includes:
- Walt Disney Pictures - maker of family films and cartoons for children
- Miramax Films - for more mature audiences (acquired 1993)
- Touchstone Pictures - many R-rated films, including anti-Catholic, pro-gay "The Priest" (established 1984)
- Hollywood Pictures
- Pixar
TV networks it owns include:
Disney themeparks include:
- Disney World (Florida)
- Animal Kingdom
- Epcot
- Hollywood Studios
- Magic Kingdom
- Disneyland (California)
- Tokyo Disney
- Euro Disneyland Paris
- Hong Kong Disneyland
- Shanghai Disneyland (scheduled to open in 2014)