Chronology of the Walt Disney Company

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Last updated: 2012 February 6.

1950

January 6

• The Pluto film Pluto's Heart Throb is released. Butch and Dinah also appear. [16] [23] [228.393]

January 20

• The Donald Duck film Lion Around is released. Huey, Dewey, and Louie also appear. [16] [23] [228.289]

February 10

• The Pluto film Pluto and the Gopher is released. [23] [228.392]

February 14

• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Toy Tinkers for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons. [39.445]

February 15

• RKO Radio Pictures releases Disney's animated feature film Cinderella to theaters. The film cost US$2.2 million to make. (Gross theater receipts: US$7.9 million.) [1] [6] [7] [8] [11] [13] [15] [16] [25] [23] [113.250] [191] [230.31] [249.27] [250.98] [228.92] [370.93] [1102.477] (June [229.100]) (June 22 [97.213])

February 24

• Disney releases the Goofy film How to Ride a Horse to theaters. The film was originally part of the film The Reluctant Dragon. [228.245]

March 3

• The special animated short film The Brave Engineer is released. [23] [228.68]

March 5

• The first color comic strip of "Cinderella" is published in Sunday editions of newspapers. [113.326]

March

• Walt Disney suggests to Roy that the studio launch its own television program using old Disney short films. Roy agrees. [1102.503]

March 24

• The Donald Duck film Crazy Over Daisy is released. Daisy, Chip 'n' Dale, Minnie Mouse, Mickey Mouse, and Goofy also appear. [23] [228.108]

April 7

• The Pluto film Wonder Dog is released to theaters. Dinah and Butch also appear. [16] [23] [501.618]

April 28

• The Donald Duck film Trailer Horn is released. Chip and Dale also appear. [16] [23] [501.568] (1949 [15])

May 19

• The Pluto film Primitive Pluto is released. [16] [23] [228.400]

June 9

• The Pluto film Puss-Cafe is released. [16] [23] [228.403]

June 30

• RKO Radio Pictures releases the Goofy film Motor Mania to theaters. [16] [23] [228.343] [395]

(month unknown)

• Walt Disney announces during the annual report that the next animated feature will be Alice in Wonderland. [23]
• Preliminary work begins on the animated film Sleeping Beauty. [17] [37.105]
• The Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards a Golden Globe Award (Cinematography: color) to the Walt Disney Studios for the film Ichabod and Mr. Toad. [369.54]
• A Swedish home journal condemns Donald Duck as unfit viewing for children. [97.69]

July 19

• Disney's second True-Life Adventure film, Beaver Valley, is released. Also known as In Beaver Valley. [13] [23] [228.47]
• RKO Radio Pictures releases Disney's first entirely live-action feature film, Treasure Island, to theaters. It cost US$1.8 million to make. It is the first Disney movie filmed in England. The film is based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. (Gross theater receipts: US$4 million.) [7] [13] [23] [15] [79.97] [113.250] [193.34] [245.34] [246.92] [257.24] [370.97] [501.569] [1102.472]

July 21

• The Pluto film Pests of the West is released. [16] [23] [228.384]

August 11

• The Pluto film Food for Feudin' is released. Chip 'n' Dale also appear. [16] [23] [228.190] (1949 [15])

September 1

• The Donald Duck film Hook, Lion And Sinker is released. [23] [228.240] (Hook Lion and Sinker [16])

September 22

• The Pluto film Camp Dog is released. [16] [23] [228.76]

October 13

• The Donald Duck film Bee at the Beach is released. [16] [23] [228.48]

November 3

• The Goofy film Hold that Pose is released. [16] [23] [228.236] (November 11 [97.114])

November 24

• The animated film Morris, the Midget Moose is released. [16] [23] [228.342]

December 15

• The Donald Duck film Out on a Limb is released. Chip 'n' Dale also appear. [16] [15] [23] [228.377]

December 25

• The first Disney TV special, One Hour in Wonderland airs on NBC, sponsored by the Coca-Cola Company (cost US$100,000). Walt Disney and several Disney cartoon characters make their TV debut. Walt's daughter Sharon also appears. The show previews portions of the film Alice in Wonderland. About 20 million viewers watch the show. [23] [22] [24] [26] [36.11] [62] [83.741] [96.82] [113.288] [244.26] [247.33] [386.306] [911.95] [1102.503]

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