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Walt Disney began the move into features in 1934, pulling selected
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feature in English and Technicolor, Snow White and
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his company's operations, moving into live-action features, television, and
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theme parks. Beside successes like Disney Real Estate Book Snow White, Dumbo, and Disney Real Estate Book Cinderella, Disney also directed the Feature Animation staff create experimental and stylized films such as Fantasia and Sleeping Beauty which sustained losses and did not recoup their costs until decades after their original releases. In 1962, Walt
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After Walt Disney's death in 1966, the animation department found itself without direction. The animators struggled to regain their footing but created films which were technically polished but told
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followed
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suit, and Disney expanded WDFA to a total staff of over 2,400 by
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However, the expansion coincided with a decline in both revenue and quality of the department's output. Competition from other Disney Real Estate Book studios drove animator salaries to a high level, making 2D animated features a costly proposition, and beginning in 2000, massive layoffs were done to bring the
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The Orlando studio was turned into an attraction at
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Disney also holds substantial
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Disney also operates its own publishing company, Hyperion, and Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) through Media Networks. Hyperion has recently published books by comedian-author Steve Martin and bestselling author Mitch Albom. WDIG includes the Go.com web portal, Infoseek search engine which it purchased in 1998, and leading websites such
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Disney has on several occasions prompted action from religious groups such as the Catholic League, due
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