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This article contains a list of productions made by the American animation studio Disney Television Animation as part of Disney Branded Television and owned by The Walt Disney Company. This list includes animated television series, films, specials and other projects. Television series TV series Short series The following is a list of short series not tied to any specific Disney TVA production or featuring characters from multiple Disney TVA productions. Some of these started as a spin-off from a specific Disney TVA series before incorporating other Disney TVA properties. Feature films and specials TV specials Television films From 1990 to January 2003, Disney Television Animation had a division, Disney MovieToons/Disney Video Premiere, that produced direct-to-video and theatrical feature films. This unit's operations were transferred to Walt Disney Feature Animation in 2003. See that article for that unit's films. Direct-to-video films Theatrical films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Studio; it also operated under the names the Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before changing its name to the Walt Disney Company in 1986. Early on, the company established itself as a leader in the animation industry, with the creation of the widely popular character Mickey Mouse, who is the company's mascot, and the start of animated films. After becoming a major success by the early 1940s, the company started to diversify into live-action films, television, and theme parks in the 1950s. Following Walt's death in 1966, the company's profits began to decline, especially in the animation division. Once Disney's shareholders voted in Michael Eisner as the hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney Channel
Disney Channel, sometimes known as simply Disney, is an American pay television television channel, channel that serves as the flagship (broadcasting), flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney General Entertainment Content division of The Walt Disney Company. Launched on April 18, 1983 under the name The Disney Channel as a pay television, premium channel on top of cable television, basic cable television systems, it originally showcased programming towards families due to availability of home television sets locally at the time. Since 1997, as just Disney Channel, its programming has shifted focus to target mainly children and adolescents, with a major focus on girls. The channel showcases original first-run children's television series, art release#Film, theatrically-released and original television films and other selected third-party programming. As of , Disney Channel is available on cable television, basic cable and satellite television, satel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Peraza
Michael Arthur Peraza Jr. (born November 15, 1955) is a Cuban-American animator, art director, conceptual artist and historian of animation, who has worked for The Walt Disney Company, Fox Features, and Warner Brothers. As a Disney Master Artist, he speaks at special events as a panelist with his wife and fellow Disney Master Artist, Patty Peraza, about experiences in the entertainment field. He received the Friz Freleng Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Family Film Festival in 2014, and the Disneyana Fan Club Legend Award in 2018. Currently, he continues his work with Warner Brothers and Disney Television Animation. Early life Peraza was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He became interested in Disney animation after watching ''Sleeping Beauty'', ''Pinocchio'' and ''Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color''. As a young man, he experimented with various types of mediums and styles, getting the attention of local filmmakers. His first job was working for Max Good ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Taylor (animator)
Robert Taylor (1944 – December 11, 2014) was an American Primetime Emmy Award-winning animator, writer, producer and film director. Taylor's credits include such films and television series as ''The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat'', ''The Flintstone Kids'', ''It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown'', ''Challenge of the GoBots'', ''Challenge of the Super Friends'', ''Bonkers (American TV series), Bonkers, ''Goof Troop'', ''Aladdin and the King of Thieves'', ''TaleSpin'' and ''Heidi's Song''. He died in Woodland Hills, California on December 11, 2014, from complications due to COPD. References External links * 1944 births 2014 deaths American film directors American animators American television writers American male screenwriters American television producers American animated film directors American animated film producers Primetime Emmy Award winners American male television writers {{US-animator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goof Troop
''Goof Troop'' is an American animated sitcom television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The series focuses on the relationship between single father Goofy and his son, Max, as well as their neighbors Pete and his family. Created by Robert Taylor and Michael Peraza Jr., the main series of 65 episodes aired in first-run syndication from 1992 to 1993 on ''The Disney Afternoon'' programming block, while an additional thirteen episodes aired on Saturday Mornings on ABC. A Christmas special was also produced, which aired in syndication in late 1992. Walt Disney Pictures released two films that served as follow ups to the television series: the theatrical ''A Goofy Movie'', released on April 7, 1995, as well as the direct-to-video sequel ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'', released on February 29, 2000, as the series finale. Premise ''Goof Troop'' bears similarity to several early-1950s ''Goofy'' cartoon shorts which depicted Goofy as a father to a mischievous red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darkwing Duck
''Darkwing Duck'' is an American animated superhero comedy television series produced by Disney Television Animation (formerly Walt Disney Television Animation) that first ran from 1991 to 1992 on both the syndicated programming block ''The Disney Afternoon'' and Saturday mornings on ABC. A total of ninety-one episodes were aired. It features the adventures of Darkwing Duck, who is the superheroic alter-ego of ordinary suburban duck Drake Mallard. Though it was originally thought by some fans to be a spin-off of the 1987 ''DuckTales'' series, creator Tad Stones stated in a 2016 report that he believes the two shows exist in different universes. Despite this, supporting characters Launchpad McQuack and Gizmoduck appear in both series in similar roles, and Scrooge McDuck is mentioned in the ''Darkwing Duck'' episode "Tiff of the Titans". Additionally, the 2011 comic book series ''DuckTales'' makes reference to Darkwing Duck and features various villains from the series. A crossove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jungle Book (1967 Film)
''The Jungle Book'' is a 1967 American animated musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Based on Rudyard Kipling's 1894 book of the same title, it is the 19th Disney animated feature film. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, it was the last film to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production, and the first animated feature film released after his death. The plot follows Mowgli, a feral child raised in the Indian jungle by wolves, as his friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear try to convince him to leave the jungle before the evil tiger Shere Khan arrives. The early versions of both the screenplay and the soundtrack followed Kipling's work more closely, with a dramatic, dark, and sinister tone which Disney did not want in his family film, leading to writer Bill Peet and songwriter Terry Gilkyson being replaced. The casting employed famous actors and musicians Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, George Sanders and Louis Prima, as well as Dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Zaslove
Mark Zaslove (born June 7, 1959) is an American television and film writer, director and producer and novelist, in live-action and animation. He has won two Emmy Awards and the Humanitas Prize. He has created a wide range of content from the children's show "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" to his action thriller novel “Death and Taxes.” Early life and education Zaslove is the son of the late animator Alan Zaslove. Born in Los Angeles, California, he was the third-youngest member of the Magic Castle in 1976-77, as part of Dick and Diana Zimmerman's Junior Magicians Group. He attended U.C. Berkeley to study astrophysics but left the program after two years, staying in the Bay Area for two more years while writing his first (unpublished) novel, “Travail.” Career biography Returning to Santa Monica in 1981, Zaslove worked as a trainer at a fitness center while trying his hand at short fiction and screenplays. He joined LFP, Inc. in 1983, writing short fiction, and becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TaleSpin
''TaleSpin'' is an American animated television series first aired in 1990 as a preview on Disney Channel and later that year as part of '' The Disney Afternoon''. It features characters adapted from Disney's 1967 animated feature ''The Jungle Book'' (namely, some of the film's animals being given an anthropomorphic makeover while the humans are removed), which was theatrically rereleased in the summer before this show premiered in the fall. Namely Baloo the Bear, Louie the orangutan, and Shere Khan the tiger, along with new characters created for the show. The name of the show is a play on " tailspin", the rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral, and on the fact that ''tale'' is another word for "story". The show is one of nine ''Disney Afternoon'' shows to use established Disney characters as the main characters, with the other eight being '' Darkwing Duck'', '' DuckTales'', '' Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'', '' Goof Troop'', '' Bonkers'', '' Quack Pack'', ''Aladdin'', and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Zaslove
Alan Louis Zaslove (December 9, 1927 – October 2, 2019) was an American animator, producer and director of animated series. He started in 1943 as an "office boy" for Leon Schlesinger Productions and went on to work for United Productions of America. He did animation for ''Gerald McBoing-Boing'' and '' Mr. Magoo''. Zaslove has also worked on several other cartoons in film and TV such as ''The Alvin Show'', ''Roger Ramjet'', ''Popeye the Sailor'', ''The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo'', ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'', ''The Phantom Tollbooth'', ''CBS Library'', ''A Chipmunk Christmas'', '' Freedom 2000'', ''Fractured Fairy Tales'', ''George of the Jungle'', ''Carnival of the Animals'', ''The Hoober-Bloob Highway'', ''Tom Thumb'', ''The Night Before Christmas'', '' Clerow Wilson and the Miracle of P.S. 14'' and ''Stanley the Ugly Duckling''. Later he did work for Hanna-Barbera and Disney. At Hanna-Barbera, Zaslove worked on several of their works such as ''Space Stars'', '' Yogi's Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tad Stones
Edward T. "Tad" Stones (born May 28, 1952) is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, producer and director, best known for his work for The Walt Disney Company, where he worked from 1974 to 2003. His most notable credits for Disney include creating, writing and producing the animated series ''Darkwing Duck'' and producing '' Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'', ''Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears'', ''Aladdin'', ''Hercules'', and ''Buzz Lightyear of Star Command''. He was a storyboard artist on ''Bob's Burgers'' when it premiered in January 2011. Biography Born in Burbank, California, Stones started with Disney training under animation veteran Eric Larson. He entered the Feature Animation training program three days after his college graduation in 1974. After animating a scene in '' The Rescuers'', Stones moved into the story department on ''The Fox and the Hound''. A brief stint at Walt Disney Imagineering followed, where he worked on Epcot's Transportation pav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rescue Rangers (TV Series)
''Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'' is an American animated adventure comedy television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. Created by Tad Stones and Alan Zaslove, it featured established Disney characters Chip 'n' Dale in a new setting. The series premiered on The Disney Channel on March 4, 1989,''Disney A to Z: The updated official Encyclopedia'', Dave Smith p 101 after the episode "Catteries Not Included" aired on August 27, 1988, as a preview. The series continued in September with a two-hour special, ''Rescue Rangers: To the Rescue'', later divided into five parts to air as part of the weekday run." The final episode aired on November 19, 1990. On September 18, 1989, the series entered national syndication. It aired afternoons along with and following ''DuckTales'' on a network that would become Fox before transferring to a new channel. ''TaleSpin'', a series based on characters from ''The Jungle Book'', was added to the lineup, just before The Disney Afternoon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
