Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is a motion picture and television feature distribution company owned by Disney Enterprises, Inc. Buena Vista International was the international distribution arm, Buena Vista Home Entertainment was the firm's video

Video

Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...

 and DVD

DVD

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 distribution arm, and Buena Vista Television was renamed as Disney-ABC Domestic Television.

In April 2007, Disney decided to retire the Buena Vista brand, although today the Buena Vista name is used only for video and DVD distribution through certain divisions of Disney's home entertainment.

History

Prior to 1953, Walt Disney

Walt Disney

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...

's productions were distributed by Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

 (1929–1932), United Artists

United Artists

United Artists Corporation is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks....

 (1932–1937) and RKO Radio Pictures (1937–1954). However, a dispute over the value of Disney's True-Life Adventures series of live-action documentary featurettes in 1953 led to Walt and his older brother Roy Oliver Disney to form its wholly owned subsidiary the Buena Vista Film Distribution Company, Inc. to handle the U.S. distribution of their own product. Buena Vista's first release was the Academy Award

Academy Awards

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 winning live-action feature The Living Desert

The Living Desert

The Living Desert is a 1953 American nature documentary film which shows the everyday lives of the animals of the desert of the southwestern United States. The movie was written by James Algar, Winston Hibler, Jack Moffitt and Ted Sears. It was directed by Algar, with Hibler as the narrator...

(1953).
Buena Vista International was formed in 1992 after Disney opted to end a joint venture with Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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 to distribute their films in overseas markets.

The BV company name comes from Buena Vista Street, the road on which the current Walt Disney Studios

Walt Disney Studios (Burbank)

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 and company headquarters are situated in Burbank, California. Lake Buena Vista

Lake Buena Vista, Florida

Lake Buena Vista is a city in Orange County, Florida, United States. It is mostly known for being home to the Walt Disney World Resort. It is one of two Florida municipalities controlled by The Walt Disney Company, the other being Bay Lake....

 is also Walt Disney World's mailing address in Florida.

16 of the 20 highest grossing G rated movies were distributed by Buena Vista.

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

The company distributes all features produced by the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group including:

Current

• Walt Disney Pictures
  Walt Disney Pictures
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  • Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Pixar Animation Studios
    Pixar
    Pixar Animation Studios, pronounced , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide...
    
    
  • DisneyToon Studios
    DisneyToon Studios
    DisneyToon Studios is an American animation studio owned by The Walt Disney Company, responsible for producing direct-to-video and occasional theatrical films for Walt Disney Studios....
    
    
• Disneynature
  Disneynature
  Disneynature is an independent film label of The Walt Disney Company, founded on April 21, 2008 as a division of the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group...
  
  
• Marvel Studios
  Marvel Studios
  Marvel Studios, originally Marvel Films, is an American television and motion picture studio based in Manhattan Beach, California. Marvel Studios is a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, a self-contained part of the The Walt Disney Company conglomerate....
  
  
• Touchstone Pictures
  Touchstone Pictures
  Touchstone Pictures is an American film production label and is one of several film labels of the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group. Established in 1984, its releases typically feature more mature themes and darker tones than those that are released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.Touchstone...
  
  
  • DreamWorks Pictures (Releasing only live-action films)
• Hollywood Pictures
  Hollywood Pictures
  Hollywood Pictures is one of The Walt Disney Company's several alternate movie divisions. Like Disney's Touchstone Pictures brand, it produces films for a more mature adult audience than Walt Disney Pictures.-History:...
  
  
• ESPN Films
  ESPN Films
  ESPN Films is a production company owned by ESPN that produces and distributes sports films and documentaries.-History:...
  
  
• Studio Ghibli
  Studio Ghibli
  is a Japanese animation and film studio founded in June 1985. The company's logo features the character Totoro from Hayao Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro...
  
  (North America)

Former

• Miramax Films
  Miramax Films
  Miramax Films is an American entertainment company known for distributing independent and foreign films. For its first 14 years the company was privately owned by its founders, Bob and Harvey Weinstein...
  
  (1993–2010)
• Dimension Films
  Dimension Films
  Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company. It was formerly used as Bob Weinstein's label within Miramax Films, to produce and release genre films...
  
  (1993–2005)
• ImageMovers Digital
  ImageMovers Digital
  ImageMovers Digital is a digital film studio run by director Robert Zemeckis and originally owned by The Walt Disney Company, later Universal Studios...
  
  (2009–2011)