when did the first disney movie come out
1937
title: Walt Disney Pictures text: released under this brand. "Pirates of the Caribbean" is the studio's most successful franchise, with two of its sequels, released in and , earning over $1 billion in worldwide box office gross. The studio's predecessor (and the modern-day The Walt Disney Company's as a whole) was founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, by filmmaker Walt Disney and his business partner and brother, Roy, in 1923. The creation of Mickey Mouse and subsequent short films and merchandise generated revenue for the studio which was renamed as The Walt Disney Studio at the Hyperion Studio in 1926. In 1929, it was title: Walt Disney text: after three years Disney ordered it into storage due to a series of accidents involving his guests. In early 1950, Disney produced "Cinderella", his studio's first animated feature in eight years. It was popular with critics and theater audiences. Costing $2.2 million to produce, it earned nearly $8 million in its first year. Disney was less involved than he had been with previous pictures because of his involvement in his first entirely live-action feature, "Treasure Island" (1950), which was shot in Britain, as was "The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men" (1952). Other all-live-action features followed, many of title: Walt Disney Studios (division) text: Walt Disney Studios is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Walt Disney Productions began production of their first feature-length animated film in 1934. Taking three years to complete, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", premiered in December 1937 and became the highest-grossing film of that time by 1939. In the 1940s, Disney began experimenting with full-length live-action films, with the introduction of hybrid live action-animated films such as "The Reluctant Dragon" (1941) and "Song of the South" (1946). That same decade, the studio began producing nature documentaries with the release of "Seal Island" (1948), the first title: Walt Disney Pictures text: first of the "True-Life Adventures" series and a subsequent Academy Award winner for Best Live-Action Short Film. Walt Disney Productions had its first fully live-action film in 1950 with the release of "Treasure Island""," considered by Disney to be the official conception for what would eventually evolve into the modern-day Walt Disney Pictures. By 1953, the company ended their agreements with such third-party distributors as RKO Radio Pictures and United Artists and formed their own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution. The division was incorporated as Walt Disney Pictures on April 1, 1983 to diversify film subjects and expand audiences for title: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures text: Vista" came from the street in Burbank, California, where the Disney Studios was located (and remains to this day). Buena Vista's first release was the Academy Award–winning live-action feature "The Living Desert" on November 10, 1953, along with "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom", Buena Vista's first animated release. Notable subsequent releases include the foreign film, "Princess Yang Kwei-Fei" ("Most Noble Lady"), released in US theaters in September 1956, "The Missouri Traveler" in March 1958, and "The Big Fisherman" in July 1959 (the first third-party production financed by Disney). By July 5, 1957, RKO Japan, Ltd. was sold to Disney Productions