The acre The complex also houses the offices for many of the company's units, including the film studios Walt Disney Pictures , Walt Disney Animation Studios , and Marvel Studios. Walt Disney used the earnings from the successful release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to finance the construction of the Burbank studio.
Disney is the only major film studio out of the Big Five that does not currently offer regular tours of their studio lot to the general public. As an aid to visitors, many buildings on the Disney lot are currently marked with identifying signs that include historical information and trivia about each site. Disney Imagineering manages the studio. Prior to the official opening of the Burbank lot in , the Walt Disney Studios was situated at several different locations in Los Angeles.
This garage has been on display at the Stanley Ranch Museum in Garden Grove since the s, several blocks away from Disneyland. Disney was also in Los Angeles at the time. In October , the brothers leased office space on the rear side of a real estate agency's office at Kingswell Avenue. It was also at this site where on January 14, , Walt Disney met his future wife Lillian Bounds , an "ink and paint" girl whom he personally hired.
In February , the studio moved next door to an office of its own at Kingswell Avenue. The late Robert Disney's residence and the small office building that is home to and Kingswell Avenue have survived to the present and are still in use. In , Walt Disney placed a deposit on a new, considerably larger lot at Hyperion Avenue, and the studio moved there in January It was here where, after a train journey with his wife Lillian, Walt created the character of Mickey Mouse in Here, too, the first three-strip Technicolor animated film, the Silly Symphony Flowers and Trees , and the first animated cartoon using Disney's multiplane camera , The Old Mill , were created.
In , the Hyperion studio produced Disney's first full-length animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The Hyperion studio site was sold in and divided between two different industrial manufacturers, and in a subsequent owner demolished what was left of the studio complex and replaced it with the supermarket and shopping center that stand there today.
