Editing Walt Disney Studios (Burbank) (section)

== History ==
[[File:Disney studios burbank entrance gate buena vista.jpg|thumb|The original entrance gate to Walt Disney Studios at 500 South Buena Vista Street in Burbank, California.]]

The current Walt Disney Studios, located at 500 South [[Buena Vista (Walt Disney Company)|Buena Vista]] Street, [[Burbank, California|Burbank]], was made possible by the revenue from the 1937 release of [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'']].<ref name="lac">{{cite web|title=Walt Disney Studios|url=https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/walt-disney-studios|website=Los Angeles Conservancy|access-date=October 6, 2017|language=en}}</ref> [[Walt Disney]] and his staff began the move from the old studio at Hyperion Avenue in [[Silver Lake, Los Angeles|Silver Lake]] from December 1939 to January 1940. Designed primarily by [[Kem Weber]] under the supervision of [[Walt Disney]] and his brother Roy, the [[Burbank, California|Burbank]] Disney Studio buildings are the only studios that have been owned by [[the Walt Disney Company]] to survive from the Golden Age of filming.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}} A bungalow, the Shorts building and other small buildings that were located at the Hyperion Avenue location were moved to Burbank.<ref name="ut" />

Disney purposely planned his new Burbank studio around the animation process. The large Animation Building stood in the center of the campus, while adjacent outlying buildings were constructed for the ink-and-paint departments, the camera and editing departments, and the other various functions of the studio. Tunnels linked some of the buildings (to allow movement of animation materials without exposing them to the outside elements), and the lot also included a movie theatre, a [[sound stage]], and a commissary. The 1941 Disney feature [[The Reluctant Dragon (1941 film)|''The Reluctant Dragon'']], which combined live action with animated sequences and starred [[Robert Benchley]], served as a tour of the then-new studio. It was later frequently seen and toured on various Disney television programs.

The [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] by [[Empire of Japan|Imperial Japan]] on December 7, 1941, brought America into [[World War II]]. 500 [[United States Army]] soldiers of the 121st Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA) Gun Battalion occupied Walt Disney Studios the day after the attack for eight months in the period of the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]] invasion scare, earning Disney as the only Hollywood studio to come under [[military occupation]] in history.<ref name="WDAWDW">{{cite web|url=https://www.laughingplace.com/w/featured/2015/12/07/pearl-harbor-changed-everything-even-disney-studio/|first=Doobie|last=Moseley|date=December 7, 2015|title=Pearl Harbor Changed Everything, Even the Disney Studio|publisher=Laughing Place}}</ref> During the war, Disney [[Walt Disney's World War II propaganda production|regularly produced propaganda and training films]] for the [[Federal government of the United States|U.S. government]] including [[United States Armed Forces|its armed forces]] to increase morale among Americans that the fight against the [[Axis powers]] was waged for a just cause.<ref name="WDAWDW" />

In the years after the war, the studio began regular work on live-action features, as they needed the money. Though their first films were shot in England, the necessity to build live-action facilities still arose. Lacking the capital to do it themselves, Jack Webb offered to put up some of the money to build live-action soundstages in exchange for the right to use them (Webb used them to shoot much of the ''Dragnet'' TV series). During this time, backlots for exterior shots were also built and remained standing at the studios until after a major change in management in 1984.

In 1986, after the corporate restructuring of Walt Disney Productions into the Walt Disney Company, the studio lot was remodeled to accommodate more live-action production space and administrative offices. The studio lot is now home to multiple offices and administration buildings and seven soundstages. It is bounded by South Buena Vista Street on the west, West Alameda Street on the north, South Keystone Street on the east, and West [[Riverside Drive (Los Angeles)|Riverside Drive]] on the south. It sits in an area of Burbank where the street grid is offset at a diagonal, but most of the original buildings and roads within the campus itself were laid out in alignment with the [[cardinal directions]].

Disney chairman Michael Eisner had the Team Disney building constructed in 1990.<ref name="lac" /> In 1992, Disney had gained city approval for its expansion master plan, which included the Riverside Building. The Riverside Building, located next to Feature Animation Building at 2300 Riverside Drive, opened in 2000 for [[Disney–ABC Television Group|ABC]] executives and employees.<ref name="dn">{{cite news|last1=Hamm|first1=Jennifer|last2=Oliande|first2=Sylvia L.|title=Disney's Newest Showplace Taking Shape |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/DISNEY%27S+NEWEST+SHOWPLACE+TAKING+SHAPE-a083408585|access-date=October 6, 2017|work=Daily News | via=Free Online Library|date=May 18, 2000|location=Los Angeles, CA}}</ref>

In April 2013, [[Marvel Studios]] moved its offices from [[Manhattan Beach Studios Media Campus]] to the studio's<ref>{{cite news|last=Patten|first=Dominic|url=https://deadline.com/2012/09/marvel-studios-heading-to-walt-disney-company-backyard-the-avengers-thor-captain-america-339226/|access-date=December 29, 2012|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=September 19, 2012|title=Marvel Studios Heading To Disney's Backyard| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131110195308/http://www.deadline.com/2012/09/marvel-studios-heading-to-walt-disney-company-backyard-the-avengers-thor-captain-america/ | archive-date = November 10, 2013| url-status=live}}</ref> Frank G. Wells Building second floor.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sciretta |first1=Peter |title=A Tour of the Marvel Studios Offices |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/marvel-studios-offices-tour/ |access-date=May 18, 2019 |work=/Film |date=April 18, 2017}}</ref>

In March 2019, Disney [[Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney|acquired]] most of the entertainment assets of [[21st Century Fox]] but did not acquire its studio lot in [[Century City]].<ref name="Vincent">{{cite news |last1=Vincent |first1=Roger |last2=James |first2=Meg |title=Disney plans to vacate storied Fox lot in Century City by year's end |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-04-01/disney-plans-to-vacate-storied-fox-lot-in-century-city-by-years-end |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=April 1, 2025}}</ref>  Instead, Disney signed a seven-year lease which allowed most Fox film and television employees to continue to work at the Fox Studios lot.<ref name="Vincent" /> 

In April 2025, the ''Los Angeles Times'' reported that Disney had finally begun the process of vacating the Fox Studios lot in Century City and relocating all employees still based there to its main studio lot in Burbank.<ref name="Vincent" />  The lease was set to expire in March 2026 but Disney's plan was to be out of Century City by the end of 2025.<ref name="Vincent" />