Editing Roy E. Disney (section)

===First "Save Disney" campaign (1984)===
Disney resigned as an executive from Walt Disney Productions in 1977 over disagreements with corporate decisions. He later said, "I just felt creatively the company was not going anywhere interesting. It was very stifling."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19991104/2993263/nephew-is-disneys-last-disney|title=Nephew Is Disney's Last Disney|last=Schneider|first=Mike|date=November 4, 1999|work=The Seattle Times|access-date=December 17, 2009|archive-date=July 26, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726095114/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19991104&slug=2993263|url-status=live}}</ref>

Disney retained a seat on the board of directors until 1984, when he resigned in the midst of a corporate takeover battle. This began a series of events that ultimately led to the replacement of [[Ron W. Miller|Ron Miller]] (husband of Walt's daughter [[Diane Marie Disney]]) by [[Frank Wells]] and [[Michael Eisner]] as president and CEO, respectively. While investors were attempting the [[hostile takeover]] of Disney with the intention of dismantling the company and selling off its assets, Disney and his attorney and financial advisor [[Stanley Gold]] organized a consortium of [[White knight (business)|white knight]] investors to fend off the takeover attempts. With the introduction of Wells and Eisner, Roy returned to the company as vice chairman and chairman of the animation department, which became [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Feature Animation]].<ref name="wakingsleepingbeauty">{{cite video|people=[[Don Hahn|Hahn, Don]] |title=[[Waking Sleeping Beauty]] |medium=Documentary film|publisher=Stone Circle Pictures/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|location=Burbank, California |date=2009}}</ref>