Walt Disney Studios
— — the lot where the studio still draws.
Not only on a wall.
“Walt Disney's studio lot in Burbank, opened in 1940 after the success of Snow White paid for the move from Hyperion Avenue. The original animation building, designed by Kem Weber, still stands behind the seven dwarfs supporting the Team Disney roofline. Walk down the Mickey Avenue street sign past the soundstages where Mary Poppins was scored, and the lot still works the way Walt laid it out: a small city built for making pictures.
Walt Disney Studios, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The Walt Disney Studios occupies a 51-acre lot on Buena Vista Street in Burbank, California, about 18 kilometres north of downtown Los Angeles. Walt Disney bought the land in 1938 and opened the studio in 1940 after the box-office success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs financed the move from the cramped Hyperion Avenue lot in Silver Lake. The original Animation Building, the Ink and Paint Building, and the Theatre Building were all designed by industrial designer Kem Weber in a streamline-moderne idiom suited to a working factory of films.
The lot is a working studio first. The animation slate still feeds Disney's theatrical schedule from buildings around the original animation court, and the post-production stages handle scoring and mixing for the wider Disney, Marvel, and Pixar release calendar. The D23 Expo, the company's biannual fan event, is held off-lot at the Anaheim Convention Center; the studio itself does not run public tours. Visiting the lot in person requires an invitation or a screening pass, though the gates and the front facade on Alameda Avenue are visible from the street.
Walt Disney Studios does not offer public tours. The lot is a working production facility, secured behind controlled gates with badge-only access for employees, contractors, and invited guests. The exterior, including the Team Disney building topped with sculpted figures of the Seven Dwarfs and the Roy E. Disney Animation Building, can be seen from Alameda Avenue and Buena Vista Street. The closest public Disney experience in the area is the Walt Disney Family Museum at the Presidio in San Francisco, which holds personal archives and original drawings.