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Phillip Bradley Bird is an American writer, director and producer. He has had a career spanning forty years in both animation and live-action.
Bird at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
As a teen, Bird was awarded an internship to learn from Walt Disney's Nine Old Men at their California headquarters.
Christopher McDonald, Bird and Eli Marienthal in 2012 at an Iron Giant screening.
Bird, far left, with Pixar's senior creative team in 2009.
Walt Disney Animation Studios
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Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company. The studio's current production logo features a scene from its first synchronized sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie (1928). Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney, it is the oldest-running animation studio in the world. It is currently organized as a division of Walt Disney Studios and is headquartered at the Roy E. Disney Animation Building at the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, California. Since its foundation, the studio has produced 62 feature films, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Wish (2023), and hundreds of short films.
The studio's headquarters at the Roy E. Disney Animation Building in Burbank, pictured in 2007
The building on Kingswell Avenue in Los Feliz which was home to the studio from 1923 to 1926.
Mickey Mouse in Plane Crazy, the first short film produced with the character as protagonist.
Walt Disney introduces each of the Seven Dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937 Snow White theatrical trailer.