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Ward Walrath Kimball was an American animator employed by Walt Disney Animation Studios. He was part of Walt Disney's main team of animators, known collectively as Disney's Nine Old Men. His films have been honored with two Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film.
Kimball in 1976
Kimball drawing Pecos Bill from Melody Time
The Ward Kimball locomotive pulling into New Orleans Square Station in Disneyland
Kimball operating his model train in 1977
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.