Walt Disney Television Animation is the animated television production division of The Walt Disney Company. It was formed in 1985 as Walt Disney Pictures and Television the name was later changed to Walt Disney Television in the mid-1980s then its present name in 2004. Tom Ruzicka, now at Universal Animation Studios (owned by NBC Universal, Inc.), was one of the original executives in charge of this fledgling group. Other animation executives tha...
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Walt Disney Television Animation is the animated television production division of The Walt Disney Company. It was formed in 1985 as Walt Disney Pictures and Television the name was later changed to Walt Disney Television in the mid-1980s then its present name in 2004. Tom Ruzicka, now at Universal Animation Studios (owned by NBC Universal, Inc.), was one of the original executives in charge of this fledgling group. Other animation executives that worked at Television Animation over the years were Barbara Ferro, Sharon Morrill, Bill Gross (former President of Jumbo Pictures, creators of Doug, now working with Idealab!), Maia Mattise, Lenora Hume.
Noted WDTA series include DuckTales, Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, and Gargoyles.
It is headquartered since 1998 in the Frank G. Wells Building on the Studio Lot across from the Team Disney Burbank building (fronted by the Seven Dwarfs). The Frank G. Wells building was specifically designed for Television Animation, and has a film reel and...
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