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The logo almost always shows a fairy tale castle directly inspired by Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty Castle and Magic Kingdom’s Cinderella Castle. It has had several changes since its first appearance. Some films include a variation of the logo to accentuate with the film and its tone.

The production logo often includes a musical version of “When You Wish Upon a Star” from the 1940 animated classic, Pinocchio. Several Walt Disney Television logos have been modified versions of the castle logo.

This logo uses a computer-generated facsimile of the castle and lacks the light beam or segmentation, instead moving away from the castle gates. Instead of “When Wish Wish Upon a Star”, this production logo uses an original melody composed by Randy Newman.

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Anyone who has grown up with Disney classics will remember the famous ‘D’ in its logo. It is precisely this letter that has caused an intense debate in social networks as its authorship is unknown.

The youtuber Hank Green was the one who lit the fuse by publishing a video in which he explained that the letter did not originate from any of the many signatures that Walt Disney had. Although some letters look similar, it is not clear where the ‘D’ came from.

Perhaps that’s why, after the video was posted, even the youtuber’s followers joined the investigation and went through some of his old Disney copies to check what his logo looked like back then.

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Another logo based on Walt Disney’s handwriting was created in the mid-1940s. After it was discontinued in 1972, this logo would be reused in the Walt Disney Home Entertainment logo from 1978 to 1984.

In 1960, a later variant was based on the Walt Disney font. The typeface is still used as the main logo, but has since been revised. Disney retired this logo in 1980.

In 1964, the signature typeface became a bit softer. It was first used at the 1964-1965 World’s Fair in New York, permanently before becoming the official logo in 1971.

Versions of this logo were also used before it became the company’s official logo and even before its creation, beginning with a flyer for the iconic Enchanted Tiki Room attraction in 1963, 1965 with Fantasy on Parade at Disneyland on the big drum at the beginning of the parade and a slightly different version at the end of the Disney animated classic The Aristocats.

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Other short films that stood out during the decade were: The Three Little Pigs, The Pied Piper, The Hare and the Tortoise, Little Red Riding Hood, The Cicada and the Ant, The Golden Touch, The Brave Little Tailor and The Ugly Duckling, winning several Oscars with some of them.

At the beginning of the fourth decade of the twentieth century, Disney releases its second feature film: Pinocchio (1940), which, as expected, becomes a success, while the studio moves and establishes its definitive headquarters in Burbank, California.

Once the fifties arrived, Disney began the decade on the right foot with the premiere of its first television series, One Hour in Wonderland, and the first live-action production in its entirety, Treasure Island, was released, and most important of all, the return to the production of animated feature films about fairy tales with Cinderella. This wonderful and successful release was followed by Alice in Wonderland (1951), Peter Pan (1953), Lady and the Tramp (1955) and Sleeping Beauty (1959), thus demonstrating its full recovery as a production company.

Eduardo José Cazorla