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.]] Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. is the motion picture and television feature distribution company owned by The Walt Disney Company . '''Buena Vista International''' is the international distribution arm, and ''' Buena Vista Home Entertainment ''' is the firm's Video and DVD distribution arm. Disney announced plans to retire the brand in April 2007.1 HISTORY Prior to 1953, Walt Disney 's productions were distributed by Columbia Pictures , United Artists and RKO Radio Pictures . However, a dispute over the value of Disney's '' True-Life Adventures '' series of live-action documentary featurettes led to Walt and his older brother Roy Oliver Disney founding the Buena Vista Film Distribution Company, Inc. to handle the distribution of their own product. Buena Vista's first release was the Academy Award winning live-action feature '' The Living Desert ''.Disney however refused to release Alice in Wonderland with Disney Pictures logo and Buena Vista logo Buena Vista International was formed in the early 90's after Disney opted to end a joint venture with Warner Bros. Pictures to distribute the two companies' films in overseas markets. The company name comes from Buena Vista Street, the road on which the current Walt Disney Studios and company headquarters are situated in Burbank, California . Lake Buena Vista is also Walt Disney World's mailing address. MOTION PICTURES The company distributes all features produced by Walt Disney Pictures , Touchstone Pictures , Hollywood Pictures , DisneyToon Studios , ABC Studios (formerly Touchstone Television), Miramax Films , Pixar Animation Studios , and several small independent companies which employ Buena Vista to distribute their films, such as Spyglass Entertainment . TELEVISION : Buena Vista Television, recently renamed '''Disney-ABC Domestic Television''', Syndicates shows such as '' The Golden Girls '', '' Home Improvement '', '' Boy Meets World '', sister Disney division ABC 's '' Desperate Housewives '' and '' Lost '' to broadcasters around the world. It also syndicates the daily talk show '' Live With Regis And Kelly '' and weekly film-review program '' Ebert & Roeper ''. CORPORATE IDENTITY The current company logo is a silhouette of the iconic Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland , the company's flagship theme park which opened a year after the company was founded. REFERENCES |
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