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 in 1953 led to Walt and his older brother Roy Oliver Disney to form its wholly owned subsidiary the Buena Vista Distribution Company, Inc. (DVB) to handle the U.S. distribution of their own product. Buena Vista's first release was the Academy Award winning live-action feature The Living Desert on November 10, 1953 along with Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom Buena Vista's first animated release. In September 1956, BVD released the foreign film, Yang Kwei Fei (Most Noble Lady), in US theaters. The Company's first US non-Disney film was The Missouri Traveler was released in March 1958. In July 1959, BVD released the first Disney financed outside production, The Big Fisherman. In 1961, Disney incorporated The Buena Vista International. BVD released in January 1979 its first PG rated movie, Take Down, made by an external company.
In April 2007, Disney decided to drop the Buena Vista brand.
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