Before the major corporate restructuring in 1986, the company we now know as The Walt Disney Company was officially named Walt Disney Productions. This name was adopted in 1929 and was used for over five decades as the company expanded from a small animation studio into a massive media conglomerate that included theme parks, live-action films, and television. The change to "The Walt Disney Company" in 1986, led by then-CEO Michael Eisner, was intended to better reflect the diversity of the brand's business segments and to modernize its image during the "Disney Renaissance." In its even earlier years, the studio went through several shorter-lived titles: it was founded in 1923 as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio by Walt and Roy Disney, then renamed the Walt Disney Studio in 1926. In 2026, while the parent company uses the shorter name, the specific film division is still known as Walt Disney Pictures, maintaining a linguistic link to its 1929 origins while operating under the broader corporate umbrella that has become a global household name.