Walt Disney planned a new million-dollar studio complex in Burbank with profits from Snow White. Kem Weber (architect and interior designer) worked with James Lill (structural engineer) to design the 51-acre campus. Many of the buildings were linked together by an underground tunnel and all of the utilities were placed underground. In December of 1939 employees began the move from the Hyperion studios to facilities located at 500 South Buena Vista Street. Exterior and parking lot area of the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank. This photograph shows the sound stages, theatre, parking lot and animation building of this studio, which rests on 51 acres and is surrounded by mountains in the San Fernando Valley.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Walt Disney Productions Motion picture studios--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Water towers--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Parking lots--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Automobiles--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Mountains--California, Southern Weber, Kem,1889-1963 Lill, James Verdugo Mountains (Calif.) Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
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