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us: Buena Vista Film Distribution Co.


  • [Buena Vista Film Distribution Co. was an American motion picture distribution company.] The company was established in 1953 as a subsidiary of Walt Disney Productions. Beginning in 1960, the name began to appear as Buena Vista Distribution Co. in film credits.

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    • found: Samuel Goldwyn Jr. presents Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland in "Proud rebel," 1958: cover (Buena Vista Film Distribution Co., Inc.)
    • found: Wikipedia WWW site, Apr. 23, 2009: (In 1953, Walt and Roy Disney founded Buena Vista Film Distribution Co., Inc. to handle the distribution of their own product. Buena Vista's first release was The living desert)
    • found: Film daily yearbook 1959: p. 251 (Buena Vista Film Distribution Co., Inc.; releasing company for Proud rebel)
    • found: Wikipedia, via WWW, Oct. 31, 2012 (Buena Vista; Buena Vista Distribution Co.; Buena Vista Film Distribution; distribution company for motion pictures and television programs; est. by Walt Disney in 1953; wholly owned subsidiary of Disney; also included international division, Buena Vista International; video and DVD distribution division, Buena Vista Home Entertainment; television division, Buena Vista Television, later Disney-ABC Domestic Television; renamed Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in 2002; name removed from divisions in 2007)
    • found: CLG Wiki, via WWW, Oct. 31, 2012 (Buena Vista Pictures Distribution; est. 1953, used in film logos until 1984; renamed and rebranded as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in 2007; logo listed as Buena Vista Film Distribution Co., Inc., 1953-1960; logo listed as Buena Vista Distribution Co., Inc., 1960-1984; logo used Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc., 1983-2007)
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    • [Buena Vista Film Distribution Co. was an American motion picture distribution company.] The company was established in 1953 as a subsidiary of Walt Disney Productions. Beginning in 1960, the name began to appear as Buena Vista Distribution Co. in film credits.
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    • [Distributed Disney films from ca. 1953 to ca. 1959.]
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    • 2001-02-20: new
    • 2012-11-02: revised
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