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ABOVE: Disney's 1932 "Silly Symphonies" Flowers and Trees was the first animated short to win an Oscar. Copyright Disney Company® RIGHT: Disney enjoys the view from his garden overlooking Los Feliz. e studio consisted of a series of Spanish-style buildings customized to accommodate the various de- partments, and employed hundreds of men and women. His first full length animated feature, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937), brought additional Oscars for Walt. As many as 570 artists created over 250,000 drawings for "Snow White." e studio gave birth to a series of historic innova- tions: new sound and color technologies were devel- oped along with new camera techniques, and storyboards with pencil tests used to bring the anima- tion to life. e Disneys were also among the first to invest in training classes for their employees Nevertheless, by 1938, it was apparent that the Hy- perion studio would no longer be sufficient for the ex- panded production needs of the thriving company. So, with profits from "Snow White," the Disney brothers purchased 51 acres in Burbank and relocated the com- pany late in 1939. For years a neon sign embellished with Mickey Mouse sat on the Hyperion Studio rooftop. e neon sign sadly did not survive the move to Burbank. Today, there is a Gelson's Market on the Hyperion site and there is no trace of the former historic animated movie operation. A side- walk lamppost in front of the supermarket displays a plaque that acknowledges the former Walt Disney Studio as a point of Historical Interest, Monument Number 163, by LA's Cultural Heritage Board. While Los Feliz was the site of the first Disney 18 DISCOVER HOLLYWOOD / WINTER 2011 Studio years and first major success in animation, the innovations did not stop with the move to Burbank. Disney was one of the first in the film industry to rec- ognize the potential of television. His "Disneyland"