The Band Concert
The two-story Shorts Building is one of the most significant remnants of Disney's former Hyperion studio. It originally consisted of two buildings, constructed in 1934 and 1937, to accommodate the company's rapidly expanding animation department. The 1934 structure was called the "Animation Building No. 2" and Walt and Roy Disney had their offices there prior to the move to Burbank. The animation for scores of Disney shorts of the 1930s, including "The Band Concert" (1935) and the Oscar-winning "The Old Mill" (1937), was created in this complex, and it was here that Walt hatched his risky idea for America's first full-length animated feature, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937).