This week Disney releases what is officially the studio’s 50th animated feature film, Tangled.

In the 70 years and more since the first animated Disney feature, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, the groundbreaking studio has dominated the course of western animation, released a string of culture-saturating classics, and ridden several serious crises to become the largest entertainment conglomerate in the world.

Disney is now far more than just a cartoon factory, with a corporate portfolio boasting Pixar Animation Studios, several Disney-themed holiday resorts, the TV networks ESPN and ABC, comics giant Marvel and several others.

Join us as we take a look at the story behind this incredible transformation from upstart sketchers to world-straddling powerhouse.