Felix Salten a Forest Family" (1939). His stories "Perri" and "The Hound of Florence" inspired the Disney films "Perri" (1957) and "The Shaggy Dog" (1959), respectively. Salten is now considered to be the anonymous author of a witty, full of social criticism, celebrated erotic novel, "Josephine Mutzenbacher: The Life Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself" (1906). Felix Salten Felix Salten (; 6 September 1869 – 8 October 1945) was an Austrian author and critic in Vienna. His most famous work is "Bambi, a Life in the Woods" (1923). Salten was born Siegmund Salzmann in Pest, Austria-Hungary, the grandson of
Walt Disney Animation Studios and the "Donald Duck" cartoons eclipsed the "Mickey Mouse" series in popularity. The "Silly Symphonies", which garnered seven , ended in 1939. The success of "Snow White" allowed Disney to build a new, larger studio on Buena Vista Street in Burbank, where The Walt Disney Company remains headquartered to this day. Walt Disney Productions had its initial public offering on April 2, 1940, with Walt Disney as president and chairman and Roy Disney as CEO. The studio launched into the production of new animated features, the first of which was "Pinocchio", released in February 1940. "Pinocchio" was not initially a