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Walt Disney

Walt Disney was an American motion-picture and television producer and showman,
famous as a pioneer of cartoon films and as the creator of Disneyland. As a
prominent figure within the American animation industry and throughout the world,
he is regarded as a cultural icon, known for his influence and contributions to
entertainment during the 20th century.
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in the Hermosa section of
Chicago, Illinois. His father was Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother,
Flora Call Disney, was German-American. Disney was one of five children, four boys
and a girl. The family moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890, hometown of Elias' brother
Robert, who helped Elias financially for most of Walt's early life. In 1906, when Walt
was four, Elias and his family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri. Disney
developed his love for drawing with one of the family's neighbors, a retired doctor
named "Doc" Sherwood, paying him to draw pictures of Sherwood's horse, Rupert.
His interest in trains originated in Marceline as well. isney began his freshman year
at McKinley High School and took night courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts
under the tutelage of artist and educator Louis Grell (18871960). He became the
cartoonist for the school newspaper, drawing patriotic topics on World War I. With a
hope to join the army, Disney dropped out of high school at the age of sixteen, but
was rejected for being underage. Afterwards, Disney and a friend joined the Red
Cross and was sent to France for a year to drive an ambulance.
Hoping to find work outside the Chicago O-Zell factory, Walt moved back to Kansas
City in 1919 to begin his artistic career. He considered becoming an actor, but
decided to draw political caricatures or comic strips for a newspaper. When nobody
wanted to hire him as either an artist or as an ambulance driver, his brother Roy,
then working in a local bank, got Walt a temporary job through a bank colleague at
the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio, where he created advertisements for newspapers,
magazines, and movie theaters. At Pesmen-Rubin he met cartoonist Ubbe Iwerks
and, when their time at the studio expired, they decided to start their own
commercial company together.

In January 1920, Disney and Iwerks formed a short-lived company called "IwerksDisney Commercial Artists". However, following a rough start, Disney left
temporarily to earn money at the Kansas City Film Ad Company. He was soon joined
by Iwerks, who was not able to run their business alone. While working for the
company, where he made commercials based on cutout animation, Disney became
interested in animation and decided to become an animator. The owner of the Ad
Company, A.V. Cauger, allowed him to borrow a camera from work to experiment
with at home. After reading the Edwin G. Lutz book Animated Cartoons: How They
Are Made, Their Origin and Development, Disney considered cel animation to be
much more promising than the cutout animation he was doing for Cauger. He
eventually decided to open his own animation business and recruited a fellow coworker at the Ad Company, Fred Harman, as his first employee.
Walt and Harman made a deal with a local Kansas City theatre to screen their
cartoons, which they called Laugh-O-Grams. The cartoons were hugely popular, and
Disney was able to acquire his own studio, upon which he bestowed the same name.
Laugh-O-Gram hired a number of employees, including Harman's brother Hugh and
Ub Iwerks. They did a series of seven-minute fairy tales that combined both live
action and animation, which they called Alice in Cartoonland. By 1923, however, the
studio had become burdened with debt, and Disney was forced to declare
bankruptcy, whereupon he decided to set up a studio in the movie industry's capital
city, Hollywood, California.
Disney and his brother, Roy, soon pooled their money and moved to Hollywood.
Iwerks also relocated to California, and there the three began the Disney Brothers'
Studio. Their first deal was with New York distributor Margaret Winkler, to
distribute their Alice cartoons. They also invented a character called Oswald the
Lucky Rabbit, and contracted the shorts at $1,500 each.
In 1925, Disney hired an ink-and-paint artist named Lillian Bound. After a brief
courtship, the couple married.
A few years later, Disney discovered that Winkler and her husband, Charles Mintz,
had stolen the rights to Oswald, along with all of Disneys animators, except for
Iwerks. Right away the Disney brothers, their wives and Iwerks produced three
cartoons featuring a new character Walt had been developing called Mickey Mouse.

The first animated shorts featuring Mickey were Plane Crazy and The Gallopin'
Gaucho, both silent films for which they failed to find distribution. When sound
made its way into film, Disney created a third, sound-and-music-equipped short
called Steamboat Willie. With Walt as the voice of Mickey, the cartoon was an instant
sensation.
In 1929, Disney created Silly Symphonies, which featured Mickey's newly created
friends, including Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto. One of the most
popular cartoons, Flowers and Trees, was the first to be produced in colour and to
win an Oscar. In 1933, The Three Little Pigs and its title song "Who's Afraid of the
Big Bad Wolf?" became a theme for the country in the midst of the Great Depression.
On December 21, 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length
animated film, premiered in Los Angeles. It produced an unimaginable $1.499
million, in spite of the Depression, and won a total of eight Oscars. During the next
five years, Walt Disney Studios completed another string of full-length animated
films, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi.
In December 1939, a new campus for Walt Disney Studios was opened in Burbank.
In 1940, construction was completed on Disneys Burbank studio, and the staff
swelled to more than 1,000 artists, animators, story men and technicians. During
World War II, 94 percent of the Disney facilities were engaged in special government
work including the production of training and propaganda films for the armed
services, as well as health films which are still shown throughout the world by the
U.S. State Department. The remainder of his efforts were devoted to the production
of comedy short subjects, deemed highly essential to civilian and military morale.
A setback for the company occurred in 1941, however, when there was a strike by
Disney animators. Many of them resigned, and it would be years before the company
fully recovered. During the mid-40s, Disney created "packaged features," groups of
shorts strung together to run at feature length, but by 1950, he was once again
focusing on animated features. Cinderella was released in 1950, followed by Alice in
Wonderland (1951), Peter Pan (1953), a live-action film called Treasure Island
(1950), Lady and the Tramp (1955), Sleeping Beauty (1959) and 101 Dalmatians
(1961). In all, more than 100 features were produced by his studio.

In 1965, Walt Disney turned his attention toward the problem of improving the
quality of urban life in America. He personally directed the design on an
Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, or EPCOT, planned as a living
showcase for the creativity of American industry.
Prior to his death on December 15, 1966, Walt Disney took a deep interest in the
establishment of California Institute of the Arts, a college level, professional school of
all the creative and performing arts. Of Cal Arts, Walt once said, Its the principal
thing I hope to leave when I move on to greener pastures. If I can help provide a
place to develop the talent of the future, I think I will have accomplished something.
Disneyland
Disney's $17 million Disneyland theme park opened in 1955. It was a place where
children and their families could explore, take rides and meet the Disney characters.
In a very short time, the park had increased its investment tenfold, and was
entertaining tourists from around the world.
Death
Within a few years of the opening, Disney began plans for a new theme park and
Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow in Florida. It was still under
construction when, in 1966, Disney was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died on
December 15, 1966, at the age of 65. Disney was cremated, and his ashes interred at
Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. After his brother's death, Roy
carried on the plans to finish the Florida theme park, which opened in 1971 under the
name Walt Disney World.

Quote
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened
me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best
thing in the world for you.
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of
making money.
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach
our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and
feelings.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you
unique.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know
that life is a complex matter.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it
takes people to make the dream a reality.

Analysis
Walt Disneys works teach us a lot of things, such as the value of love for friends and
family, hope for the good and his most important lesson: good will always triumph
over evil.
Person should have do that work what he love. Life is too short to spend it doing the
possible. Learn to pursue the impossible, pursue what others say cant be done,
pursue what has never been done before, pursue your dreams, and turn them into a
reality.
When people do what he love he will give his full effort to that work and become
successful and he find that work is fun rather than tedious
He always want to do for country, He also joined army when he was sixteen but
because of underage he rejected. He worked as ambulance driver in the army during
World War I. Which show that rejection is not end of life there is so many way to
fulfil your dream
When work and your happiness is share with other it will give more satisfaction then
loneliness
Never loss your hope after failure: In 1923 the studio had become burdened with
debt, and Disney was forced to declare bankruptcy, whereupon he decided to set up a
studio in the movie industry's capital city, Hollywood, California.
Never Just Settle With Your First Success: After one accomplishment he would
immediately start on another project. After finishing his legendary film Snow White
and the Seven Dwarves, Disney immediately went to work on other feature films
such as Bambi, Fantasia and many others. After creating Mickey Mouse, Disney
didnt stop at just him. Instead he went on and created Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck,
Pluto
He is the one who is not stopped by obstacle. When Walt Disney first started to work
on Snow White, his wife and own brother did all they could to convince him to stop.
The Snow White project was even termed as Disneys Folly, and halfway across

production he ran out of money to continue the work. Most people in this situation
would just quit and get whatever they can out of whats left, but for Disney he
persevered. He decided to travel around and show clips of the raw film to producers
in hopes of them funding his project; in the end this attempt was what saved his
studio and allowed him to finish the classic Snow White film.
His efforts were devoted to the production of comedy short subjects, deemed highly
essential to civilian and military morale. During World War II, 94 percent of the
Disney facilities were engaged in special government work including the production
of training and propaganda films for the armed services, as well as health films which
are still shown throughout the world by the U.S. State Department which show how
much he devoted to civilian and military.
He wanted that people learn art and for provide a place to develop the talent of the
future, he took a deep interest in the establishment of California Institute of the Arts,
a college level, professional school of all the creative and performing arts.
A man should never neglect his family for business. This show that family is your
first business, and they should never be neglected in pursuit of a dream. Your
family must be part of your dream, and should remain within your focus. Never
become so consumed in business affairs that you neglect the individuals whom you
need most.
Competition is good. Competition makes you stronger, it makes you better, it keeps
you on your toes. He said for competition that I have been up against tough
competition all my life. I wouldnt know how to get along without it. Your
competitors can provide you with more value than your friends. Learn from the
competition, and you will grow.
Never do work only for money follow your passion, if youre doing it just for the
money, it probably wont last. Passion is what gives you the strength to overcome the
obstacles associated with every dream. Passion is what keeps you going when
everyone else is tired.
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture
company. Dont allow other websites or businesses to influence your unique idea.

The moment you do that its no longer unique. No one gets the title of innovator by
copying others or worry about the opinions of others.
He always say that well done is better than well said, Quit planning and start
practicing; a plan is good, a good plan is even better, but if that plan doesnt get put
into action its useless. Learn to get into action, start today, whatever youve been
postponing, just do it. If you wait for the perfect time, youll never accomplish
anything.
Whenever I go on a ride, Im always thinking of whats wrong with the thing and
how it can be improved. Every day you should become a little better than you were
the day before. Learn to get better daily; look for ways to improve.
Walt Disney was a chain smoker his entire adult life, although he made sure he was
not seen smoking around children.
Employees spending time with their children Disney drew sketches of his ideas for an
amusement park. Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just
with the idea of making money.
Imagination, optimism and self-made success in the American tradition. Walt Disney
did more to touch the hearts, minds and emotions of millions of people. Through his
work, he brought joy, happiness and a universal means of communication to the
people of every nation.

Bibliography

[1] Wikipedia. Walt Disney - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney
[2] http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/walt_disney.html
[3] https://d23.com/walt-disney-archives/about-walt-disney/

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