Walt Disney
OVERCOMING OBSTACLES AND MAKING DREAMS COME TRUE
“All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” -Walt Disney
Childhood
- Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was 9 when he first started school.
- Walt's mother was named Flora Call Disney and his father's name was Elias Disney. He had 4 siblings.
- He had three brothers named Roy O Disney, Herbert Arthur Disney, and Raymond Arnold Disney. He also had one sister named Ruth Flora Disney.
- His mother never understood why he loved to draw cartoons
Early Careers
- Was in newspaper delivery with his brother
- Had a summer job selling snacks and newspapers to travelers
- Joined Red Cross and was sent to France
- In 1919 he left France to come back to Kansas City.
- Left his job to form his first animation studio, Laugh-O-Gram
Obstacles in Life
- At age 22, Walt experienced bankruptcy after the failure of a cartoon series in Kansas City. He headed to Los Angeles with $40 in cash, and an imitation-leather suitcase containing only a shirt, two undershorts, two pairs of socks and some drawing materials. Feeling that others did animation better, his goal was to be an actor out in Hollywood. It never occurred
- His success on Oswald the Lucky Rabbit never got him anywhere cause he didn't hold ownership of the cartoon.
- Went through a time he called "a heck of a breakdown"
- The company had more than $4 million in dept. and business was still slow after WWII
How he overcame these obstacles
Pushed through
Focused on his dreams
Began working on new ideas
Achievements
- Made many famous animations now, such as Mickey Mouse
- Inspired many other cartoonists and movies
- Has his own amusement parks in California and Florida named after him as a tribute to all his cartoons loved by families and kids
Disney World
The tribute to Walt Disney and his cartoons
Mickey Mouse
One of Walt's cartoons
Walt and all his drawings
All of his drawing he created