• Born: December 05, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Died: December 15, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, United State
• 1. Other Names: Disney, Walter Elias;

• Nationality: American
• Occupation: Movie producer

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Disney was the fourth child out of a family of five children. His dad was from canada (canadian) and his mother was from ohio.

Born in Chicago, Disney grew up on his auncle's farm near Marceline, Missouri, one hundred miles northeast of Kansas City. In later years he recalled the pleasure of growing up on this farm by later using his very well known farm animals in his cartoons.

Walt Disney had a difficult upbringing

He lived with his father elias a restless and unsuccessful carpenter and farmer, was a stern religious fundamentalist who readily disciplined his children by denieing toys,games ,and sporting equipment.This had a big impact on his sons determination to look on the sunny side of life.Due to his family moving often because of his dads work, disneys education ended at the 9th grade and joined an art class due to his good drawing skills.

From his beginnings as a young commercial artist experimenting with cartoon animation during the silent film era walt disney developed into a visionary pioneer of the entertainment industry. First in animated cartoons, then in feature-length films and television and eventually in amusement and theme parks, Disney's creative output became the standard for family entertainment in modern America. He became one of the entertainment industry's most beloved icons.Walt Disney also worked with another young artist, Ub Iwerks, he formed his first small cartoon-film production company in the early 1920s.

Disney moved to Hollywood in 1923. His first successful creation was Mickey Mouse, who debuted in the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, "Steamboat Willie," with Disney

supplying the voice for the mouse.Mickey Mouse came to life in 1928, first as an airplane pilot, then as an adventurer and a sort of pirate-character.Soon, joined by a girlfriend Minnie the mouse.Their popularity led to the invention of Donald Duck, Pluto, and Goofy. As Mickey, appeared in many popular cartoons that were to stimulate America's imagination and create a vast marketing empire. Toys, dolls, games, watches, clothing, comic books, toothbrushes, T-shirts, furnishings, and even automobile decorations feature the character. But Disney's creations were far more than the "invention" of Mickey Mouse, Minnie, Goofy, and other characters.Along with brief animated advertising films, the company produced a series of animated fairy tales, "Alice in Cartoonland." Also "Oswald the Rabbit" series, "Snow White," "Pinocchio," and "Dumbo.."

'ALL OUR DREAMS CAN COME TRUE IF WE HAVE THE COURAGE TO PURSUE THEM'.

WALT DISNEY

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' WE KEEP MOVING FORWARD OPENING NEW DOORS AND DOING NEW THINGS BECAUSE WE ARE CURIOUS AND CURIOSITY KEEPS LEADING US DOWN NEW PATHS.'

WALT DISNEY

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'YOU CAN DESIGN AND CREATE,AND BUILD THE MOST WONDERFUL PLACE IN THE WORLD. BUT IT TAKES PEOPLE TO MAKE THE DREAM A REALITY.'

WALT DISNEY

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In the 1940s, despite his many successes, Disney produced a series of financial failures, notably "Fantasia," a very different animated film set to classical music and later regarded as a classic. Disney was devastated when "Fantasia" did poorly at the box office and when half his artists went on strike to protest his dictatorial style. Following world war 2, disney made many films combining live-action and cartoons witch won five Academy Awards in 1964.By the mid-1950s disney had begun to produce television shows and at the same time created his famous parks. Disneyland was such a success that later the Disney company opened another theme park, Disney World, near Orlando, Florida.His imagination tapped minds of kids of all ages, after his death from lung cancer in 1966.

WALT DISNEY WAS NOT MAKING FILMS FOR KIDS. NEITHER WERE THE MUPPETS.ALOT OF THE GREAT REALLY COOL FILMS,THEY WERE NOT MAKING THEM FOR KIDS.

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MY FIRST AMBITION WAS TO BE AN ANIMATER FOR WALT DISNEY. THEN I WANTED TO BE MAGAZINE CARTOONIST.

JOHN UPDIKE

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Disney's output amounted to 21 full length animated films, 493 short subjects, 47 live-action features, 7 True-Life Adventure features, 330 hours of Mickey Mouse Club television programs' 78 half-hour Zorro television adventures, and 280 other television shows. His Walt Disney Productions estimated that around the world 240,000,000 people saw a Disney movie, 10,000,000 watched a Disney television show weekly, 800,000,000 read a Disney book or magazine, 50,000,000 responded to Disney music or records, 80,000,000 bought Disney-licensed merchandise, 150,000,000 read a Disney comic strip, 80,000,000 saw Disney educational films, and 6.7 million visited Disneyland in Anaheim, California.In addition to his several theme parks, Disney created and endowed a new university, the California Institute of the Arts, known familiarly as Cal Arts. He had a way of bringing out the best in people, of lifting them to their highest level of performance."

1."Walt Disney." American Decades. Ed. Judith S. Baughman, et al. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Biography in Context. Web. 11 May 2016

I choosed this because it gave me a lot of facts about his early life and how he got involved.

2."Walt Disney." Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television. Vol. 20. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Biography in Context. Web. 12 May 2016

I choosed this cite because it helped me get a quick idea of him.

3."Walter Elias Disney." Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. Ed. Thomas Carson and Mary Bonk. Detroit: Gale, 1999. Biography in Context. Web. 12 May 2016.

I choosed this cite because it help me explain his carrer and all the positve outcome from it and also had alot of very good facts.

#4-10 are all listed under the pictures of walt disney and his creations. I choosed them all because they gave me of a visual of his drawings at a young age and how they improved through out his life. Also what types of movies he created using his comic strips and also shows me how he changed apperance wise and how the disney park castle first looked when it first was created/made by Walt Disney.

(sorry i did not list all the picture citations in this section but ,they are listed under the pictures of Walt and his creations)