Walt Disney
Birth: December 5, 1901 Chicago Illinois
Death: December 15, 1966 in Burbank CaliforniaMain accomplishment: Founded Walt Disney productions with his brother Roy
ChildHood
.....He liked drawing and selling what he created
~His family moved to Kansas City when he was 10
~He went to Mckinley Highschool in Chicago
.....He took drawing and photography classes while there
.....Took night classes at The Chicago Art Institute
Army
.....He was rejected due to his young age
~Joined the Redcross instead and was sent to France to drive an ambulance
Starting His Career
.....Got a job at the Pesmen-Rubin Studios
.....Met Ub Iwerks\
~Worked at Kansas City Film Ad Company
.....Made commercials based on cut-out animation
His Own Business
Opened Animation Business
~Made short animations and called them laugh-o-grams.....Ub Iwerks helped
.....showed their cartoons at a local theatre
~They became bankrupt and were forced to shut downHollywood
~A new york distributer put their alice cartoons out
......Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was created
~In 1925 he married an artist he had hired
Mickey Mouse
~They quickly distributed a new character, Mickey Mouse
.....Later Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto were added
~Some of the short animations won Oscars
Films
~Earned 1.449 million during the Great Depression
~Pinnochio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi were introduced over the next 5 years
Growing
~1939, new campus in burbank
.....Strike among employees setback some production
.....More than 100 features were producedDeath
~December 15 1965 died of lung cancer
.....65 years old
.....cremated
~His brother carried out his plans for the new theme park he had been working on, opening in 1971 as Walt Disney World
Interesting Facts
*Mickey Mouse's first name was Mortimer Mouse, but Disney's wife didn't like and suggested Mickey Mouse
*When he died, he scribbled the words "Kurt Russell on a piece of paper. To this day no one knows what it meant. Not even Kurt Russell himself.