Walt Disney

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Walt Disney

• Date of Birth December 5 1901
• Died December 15 1966

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• Full Name Mr. Walter Elias Disney Date of
  Birth December 5 1901 Place of Birth Chicago
  Illinois USA Died December 15 1966 Place of
  Death Los Angeles California USA
  Classification Heroes Icons

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• Birth Name
• Walter Elias Disney
• Nickname
• Uncle Walt
• Height
• 5 10 (1.78 m)

Birth Name Walter Elias Disney Nickname Uncle
Walt Height 5 10 (1.78 m)
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• At age 16 during World War I Walt lied about
  his age to join the American Red Cross. He soon
  returned home where he won a scholarship to the
  Kansas City Art Institute. There he met a fellow
  animator Ub Iwerks. The two soon set up their
  own company. In the early 20s they made a series
  of animated shorts for the Newman theater chain
  entitled Newmans Laugh-O-Grams. Their company
  soon went bankrupt however. The two then went to
  Hollywood in 1923. They started work on a new
  series about a live-action little girl who
  journeys to a world of animated characters.
  Entitled the Alice Comedies they were
  distributed by M.J. Winkler (Margaret).

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• Walt was backed up financially only by Winkler
  and his brother Roy O. Disney who remained his
  business partner for the rest of his life.
  Hundreds of Alice Comedies were produced
  between 1923 and 1927 before they lost
  popularity. Walt then started work on a series
  around a new animated character Oswald the Lucky
  Rabbit. This series was successful but in 1928
  Walt discovered that M.J. Winkler and her
  husband Charles Mintz had stolen the rights to
  the character away from him.

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• They had also stolen all his animators except
  for Ub Iwerks. While taking the train home Walt
  started doddling on a piece of paper. The result
  of these doddles was a mouse named Mickey. With
  only Walt and Ub to animate and Walts wife
  Lillian Disney (Lilly) and Roys wife Edna Disney
  to ink in the animation cells three Mickey Mouse
  cartoons were quickly produced. The first two
  didnt sell so Walt added synchronized sound to
  the last one Steamboat Willie (1928) and it was
  immediately picked up. It became the first
  cartoon to use synchronize sound. With Walt as
  the voice of Mickey it premiered to great
  success.

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• The Silly Symphonies stopped coming out in 1939
  but Mickey and friends (including Minnie Mouse
  Donald Duck Goofy Pluto and plenty more) were
  still going strong and still very popular. In
  1934 Walt started work on another new idea a
  cartoon that ran the length of a feature film.
  Everyone in Hollywood was calling it Disneys
  Folly but Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  (1937) was anything but winning critical raves
  the adoration of the public and one big and
  seven little special Oscars for Walt.

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• Now Walt listed animated features among his
  ever-growing list of accomplishments. While
  continuing to produce cartoon shorts he also
  started producing more of the animated features.
  Pinocchio (1940) Dumbo (1941) and Bambi (1942)
  were all successes not even a flop like Fantasia
  (1940) and a studio animators strike in 1941
  could stop Disney now. In the mid- 40s he began
  producing packaged features essentially a
  group of shorts put together to run feature
  length but by 1950 he was back with animated
  features that stuck to one story with Cinderella
  (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan
  (1953). In 1950 he also started producing
  live-action films with Treasure Island (1950).
  These began taking on greater importance
  throughout the 50s and 60s but Walt continued to
  produce animated features including Lady and the
  Tramp (1955) Sleeping Beauty (1959) and One
  Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961). In 1955 he
  even opened a theme park in southern California
  Disneyland. It was a place where children and
  their parents could take rides just explore and
  meet the familiar animated characters all in a
  clean safe environment. It was another great
  success.

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• Walt also became one of the first producers of
  films to venture into television with his series
  Disneyland (1954) which he began in 1954 to
  promote his theme park. He also produced The
  Mickey Mouse Club (1955) and Zorro (1957). To
  top it all off Walt came out with the lavish
  musical fantasy Mary Poppins (1964) which mixed
  live-action with animation. It is considered by
  many to be his magnum opus. Even after that Walt
  continued to forge onward with plans to build a
  new theme park and an experimental prototype city
  in Florida. He never did finish those plans
  however in 1966 he contracted lung cancer. He
  died in December at age 65. But not even his
  death it seemed could stop him. Roy carried on
  plans to build the Florida theme park and it
  premiered in 1971 under the name Walt Disney
  World. Whats more his company continues to
  flourish still producing animated and
  live-action films and overseeing the still-
  growing empire started by one man Walt Disney
  who will never be forgotten.

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Done By Laura Bakalka Nour NuwaylatiGrade
Third High (A)/ Science SectionSubject English