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Best known for creating Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney is one of the 20th century's most honored and important icons of animation. After producing animated shorts and launching his own animation studio, Disney introduced Mickey Mouse to the world in 1928, and released the first American animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in 1937. During his career, Disney worked as an animator, director, producer, and screenwriter and expanded his business to include the world-famous theme parks Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida. Nominated for 63 Academy Awards, he produced many cartoons and feature films considered classics today, including Bambi, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, and Sleeping Beauty. His artistic and technological innovations include developing the first sound cartoon and pioneering animation techniques such as personality animation, three-strip Technicolor, and multiplane animation. Walt Disney delves into this man's colorful life, explaining the inspiration for his classic creations and revolutionary animation techniques.
[...]... remains one of the most important and honored producers and animators of 20thcentury animation and a man whose creative vision is still celebrated today He is the man behind the mouse that roared and much more He is none other than Walt Disney Born in the upper bedroom of their Tripp Avenue house in Chicago, Illinois, on December 5, 1901, to his father, Elias, an Irish-Canadian, and mother, the former... the Making Despite any misgivings they had privately, Walt and Roy both called their father the kindest fellow” who “thought of nothing but his family” and loved people As for facing his father’s wrath, Walt “got off easy,” as Elias was usually too worn-out after chasing his other brothers to scold him In the fall of 1909, Walt and his sister Ruth started attending the year-old Park School Unlike most... signed the affidavit for both of them Shortly thereafter, Walt became sick during the great flu epidemic that swept the country in 1918 Thus, his travels to Europe to fulfill his obligations were delayed By the time he was well and joined the Red Cross unit in France, the war had ended that December He spent almost the next year driving in the motor pool to evacuate hospitals overseas An Innovator in the. .. considered his time there worthwhile, learning numerous “tricks of the commercial [art] business.” In the interim, Walt worked as a mail carrier for the Kansas City Post Office during the Christmas rush while seeking another commercial art job In early January 1920, Iwerks, then supporting his mother, contacted Walt and after talking, Walt suggested, “Let’s go into business.” Using half of the $500 he had... Walt lacked the strong business sense of his brother Roy, who was much savvier in the areas of business and finance Consequently, they closed their business after only a couple of months By March, Iwerks joined Walt after he persuaded the owners to hire him By then, the company had moved and was renamed the Kansas City Film Ad Company Learning the basics of animation, Walt and Iwerks produced primitively... blue-penciled drawings and then inking and photographing them in sequence In the same film, he used cutout animation to editorialize the periodic scandals of the Kansas City police department in another segment, called “Kansas City’s Spring Cleanup.” Walt titled his animation reel Newman Laugh-O-grams, borrowing the name of Kansas City’s famed Newman Theatre, to sell the owner of the theater on buying it... learning the business, Walt walked out of the theater exuberant over his triumph until realizing the deal he made was not so great after all The 30 cents a foot was his actual cost As a result, he would make the films for no profit It would not be the last instance illustrating Walt s naïveté for business and how he was best to let others handle his affairs Nonetheless, Walt forged ahead producing the series... in Portland, loaned them $2,500, and Roy pitched in $250 he had saved from his monthly pension Walt then convinced his Uncle Robert to loan them $500 to launch their new studio Renting space for $10 a month in the back of a real estate office a few blocks from their uncle’s home, they officially opened the studio on October 16, 1923, one day after Winkler’s offer In the beginning, Walt and Roy lived... in them; and making other kids laugh At home, Walt also did anything to attract attention, performing assorted magic tricks that sent his mother Flora into fits of laughter To that end, Walt competed in amateur vaudeville With Kansas City becoming a hive of Chaplin-impersonation contests in 1913, he entered these contests wearing a black wig made out of old hemp (later out of crepe) that smelled of. .. get car fare.” Walt often performed skits on amateur nights at local theaters as 17 18 Legends of Animation Walt admires caricatures of many of his studio’s famous creations, beginning with Mickey Mouse Courtesy: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Library © Walt Disney Productions An Innovator in the Making well with his neighbor Walter Pfeiffer, with Walt s Chaplin called the second-best” . class="bi x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" Legends Disney Walt Legends of Animation Tex Avery: Hollywood’s Master of Screwball Cartoons Walt Disney: The Mouse that Roared Matt. Call, of German-American descent, Walter Elias Disney was the fourth son of five children after brothers 1 An Innovator in the Making LEGENDS OF ANIMATION12 Herbert,