Walter Elias Disney

Hi friends, I hope you're fine? I recently went to Disneyland Paris that I loved and this weekend, I watched a report on Walt Disney and its parks, it allowed me to know more about this man who created Mickey Mouse and many other wonderful characters.

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Walter Elias Disney says Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago and died December 15, 1966 in California.

He is a producer, director, screenwriter, actor and American animator of cartoons. He founded the Walt Disney Company in 1923 and gradually became one of the most famous film producers. Walt Disney is also the creator of the first theme park.

Walt Disney is also known to have been a storyteller, and a TV star. He and his team have created many of the world's best-known animated characters, one of which is considered after a romantic rendition of several reporters like his alter ego: Mickey Mouse.

In 1906, Walt's family moved to a farm in Missouri.
Walt had to wait until he was eight years old to go to primary school and go with his sister, who was one year younger. His father Elias falls sick and can no longer take over the farm, so he decides to sell the property in 1909 and the family has to live in a rented house.

In 1910, she moved to Kansas City to meet Walt's older brothers, Herbert and Raymond. Walt is then nine years old and discovers a very active city far from the countryside which he will idealize little by little. He also discovers amusement parks through the Fairmont Garden located two blocks away.

Walt and his brother Roy work during their free time in the paternal newspaper publishing company to round off the family's end of the month. They get up at 3:30 in the morning to deliver the Kansas City Star. The two seniors have already left the family home to escape the violence of their father Elias, autocratic sadist who does not hesitate to use the whip on Roy or Walt rebels at fourteen.

According to the records of the Kansas City Regional Public School, Walt Disney attended Benton High School from 1911 and graduated June 8, 1917.

In September 1917, the family returned to Chicago. Walt Disney is enrolled at William McKinley High School and at one of the Chicago Art Institute classes where he learns the basics of drawing on Saturday mornings.

While returning with his sister to college, Roy must work on the farm of Uncle Robert then in a bank to support his family. Walt found two small jobs at the time: replacing the mailman and porter in uniform at the 35th Street skytrain station.

After the First World War, Walt looks for a job and despite the one proposed by his father he prefers to apply for jobs in the advertising design. As he has always wanted to make films he postulates for many jobs including one with Charlie Chaplin. He gets a first job at Pesman-Rubin Commercial Art Studio for $ 50 a month. He performs the cover of the weekly program of Newman Theater.

During this first engagement, he meets a young leader of his age, Ubbe Ert Iwerks with whom he founded in January 1920 the company "Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists". But their company does not work very well and the duo is hired by the Kansas City Film Ad Company, following a job offer in the Kansas City Star and is working on advertising animations for local cinemas.
Advertising animations are not enough to satisfy Walt; During his free time, he began to create his own movies, which he sold in 1922 at the Newman Theater Company. These one-minute films, called Newman Laugh-O-Grams, deal with local issues and appeal to the public.

On May 23, 1922, Disney launched Laugh-O-Gram, Inc., which produces animated shorts based on popular fairy tales and children's stories. The young company's productions are well received in the Kansas City area, but the costs exceed revenues. A local company called Pictorial Club offers them a contract for eleven thousand dollars for a few films.

After a short film, the animated film Alice's Wonderland, the studio reports in July 1923. Roy Oliver, a brother of Walt invites him to come to Hollywood. Disney then works as a freelance photographer and manages to raise enough money to buy a one-way train ride to California and brings with him Alice's Wonderland which has just been completed.

He rides with his brother Disney Brothers Studio. On October 16, 1923, Walt signed a contract to make 12 films from which the birth of Disney Studios. The Disney Brothers Studio becomes Walt Disney Studio in 1926.

The creation of Mickey Mouse

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Walt draws on the train from New York to Los Angeles, a character with Oswald's graphics, with no dangling ears, round ears and a simple tail with a pencil stroke and therefore easier to draw. Later, he realizes a character close to a mouse. Ub Iwerks, meanwhile, would have simply reworked the drawing to lead to the one we know. Ub seems to have developed the character's appearance while Walt Disney would have just infused his character.

The character is named Mortimer Mouse before being renamed Mickey Mouse.
The character debuts in a short film named Plane Crazy, which is like all previous works of Disney, a silent movie. After failing to find an interested distributor, Disney notices that these films lack a thing.

The fall before 1927, Warner Bros. released a revolutionary film, The Jazz Singer, the cinema had stopped being silent. Disney launches the creation of a Mickey cartoon, with sound, called Steamboat Willie. Disney has to sell his car to get the money for his movie. A businessman named Pat Powers provides Disney with the distribution and Cinephone, a sound synchronization system obtained by contraband.

On November 18, 1928 at the Colony Theater in New York, Steamboat Willie is shown to the public, this is the first cartoon with synchronized sound. This date marks the birth of Mickey Mouse, but also Minnie Mouse and Pat Hibulaire. Steamboat Willie becomes a success.

Some successes

1933: Once upon a time "Three Little Pigs"

Walt Disney makes his first cartoon in color: "The three little pigs". He won the Oscar for best short film. The cartoon will be a worldwide success.

1937: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"

The creation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves required three years of work. The film is an incredible success and dedicates Disney which proves that a cartoon of more hour interests the public. Walt Disney even receives a special prize.

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1942: "Bambi"

The fifth feature film of Walt Disney is presented in New York. The work on this cartoon began in 1937 with an adaptation of Félix Salten's book. But the Second World War and the downsizing of studios slowed down its release.

1951: "Alice in Wonderland"

Disney departs from his classic productions to make an adaptation of Lewis Caroll's book. To reproduce the world of Alice in Wonderland, animation seems the appropriate process. The cartoon is based on characters quite crazy around a Alice that seems very reasonable.

1994: "The Lion King"

The new animated feature film from Disney Studios, entitled "The Lion King", is released in US theaters. Only based on animals and without direct reference to a known tale, it seems destined for a mediocre future. It is still one of the biggest hits of the studios so far. It's the only Disney movie where there are no humans.

2002: "Monsters and Company"

The Pixar animation studios, bought by Disney, released their fourth album "Monsters and Company".

2003: "The World of Nemo"

"The World of Nemo" breaks record attendance for a 3D animated film. This is the fifth fruit of the collaboration between Disney Studios and Pixar.
After Walt's death, Disney Studios continued his work. Even today, the wonderful world of Walt Disney continues to make young and old dream.

Disneyland

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In the late 1940s, during a business trip to Chicago, Disney developed a sketch of a leisure park at the foot of studios where he expects his employees spend time with their children. Mickey Park includes a garden, a Wild West town and a fairground.

The ideas he develops become a larger concept and take the name of Disneyland. On March 27, 1952, the Burbank newspaper announced the opening of Disneyland on the grounds of the studio, but ideas out of the imagination of Walt are too numerous for this narrow space. Walt creates a new subsidiary to his company, called WED Enterprises, to develop and build the park. This subsidiary is made up of a small group of Disney Studios employees who join the Disneyland development project as engineers and planners.

When Walt presents his plan to the Imagineers, he says he wants Disneyland to be the most beautiful place on earth and a train to go around.

The Carolwood Pacific Railroad (the name of the miniature railroad built in part by Walt Disney in his garden) comes from the street where Walt Disney resided: the Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles and the fact that the names of the railroad companies) which was a great success with his daughters had inspired Disney to include a railroad in his plans for Disneyland, the Disneyland Railroad.

Disneyland, one of the world's first theme parks, finally opens on July 17, 1955 and quickly becomes a success. Visitors from around the world come to visit Disneyland, which features attractions from many of Disney's hit movies or franchises. Many attractions have opened regularly in the park since its inauguration.

Walt Disney was awarded seven Emmy Awards by the North American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

What also made Walt Disney's animated films so successful was the fact that for each film he inserted music, which was a first at the time and for each story there was at least one song that we do not forget. The most famous and most sung in the world is the Snow Queen.

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