| Born December 5 1901, Chicago Illinois, USA. | | | | November 18, the release date of Steamboat Willie. He |
| Died December 15 1966, Los Angeles California, USA. | | | | was originally named "Mortimer" but later christened |
| Walt Disney's Father was Elias Disney, his Mother was | | | | "Mickey Mouse" by Lillian Disney. Mickey changed to |
| Flora Call Disney and his Wife was Lillian Disney. | | | | color in 1935 and soon gained supporting characters |
| Walt Disney was an American film producer, a | | | | like Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto. In 1932 Disney |
| director, a screen writer, a voice actor, an animator | | | | received a special Academy Award for Mickey |
| and a philanthropist. | | | | Mouse's creation. |
| The Walt Disney Company today, the company he | | | | Walt Disney worked on Snow White and The Seven |
| co-founded, has annual revenues of an estimated US | | | | Dwarfs from 1934 until 1937. This was the first |
| $30 billion, but how did that all happen? Well read on to | | | | animated feature animation in English and also |
| find out a little more all about Walt Disney. | | | | Technicolor. The premier was December 21 1937 with |
| Born in Chicago, at age 5, Walt Disney moved to a | | | | a standing ovation. Snow White and The Seven |
| farm near Marceline, Missouri. Here Disney loved to | | | | Dwarfs became the most successful motion picture of |
| draw and play with his younger sister Ruth, in the pond, | | | | 1938 and earned over $8 which today would be $98. |
| with the animals, in the trees. | | | | Walt Disney then completed Pinocchio, Fantasia and |
| In 1910 Walt Disney moved to Kansas City and began | | | | Bambi. |
| attending the Benton Grammar School. He graduated | | | | Walt Disney started to draw plans for Disneyland, |
| June 8 1911. In 1917 he began freshman year at | | | | California, USA in the last 1940s. It opened July 17 1955 |
| McKinley High School, Chicago, Illinois and also enrolled | | | | and is still open today. It is now called Disneyland Park |
| in a night course at Chicago Art Institute. | | | | and has been since 1998. |
| At the age of 16 Walt Disney dropped out of school to | | | | In 1964, Mary Poppins, Walt Disney's most successful |
| join the Army but as he was too young he instead | | | | film of the 60s was released. |
| joined the Red Cross with a birth certificate forged by | | | | Walt Disney World Resort, Florida began construction |
| his mother (to make him 17 and not 16). He drove an | | | | in 1967 and opened in 1971. |
| ambulance in France covered in Disney characters. | | | | Walt Disney sadly died of lung cancer, after years of |
| In 1922 Walt started "Laugh-O-Grams", selling short | | | | chain smoking, in 1966. His brother, Roy O. Disney |
| animated films to local companies in Kansas. The | | | | carried on with the Florida project but died in 1971, just |
| company ended but Walt still had the work he had | | | | months after it opened. |
| begun on The Alice Comedies. | | | | Today, the Walt Disney Company owns, among other |
| In Los Angeles Walt Disney set up "Disney Brother's | | | | assets, two water parks, eleven theme parks, five |
| Studio". He hired Lillian Bounds to ink and paint celluloid | | | | vacation resorts, thirty nine hotels, eight motion picture |
| and she later became his wife. They married July 15 | | | | studios, six record labels, eleven cable television |
| 1925. | | | | networks, and one terrestrial television network. |
| Mickey Mouse was created in 1928, his birthday be | | | | |