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