Life Of Walt Disney essays

Life Of Walt Disney essays Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901, to Elias (Schickel,124) and Flora Disney (Walt Disney: A Biography,1). He was born in Chicago, Illinois to poverty. Disney had four other siblings (Walt Disney: A Biography,1) which included three brothers named Roy, Raymond, and Herbert and a sister named Ruth.(Through the Years 1859-1909,1-2) When he was four years old his family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri. At the age of eight Disney came to the conclusion that he wanted to draw cartoons like they did in the newspapers. The only problem was his family had no money for paper and pencils. In addition, his father thought drawing was a waste of time (DeWitt,10). When Disney was sixteen years old he, left the farm to join the service. While in the service, he drove an ambulance, and during his free time he would draw (Schickel,124). After he had left the service, he made cartoon advertisements that were shown in the movies (Disney(Walter Elias)Walt,1), until he set up a shop in Kansas City, Missouri. Then in 1923, at age 22, he opened a cartoon studio in Hollywood, California (Schickel,124). Later on, Disney married a lovely woman named Lillian and had two daughters, Diane and Sharon (Schindehette,52). In 1927, the famous mouse named Mickey was created by Ub Iwerks, who first envisioned the mouse (Phillips,100) but Lillian was credited with naming him (Schindehette,52). On the day of September 19, 1928, Steamboat Willie was released which starred Mickey; it was the first movie with a soundtrack (Knauer,118). For the next few years after that, a new Mickey film came to theaters every month! The movie Silly Symphony included the soon to be famous Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto (Disney(Walter Elias)Walt,1). Between the years of 1929 through 1939, Disney produced a series of full-color animated cartoons. Flowers and Trees was the first film in f...