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Birth of Walt Disney
The birth of Walt Elias Disney was at 2156 North Tripp Avenue in Chicago's Hermosa Community Area. He was born to Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney. He is a mix of Irish and Canadian, eh. -
For the Love of Drawing
In Marcilene, Missouri Walt developed a love for drawing when he was four and his neighbor asked him to draw pictures of her horse, Sherwood. This is when he reallized he loved everything about drawing. -
Selling the Farm
On November 28th, 1910 the Disney family had to sell their farm in Marcilene, Missouri. This also marked the day that Walt's two brothers, Herbert and Ray, would run away from home because they thought that they were having to do too many chores without a lot of spending money for themselves. -
High School
Walt Disney drops out of McKinley High School because he wanted to join the army and serve his country during WW1, but he was rejected due to the fact that he was underage. -
Meeting the Team
Disney met a cartoonist named Ubbe Iwerks, and they became instant friends. Again, it does not give an exact date. -
Forming the Team
In 1920, Disney and Iwerks formed a short-lived film company called Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists. -
Leaving the Team
Dsiney decided to leave the company. They were not getting enough buisness, so they did not get a lot of money, which is the main reason that Disney left. so, instead of working for the failing, small company that Iwerks and him had formed, he moved to a film company. -
INSPIRATION!
At the Kansas company where Disney made cutouts for characters, he got interested in the field of animation, and decided to take a swing at it, leading to him wanting to be a full time animator. -
The New Company
After Disney's boss at the film company let him borrow a camera to expirement, he started to find new ways to animate that were better options for companies, so he decided to create his own company. He recruited a coworker named Fred Newman to help him with the newly made company. -
Laugh-O-Grams
The New Company made short animations called Laugh-O-Grams which spread widely over the Kansas area. After that, Disney recruited more people to work with him such as his old friend, Ubbe Iwerks. Sadly, the animation company failed because there was not enough money coming in and lots of money coming out. So Disney decided to move to Hollywood. -
Disney Brothers' Studio
Disney was determined to make his dream come true, making yet another buisness with his brother, Roy, took their money and invested it in their new company. He hired his old friend, Ubbe Iwerks, and in 1925, a lady named Lillian Bounds. -
Here Comes the Bride
Disney marries Lillian Bounds, a artist at the company that Walt had formed in Hollywood with his colleuge, Iwerks. They decided they were in love after a brief courtship in 1925 when Walt Disney hired her. -
Alice Comedies
Walt Disney had made some animations back in Kansas City that he had called Alice Comedies. The shorts were about Alice in Wonderland. Disney finally found a distributor for the animations and they were fairly successful. Soon before the series ended, they dropped in ratings and were no longer popular. -
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Charles Mintz askes Disney to produce a new animation series for Universal Pictures called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. It was the highest paying job that Disney had ever had. -
Losing Oswald
There were some money feuds about how much money was to spend for animating Oswald. Soon, Charles threatans to make his own company and take the rights for the Lucky Rabbit. Sadly, Disney lost the rights to Oswald and had to stop making the animations with anything involving him. P.S. Walt Disney Studios got back the rights to Oswald in 2006. -
The Birth of the Mouse
Disney thought that after losing the rights to Oswald, he should make another famous character. He decided on a mouse based off a pet mouse that Disney had acquired in Kansas City. He named the mouse Mortimer. Although, the mouse was later renamed to Mickey after Disney's wife, Lillian, said that the name Mortimer was unappealing. -
Popularity for Mickey
Mickey Mouse was featured in a silent animation called Plane Crazy, a silent film. His second apperance was in a short film called The Gallopin' Gaucho, Disney created a Mickey cartoon with sound called Steamboat Willie. The mouse became extremely popular and starred in many of Disney's other works. -
I Won?
Disney recieved a special Academy Award (Oscar) for the creation of Mickey Mouse. This inspired him to make spin-off characters like Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto. Donald Duck was Disney's second most popular character. -
Fatherhood
Lillian Disney's first attempt at pregnancy resulted in a miscarraige, but they gave birth to Diane Marie Disney and they also adopted Sharon Mae Disney later. -
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
After work for many years, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs hit movie theaters as the first full-length movie made by Disney. It was the most successful movie in 1938, and made 8 million dollars, which today, is the equivalent to $134,033,100. Also, at the Oscars that year, he recieved 7 mini Oscars and one actual. -
Walt Disneyland
In a trip to Chicago with his family, Disney started to draw out plans for an amusement park. He was inspired by Children's Fairyland in Oakland, CA. It took five years to make. On Sunday, July 17, 1955, Disneyland was opened to the public. Disney even held a live TV preview of the park, attended by Ronald Reagan. -
Supercalifragilisticexpealadocious
After decades of pursuit, Disney acquired the rights to P. L. Travers' books about a magical nanny. Mary Poppins, released in 1964, was the most successful Disney film of the 1960s. -
Death
Walt Disney was a chain smoker his entire adult life, although he made sure he was not seen smoking around children. Ten days after his 65th birthday, on December 15, 1966, at 9:30 a.m., Disney died of acute circulatory collapse, caused by lung cancer.
