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Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was born.
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Walt Disney
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Moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri
He was four when he moved to Marceline. He developed his love for drawing and also the love for trains in Marceline. He would listen for a train to come by so he can try to spot his Uncle who was the conductor. -
Moved back to Kansas city
Walt and younger sister Ruth attended the Benton Grammer School where he met Walter Pfeiffer who introduced Voudeville and Motion Pictures to Walt. He often went to Electric Park which Disney later acknowledge as a major influence of his design of DisneyLand. -
Moved to Chicago
Disney went to McKinley for highschool and took night courses at Chicago Art Institute. He became the cartoonist for the school newspaper drawing patriotic topics and focusing on World War 1. Disney dropped out of school at age 16 to join the army but was rejected because he was not of age. After getting rejected he joined Red Cross and was saent to France for year where he drove an ambulance. -
Moved back to Kansas City to begin his artistic career
After considering becoming ab actor or newspaper artist he decided on a career as a newspaper artist, drawing political caricatures or comic strips. Also his brother Roy got him a temporary job at Pesman Rubin Art Stidio. This is where he met cartonnist Ubbe Iwerks working there abd they decided to start their own commercial company together. -
Short lived campany called " Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artist"
Disney started working fo rthe Kansas City film AD company, where he made commercials based on cutout animation. Well working there he became interested in animation and decided to become an animator. -
1920-1925
Walt opened his own animation business and hired Fred Harmon as his first employee. He than secured a local theater to screen their cartoons which they titla Laugh-O-Grams. His cartoons became widely popular in The Kansas City area, through his success he was able to aquire his own studio also called Laugh-O-Grams. The studio became loaded with debt though and wound up bankrupt. Eventually Disney decided to move his studio to Hollywood, California. -
Disney Brothers Studio
Walt and his brother pooled there money together and set up a cartoons studio in Hollywood. When he was still living in Kansas City Walt started working on Alice Comedies he than had Virginia Davis, the live action star of Alice Wonderland, and her family to Hollywood as did Iwerks and his family. This was the begining of Disney Brothers Studio located on Hyperion Avenue in the silver lake distract, where it remained until 1939. -
Wedding
Disney hired a young woman named Lillian Bound to ink and paint celluliod. After a brief courtship the pair married that same year. -
Steamboat Willie
Steamboat Willie cme out in 1928 in front of the public and it became an instant success with the crowd. After Steamboat Willie Disney used sound in all of his subsequent cartoons. -
Lost everybody on his team to Universal
After losing the rights to Oswald, Disney felt the need to develop a new character to replace Osawld. It was based upon a mouse Disney had adopted. Iwerks reworked the skteches done by Disney to make the character easier to animate altough Mickey's voice and personality were provided himself until 1947. -
Silly Symphonies
Following the footsteps of Mickey Mouse series came a series of musical shorts titled "Silly Symphonies" which were released in 1929. The first short was called "The Skeleton Dance" which was entirely drawn and animated by Iwerks. -
Steamboat Willie popularity skyrockets
Despite their having sounds cartoons featuring Felix had faded from the screens after failing to gain attention. In the mean time steamboat willie popularity skyrockets in the community. -
First Adademy Award
Disney recieved an academey award for the creation of Mickey Mouse. -
His first child
On December 31,1933 Disney and his wife had their first child, daughter Diane Maire Disney. -
First full-length film
When the film industry learned of Disneys plans to produce an animated feature length version of Snow Whiteand they were certain the endeavar would destroy Disneys Studios. Disneys studios started Snow Whites project in 1934. -
Second child
On Decmeber 31, 1936 Disney and his wife adopted a second child, Daughter Sharon Mae Disney who later died from cancer at age 57 February 16, 1993. -
Snow Whites completion
After starting the film, Snow White, in 1934 the film was completed in the middle of 1937. -
The film premiered
Snow White premiered at the Carthay Circle Theater on Decemver 21st, 1937. When the movie finished the audience gave Snow White a standing ovaition. Snow White became the most successful motion picture of 1938 and earned over $8 million on its intial release. -
Following the success of Snow White
Following the success of Snow White, for which Disney recieced one full-size and seven miniature Oscar statuettes, he was able to build a new campus for the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank which opened for business on December 24th, 1939. Snow White was not only the peak of Disneys success but also ushered in a period that would later be known as the Golden Age of Animation for the studio. -
New Animations
Walt Disneys Studios released two new animated movies Pinocchio and Fantasia but both proved financial disappointments. -
World War II
The U.S State Department sent Disney and a group of animators to South America as oart of its Good Neighbour Policy. -
Dumbo
In October 1st,1941 the movie Dumbo was released and shortly after the US entered World War II contracted most of the Disney Studios facilities where the staff created training instruction films for the military. -
Bambi
Bambi underperformedon its released in April 1942. -
Re-released Snow White
After Bambi Disney decieded to successdully re-issue Snow White in 1944, establishing a seven-year re-release tradition for his features. -
The Three Cabelleros
The Three Cabelleros was the last animated feature released by the studio during the war. -
After the World War II
In 1946 Disney studios also created inexpensive package films, containing collections of cartoons shorts and issued them to theaters. These included Make Mine Music (1946) Melody Time (1948) Fun and Fancy Free (1947) The Adventures of Ichabob and Mr.Toad (1949) -
Full-Length Features
By 1947 the studio had recovered enough to continue production on the full-length features Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, both of which had been shelevedduring the war years. -
A series of Live-Action Nature Films
In 1948 the studio also initiated a series of live-action nature films, titled truel-life adventures, with on seal island the first. -
Idea foR Disneyland
on a business trip in Chicago, Disney drew sketches of his ideas for an amusement park where he envisioned his employees spending time with their children. -
Los Angeles, Claifornia
During 1949 Disney and his family moved to a new home on a large piece of land in the Holmby Hils district of Los Angeles, California. -
After 1955
After 1955 the Disneyland TV show was renamed to Walt Disney Presents. -
Disneyland Grand Opening
On July 17th 1955 Disneyland hosted a live TV preview among thousands of people in attendence were Ronald Reagan, Bob Cummings and Art Linkletter, who shared cohosting duties as well as the mayor of Anthems. -
New Name
Walt Disney Presents, switched from black and white to colour in 1961 and changed its name to Walt Disneys Wonderful World of Colour. -
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins was released in 1964 and was the most successful Disney film of the 1960s. -
Another Disneyland
In the late 1965, Disney announced plans to develop another theme park to be called Disney World a few miles southwest of Orlando, Florida. -
Walt Disneys Passing
In 1966 Disney was scheduled to undergo surgery to repair an old neck injury. On November 2nd, during pre-operative X-rays they discovered a tumor in his left lung. After removing the lung on November 11th, the surgeons informed Disney that his life expectancy was six months to two years. On November 30th, Disney collapsed at his home, he was revived and brought to the hospital. There on December 15th, 1966, ten days after he turned 65, at 9:30 am Disney passed away.