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Walt creates Newman Laugh O'grams, which produces advertising and topical shorts and story cartoons.
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Walt meets Ub Iwerks and forms Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists. The company fails after one month.
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Walt incorporates Laugh O'gram Films, Inc. with $15,000 from backers.
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LaughOgram goes bankrupt. Walt moves to Hollywood to become a director. With his brother Roy,
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Disney and his brother Roy soon pooled their money and moved to Hollywood. Iwerks also relocated to California, and there the three began the Disney Brothers' Studio.
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Lillian Bounds, Walt’s future wife, starts work at the Studios as an inker. Walt and Lillian get married the year after
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Walt and Roy rename the studio Walt Disney Studios and move it to a new building on Hyperion Avenue.The birthplace of some of Disney’s greatest films,
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Roy and Walt Disney license Mickey Related merchandising.
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Disney Studios develops a sophisticated multiplane camera that simultaneously shoots several levels of cells and backgrounds and gives depth to its films
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Walt wins an honorary Academy Award with a unique casting: one full sized Oscar and seven miniatures for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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Disney contracts with ABC television to produce a one hour television program in exchange for a $500,000 investment by ABC in Disneyland. Walt buys 244 acres of land near Anaheim, CA to be the site for Disneyland.
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Walt Disney Studios purchases land in Orlando,FL for EPCOT, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
which also leads to the creation of Walt Disney World
