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Making Cartoons
Walt creates Newman Laugh O'grams, which produces advertising and topical shorts and story cartoons. -
Commercial Artist
Walt meets Ub Iwerks and forms Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists. The company fails after one month. -
Laugh O'grams
Walt incorporates Laugh O'gram Films, Inc. with $15,000 from backers. -
Becoming a Director
LaughOgram goes bankrupt. Walt moves to Hollywood to become a director. With his brother Roy, -
Disney Brothers' Studio
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. -
Getting married
Lillian Bounds, Walt’s future wife, starts work at the Studios as an inker. Walt and Lillian get married the year after -
Walt Disney Studios
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, -
Selling Merchandise
Roy and Walt Disney license Mickey Related merchandising. -
New Technology
Disney Studios develops a sophisticated multiplane camera that simultaneously shoots several levels of cells and backgrounds and gives depth to its films -
Winning Oscars
Walt wins an honorary Academy Award with a unique casting: one full sized Oscar and seven miniatures for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -
Disneyland
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. -
Walt Disney World
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
