Walt Disney was a cartoonist and producer of
animated films. He was born in Chicago, Illinois in the year 1901. He left
school at age 16; he then studied briefly at art school in Chicago and in Kansas
City, Missouri. He started to produce animated films in partnership with his
brother Roy in 1923.
He produced a cartoon series call Oswald the Rabbit for Universal Pictures. It
was later taken from him when he refused to go to work for Universal. On the
train ride home from New York he was doodling and stumbled upon his creation
Mickey named by his wife Lilly. In the following months Donald, Goofy and Pluto
followed.
Steamboat Willie (1928) produced by his company used synchronized sound for the
first time. He first used color in the series Flowers and Trees (1932) for which
he won 2 Academy Awards. The first original full-length feature cartoon Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). For the making of Fantasia Walt wanted to use
new sound techniques. However the government felt that the supplies needed would
serve better to protect our nation.
In the 1950's and 60's Walt Disney Productions, Ltd., was a major producer of
film for television and theater. On July 16, 1955 opened Disneyland with a
castle, jungle, riverboat, railroad line, restaurants, walkways, ticket booths
and rest rooms. It was not the traditional amusement park with not any Ferris
wheels. Walt lived in an apartment above the firehouse. He was recognized
everywhere he went due to television and the Mickey Mouse Club. It debuted on
ABC October 3, 1955 to compete with Howdy Doody.
Walt wanted to expand Disneyland but the land around it had been bought. He did
not like seeing cheap motels just down the street from his park. So he looked
for land elsewhere and ended up settling on Orlando, Florida. He bought 43
square miles (150 times bigger than Disneyland) for $5 million.
In November of 1966 Walt found out he had cancer, a lump on his left lung due to
smoking for 41 years. A couple of days latter he went for the operation. The
doctor had to take out his left lung because the cancer had spread. He went to
the set and to the office. He then returned to the hospital and died on the
morning of December 15, 1966.
Walt Disney World was finished in October of 1971, after his death due to his
brother/partner Roy who died 2 months after the completion.
Bibliography:
1. Greene, Katherine and Richard. The Man Behind the Magic. New York. Viking
Penguin, 1991.
2 Walt Disney, 4.0, World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia. 1998
Walter E. Disney student publishing site - A Stan Klos Corporation
DISNEY, WALTER E. & DISNEY, ROY O. Signed Stock Certificate, being
an 8 x 7 in. certificate signed by both Roy and Walt Disney and dated December
1, 1945. The signed certificate approves the sale and transfer of 6,666 shares
of Voting Trust Certificates of the Walt Disney Productions Voting Trust
to the Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association. Signed in blue ink
and black ink respectively, “Walter E Disney” and “Roy O. Disney.”
Forgotten Founders Historic Documents and Coins of Freedom - By Stanley
L. Klos - Last Exhbit at the 2008 GOP Convention:
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Forgotten Founders Historic Documents and Coins of Freedom - By Stanley
L. Klos
Entombment of President Samuel Huntington
and First Lady Martha
1st President of the United States
in Congress Assembled
The United Colonies 1st
government began in a Philadelphia Tavern
and the United States 1st federal government ended in a
NYC Tavern!
The Founders convened the government in 11 different capitol buildings and
experienced 15 years of challenges that
included war,
hyper-inflation, a failed
constitution, judicial corruption, armed citizen and U.S. Army rebellions.
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