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Walt Disney When people think of animated cartoons, one name immediately
comes to mind Walt Disney. He is the most popular and known animator in
the world. He wasn't successful at the beginning of his career but he was a
taskmaker and entrepreneur. Walt's hard work and entrepreneurship made the
world's best popular cartoon character Mickey Mouse. As an animator and
an owner of Disney Corporation, he made a lot of influences in past and
present days. Hereby the importance of his life and influences will be
discussed, in a age order. First of all, Walter Elias Disney was born in Chicago,
Illinois, on December 5th, 1901, the fourth kid of five children of Elias and Flora
Disney. The family often moved from place to place because of Walt's father
Elias. He tried his hand successively as a farmer, a businessman, an orange
grower, a carpenter and ¡¦ But he expected all members of his family, no
matter how young, to spend most of their waking hours working for him
without any compensation. During Walt's childhood and adolescence, Elias
operated a farm in Marceline, Missouri. It was there that Walt spent his early
years and developed his interest in drawing. In 1910 the family moved again,
this time to Kansas City. There he enrolled in art classes at the Kansas City
Art Institute. In 1917 the family moved again, this time back to Chicago. In
Chicago, Walt joined Red Cross unit and spent nine months as a ambulance
driver in France at the end of World War I. After Walt Disney returned from
France in 1919, he decided to make art his career. He soon joined the staff of
the Kansas City Film Advertising Company, which was producing a simple
type of animation. He and a colleague, Ubbe Iwerks, learned enough about
animation to try doing some of their own. They formed a company called
Laugh-O-Gram Films. The company made fun of local problem and scandals in
cartoon form. They sold well enough to give Walt and Iwerks the courage to
go into business for themselves. But the Laugh-O-Grams didn't hold Walt's
interest very long. He had a new idea to try, which was illustrating updated
fairy tales in series of cartoons. The cartoons he and Iwerks produced were
not bad, but Walt never got paid for hid films. Walt then started on a new fresh
project, a series of funny story featuring a girl actress and animated characters.
He called it Alice's Wonderland. Money was so scarce that he couldn't even
pay for the rent. With such meager fund all he could produce was a pilot film
for the Alice series. He thought Kansas City was not the place that earns
much money, so he decided to move to California. In 1923, Walt Disney moved
to California, and began Walt Disney Production with his brother Roy Disney
and a colleague, Ubbe Iwerks. After five year of making silent cartoons, he
produced 'SteamBoat Willie, the first cartoon to use synchronized sound1. In
1928 Walt Disney created a cartoon Mickey Mouse by using his own voice.
Disney's success in Mickey Mouse led to the film series called Silly
Symphonies, which was introduced in 1929 and first used color in 1932. Soon
full color Disney cartoons was produced, such as Three Little Pigs and The
Tortoise and the Hare. These two films even won academy awards. 1930s
brought fame and successes to Walt Disney as a creator of Mickey Mouse,
Donald Duck, Pluto, Minnie Mouse, and Goofy. These characters not only
appeared in cartoons but also on merchandise items licensed by Disney
Production. In 1937 the Walt Disney Production Studio produced the world's
first animated feature film Snow White and Seven Dwarfs. Then came
Pinocchio and Fantasia in 1940, Dumbo in 1941, and Bambie in 1942.
Song of the South in 1946, used cartoon characters with live actors. All of
these films were successful. During World War II the Walt Disney Production
Studio designed military insignias and made training films for the United States
armed forces. After the war Walt Disney continued to make animated films,
such as Alice in Wonderland in 1951, Peter Pan in 1953, and The Jungle
Book in 1967. He also turned to live-action films such as Treasure Island in
1950 and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1954. Moving into totally new
area, Walt Disney opened Disneyland in Anaheim, California, in 1955. He had
wanted to design an amusement park where families could have fun together.
Disneyland had exciting rides and attractions but was also spotlessly clean and
run by smiling, friendly employees. The park eventually came to be one of the
most popular tourist attractions in the United States and may be in the world,
too. During the next ten years, Disney added new attractions to Disneyland
while continuing to make the films the whole family could enjoy. Marry
Poppins, in 1964, is considered by many to be the pinnacle of his filmmaking
career. Disney won a record 32 Academy Awards for his technical innovations
ideas in film. Walt Disney also pioneered the production of feature films for
television. Some of these appeared on his weekly series The Mickey Mouse
Club (1955-59) and on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, which
aired, under several titles for 29 seasons. Shows prepared for New York
World's Fair in 1964 enabled Disney to show off his Audio-Animatronics
figures in such attractions as It's a Small World and Great Moments with
Mr. Lincoln. The life like figure of Abraham Lincoln, which recited passages
from his speeches, never ceased to amaze fairgoers. Walt Disney never
rested. Even as he died, on December 15th, 1966, he was planning for a whole
new Walt Disney World vacation kingdome in Florida, and EPCOT. It is an
experimental prototype community of tomorrow. It is a fun area consists of a
showcase, a recreation of foreign cities, spread like fan around lagoon. On the
other side of water, the world of future is dominated by a 180-foot geodesic
sphere, and Spaceship Earth. The sphere is is surrounded by a number of
pavilions housing entertaining displays of future possibilities in the fields of
energy, transportation, agriculture, mariculture2, and technology. Spaceship
Earth is devoted to information and communications from dinosaur time to the
21st century. In conclusion, Walter Elias Disney was a great taskmaster full of
innovative ideas. In his lifetime he made so many movies and cartoons that play
important role in children's life.
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