Walt Disney, Disneyland, And The Disney World

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Walt Disney was a business magnate, cartoonist, voice actor, and film producer. He created the two theme parks Disneyland, and Walt Disney World. Walt was born on December 5,1901 in Chicago Illinois. When he was five years old his family moved to Marceline, Missouri. His dad owned a small farm where there were lots of animals. Walt began to draw and paint the animals he saw and sold these to family friends and neighbors. In 1911 when his father became ill the family moved to Kansas City. At the age of nine Walt started to sell newspapers for train passengers with his older brother Roy, and his dad. While working for the train company Walt fell in love with trains. On Saturday mornings when he was not working Walt went to the Kansas City …show more content…

They gave him five-hundred dollars,so he was able to open the Disney Brothers Studio. Disney hired a distributor to publicise his Alice Comedies. Once the Alice Comedies became popular he expanded his studio, and made Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. After the release of the character he had problems with his distributor. When the problems with his distributor ended Disney, Roy, and Ub started creating the character Mickey Mouse. Later, that year they released the film Steamboat Willie. Once the film became a huge success Walt Disney had problems with his ne distributor. Pat Powers wanted to take ownership of the character Mickey Mouse. For larger salaries most of his employees left, including Ub Iwerks. Pat also thought Disney would follow and give ownership to Mickey Mouse to him for a larger salary. Instead, Disney and his brother Roy bought out their contract and kept their rights to Mickey Mouse. The Disney Brothers Studio then became Walt Disney Studios. During the time of the Great Depression Disney experimented with color and sound. For his work during that time he won two Academy Awards. In 1932 he opened the Disney Art School and then built a studio in Burbank, California. Later that year he released the films Bambi, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Pinocchio. In 1941 his employees went on strike for better working conditions. The U.S. army then started using his studio to train and study propaganda films. Walt then focused on making patriotic films because of his government contract. In 1952 Walt Disney starts thinking of building Disneyland. In 1955 the park opened and his dream of providing entertainment for adults and kids came

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