Walt Disney In The 1930's

Walt Disney Paper

Did you know that Walt Disney didn’t start off big? “His first business was just made of him, his brother, and his friend but the company ended up failing and Disney ended up falling to the bottom in his opinion by taking a job of making cartoons to be watched before and after a movie was over” (Walt Disney). Walt Disney was a great man who overcame failure, made animated shows and movies and became a great business man.

He would be hubble after losing his business and dropping to where he sees as the the bottom of being a cartoon artist “Their business soon failed, though, and Disney took a job with an ad service that made cartoon advertisements to be shown between movies at the local theater” (Walt Disney). The failure of him going to the bottom in his mind would change in the 1930’s when he ended up becoming one of the best movie makers of the 1930’s. “Then half his artists went on strike against him, protesting his dictatorial style. Some say that if it were not for a government contract he obtained to produce

service-related training films, Disney might have gone bankrupt by the end of World War II” (Walt Disney). He didn’t fail during world war II but he was very close to because of his workers going on strike which then started to cause them to start to slowly go bankrupt and become bankrupt by the end of world war II but he was able to pull his company from this because of the money the government gave him to make training videos.

He felt like he was doing the enemy of the movie business when making the Tv shows at first.

“During the 1950s, Disney joined with American Broadcasting Company (ABC) TV productions and made a fortune producing Davy Crockett and The Mickey Mouse Club for television exclusively. By the time of his death, Disney had more than 280 television shows to his name” (Walt Disney). Even though he felt like Tv was the enemy of the movie business before he died he had over 250+ Tv shows to his name which is very impressive for a man who thought tv as the enemy of movies. “The Disney Channel was launched in 1983. In 1996, Disney purchased the ABC television network and acquired the ESPN sports network through the acquisition” (Disney). It’s interesting that the company Disney bought the tv station that around thirty years ago the owner of Disney had started making shows on it and even going to make a channel that was called Disney

channel.

Even after his death his company kept growing and getting bigger. “By 2014, annual sales in all Disney enterprises reached nearly $46 billion and Forbes listed the company as the seventeenth most valuable brand in the world” (Walt Disney). The not surprising part of the Disney company is that it became one of the most expensive companies in the world because of the base that Walt Disney left behind. “Disney theme parks have continued to expand with the opening of Disney's Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom in Disney World, as well as Disney parks in Paris, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.” (Walt Disney). It’s truly amazing how big his company grew after he died being he wasn’t there working. It’s amazing to know that the company is more than just a company who stays in america being they have different parks around the world like Paris and Tokyo.

In the end Disney’s company which is still here and getting bigger each year. To think that the great business man Disney went threw so much to build his business which still stands strong or even stronger than it did when Walt Disney had owned it. Walt Disney's life will always be remembered as the man who made a great company even after struggling with failure and almost going bankrupt.

Page Cite:
"Walt Disney." Business Leader Profiles for Students. Ed. Sheila Dow and Jaime E. Noce. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1999. Biography in Context. Web. 29 Apr. 2016.