Walt Disney’s initial principle of “Thinking tomorrow” lead Walt Disney to secure animation at the forefront of American entertainment by gathering the leading filmmakers, architects, and actors to create a short film that combined live-action movement with animation to produce his first big hit, the Alice Comedies in 1923. Throughout Walt Disney's career, “he always wanted to do something new and different and better,” which Alice Davis, wife of legendary animation artist and Imagineer of Marc Davis, wrote in an early interview. Walt was invariably pushing to create unique bodies of work that in no way emulated the efforts of his competitors in the film industry, for his work displayed unparalleled originality that was continuously evolving …show more content…
In his first few years as an animator, “...Live-action films increasingly played a major role in the success of his studio, so did the inclusion of visual effects. Such memorable films as (the Alice Comedies) began a tradition of combining complex optical effects with miniatures and matte paintings to create rich fantasy worlds on the screen." The Alice Comedies were Walt's first major pieces that established himself as a leader in the film industry by allowing people to merge the two realms of animation and reality into one image that left many of Walt’s earliest customers in …show more content…
Throughout the entirety of Walt's career, his innovative ideas for potential films and characters posed a threat to his business because while "his short films were highly popular, his distributors cheated him on returns and even stole his characters and, at times, his animators." As a product of these incidences, Walt Disney grew to establish the principle in his career, perseverance, as a fundamental method that ensured his company kept evolving with ideas that kept other corporations questioning how Disney employed such innovative practices into their films. Oswald was a character who was Disney's first breakthrough hit, which is why, “when Disney met with executives to negotiate another contract in 1928, the rabbit was still riding high and the animator thought he had the upper hand. Instead, the studio told him that it had hired away all of his employees and retained the rights to Oswald. Universal offered to keep Disney if he took a lower salary, but he refused.” Instead, "(Walt and his team) shortened the ears, added some extra padding around the middle and turned the rabbit into a mouse," ... and "soon he was ready for his debut as Mickey." Despite receiving
What if you went to turn on the television Saturday morning to watch cartoons and they were silent and black and white? Most people just take it for granted. Producing animations with movement and color took time. Walt Disney took the time to figure it all out (Langer). Walt Disney, an influential person in the twentieth century, has influenced technology, education, and entertainment in America.
“ Audiences were stunned by the vitality of the film's characters. Unhampered by the difficulties of using new equipment with live actors, Disney was able to fuse technology with handcraftsmanship, naturalism with abstraction, an ability that, over time, proved him to be a great artist. ”
With the creative ideas pouring out of Walt Disney every story had unique ideas that captivated the audience. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney's first movie had a rocky start. He presented the premiere of the movie to some college students. However thought the movie was terrible when they all decided to leave halfway through the movie. Having the mindset that he failed again he left the school's ground. Later he found out though that the students had to leave because of curfew. Walt Disney’s creative ideas are what pushed him forwards, further into the success of
As a young child Disney had many interests mainly in the arts. He went from drawing to animation to acting. He kept learning new things and ended up being very successful when he combined all three of those things. He had people not like his stuff, steal his films, and had the majority of his workers protest and quit. All of these things would of been good reasons for him to stop, but of course Disney did not for he was obsessed with being the best. The reason he started doing his animation was to make people laugh and enjoy themselves. Even during The Great Depression he succeeded in making people enjoy themselves once in awhile. He was looked up to and loved by many. Walt Disney was truly an amazing man, he transformed the world in a way nobody else could and for that we thank you Walter Elias Disney, rest in
Walt Disney grew up to become a world-renowned animator, but before that he struggled immensely because people did not like his vision. He loved drawing animals that could talk and walk like humans but the media saw that as weird and creepy and did not see the joy in it as Walt did. Marketing is interactive the movies are marketing the
Ever since Mickey Mouse was created in 1928, Disney has been at the forefront of the cartoon world. Every youngster has a favorite Disney character or movie. Over the years they have created some of the best movies of all time. However, Walt Disney hasn’t always been successful. He survived bankruptcy in 1922 and had to rethink how he was going to approach his life. I think it is safe to say the approach he took was the right one. One of his first productions was an animated short film Alice’s Wonderland, which turned into what we know as Alice in Wonderland. Mr. Disney’s first attempt at a feature-length animated film debuted in 1937 after three years of production. His masterpiece of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is one of his most awarded movies. Following World War II Disney Production was in a substantial amount of debt. They needed to come out with a new movie that would win over the public of America. They came out with just the right movie, Cinderella, in 1950. This was their biggest hit since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs some 15 years ago. Because of Cinderella Disney Productions stayed in business and could go on to produce many more heartwarming movies.
I am going to show you how he made this possible. Walt impacted the movie industry by adding color and sound to cartoons. He created a whole new kind of animation. Reality to Cartoon, by doing this he added a live person to a cartoon. Filmmakers wanting to pursue cartooning may be interested in my paper.
The work done by Walt Disney continues to inspire filmmakers all around the world today. Animations in his name are created yearly and have great feedback from all age groups. Whether it’s a grandma and her grandchild or two teenage friends, one can find the humor, life lessons, and catchy tunes enjoyable. Walt Disney was very passionate with his work in the entertainment industry; as a result, the most famous and successful films of all time were born.
Walt Disney showed courage and the desire you need to build a successful life. Even when all odds were against him, he still was able to find a way to conquer his dreams. He taught us many things and I hope we remember this man not only for his cartoons, but also for his work ethics and the contributions he made to society. Bibliography
Steamboat Willie (1928) was his creation, as was the first full-color cartoon, Flowers and carees (1932). He was also responsible for the first animated film that gave the illusion of depth through the use of the multiplane camera, The Old Mill (1937). The cartoon, as realized by Disney, gained even greater stature in 1937 when Walt released his first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He went on to introduce many more innovations to movie making, including stereophonic sound (Fantasia, 1940) and 360-degree projection (Disneyland’s circle-Vision 360, 1955). This remarkable man’s many achievements also include the longest-running prime time television series (1954-1983), the Academy Award-winning true-life adventure nature films. Walt had many great ideas that he needed to share with others. The was a great persuading leader,...
By this time there is the emergence of many new concepts and techniques in animation such as color, sound, and feature length animations. While Walt Disney is mostly reliable for creating the golden age with his recognizable characters and techniques, there were other key players in the success of this time. Two of these men were Max and Dave Fleischer who help develope audio techniques such as synchronization in animation (“History”). Another animator of note was Paul Terry, creator of Terrytoons, he helped create memorable characters that were easily recognizable. The emergence of iconic characters in this time really made animation stand out to family audiences and the feature length nature of animations at the time allowed animation to be viewed as a medium for both adults and children (”Baker”). During this time the animation industry faced little to no adversity and expanded greatly, but like all golden ages it had to come to
He took bold actions like creating new methods of animation and brilliant new characters such as Oswald, Mickey and so many other characters. Now I bet you're wondering why did you do this project on him and did he inspire you in anyway, and if so how? Well, I answer to both of those questions for you. Well, I did the project on him because there's so many things that I wanted to learn about him and because I wanted to do somebody who did something artistic and yes, he did inspire me because when I learned how much ups and downs he had to go and how he still didn’t give up and was able to make the first movie with sound and color, now I know that if something is hard, just keep pushing and you'll make it, if you try. So why do I need to know about him, well you need to know about him because he was the one that created movies with sound, and I bet half of the movies in your house wouldn't be there if it wasn't for Walt
If any one has ever watched some of the really old animation such as Steamboat Willy done by Walt Disney Studios in the late 1920’s or some of the animations showing up on the Internet nowadays. They know that animation has come a long way and is still improving.
Larson assisted Marc Davis in creating the title character of Cinderella (1950) and animated caterpillar in Alice in the Wonderland (1951). However, the flight to Netherland in Peter Pan (1953) is his most prominent sequence. Larson was responsible to in charge of searching and training new talents after Walts’s death in 1966. Many well-known animators included Brad Bird, Tim Burton, Andreas Deja, John Lasseter and Glen Kleane, all had gone through Larson’s training programme. Larson was the last of the nine to retire after working for 52 years with Disney.
Walt Disney was the turning point in animation history as he inspired the world through the use of the characters that he drew to life. What the audiences didn’t always see however, was the strong life lesson that each film contained. Over the years, animated Disney films have been used for a way to express views on societal issues and how we can solve these problems. Three movies that have strong life lessons behind them are Snow White, Bambi, and Zootopia. Each of these movies express different societal issues that were relevant in that time period.