Walt Disney Set the Stage for Great Film Making

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“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them”, said by Walt Disney himself (“Walt Disney Quotes”). Disney had a big imagination followed with big goals. As always in the entertainment business, there are going to be people competing to tear each other down, but Walt Disney kept his focus and determination to take on great things. All it took was one person with a strong passion for entertainment to set the stage for filmmaking long after he was gone.
Walt Disney came from an Anglo-Irish family that immigrated to Canada just before the potato famine (“Walt Disney Interviewed by Fletcher Markle”). On December 5, 1901, Elias and Flora Disney welcomed their fourth son into their home in Chicago, Illinois. When Walter Elias Disney was two years old his family moved to Missouri to escape the rising crime in Chicago. Life in Missouri for the Disney’s only lasted six years until they packed up their belongings and moved to Kansas City, Kansas. In 1917 when Walt Disney was the only child left at home, the three Disney’s decided Chicago was the place for them after all. Walt Disney was a student at McKinley High School and worked as the school newspaper’s art editor. His father was a co-owner of a jelly factory and during the day hours Walt would help wash jelly jars to help pay for expenses for art classes he was taking at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (Schwartz).
Before Walt Disney was enrolled in elementary school he started his own personal drawings of the animals on his farm. Once Disney had reached school age he had developed a creative mindset and made up games to play on his own and enjoyed reading books written by Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. When the Disney’s lived in Kansas City, Walt Disney was a...

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...isney’s death (Schwartz).
Disney did not live to see all his dreams accomplished. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1966. His older brother, Roy, completed Disney’s dreams of “DisneyWorld” after a lung removal and chemotherapy failed for Walt Disney (Schwartz). Before Walt Disney’s dreadful death, his films brought him 29 Oscars and he will forever be considered as the “king of American entertainment” (Brennan).
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.

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