Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966) 

Walter Elias “Walt” Disney was an American film/movie producer,  good  screenwriter, director, amazing voice actor, innovative  animator, well-known  and famous    an entrepreneur, entertainer who created the cartoon character of Mickey Mouse. He was born on December 5, 1901, in Hermosa, Illinois. He and his brother Roy are the co-founders of  Walt Disney Productions, that time   which became one of the best-known and  very famous motion picture production companies in the world.  His father was Elias Disney, who was  an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, was German-American. Disney was one of five children, four boys and a girl. He lived most of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri, where he began drawing, painting and selling pictures to neighbours and family friends. In 1911, his family moved to Kansas City, where Disney developed a love for trains.. Disney attended McKinley High School in Chicago, where he took drawing and photography classes and was a contributing cartoonist for the school paper. At night, he took courses at the Chicago Art Institute. When Disney was 16, he dropped out of school to join the army but was rejected for being underage. Instead, he joined the Red Cross and was sent to France for a year to drive an ambulance. When Disney returned from France in 1919,. His brother Roy got him a job at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio, where he met cartoonist Ubbe Iwerks. From there, Disney worked at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he made commercials based on cut-out animation. Around this time, Disney began experimenting with a camera, doing hand-drawn cell animation, and decided to open his own animation business. From the ad company, he recruited Fred Harman as his first employee.

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 Walt and Harman did a series of seven- minute fairy tales which combined both live and animation, but in 1923 the studio was in debt, so Disney was forced to declare bankruptcy. Later Disney and his brother Roy moved to Hollywood. Iwerks also relocated to California, and there the three began the Disney Brothers' Studio. They started to distribute  their Alice cartoons to Margaret Winkler. They also created characters  and contracted $1500 for each one. In 1925, Disney hired an ink-and-paint artist named Lillian Bound. After a brief courtship, the couple married. A few years later, Disney discovered that Winkler and her husband, Charles Mintz, had stolen the rights to Oswald, along with all of Disney’s animators, except for Iwerks. Right away the Disney brothers, their wives and Iwerks produced three cartoons featuring a new character Walt had been developing. Their first animated shorts showing Mickey were Plane Crazy and The Gallopin Caucho. Later they added a voice and Mickey was a sensation in that time. On December 21, 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film and lovely animation, premiered in Los Angeles. It produced an unimaginable $1.499 million, in spite of the Depression, and won a total of eight Oscars. During the next five years, Walt Disney Studios completed another full length animated movie , Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi.Disney's $17 million Disneyland theme park opened in 1955. It was a place where children and their families could explore, take rides and meet the Disney characters. In a very short time, the park had increased its investment tenfold, and was entertaining tourists from around the world.

Within a few years of the opening, Disney began plans for a new theme park and Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow in Florida. It was still under construction when, in 1966, Disney was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died on December 15, 1966, at the age of 65. Disney was cremated, and his ashes interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.After his brother's death, Roy carried on the plans to finish the Florida theme park, which opened in 1971 under the name Walt Disney World.

Try to imagine a world without Walt Disney. A world without his magic, whimsy, and optimism. Walt Disney transformed the entertainment industry, into what we know today. He pioneered the fields of animation, and found new ways to teach, and educate. So many kids childhood was spent by watching Walt Disney cartoons. And Walt Disney taught us a lot of things. Walt Disney will stay in our memory forever, and i am sure that next generation will love it as we do, and he is a legend person in the history of animation.