• W A L T - D I S N E Y •
Walt Disney, whose name is truly is Walter Elias Disney, was born on December 5, 1901, in Hermosa, Illinois. Walt Disney was one of five children, four boys and one girl, son of Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and Flora Call Disney, a German-American.
While spending most of his childhood in Missouri, he began to draw, paint, sell pictures to his neighbors and family friends. Disney attended McKinley High School, where he took classes on painting and photography and was a cartoonist for the school newspaper. He took classes at the Chicago Art Institute at nighttime. He dropped out of school at the age of 16, and joined the army, but was rejected because he was underage, so instead, he joined the Red Cross and was sent to drive an ambulance in France.
In 1919, Disney returned from France and pursued his career of a newspaper cartoonist in Kansas City. Roy, Walt's brother, got him a job at Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio, where he met cartoonist Ubbe Iworks. He then worked at Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he made commercials of cutout animation. Disney began to experiment with a camera, to do hand-drawn cel animation, and decided to open his own business for animation. He recruited Fred Harman as his first employee.
Disney's line of cartoons are called Laugh - O - Grams and made a deal with a local Kansas City theater to show their cartoons. They were quite popular, and later on, he then acquired his own studio, which he named after the line of cartoons, Laugh - O - Grams. The company hired many employees, including Harman's brother Hugh and Ubbe Iworks. They created Alice in Cartoonland, a seven minute series of fairy tales that combined both live action and animation. However, in 1923, the studio hit debt and Disney had no other choice but to declare banckruptcy.
Soon after the banckruptcy, Disney, along with his brother Roy and Ubbe Iworks, moved to Hollywood and started the Disney Brothers' Studio. They were able to distribute the Alice cartoons, after making their first deal with New York distributor Margaret Winkler. The Disney brothers and Iworks also created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and contracted the shorts of $1,500. Lillian Bound was then hired by Disney to be their ink - and - paint artist in 1925 and later, the two married.
Disney later found out that Winkler and her husband stole all the rights to Oswald, along with all of their animators, except for Iworks. Within a blink of an eye, the Disney brothers and Iworks created three new cartoons fearturing their developing character, Mickey Mouse.
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While spending most of his childhood in Missouri, he began to draw, paint, sell pictures to his neighbors and family friends. Disney attended McKinley High School, where he took classes on painting and photography and was a cartoonist for the school newspaper. He took classes at the Chicago Art Institute at nighttime. He dropped out of school at the age of 16, and joined the army, but was rejected because he was underage, so instead, he joined the Red Cross and was sent to drive an ambulance in France.
In 1919, Disney returned from France and pursued his career of a newspaper cartoonist in Kansas City. Roy, Walt's brother, got him a job at Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio, where he met cartoonist Ubbe Iworks. He then worked at Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he made commercials of cutout animation. Disney began to experiment with a camera, to do hand-drawn cel animation, and decided to open his own business for animation. He recruited Fred Harman as his first employee.
Disney's line of cartoons are called Laugh - O - Grams and made a deal with a local Kansas City theater to show their cartoons. They were quite popular, and later on, he then acquired his own studio, which he named after the line of cartoons, Laugh - O - Grams. The company hired many employees, including Harman's brother Hugh and Ubbe Iworks. They created Alice in Cartoonland, a seven minute series of fairy tales that combined both live action and animation. However, in 1923, the studio hit debt and Disney had no other choice but to declare banckruptcy.
Soon after the banckruptcy, Disney, along with his brother Roy and Ubbe Iworks, moved to Hollywood and started the Disney Brothers' Studio. They were able to distribute the Alice cartoons, after making their first deal with New York distributor Margaret Winkler. The Disney brothers and Iworks also created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and contracted the shorts of $1,500. Lillian Bound was then hired by Disney to be their ink - and - paint artist in 1925 and later, the two married.
Disney later found out that Winkler and her husband stole all the rights to Oswald, along with all of their animators, except for Iworks. Within a blink of an eye, the Disney brothers and Iworks created three new cartoons fearturing their developing character, Mickey Mouse.
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