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The success story of Walt Disney [Walt Disney biography, quotes, photos, statements]
Author of the article: Roman Kozhin
Fairy tales can start in different ways, but they must necessarily end the same way happily.
The childhood of our today's hero did not fall into the category of "fairy tales", and, rather, it resembled such genres as "detective", "crime drama" or "tragedy".
However, Walt Disney, the legendary American artist, producer and director, managed to change his fate and make his life, if not fabulous, then very, very successful.
The creator of the first musical and full length cartoons in the history of cinema, has achieved a lot.
Judge for yourself — during his creative life, the fruitful Disney produced about 700 cartoons, was the owner of 29 Oscars and 4 Emmys, was awarded honorary degrees from Yale and Harvard universities, was awarded the highest civilian government award of the United States the Medal of Freedom.
On the Hollywood Walk of Fame, two stars are dedicated to Disney, one for the development of television, the other for his contribution to the cinema.
Walt Disney founded "The Walt Disney Company", which is now the largest company in the entertainment industry and ranks 13th in the list of" Most influential brands " according to Forbes.
But more expensive than all the incalculable material awards, the popular recognition that was awarded to Disney by enthusiastic viewers is valued.
Walter Elias Disney was born (and this is exactly how the full name of the legend of America sounds) on December 5, 1901 in Chicago in a large family, Disney had 3 more brothers and a sister.
The Disney couple barely made ends meet.
But, as they say, the wealth of a family is determined not by capital at all, but by the warmth and support that family members provide to each other.
With this, baby Walt was also not too lucky – the domineering father Elias often beat the child.
Justifying himself by the fact that nothing educates better than physical punishment, Elias simply took out his anger at his family from failure – no matter what business he took on, whether it was the construction business, cultivating orange groves or selling newspapers, he failed everywhere.
Disney's father beat him so cruelly that poor Walt thought that he simply could not be his real dad!
After his "lessons", little Walt turned for comfort to Roy, his older brother,who treated his wounds, physical and mental.
The mother in this situation also tried to comfort her son – she read him fairy tales.
However, these fictional stories allowed Walt to hide for a while in an imaginary world and escape from the frightening reality.
It was in such conditions that the fantasy of the future leader of animation developed.
In 1906, the Disney family moved from the dysfunctional Chicago, where a policeman was killed on the street next to their house, to a farm in Marceline, Kansas.
The new place turned out to be better than the previous one – on the farm, five year old Walt gets acquainted with domestic animals, and they respond to the boy's kindness with warm affection.
In the future, Walt will transfer some images from his childhood to the big screen – the Porker boar, on which he liked to ride as a baby, will serve as a prototype of the Silly from the "Three Piglets".
According to Disney, at the end of the sketch of the Silly, he " practically sobbed with nostalgia."
However, the family continues to suffer on the farm.
Disney, who loved to draw, does not buy any pencils or paper, and the tools for drawing are stick and resin, and the resourceful Walt used walls, fences or toilet paper as canvases.
The father constantly punished his son for drawing, and perhaps Disney would not have taken his hobby seriously if it hadnot been for a lucky chance
Since childhood, Walt was distinguished by a cheerful character, and therefore many neighbors in Marceline knew and loved him.
One of these neighbors, an elderly Dr. Sherwood, gave Disney 25 cents for the fact that a child drew his horse.
The profitable sale of the portrait of the mare prompted Walt to become an artist.
Soon, Walt was already paying for a haircut with his drawings and with a local barber.
In 1909, the family moves again, and eight year old Walt runs away from home.
He is quickly found and returned to his family.
For the next six years, he works for the benefit of "daddy" - he gets up at the crack of dawn and delivers advertising brochures and letters from his father's company.
In any weather, even when the kind owner wonot even turn the dog out on the street, Walt has to deliver the mail.
My father took all the honestly earned money for the development of a common cause, but the cheerful Walt also came up with a way out here.
He, in secret from the evil "boss", simply took twice as much work, gave the required amount to his father, and saved the remaining dollars for pocket expenses.
So, think about how the same circumstances can lead to different consequences.
On this occasion, I remember the following parable:
"Once upon a time there were two twin brothers.
One brother became a very successful person, whose fame was brought by his good deeds.
The second brother became a murderer, and they were going to try him.
Before the trial, the journalists surrounded the second brother, and one asked:
— How did it happen that you became a criminal?
– I had a difficult childhood.
My father drank, beat my mother and me.
Who else could I have become?
– he replied.
At the same time, another group of journalists interviewed the first brother who came to the trial.
One of the reporters asked him: - How did it happen that you became famous and successful?
– I had a difficult childhood.
My father drank, beat my mother and me.
Who else could I have become?"
Walt Disney is a worthy example of a person who knows how to squeeze first class lemonade out of a lemon!
Sometimes it is worth saying "thank you" to the troubles that we encounter on the way – they make us stronger.
Disney's parents return to Chicago, and with a new move, Disney in 1917 again finds himself in the city where he was born.
There he studies at McKinley High School, and in the evenings goes to the Academy of Fine Arts.
Walt gets money for his education and living by working part time at his father's jelly factory.
Disney also completes a course of newspaper cartoonists, where he understands that non standard thinking is good, and gets the skills to express his thoughts in a concise form.
When the First World War began, Walt crosses the ocean, and for a whole year in France he works as a driver of an International Red Cross ambulance van.
His car becomes a local attraction, because Disney did not give up his hobby here, decorating it with drawings.
After the war, Walt returns to Kansas City and gets a job as a cartoonist at a local newspaper.
But only a month passes, and he is fired because of an "outstanding inability to draw"!
Employers would be surprised if someone told them that years later Walt Disney would become the most outstanding creator of cartoons in the entire history of the United States!
In 1919, Disney was hired as an artist at a film advertising studio, at this time he had the idea to experiment in animation.
However, the animation studio that Disney opened in Kansas City soon becomes bankrupt.
But is this a reason to give up?
"If you can dream, then you can make your dreams come true," Walt believed.
He teams up with Ab Iverks, his former workmate, and begins work on" Smeshinki", Disney's first viable animated product.
The studio where "Smeshinki" was created was located in the garage and had only primitive equipment.
And again the garage.
When studying the biographies of outstanding personalities, I sometimes have the idea that creating your own business in a garage is an indispensable attribute of any successful business.
It even seems to me that Americans have their own signs on this topic.
Like, " if you create a business NOT in the garage, then there will be no luck”"
Improving their drawing skills, the companions worked day and night.
However, their next creation a hand drawn version of "Little Red Riding Hood" - fails, and, fleeing from creditors, debtors flee the city.
In 1923, Disney comes to Los Angeles, to his older brother Roy.
He still dreams of creating animated films and is not going to deviate from the path to his dream, because "it's kind of fun to do the impossible."
Roy believes in his brother's ideas and becomes his partner and co founder of a small animation studio.
So, the history of The Walt Disney Company began with a rented garage, a couple of hundred dollars and handicraft production.
The roles in the created company were distributed as follows Walt was a creative genius, and Roy was in charge of the financial part.
In March 1924, the premiere of the cartoon "Alice's Day at Sea" took place, which became the first commercial Disney cartoon.
In 1925, Walt Disney marries Lillian Bounds, who was engaged in "filling" in their studio — coloring the characters drawn by Walt.
In 1933, after several unsuccessful attempts to have children, the couple gives birth to a daughter, Diana Mary.
In 1937, the couple adopted a girl, Sharon May.
To the great chagrin of Disney, their couple did not have the opportunity to give birth to their child anymore.
By the way, there was a period in the life of Disney and his wife when they could not give birth to a child for 8 years.
Walt's wife had two miscarriages and all this caused them both great suffering.
According to his own daughter Diane Mary, Walt was an exemplary family man and spent all his free time with his daughters.
In 1927, a series of cartoons with the lucky rabbit Oswald, invented by Disney, became very famous.
This character was created "to order", and brought fame to his creator.
However, he also taught Walt to carefully read business papers, because this story ended ugly.
The people who paid for the creation of Oswald turned out to be unscrupulous businessmen who managed to draw up a contract in such a way that they, and not Walt at all, had the rights to the cartoon hero.
Upon learning about this, Disney in a rage threw out all the drawings of Oswald and told his "partners" that "there are many more characters living where he came from"!
And it was absolutely true.
After Oswald, other beloved characters are born – Mickey Mouse, Pluto the dog, Goofy the dog, Donald Duck the duckling.
In the year when Disney invents his famous mouse, all the newspapers were discussing Mr. Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic, and the enterprising Disney decided to" put " his new hero at the helm.
The first silent cartoon with Mouse "The Mad Airplane" (1928) was a success!
Mouse was drawn by the leading artist of the company Ab Iverks, the name "Mickey" was suggested by Disney's wife, and the voice was given by Walt himself, who personally voiced the mouse in the studio's first sound cartoon, "Steamboat Willie".
One day a little boy came up to the great master and asked: "So you're drawing Mickey Mouse?".
Disney said no.
"So, you are inventing his jokes and fun?", - the kid insisted, but even then Disney answered "no".
"Mr. Disney, so what are you doing?" the young viewer asked in bewilderment.
Disney will then formulate the vision of his activity as follows: "I imagine myself like a bee that flies from place to place, collecting pollen.
I go around the studio and direct everyone's work.
I believe that this is the case that I am doing!"
Here is such a hardworking "Disney bee"!
Because of the "Steamboat Willie", the company is on the verge of bankruptcy, because the cost of a sound cartoon far exceeded the creation of a silent one.
In the future, Disney will often have to balance on the verge of ruin, because the first priority for him was creativity, not earnings: "I donot create films just to make money.
I earn money to make films, " Walt emphasized.
The Disney quote in its meaning echoes the statements of many famous people, such as Steve Jobs ("There is only one way to do a great job — to love it"), Bill Gates ("Enjoy what you do, and you will never work in your life") and others.
This love of outstanding people for their work largely determines the success of their endeavors.
This is followed by cartoons from the cycle " Naive Symphonies "(1929), one of the series of which brings the studio the first Oscar
The cartoon "The Three Little Pigs" (1933) becomes an international sensation.
In 1935, at the Soviet Film Festival in Moscow (now called the Moscow International Film Festival), Disney's works ("Three Little Pigs"," Mickey the Conductor "and" Unusual Penguins") received the 3rd prize as "artistic animated films that are a high example of skill".
And the song of stupid piglets, familiar to us from childhood ("We are not afraid of the gray wolf, gray wolf, gray wolf.
Where are you wandering, stupid wolf, old scary wolf") is actually a translation of the song from the Disney cartoon "Three Little Pigs"!
In 1934, Walt Disney began creating the first full length hand drawn film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
At that time, viewers were used to watching cartoons 7 times shorter, and by releasing a tape of the "elongated format", Disney took a great risk.
This cartoon almost ruined the studio.
"I spent almost two million dollars on this film.
Isnot this really a fairy tale for you?"
— Disney was so ironic about his tape.
But " Snow White "turned out to be a profitable investment – it was accepted by everyone with a bang and brought its creator one real" Oscar "and seven small" Oscars " — for each dwarf.
The next masterpieces are created at the studio.
"We strive forward, open new paths, take on new things, because we are curious…
Only forward, " - here is another quote from Disney.
In 1940, Disney released "Pinocchio" and "Fantasy", the next year a story about Dumbo appeared on the screens, in the 42nd year "Bambi" was published.
In 1945, the film about a naive and touching fawn also hits Soviet screens – Disney gives this film to the allies; 4 years later, on the eve of the Cold War, American cartoons are banned in the USSR.
But Disney didnot just create cartoons.
In the second half of the 40s, Walt Disney captures the idea of creating an amusement park.
This idea was suggested to him by walking with his daughters, when he was forced to spend hours in boredom watching Diana and Sharon having fun at the zoo or on children's rides.
"We believed in our idea — a family park where parents and children can have fun together," he will say.
In 1955, the first Disneyland was opened in Anaheim, California
The man, whose talents seemed to have no boundaries, also did not limit his new project: "Disneyland will never be completed, it will continue to grow as long as the imagination in the world is enough."
Disney, who did not have a single normal toy in his childhood, managed to create a real fairy tale country, not only on the screen, but also in reality!
Walt Disney continued to expand the scope of his company's activities – in addition to creating feature films, he directed the production of entertainment programs on television, and in 1961 he founded the California Institute of the Arts.
Unfortunately, Disney was not destined to see the implementation of some of its grandiose plans.
He passed away on December 15, 1966.
"When Walt Disney was just starting out, his entire capital consisted of a very modest talent as a draughtsman, a vivid imagination and an inhuman determination to succeed," the press will write about him.
After Walt's death, his brother Roy was able to realize some of his dreams.
In 1971, he completed the construction of Disney World, the largest by area (100 sq. km!) and the most visited entertainment center in the world.
To perpetuate the name of his brother, Roy called this park "Walt Disney World".
The man who made a significant contribution to the development of modern American culture did not consider himself a genius, he declared that "geniuses are strictly forbidden to enter my studio."
And yet he really was a brilliant innovator, whose contribution not only to culture, but also to creating a good mood among millions of people is difficult to overestimate.
Quotes and sayings of Walt Disney
P.S.
What is your favorite cartoon or movie of the Walt Disney Studio?
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Anton Dyshlyuk Share via Twitter Share via Google Share via VKontakte Share via Odnoklassniki
It is very pleasant to observe the story when a young entrepreneur faces great difficulties in life, without giving up, continuing to search for his place in society.
It is also well shown that he has tried to earn money using various methods, starting from shooting films and ending with entertainment and selling souvenirs.
And it all started with drawing)))
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Alexander Share via Twitter Share via Google Share via VKontakte Share via Odnoklassniki
We went to Disneyland in Paris that month.
A real fairy tale!
I recommend it to everyone!
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Lyubov Lyubov Share via Twitter Share via Google Share via VKontakte Share via Odnoklassniki
My favorite cartoons!
This article will touch everyone who reads it to the quick.
Tom and Jerry, Chip and Dale, Scrooge, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, the Little Mermaid.
Reviewing immediately returns to the past, remembering only the good moments of life.
The indefatigable will of Walt Disney, his movement towards the goal, is amazing.
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