Home Biographies Art Directors, producers
Biography of Walt Disney American film and television producer, showman Walt Disney is known to the world as a pioneer in the world of animated films and the creator of Disneyland.
Early years
Walter Elias," Walt", Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in the Hermosa neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
His father, Elias Disney, was a Canadian of Irish descent, and his mother, Flora Coll Disney – was an American born German.
The Disney family had five children: four brothers and one sister.
Walter spends his childhood years in Marceline, Missouri, where he first begins to draw and paint pictures, which he then sells to neighbors and friends.
1911 the family moves to Kansas City, where the boy awakens a love for trains.
His uncle, Mike Martin, was a railroad engineer involved in the construction of a road between Fort Madison, Iowa, and their Marceline.
Later, Walter will get a summer part time job on the railway, where he will sell breakfasts and newspapers to passengers.
The boy studies at McKinley High School in Chicago, where he attends additional drawing and photography classes, and also participates in the publication of the school newspaper, decorating it with illustrations.
In the evenings, he attends classes at the Art Institute of Chicago.
At the age of 16, Disney leaves school for the desire to become a soldier, but they do not take him into the army, because he has not yet reached adulthood.
Then he joins the ranks of the Red Cross and goes to France, where he serves as an ambulance driver for a year.
Early cartoons
After returning from France in 1919, Disney returned to Kansas City in the hope of getting a job as an illustrator for a newspaper.
Brother Roy puts Walter to work in the Art Studio of Pesman Rubin, where he meets with the cartoonist Abbe Eert Ivwerks, better known as Ab Iwerks.
After that, Disney goes to work at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he is engaged in creating commercials using shift animation.
Around the same time, he began experimenting with a video camera, shooting hand drawn two dimensional cartoons, and, in the end, decided to start his own animation business.
His first employee is Fred Harman from an advertising company.
Walt and Harman enter into an agreement with a local theater to show their cartoons, which they themselves call "laughograms".
Cartoons are becoming so popular that soon Dinsey gets the opportunity to get his own studio, which he gives the same name to.
Smekhogramma hires new employees, including Harman's brother, Hugo, and Ab Iverks.
Together they create a series of seven minute fairy tale videos that combine the game of live actors and animation, and call it "Alice in the Land of Cartoons".
But by 1923, the studio is getting into debt, and Disney is forced to declare it bankrupt.
Soon, Walter and his brother, Roy, raise money and move to Hollywood.
Iverks also moves there.
All three of them together are taken to create the Disney Brothers studio.
Their first deal is a contract with the distributor Margaret Winkler for the distribution of their Alice cartoons.
Soon they come up with a new character, Oswald the lucky rabbit, and sell their short cartoons for $ 1,500 each.
In 1925, Disney hires graphic artist Lillian Bounds.
After a short romance, the couple gets married.
A few years later, Disney learns that Winkler, her husband Charles Mintz and the entire staff of Disney animation studios, with the exception of one Ivers, have stolen the rights to Oswald Rabbit from him.
The Disney brothers, their wives, and the devoted Ivers immediately release three cartoons featuring a new character invented by Walt, who gets the name Mickey Mouse.
The first short cartoons with the participation of this hero are "Mad Plane" and "Gallop on an ostrich", which cannot be sold due to the fact that both videos were silent.
When sound comes to the cinema, Disney creates a third short cartoon, this time in full armor of sound and music, called "Steamboat Willie".
Now that Mickey has spoken in Walt's voice, the cartoon instantly becomes a sensation.
Commercial success
In 1929, Disney released "Naive Symphonies", in which new friends of Mickey appear – Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto.
The first color cartoon is the most popular cartoon "Flowers and Trees", which brings its creators the Oscar award.
Released in 1933, the cartoon "Three Little Pigs" with the song "Who's afraid of the big Bad Wolf?" sounded in the credits becomes the unofficial anthem of the country in the midst of the Great Depression.
On December 21, 1937, the premiere of the first full length animated film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"took place in Los Angeles.
Even despite the ongoing Depression, he collects an unprecedented amount of 1 million 499 thousand US dollars and wins eight Oscars at once.
Over the next five years, the Walt Disney studio creates a number of full length animated films: "Pinocchio", "Fantasy", "Dumbo and Bambi".
In December 1939, a division of “Walt Disney Studios”was opened in Burbank.
But in 1941, the company was in trouble due to a strike of Disney animators.
Many of them subsequently quit, and the company will be able to recover from this loss only after a few years.
In the mid – 1940s, Mr. Disney created "set films" – a series of interconnected short films intended for sequential display but by 1950 he was again returning to work on animated films.
In 1950, "Cinderella" appeared, followed by " Alice in Wonderland "(1951)," Peter Pan "(1953), a picture with live actors called" Treasure Island "(1950)," The Lady and the Tramp "(1955)," Sleeping Beauty "(1959) and" 101 Dalmatians " (1961).
In general, this studio introduces more than a hundred new characters to the world of animated films.
Disney was one of the first to use television for entertainment purposes.
The series "Zorro and Davy Crockett" is gaining great popularity among children, as well as the show "Mickey Mouse Club" – a television performance in which teenage actors take part, acting as "Mouseketeers".
In its popular Sunday evening show, "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Colors," Disney is starting to promote its new theme park.
The last Disney movie created by himself is "Mary Poppins" with the participation of both live and animated characters.
Disneyland
The Disneyland theme park, which cost $ 17 million to build, opens in 1955.
It becomes a place where children and adults can explore, ride and get acquainted with the heroes of the Disney world.
Soon, the park pays back its costs ten times and attracts tourists from all over the world.
Death
Just a few years after opening, Disney is making plans to create a new theme park "An experimental prototype of the Society of the Future" in Florida.
It was just in the process of being built when, in 1966, Disney was diagnosed with lung cancer.
On December 15, 1966, at the age of 65, Walt Disney dies.
His body is cremated, and his ashes are buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles.
After the death of his brother, his brother Roy takes over the implementation of his plans, and in 1971 the park opens under the name "Walt Disney World".
Quotes
"The most important product that America exports is laughter."
"There is nothing funnier than an animal endowed with human features."
"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known."
"You may not realize it, but sometimes a blow to the jaw is the best thing that could happen to you."
"I donot understand how you can talk to children as if they are small.
I donot understand how you can talk to anyone like that at all.
I like direct conversations with them on an equal footing.
Children always understand everything."
"It's not money that inspires me – it's my ideas that inspire me."
"Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, dreams and those difficult events that created America... with the hope that this will serve as a source of joy and inspiration for the whole world."
"You wonot find a single mousetrap in the house.
I have never forgotten that it was the mouse that created me the way I am."
"The world has never seen such a time as the one in which we live.
New ideas are constantly emerging, and now we have the tools to bring them to life.
We are moving forward."
"Life consists of light and shadow, and it would be wrong, insincere, flattering to say that there are no shadows in it."
"I donot care about criticism.
Critics put on too much importance.
They believe that to become famous, to become a smart guy, you can only look for the mistakes of others.
I create films for the public."
"For many years, I hated Snow White, because every time I introduced a new hero to the world, he was compared to Snow White, and he was not in any comparison with her."
"I like to look at life with optimism, but I have enough realism to understand that everything is not so simple in life.
Laughter is followed by tears, and when creating a film or TV show, you need to take into account all aspects of life in them: drama, pathos and humor."
"All our dreams can become reality if only we have the courage to fulfill them."
"Never take on something that someone can do better."
"We were all children once.
We've grown up.
We have changed, but a part of our childhood lives in each of us."
Did you like the biography?
Help the project click on the button, tell your friends:
Didnot you like it?
- Write in the comments what is missing.
Content
Early Years Early Cartoons Commercial Success "Disneyland" Death Quotes
Briefly
Activity Directors, producers
Date of birth December 5, 1901
Zodiac sign Capricorn
Date of death December 15, 1966
Place of birth USA, Chicago
Full name (rus) Walter Elias Disney
Full name (English) Walter Elias Disney
We have added a rating!
By popular demand, you can now: save all your results, get points and participate in the overall rating.
Learn more
Site Rating Week Overall Awarded 1.
Alina Khaliullina 218 2.
Alyona Ivantsova 199 3.
Daria Platonova 189 4.
Kristina Kisenkova 142 5.
Maria Shevelkova 137 6.
Alina Goncharova 122 7.
Anna Epishina 121 8.
Polina Masych 106 9.
Kira Zakharova 99 10.
Ira Bakholdina 89
1.
Ramzan Ramzan 2,038 2.
Alyona Koshkarovskaya 1,856 3.
Victoria Neumann 1,748 4.
Bulat Sadykov 1,641 5.
Irina Nalivko 677 6.
Daria Volkova 617 7.
Grisha Grifon 586 8.
Evgeny Letun 572 9.
Elizaveta Pyakina 495 10.
admin 471
The most active participants of the week:
1. Victoria Neumann a gift card of a bookstore for 500 rubles.
2. Bulat Sadykov a gift card of a bookstore for 500 rubles.
3. Daria Volkova a gift card of a bookstore for 500 rubles.
Three lucky people who have passed at least 1 test:
1. Natalia Starostina a gift card of a bookstore for 500 rubles.
2. Nikolai Z a gift card of a bookstore for 500 rubles.
3. Mikhail Voronin a gift card of a bookstore for 500 rubles.
The cards are electronic(code), they will be sent in the next few days by a Vkontakte message or an email.
Terms of participation
Recent biographies
Steven Spielberg Mark Zakharov Sergey Bondarchuk Fyodor Bondarchuk Yana Rudkovskaya
Now we have a group join and be aware!
Log In Registration
Biographies▶ Art► Actors Artists Architects Designers Disc jockeys (Djs) Journalists Comedians, comedians Composers Fashion Designers Music Music groups Singers, singers Writers Directors, producers Sculptors Dancers and choreographers Photographers Artists
Science► Biological Sciences Humanities Mathematics Travelers Exact Sciences Physics
Society► Activists and reformers Archaeologists Businessmen Presenters, showmen Women Wives Patrons Models Oligarchs Religion Judaism Priests Philosophers Economists Lawyers
State► Military figures Kings Ministers Monarchs Generals Presidents Tsars
Sports► Mountaineering Basketball Baseball Biathlon Billiards Bodybuilding Boxing Cycling Gymnastics Golf Racing Martial Arts Equestrian Athletics Skiing Swimming Diving Tennis Figure skating Soccer Football American Hockey Chess
Technology► Inventors Engineers Designers Astronauts, astronauts Pilots
Brief contents of the essay Presentation
Full or partial copying of materials is allowed only with the indication of an active hyperlink to http://all biography.ru/
Copyright © 2008-2017 All Biographies G+ Contacts
