Early Life
Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901, at 1249 Tripp Avenue, in Chicago-Hermosa neighborhood.He was the fourth son of Elias Disney born in the Province of Canada, to Irish parents and Flora, an American of German and English descent.
In Marceline, Disney developed his interest in drawing when he was paid to draw the horse of a retired neighborhood doctor.
Elias was a subscriber to the Appeal to Reason newspaper, and Disney practiced drawing by copying the front-page cartoons of Ryan Walker. Disney also began to develop an ability to work with watercolors and crayons.
Disney enrolled at McKinley High School and became the cartoonist for the school newspaper, drawing patriotic pictures about World War I he also took night courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.
Disney returned to Kansas City in October 1919, where he worked as an apprentice artist at the Pesmen-Rubin Commercial Art Studio. There, he drew commercial illustrations for advertising, theater programs, and catalogs. He also befriended fellow artist Ub Iwerks.
Early career
In May 1921, the success of the "Laugh-O-Grams" led to the establishment of Laugh-O-Gram Studio, for which he hired more animators, including Fred Harman's brother Hugh, Rudolf Ising and Iwerks.The Laugh-O-Grams cartoons did not provide enough income to keep the company solvent, so Disney started production of Alice's Wonderland based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which combined live action with animation he cast Virginia Davis in the title role. The result, a 12 and a half minute, one reel film, was completed too late to save Laugh-O-Gram Studio, which went into bankruptcy in 1923.
He wanted to be an artist so he sold his camera and went to Hollywood in July 1923. Disney and his brother Roy formed the Disney Brothers Studio which later became The Walt Disney Company to produce the films they persuaded Davis and her family to relocate to Hollywood to continue production, with Davis on contract at $100 a month. In July 1924 Disney also hired Iwerks, persuading him to relocate to Hollywood from Kansas City.
Disney and Iwerks created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character Disney wanted to be "peppy, alert, saucy and venturesome, keeping him also neat and trim".
In February 1928, Disney hoped to negotiate a larger fee for producing the Oswald series but found Mintz wanting to reduce the payments. Disney also found out that Universal owned the intellectual property rights to Oswald. Mintz threatened to start his own studio and produce the series himself if Disney refused to accept the reductions. Disney declined Mintz's ultimatum and lost most of his animation staff, except Iwerks, who chose to remain with him.
Mickey mouse
A pet mouse that Disney had adopted while working in his Laugh-O-Gram studio, although the origins of the character are unclear.Disney's original choice of name was Mortimer Mouse, but Lillian (his wife) thought it too pompous and suggested Mickey. Iwerks revised Disney's provisional sketches to make the character easier to animate, and Disney provided Mickey's voice until 1947. In the words of one Disney employee, "Ub designed Mickey's physical appearance, but Walt gave him his soul."
To improve the quality of the music, Disney hired the professional composer and arranger Carl Stalling, on whose suggestion the Silly Symphony series was developed, providing stories through the use of music the first in the series, The Skeleton Dance (1929), was drawn and animated entirely by Iwerks. Also hired at this time were several local artists, some of whom stayed with the company as core animators the group later became known as the Nine Old Men.
The Golden age of animation
By 1934, Disney had become dissatisfied with producing formulaic cartoon shorts and began a four-year production of a feature-length cartoon, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, based on the fairy tale. When news leaked out about the project, many in the film industry predicted it would bankrupt the company industry insiders nicknamed it "Disney's Folly".The film, which was the first animated feature made in full color and sound, cost $1.5 million to produce three times over budget. To ensure the animation was as realistic as possible, Disney sent his animators on courses at the Chouinard Art Institute he brought animals into the studio and hired actors so that the animators could study realistic movement. To portray the changing perspective of the background as a camera moved through a scene, Disney's animators developed a multiplane camera which allowed drawings on pieces of glass to be set at various distances from the camera, creating an illusion of depth. The glass could be moved to create the impression of a camera passing through the scene. The first work created on the camera a Silly Symphony called The Old Mill (1937) won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film because of its impressive visual power. Although Snow White had been largely finished by the time the multiplane camera had been completed, Disney ordered some scenes be re-drawn to use the new effects.
Snow White premiered in December 1937 to high praise from critics and audiences. The film became the most successful motion picture of 1938 and by May 1939 its total gross of $6.5 million made it the most successful sound film made to that date. Disney won another Honorary Academy Award, which consisted of one full-sized and seven miniature Oscar statuettes.
Theme Park
Disney had been considering building a theme park. he wanted to be in a clean, unspoiled park, where both children and their parents could have fun.Construction work started in July 1954, and Disneyland opened in July 1955; the opening ceremony was broadcast on ABC, which reached 70 million viewers. The connected themed areas were Adventureland, Frontierland, Fantasyland and Tomorrowland. The park also contained the narrow gauge Disneyland Railroad that linked the lands around the outside of the park was a high berm to separate the park from the outside world.
HOW BIG IS DISNEY
- In china they have Theme park biggest investment in another country by Disney.
- Lucasfilm bought in 4.06 billion
- Pixer bought by Disney in 2006
- Marvel Studios bought by Disney in 2009 for 4 billion
- They also have Hollywood Records, abc News, Espn, A&E, Life time, The History Channel, And youtube multi-channel Network Maker Studio, The also partially own VICE media.
- Last year Disney made 52.46 billion in revenue and currently own 88 Billion in assets
- And 8.38 Billion USD Net income
