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| Walt Elias Disney born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois to Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney. His father, Elias, a building contractor, was a very strict and religious man. and would often physically abuse his children. |
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| Disney's father moved his family to Marceline, Missouri where he took over a farm. Walt loved the farm life, and developed his love for animals there. Farm failed, family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he helped his father to deliver newspapers. Later, began selling candy & newspapers on the train. Also interesterd in art, so he took art classes. |
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The family moves to Chicago, where Walt draws pictures for the McKinley High School newspaper and attends evening classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Walt hopes to become a newspaper cartoonist. 1918 Walt lies about his age to be accepted into the American Ambulance Corps and serves in France following the end of World War I. 1919 Walt returns to the US, moves to Kansas City and gets a job at the Pesmen-Rubin Commercial Art Studio for $50 a month.
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Walt meets Ub Iwerks and forms Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists. The company fails after one month. Walt and Iwerks get jobs with the Kansas City Slide Company (later KC Film Ad Company) and discover animation. While keeping his day job, Walt creates Newman Laugh-Ograms, which produces advertising and topical shorts and story cartoons. 1922 Walt incorporates Laugh-O-Gram Films, Inc. with $15,000 from backers. 1923 Laugh-O-Gram goes bankrupt. Walt moves to Hollywood to become a director. With his brother Roy, he establishes the Disney Brothers Studio when he lands a contract for the “Alice Comedies,” a series in which a young girl filmed in live action interacts with animated characters. 1924 Walt hires animators, including Iwerks, ceases animating, and focuses on story development and direction.
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Lillian Bounds, Walt’s future wife, starts work at the Studio as an inker. 1925 Walt and Lillian get married. 1926 Walt and Roy rename the studio Walt Disney Studios and move it to a new building on Hyperion Avenue. The birthplace of some of Disney’s greatest films, it later becomes known as the Hyperion studio.
1927 Film distributor Charles Mintz contracts Walt Disney Studios to create a new series of animation films based on an undeveloped character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. As the distributor for the cartoons, Mintz owns rights to it. When the series succeeds and Walt asks for a larger budget, Mintz asserts trademark rights and tries to take over Walt Disney Studios. Walt abandons the character to Mintz. 1928 Walt creates Mickey Mouse. He joins the vanguard of the talking-picture revolution when he produces Steamboat Willie, an innovative cartoon that synchronizes sound and animation. During the next year, Mickey becomes a national sensation.
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Walt acquires exclusive use of three-strip Technicolor for cartoons and incorporates the technology in his films. He hires teachers from the Chouinard Art Institute to give classes at the Studios. 1933
Three Little Pigs, the 36th “Silly Symphony,” is distributed, with the original song, “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” The song becomes a national hit and an anthem for the Great Depression. |
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Disney Studios acquires a 50-acre lot in Burbank, CA, for a new studio. Walt and Leopold Stokowski agree to collaborate on a movie that weds animation art to classical music, Fantasia. 1941,
Disney Studios releases Dumbo, which is a modest commercial success. The animators at the studio strike and unionize. Walt goes on a goodwill tour in South America. The United States enters World War II; the U.S. Army requisitions half of Disney Studios to house troops assigned to protecting a nearby Lockheed plant.
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1954, Disney contracts with ABC television to produce a one-hour television program in exchange for a $500,000 investment by ABC in Disneyland. Walt buys 244 acres of land near Anaheim, CA to be the site for Disneyland. A year later, Disneyland opens and in two months receives over one million visitors. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson presents Walt with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil honor.
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Walt Disney Studios purchases land in Orlando, FL for EPCOT, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, a foreshadowing of the New Urbanism movement, which also leads to the creation of Walt Disney World. 1966 Walt dies on December 15.
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1. Walt returns to the US, moves to Kansas City and gets a job at the Pesmen-Rubin Commercial Art Studio for $50 a month.
2. With his brother Roy, he establishes the Disney Brothers Studio when he lands a contract for the “Alice Comedies,” a series in which a young girl filmed in live action interacts with animated characters.
3. Walt creates Mickey Mouse. He joins the vanguard of the talking picture revolution when he produces Steamboat Willie, an innovative cartoon that synchronizes sound and animation. During the next year, Mickey becomes a national sensation.
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| 4. Disney contracts with ABC television to produce a one-hour television program in exchange for a $500,000 investment by ABC in Disneyland. Walt buys 244 acres of land near Anaheim, CA to be the site for Disneyland. |
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President Lyndon Johnson presents Walt with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil honor.
Walt Disney provided a sense of happiniess and relief for people during the Great Depression. He changed the Entertainment industry by making it grow rapidly with new animation technology.
The United States enters World War II; the U.S. Army requisitions half of Disney Studios to house troops assigned to protecting a nearby Lockheed plant.
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