Walt Disney: the Man Behind the Magic

Disneys empire has spread throughout the world, with his films be translated Into dozens of languages and his theme parks being located in many different countries. Animation became an important part of society with the innovative mind of Walt Disney who shook up the 20th Century with his quirky characters and charming storyline. Walter alias Disney was born on celestial latitude 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. Walt Disney was named after his father, Ells Disney who was a peripatetic carpenter, farmer, and a bulling contractor that would do any Job he could find do make m iodiney for his Emily.His mother, Flora Disney, spent almost of her time as a public school teacher. Alias and Flora had fin children Herbert, Raymond, Roy, Walt, and Ruth in order of oldest to youngest, descending in age with Herbert being their oldest. Soon after Walt was born, the family moved to a farm near Marline, Missouri, a typical downhearted midwestern town. There Walt Disney started studying the art of cartooning and even attended classes at the Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design. Chicago called the Disney back to the windy city In 1917 when Walt entered McKinley HighSchool, where he took photographs, made drawings for the school paper, and studied cartooning on the side. Disney eventually striver to become a newspaper cartoonist when he graduated (Crotchet). Walt Disneys childhood dream of being a newspaper cartoonist was shattered with the outbreak of World War I In which he participated as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross In France and Germany (Crotchet). When Disney got back home he started pursuing his career as a cartoonist again with little than a public education, a few art courses in Chicago, and a years service as an ambulance driver n France. He tried to open an animation studio in Kansas City with his previously listed experience and five hundred dollars of poker winnings he had made overseas. Disney was not successful in his attempts, thoug h, and he ended up even worse off than he had been before. He was seen sitting on a box, eating cold beans from a can and dry bread (Nilsson). Diane Disney Miller, his daughter, recalled her father telling her of his misfortunes before his fame and said that, when pappa was telling me this story I asked, Wasnt this about the low point of your life? And he said, No, it wasnt ad.I love beans. Disneys adult life was full of struggles to reach his dreams but Walt flee for his secretary, Lillian, and they were married on July 13, 1925 (Sitting 40). Even with his unfortunate situations and hopelessness at times, by the time he was 30 years old, Walt Disney had become a public variety (Finch 15). Back in Kansas City together. The dynamic duo acquired a secondhand movie camera with which they made one and two minute animated denote films for distribution in local theaters. Finally things had begun to look up for the two when aNew York film distributor cheated them out of their money a nd they were forced to file for bankruptcy in 1923 (Crotchet). When Disney moved to California to pursue a career as a cinematographer, lowers stayed behind (Finch 50). Surprisingly, one of Disneys Alice films compelled Walt and Roy, his brother, to open another studio in Los Angels. Although, the Disney brothers agnize they needed the fellow cartoonists genius at Disney Brothers Productions in California (Finch 50). Walt Disney decided to change the company name from Disney Brothers Studio to WaltDisney Studio (Sitting 42). Some believe it was his egotistic decision to hog all of the fame, but supposedly it was Roy Disney who suggested the new studio name (Sitting 43). The Great Depression and its economic hardships that came along with it in the early sasss only hurt Disney. Walt Disney tried his hardest to make his cartoons appeal to audiences all over the world, so he made money in spite of everyone elses suffering. Many people go to sleep that Walt Disney wasnt the sole an imator of his characters, but most do not know Just who he worked with in the beginning (Crotchet).Pub lowers who was said to be easily the scoop up animator of the day was Disneys other half (Finch 49). Together they invented one of their first characters that became semi- famous, the character was named Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Oswald was one of Disneys most famous characters of his early career which propitiously launched their small enterprise. 1927 was a huge year for lowers and Disney, little did the men know that they were designing what would become Disneys most prized, well- known character a cheerful, energetic, and mischievous mouse calledMackey (Crotchet). Although most credit for Mackey Mouse is given to Walt Disney, lowers was primarily responsible for perfecting Mickeys physical characteristics (Finch 49). lowers may have been responsible for Mickeys physical characteristics, but Walt Disney invented his personality and behaviors. Mickeys voice was supplied by Disne y himself, a task which he continued to perform for many years after. After Mackey, Disney and lowers developed many legendary characters such as Pluto, Goofy, and the prominent Donald Fauntleroy Duck. Donald F.Duck came into existence when Clarence Nash, one of Disneys employees, witnessed an ill-mannered duck at the park and became greatly amused. Disney loved the impression Nash gave, so Nash provided the comical, aggressive voice for Mr.. Duck (Alexander). During the early days of Disney, the cartoon sketches called Laugh-O-Grams that were smooth were popular as well as a series of seven minute fairy tales that combined both live action and animation called Alice in Cortland. Disney was able to distribute his films at $1 ,500 each at times, which helped launch what was his mall business at the time.Talkies were being introduced into society and he began to recognize the possibilities for proceed in animated cartoon films. Disneys third Mackey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie was fully equipped with music and voices, and it totally overshadowed his last soundless cartoons. Steamboat Willie appeared in 1928 and was a sensation (Crotchet). Walt Disney began reservation his first full called Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and cost Walt Disney $1 but over the years has made over $20,000,000 (Davidson 73).Roy Disney tried to bring in more none by franchising the tie-in sales with the cartoons of Mackey Mouse and Donald Duck watches, dolls, shirts, and tops which reaped more wealth for the company (Crotchet). Walt Disney passed a dash from lung cancer on December 1 5th, 1966 in Los Angels, California at the age of 65 years old. The Disney Company, which changed its name again in the sasss, became one of the worlds largest entertainment conglomerates (Crotchet). Disneys words, planned and unplanned, were translated into numerous languages and his send off could be found on any magazine or swapper across the world (Finch 15).Disney has said, Maybe its becaus e I Just make what I like- good compassionate stories where you can get with people and prove that the better things of life can be as interesting as the sordid things, which is Just the attitude and way of thinking that almost everyone loves about the man behind the magic (Davidson 74). Disneys Mackey Mouse and Donald Duck, the first two characters to be multilingual, were great successes overseas. Disney has become the worlds most celebrated entertainer and possibly its best-known non-political public guru from the spread of his achievements.