the imprint of his personality on the studio and on what comes out of anything disney
is the attention to detail and it's just perfection walter elias disney was born in chicago
illinois on december 5th 1901 he developed a love of drawing and by 18 he became a draftsman at a
kansas city art studio his very first job in the art world was at a small company where he met abby
works who turned out to be a fantastic animator later in his life but the two became friends
and shortly after they decided to form a company together working with iwerks and his brother roy
disney opened a hollywood studio in 1923. five years later the studio made steamboat
willie starring an animated mouse who would become the cornerstone of their company
mickey mouse had a real personality and that personality was kept consistent from film to film
to film the other reason mickey was a huge success was that walt decided to use mickey as a means for
introducing sound to cartoons in 1934 disney began work on snow white and the seven dwarfs
which became the highest grossing film of the year and named afi's greatest american animated film of
all time snow white had besides being a beautiful piece of art with some wonderful original music
and a very sweet love story was just so well done so well plotted it was just a work of art
it was a treasure in the 1940s disney opened a new studio in burbank and released a succession
of animated classics including pinocchio fantasia dumbo and bambi by 1950 disney
released its first live-action film and tv special every film he did added something new pinocchio
had a great story tremendous artistic detail fantasia gave him the opportunity to experiment
with color and with sound bambi brought whole new skills to his artists because the animals
for bambi were much more realistic everything added to the skills of the disney studio
disney's dream of a children's amusement park came to life on july 17 1955 with the televised opening
of disneyland the most well-known theme park in the world the whole park fascination started back
when he was in kansas city a certain amusement park there his little sister would stand outside
with not the money to go in and later rudolph isaac one of his original animators from kansas
city his quote is saying uh walt and i went to the the park one day and walt said i'm going
to have a park like this sunday but mine's going to be clean during the 50s and 60s
disney dominated television with several weekly shows while still producing feature films in 1965
his musical mary poppins scored 13 nominations and five academy awards many of film critics
have called mary poppins walt masterpiece he brought together all he had learned for
a great many years in the film industry in one beautiful film including much to the
surprise of many people who had started working on a live-action film animation
on december 16 1966 walt disney died of acute circulatory collapse brought on by lung cancer
today the multi-billion dollar disney empire includes multiple tv networks
motion picture studios vacation resorts theme parks and record labels the walt disney passed on
it's remarkable to see how many children and adults continue to enjoy and love his works