• Walter Elias Disney was

born on December 5, 1901

in Chicago, Illinois. Fourth

of five children born to

Elias and Flora Disney.

• Over the years, Walt, occasionally earning some money selling his cartoons, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Kansas City, where he learned the rudiments of drawing technique. In those years of his adolescence he discovered the film, an invention that passion from the start.

• In the spring of 1918, Walt, with only

seventeen, falsified her birth

certificate and enlisted as a soldier in

the Red Cross to fight in the First

World War. Arrived in Europe when

there was peace, but was stationed

in France and Germany until

September 1919. Once he

graduated, he went to live with his

brother Roy to Kansas City, where he

sought employment as a draftsman.

• Walt found work as an apprentice in an advertising agency, the Commercial Pesman-Rubin Art Studio. With a salary of $ 50 a month in that job she met Ubbe Iwerks, a young man of his age and exceptionally gifted in drawing, with whom he befriended. When the two are out of work set up their own company, Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists. The company lasted only a month since Walt chose to accept a secure job, but convinced his new bosses to hire Iwerks. In that work both learned the techniques, still very rudimentary, animation film.

• Disney, which had not yet attained the age of twenty, Iwerks convinced them to return to try their luck as entrepreneurs with a company they called Laugh-O-Gram Films. With production based on traditional stories, the things they were fine until the bankruptcy of its main client also dragged into bankruptcy.

• In 1923, after trying in vain to trace

the slump, Disney moved to

Hollywood. No studio wanted to have

their services, so decided to start his

own company with his brother Roy as

a partner. On October 16, 1923, the

Disney Brothers Studio signed its first

major contract.

• On July 13, 1925 he married Lillian

Bounds, a young employee of his

study, with whom he had two

daughters, Diane Marie and Sharon

Mae, which was adopted in 1936.

• In the spring of 1926 the two brothers changed the name of his company, which was renamed Walt Disney Studio

• Disney conceived during a trip by train from Hollywood to New York to Mortimer, a mouse later renamed with the name of Mickey

• In October 1928, Walt was quick to add sound to a third film of Mickey, Willie in the steam boat (1928). Good mimic of voices and accents, Disney made the little mouse and his girlfriend, Minnie, talk to your own voice to cut costs. The film, released on November 18, 1928 at a theater in New York, scored a resounding success with audiences and critics.

• Disney believed it should not be complacent or bored doing only movies of the famous mouse, which in 1932 won him the first of the Oscar would receive during his career.A year later, on May 27, 1933, silly symphony premiered was number thirty-six and that was to have an unexpected success: The three little pigs.

• In 1934, when his study, 187 people, was born Donald Duck, an irascible character and wicked, who came to join the dog Pluto and Goofy.

• Walt Disney launched a bold and

unprecedented initiative: producing

the first animated feature film

history. Snow White and the Seven

Dwarfs (1937)

• On May 6, 1940 completed

construction of its new studios in

Burbank, which earned him the

nickname "Wizard of Burbank."

• Almost finished forties, Disney received an interesting offer from Howard Hughes: interest-free credit of one million dollars in exchange for its aid in a field. With that money, Disney launched 18 new projects, including Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953).

• In 1954 began the making of films specifically for television, part of his artistic production more reviled by critics. Reviews will also rain down years later with Mary Poppins (1964), his first feature film with real actors only.

• Disney dreamed of building a huge amusement park based on its characters.

• Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955

in Anaheim, California. This park,

covering an area of 120 hectares

• Billionaire and twenty-nine Oscars awarded in the sixties had become one of the best known and loved around the world, but his health faltered, and his whole empire went into a struggle for succession.

• Heavy smoker and alcohol enthusiast, died on December 15, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, a victim of lung cancer.

• The "Wizard of Burbank 'had died without seeing finished The Jungle Book (1967), the second most commercial film since the days of Disney Snow White.

• After years without success Disney Studios are again the kings of the genre of animation with Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992) and The Lion King (1994)

• This was the story of Walt Disney, a man who once said:

“Disneyland will never be finished, continue to grow as long as the imagination.”