Walt Disney and His Work

Early Years

• Born on Dec 5, 1901, Chicago

• 1906: moved to Marceline

• 1910: Kansas City

• 1912: return to Chicago

• End of 1910’s: Chicago’s Academy of Fine Arts

• World War I.

The Struggling Years• 1920: Gray Advertising Company,

political cartoonist• Met Ub Iwkers• Laugh-O-Gram Company with

Ubmore humour and imagination

• First success: ‘Alice in Cartoonland’

• After a while less moneybankruptcy

• Went to Holywood to Roy• ‘Alice’ a success again with Roy

and Ub• Met Lillian Bounds• New figures: ‘Mickey Mouse’,

‘Oswald the Rabbit’

The Successful Years• ‘Silly Symphony’ series• Academy Awards• 1931: ‘Donald Duck’• 1932: health problems vacations• 1934: full length movie: ‘Snow White’• After 1937: ‘Pinnochio’, ‘Bambi’,

‘Fantasia’• World War II Navy used the Studio• ‘Cinderella’, the next big success• 1948: live action films: ‘Treasure

Island’, ‘Rob Roy’• 1949: health problem again, dreaming

about Disneyland

Disneyland and More• Partnership with a television to

produce series called ‘Disneyland’• 1954: ‘Disneyland’ on the screen• 1954: LA, Anaheim, works began

on the park• 17 July, 1955: Black Sunday• 1955: ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ on

ABC• 1960’s: he locked in his own

image• 1964: New York World Fair got

money buy thousand of acres in Florida

• 1965: Plans of Disney Company (WED, EPCOT)

Goodbye to Walt• Diane and Ron, Sharon and Bob, 7

grandchildren• Idea of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’• Lung cancer• Told Ron to concentrate on the parks

and EPCOT• 15 Dec, 1966: he died