Walt Disney
Walt Disney
Walt Disney
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كلية االدارة واالقتصاد
قسم المحاسبة /الدراسة المسائية
المرحلة الثانية
English
When Disney was 16, he dropped out of school to join the Army but
was rejected for being underage. Instead, he joined the Red Cross
and was sent to France for a year to drive an ambulance. He moved
back to the U.S. in 1919.
By 1923, however, the studio had become burdened with debt, and
Disney was forced to declare bankruptcy.
The Walt Disney Studios’ first deal was with New York distributor
Margaret Winkler, to distribute their Alice cartoons. They also
invented a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and contracted
the shorts at $1,500 each. In the late 1920s, the studios broke from
their distributors and created cartoons featuring Mickey Mouse and
his friends.
Disney's last major success that he produced himself was the motion
picture Mary Poppins, which came out in 1964 and mixed live action
and animation.
In a very short time, the park had increased its investment tenfold,
and was entertaining tourists from around the world.
The original site had attendance ups and downs over the years.
Disneyland has expanded its rides over time and branched out
globally with Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, and parks in
Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Sister property California
Adventure opened in Los Angeles in 2001 .