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‫وزارة التعليم العالي والبحث العلمي‬

‫جامعة البصرة‬
‫كلية االدارة واالقتصاد‬
‫قسم المحاسبة ‪ /‬الدراسة المسائية‬
‫المرحلة الثانية‬

‫‪English‬‬

‫‪: Report about‬‬


‫‪Walt Disney , Childhood dream maker‬‬

‫إعداد الطالبة ‪ :‬وفاء صالح مهدي‬


‫بأشراف ‪ :‬م‪.‬م‪ .‬تنسيم جواد‬
Walt Disney was an American motion
picture and television producer and
showman, famous as a pioneer of
cartoon films, including Mickey Mouse,
and as the creator of the amusement
parks Disneyland and Disney World.

Who Was Walt Disney?


Walter Elias "Walt" Disney co-founded
Walt Disney Productions with his
brother Roy, which became one of the
best-known motion-picture production
companies in the world. Disney was an
innovative animator and created the
cartoon character Mickey Mouse. He won 22 Academy Awards
during his lifetime, and was the founder of theme parks Disneyland
and Walt Disney World.

Walt Disney’s Parents and Siblings


Disney’s father was Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian. His mother,
Flora Call Disney, was German-American. Disney was one of five
children, four boys and a girl.

Walt Disney’s Childhood


Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in the Hermosa section of
Chicago, Illinois. He lived most of his childhood in Marceline,
Missouri, where he began drawing, painting and selling pictures to
neighbors and family friends.

In 1911, his family moved to Kansas City, where Disney developed a


love for trains. His uncle, Mike Martin, was a train engineer who
worked the route between Fort Madison, Iowa and Marceline. Later,
Disney would work a summer job with the railroad, selling snacks and
newspapers to travelers.
Disney attended McKinley High School in Chicago, where he took
drawing and photography classes and was a contributing cartoonist
for the school paper. At night, he took courses at the Art Institute of
Chicago.

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.

Walt Disney’s First Cartoons


In 1919, Disney moved to Kansas City to pursue a career as a
newspaper artist. His brother Roy got him a job at the Pesmen-Rubin
Art Studio, where he met cartoonist Ubbe Eert Iwwerks, better known
as Ub Iwerks. From there, Disney worked at the Kansas City Film Ad
Company, where he made commercials based on cutout animation.
Around this time, Disney began experimenting with a camera, doing
hand-drawn cel animation. He decided to open his own animation
business. From the ad company, he recruited Fred Harman as his
first employee.

Disney and Harman made a deal with a local Kansas City theater to


screen their cartoons, which they called Laugh-O-Grams. The
cartoons were hugely popular, and Disney was able to acquire his
own studio, upon which he bestowed the same name.

Laugh-O-Gram hired a number of employees, including Iwerks and


Harman's brother Hugh. They did a series of seven-minute fairy tales
that combined both live action and animation, which they called Alice
in Cartoonland.

By 1923, however, the studio had become burdened with debt, and
Disney was forced to declare bankruptcy.

Walt Disney Animation Studios


Disney and his brother Roy moved to Hollywood with cartoonist Ub
Iwerks in 1923, and there the three began the Disney Brothers'
Cartoon Studio. The company soon changed its name to Walt Disney
Studios, at Roy’s suggestion.

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.

In December 1939, a new campus for Walt Disney Animation Studios


was opened in Burbank. In 1941 a setback for the company occurred
when Disney animators went on strike. Many of them resigned. It
would be years before the company fully recovered.

One of Disney Studio’s most popular cartoons, Flowers and


Trees (1932), was the first to be produced in color and to win an
Oscar. In 1933, The Three Little Pigs and its title song "Who's Afraid
of the Big Bad Wolf?" became a theme for the country in the midst of
the Great Depression.

Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse and Other Characters


Disney’s first successful film starring Mickey Mouse was a sound-
and-music-equipped animated short called Steamboat Willie. It
opened at the Colony Theater in New York November 18, 1928.
Sound had just made its way into film, and Disney was the voice of
Mickey, a character he had developed and that was drawn by his
chief animator, Ub Iwerks. The cartoon was an instant sensation.
The Disney brothers, their wives and Iwerks produced two earlier
silent animated shorts starring Mickey Mouse, Plane Crazy and The
Gallopin' Gaucho, out of necessity. The team had discovered that
Disney’s New York distributor, Margaret Winkler, and her husband,
Charles Mintz, had stolen the rights to the character Oswald and all of
Disney’s animators except for Iwerks. The two earliest Mickey Mouse
films failed to find distribution, as sound was already revolutionizing
the movie industry.

In 1929, Disney created Silly Symphonies, featuring Mickey's newly


created friends, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto .

Walt Disney Movies


Disney produced more than 100 feature films. His first full-length
animated film was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which
premiered in Los Angeles on December 21, 1937. It produced an
unimaginable $1.499 million, in spite of the Great Depression, and
won eight Oscars. This led Walt Disney Studios to complete another
string of full-length animated films over the next five years.

During the mid-1940s, Disney created "packaged features," groups of


shorts strung together to run at feature length. By 1950, he was once
again focusing on animated features.

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.

Disney’s Television Series


Disney was also among the first people to use television as an
entertainment medium. The Zorro and Davy Crockett series were
extremely popular with children, as was The Mickey Mouse Club, a
variety show featuring a cast of teenagers known as the
Mouseketeers. Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color was a
popular Sunday night show, which Disney used to begin promoting
his new theme park.

Walt Disney Parks


Disneyland
Disney's $17 million Disneyland theme park opened on July 17, 1955,
in Anaheim, California, on what was once an orange grove. Actor
(and future U.S. president) Ronald Reagan presided over the
activities. After a tumultuous opening day involving several mishaps
(including the distribution of thousands of counterfeit invitations), the
site became known as a place where children and their families could
explore, enjoy rides and meet the Disney characters.

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 .

Walt Disney World

Within a few years of Disneyland’s 1955 opening, Disney began


plans for a new theme park and to develop Experimental Prototype
Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) in Florida. It was still under
construction when Disney died in 1966. After Disney’s death, his
brother Roy carried on the plans to finish the Florida theme park,
which opened in 1971 under the name Walt Disney World.

When and How Walt Disney Died


Disney was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1966 and died on
December 15, 1966, at the age of 65. Disney was cremated, and his
ashes interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

Quote: “I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I


am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With
the laugh comes the tears.”

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