Walt Disney

During a career in Hollywood 43-years, which spanned the development of film media as a modern American art, Walter Elias Disney, a modern Aesop, established himself and the original product as part of Americana.
 David Low, the late British political cartoonist, called Disney "the most important figure in graphic arts since Leonardo DaVinci." A pioneer and innovator, and the owner of one of the most fertile imaginations the world has ever known, Walt Disney, along with members of his staff, received more than 950 awards and citations from every nation in the world, including 48 Academy Awards and 7 Emmys in his life.Walt Disney's personal awards included honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, University of Southern California and UCLA; Presidential Medal of Freedom; French Legion of Honour and the Chief d'Academie decorations; Thailand Order of the Crown; the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross; Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, and Showman of the World Award of the National Association of Theatre Owners.The creator of Mickey Mouse and founder of Disneyland and Walt Disney World was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 5, 1901. His father, Elias Disney, was an Irish-Canadian. His mother, Flora Call Disney, was the German-American descent.Walt was one of five children, four boys and girls.Raised on a farm near Marceline, Missouri, Walt became interested in drawing at an early age, selling his first sketches to neighbors when he was only seven years old. McKinley High School in Chicago, Disney divided his attention between drawing and photography, contributing both to the school newspaper. At night he attended the Academy of Fine Arts.During the fall of 1918, Disney tried to enlist for military service.Rejected because he was only 16 years, Walt joined the Red Cross and sent abroad, where he spent a year driving an ambulance and the driver closed his Merah.Ambulans Cross officials from stem to stem, not with stock camouflage, but with pictures and cartoons .After the war, Walt returned to Kansas City, where he began his career as an advertising cartoonist. Here, in 1920, he created and marketed his first animated cartoon original, and later perfected a new method for combining live action and animation.In August 1923, Walt Disney left Kansas City for Hollywood with a few drawing materials, $ 40 in his pocket and a film animation and live action is completed. Walt's brother, Roy 0. Disney, was already in California, with a large amount of sympathy and encouragement, and $ 250. Pooling their resources, they borrowed an additional $ 500, and constructed a camera stand in their uncle's garage. Shortly thereafter, they received an order from New York for the featurette "Alice Comedy" first, and the brothers began their production operation in the back of a broker's office Hollywood, two blocks away.On July 13, 1925, Walt married one of the first employees, Lillian Bounds, in Lewiston, Idaho. They had two daughters: Diane, married to Ron Miller, former president and CEO of Walt Disney Productions, and Sharon Disney Lund, who served as a member of the Disney Board of Directors and died in 1993. The Millers have seven children and Mrs. Lund had three.Mickey Mouse was created in 1928, and his talents were first used in a silent cartoon entitled "Plane Crazy". However, before the cartoon could be released, there was an explosion on a movie screen. So Mickey's screen debut in "Steamboat Willie," the world's first fully synchronized sound cartoon, which premiered at the Colony Theater in New York on 18 November 1928.Hard to perfect the art of animation Walt endless. Technicolor was introduced to animation during the production of his "Silly Symphonies." In 1932, the film entitled "Flowers and Trees" won Walt the first of his 32 personal Academy Awards. In 1937, he released "The Old Mill," the first short subject to utilize multiplane camera technique.On 21 December the same year, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," the first full-length feature animated musical, premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles. Produced at a cost of $ 1,499,000 during the depths of the Depression was unheard of, the film is still accounted as one of the great achievements and lasting monument of the film industry. Over the next five years, Walt completed such other full-length animated classics as "Pinocchio," "Fantasia," "Dumbo," and "Bambi."In 1940, construction was completed on Disney's Burbank studio.The staff swelled to more than 1,000 artists, animators, story men and technicians. During World War II, 94 percent of the Disney facilities engaged in special government work, including production of training and propaganda films for the armed services, as well as health films which are still shown throughout the world by the U.S. State Department. The remainder of the efforts devoted to the production of comedy short subjects, deemed highly essential to civilian and military morale.1945 Disney feature, the musical "The Three Caballeros," combined live action with cartoon medium, a process he used successfully in other features such as "Song of the South" and the highly acclaimed "Mary Poppins." In total, 81 features were released by the studio during his lifetime.Walt's inquisitive mind and a keen sense for education through entertainment produces award-winning series "True-Life Adventure". Through such films as "The Living Desert," "The Vanishing Prairie," "The African Lion," and "White Wilderness," Disney brought fascinating insight into the world of wild animals and taught the importance of preserving the outdoor heritage of our nation.Disneyland, launched in 1955 as Magic Kingdom $ 17,000,000 outstanding, immediately improve the investment ten times lipat.Dengan third decade, more than 250 million people are entertained, including presidents, kings and queens, and royalty from around the world.A pioneer in the field of television programming, Disney began production in 1954, and among the first to present full-color programming with "Wonderful World of Color" in 1961. "The Mickey Mouse Club" and "Zorro" is a popular favorite in 1950.But that's just the beginning. In 1965, Walt Disney turned his attention to the problem of improving the quality of urban life in America. He personally directed the design of the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, or EPCOT, planned as a showcase for the creativity of American industry alive.Said Disney, "I do not believe there is a challenge anywhere in the world is more important to people everywhere than finding solutions to problems of our cities. But where do we start? Well, we believe we must begin with the needs of the community andneeds. not only to cure the diseases of old age. We think the need is to start from scratch on virgin land and building a community that would become the prototype for the future. "Thus, Disney directed the purchase of 43 square miles of virgin land - twice the size of Manhattan Island - in the center of the state of Florida. Here, he master planned a whole new world of entertainment Disney theme park to include a new, motel-hotel resort vacation center and the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. After more than seven years of master planning and preparation, including 52 months of actual construction, Walt Disney World opened to the public as scheduled on October 1, 1971. Epcot Center opened on October 1, 1982.Before his death on December 15, 1966, Walt Disney took a deep interest in the establishment of the California Institute of Arts, degree colleges, professional schools of all the creative and performing arts. From Cal Arts, Walt once said, "It's the main thing I hope to go when I moved on to greener pastures. If I can help provide a place to develop future talent, I think I will have accomplished something."California Institute of Arts was founded in 1961 by the merger of two schools, the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and the Chouinard Art Institute. The campus is located in the city of Valencia, 32 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. Walt Disney conceived the new school as a place where all the creative and performing arts will be taught under one roof in the "arts community" as an entirely new approach to professional arts training.Walt Disney is a legend and folk hero of the 20th century.Worldwide popularity was based on his ideas that his name represents: imagination, optimism and self-made success in the American tradition. Walt Disney is more touching hearts, minds, and emotions of millions of Americans than anyone else in the last century. Through his work he brought joy, happiness and universal means of communication to the people of every nation.Of course, our world would know but one Walt Disney.