Ub Iwerks: A Career In Walt Disney Movies

Walt-Disney started a company specifically geared towards fulfilling children's dreams and imaginations and making them think of a place, where dreams come true and magic and fairytales comes alive, in whatever ways imaginable. He made this possible through his work in movies, cartoons, children's books, storytelling, theme parks, etc. He did all of this in the middle of the Second World War and other problems happening in the world. While giving credit to Walt Disney, whose main priority is to focus on children’s happiness before money, rank, or revenue. The movie would start when Disney returned from France in 1919. He moved back to Kansas City to pursue a career as a newspaper artist. There, he gets a job at Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio. This is the same place where he met Ubbe Eert Iwerks, also known from others as Ub Iwerks. Iwerks is also a cartoonist just like Walt. From there, Disney worked at the Kansas City Film Ad Company. While working at the company, he created commercials built on cutout animation. At this point in time, Disney started testing with a camera, which had the ability to perform hand-drawn cell animation. By this, Walt decided to open up his own animation business. While working at the studio, he recruited his first employee named Fred Harman. …show more content…
Walt had been making and creating this character called Mickey Mouse. At this time, Mickey was part of the first animated cartoons. Mickey was in these shorts, such as Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho, which were both quiet films. Both silent films were unsuccessful to find distribution. Disney decided to go a different direction as sound began to be films. Disney created a third short called Steamboat Willie, which had music and sound all throughout the short. The cartoon became a hit right away with Walt as the voice of