Kate Wilson Wilson 1
Mrs. Jensen
Special Topics in Literature
December, 2016
Biography Essay
Mickey Mouse, Snow White, Peter Pan, etc. every child has probably seen a classic Disney film, these movies and tales have shaped lives for decades and are still continuing too. One of the most influential names ever, Walt Disney was a film producer, a pioneer of animation, and an entrepreneur. Walt Disney's name has lived on for decades though he has since passed; as a Hollywood business mogul and icon, he also founded The Walt Disney Company.
Walter (Walt) Elias Disney was born December 5, 1901, Hermosa, Chicago, IL, he was one of five children from his German Mother and his Irish father. Him and his family then moved to Marceline, Missouri. …show more content…
His brother Roy Disney got him a job the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio but he then went to work for the Kansas City Film Ad Company working on commercials based on cutout animation. Around this time, Disney started to experiment with a camera, and doing hand drawn animation, the he finally opened his own animation business. Walt and his brother, Roy, started producing a character that Walt had designed, his name was Mickey Mouse. When sound finally made its way to the screen the brothers made a short film by the name of “Steamboat Willie” with Walt Disney posing as the voice of Mickey Mouse, the cartoon and the short film was an instant hit. In Disney’s 1929 film “Silly Symphonies” he introduced all of Mickey’s now classic friends, these included Donald Duck, Pluto, Minnie Mouse, and Goofy; he won his first Oscar for his cartoon “Flowers and Trees”. Then he released the first full length animated film and a movie that is still a hit with the young and old today; on December 21, 1937, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” premiered in the city of Los Angeles. The movie made a whopping $1.499 million, even in spite of the Great Depression, as well as winning a total of eight Oscars. During the next five years, Walt Disney Studios shot out more full length animated movies, each one being a hit and still being remembered and watch in today’s time: Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia
Mrs. Jensen
Special Topics in Literature
December, 2016
Biography Essay
Mickey Mouse, Snow White, Peter Pan, etc. every child has probably seen a classic Disney film, these movies and tales have shaped lives for decades and are still continuing too. One of the most influential names ever, Walt Disney was a film producer, a pioneer of animation, and an entrepreneur. Walt Disney's name has lived on for decades though he has since passed; as a Hollywood business mogul and icon, he also founded The Walt Disney Company.
Walter (Walt) Elias Disney was born December 5, 1901, Hermosa, Chicago, IL, he was one of five children from his German Mother and his Irish father. Him and his family then moved to Marceline, Missouri. …show more content…
His brother Roy Disney got him a job the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio but he then went to work for the Kansas City Film Ad Company working on commercials based on cutout animation. Around this time, Disney started to experiment with a camera, and doing hand drawn animation, the he finally opened his own animation business. Walt and his brother, Roy, started producing a character that Walt had designed, his name was Mickey Mouse. When sound finally made its way to the screen the brothers made a short film by the name of “Steamboat Willie” with Walt Disney posing as the voice of Mickey Mouse, the cartoon and the short film was an instant hit. In Disney’s 1929 film “Silly Symphonies” he introduced all of Mickey’s now classic friends, these included Donald Duck, Pluto, Minnie Mouse, and Goofy; he won his first Oscar for his cartoon “Flowers and Trees”. Then he released the first full length animated film and a movie that is still a hit with the young and old today; on December 21, 1937, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” premiered in the city of Los Angeles. The movie made a whopping $1.499 million, even in spite of the Great Depression, as well as winning a total of eight Oscars. During the next five years, Walt Disney Studios shot out more full length animated movies, each one being a hit and still being remembered and watch in today’s time: Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia