Laugh-O-Gram Studio

Matt Roche and Jaimie Warren Too are a duo which created the show “Whoop Dee Doo!” This show is a live show for kids. The show “Whoop Dee Doo!” balances art, humor, and entertainment while providing those involved a creative outlet. The show utilizes its space to create a different world which is what the content of the show is based on. In the specific segment I watched, the duo picked a space and had ten days to transform it into their vision. They collaborated with high school students to create a set which transformed from a winter theme to spring. They not only create their own sets, but they use up every ounce of the space to interact with the performers and the audience. As for time, their show originally would last up to 4 hours and…

Zander Bates is currently 12 years old and attending Martha Brown Middle School. Zander loves adventure, action books, and movies so he wrote about King Arthur but named him King Anchor as a joke. It was based on a book called The Sword and the Stone, or The Excalibur. It’s also based on the movie King Arthur. Zander has a sister named Lyla who is eight years old, two cats, and one dog. He also lives with his mom Janna, who is 42 years old and his dad Thomas, who is 42 years. Zander has two…

His brother Roy got him a job at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio. Later he found a job at the Kansas City Ad company, where he made commercials based on cut out animation. At that time Walt started to practice taking pictures and doing hand drawn animation, from there he decided to open his own animation business. Walt's first employee was Fred Harman whom he met at the Kansas City Ad…

brother Roy aided him in acquiring a job at the Pesman-Rubin Art Studio in Kansas City as a newspaper artist. There Disney met Ubbe Eert Iwwerks, whom most called Ub Iwerks. From there, Disney partnered with Iwerks to form an art company called Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists. After the business stagnated, the two went to work at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, but were let go due to job cuts. While at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, Disney met Fred Harman, and after Walt was let go from the…

He then worked at the Kansas City Film Ad Company where he used cutout animation to make commercials. This is when he started experimenting with a camera, doing hand-drawn cel animation, and decided to open his own animation business. He recruited Fred Harman from the ad company to be his first employee. They made a deal with a local Kansas City theater to screen their cartoons, which were called Laugh-O-Grams. They were very popular, and Disney acquired his own studio, which was called…

He attended high school at McKinley High School in Chicago. He took photography and drawing in high school and also did the cartoon drawings in his high school newspaper. On top of high school he attended night classes at the Chicago Art Institute. He later dropped out of high school when he was only 16, with intentions of joining the Army. He was rejected due to his age, but that did not stop him. He drove an ambulance for one year in France as a member of the Red Cross. After a year of living…

Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5th, 1901 In chicago, Illinois. Walt was an entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. Founder of the famous Disneyland and Walt Disney World. He was well known for being the pioneer for cartoon films and the creator of Disney Land. Walt Disney was the fourth son of Elias and Flora Disney. He was one of the 5 children, four boys and a girl. Walt experimented with cameras and later decided to open his own business which was Laugh-O-Grams. The…

Disney Studios is one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world and sometimes it’s easy to forget that the giant corporation all started with a man and a mouse. Walt was born on December 5th, 1901 in Hermosa Illinois to Elias and Flora Disney. Walt had four siblings: three brothers and one sister. Most of Walt’s childhood was spent in Marceline, Missouri where his interest in art and trains became apparent at a young age. When Walt was around ten, his family moved to Kansas City, where…

Thesis: He signed a deal with Universal to make cartoon a cartoon "Oswald the Rabbit." Walt Disney lost his newly found Disney Bros studio, cartoonist, and characters such as Oswald the Rabbit and Alice to Universal Studios in a contract loophole then, in turn, he created Walt Disney Studios. This changed entertainment forever with things such as for Mickey Mouse. Background: In 1901, Walt Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois. At a young age he found his passion of art in Marceline, Missouri.…

After spending a long time in the studio drawing up sketches, they were finally finished. These sketches would become what is now Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse's debut was not all that glorious, due to the first two animated shorts being silent. However, the third short gave fame to Mickey Mouse. Walt and Iwerk added sound and music, it was a quick success. The animated short was commonly known as “Steamboat Willie”. With the creation of Mickey Mouse it was only fitting that Walt Disney…