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    The Walt Disney Company was founded on October 16, 1923 in California by Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney. The company was originally started as an animation studio and named The Disney Brothers Company. At present time, the company is composed of four main business units which are divided into more specialized segments or divisions. The four primary business units are: Studio Entertainment where the main business unit is The Walt Disney Studios, Parks and Resorts, Disney Consumer…

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    him to start working in the filming industry. After he had a numerous amount of successful animations, Walt started to produce films at a theater in Kansas City. Fred Harman was Walt’s first employee, followed by Harman’s brothers Hugh and Iwerks. They named their animations Laugh-O-Grams. It was successful because many people enjoyed watching them, but in 1923 the business became bankrupt. Instead of giving up on his career, he decided to continue and moved to Hollywood at a young age of 22.…

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    Walt died from lung cancer.(Wikipedia.org). Walt Disney started The Walt Disney Company with his brother Roy O. Disney.(Wikipedia.org). Walt’s early life wasn’t the easiest for him. At a very young age, Walt Disney started drawing and was interested in it.(justdisney.com). His father was the only one in his family that didn’t except him drawing and making a living out of it, but his mother and brother, Roy, encouraged him to pursue his talents.(justdisney.com). At the age of 17 Walt Disney…

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    inspirational person to all. Walt Disney the creator of our dreams and the creator of many famous films over the past 80 years. Walt Disney was the son of Elias and Flora Disney, he was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. Walt had 3 other brothers Herbert, Raymond, Roy and a younger sister named Ruth. They lived their childhood on a Farm in Missouri. Occasionally our princess dreams are identified as illusions but when watching disney movies it makes us feel like it can be possible.…

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    parenting (entrepreneur.com). In his later life, after his job in the Red Cross Ambulance Corps, he decided to create his own cartoon shorts called Laugh-O-Graphs (entrepreneur.com). Broke, unknown, and living out of his office, Walt Disney needed help from others to build his company and his reputation. With the creative and finical help of his brother Roy, Walt created his first commercial cartoon, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit…

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    parks, which have grown in popularity because of how exciting they were. Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Hermosa, Illinois. Walter lived most of his life in Marceline, Missouri with his four siblings and parents. He had three brothers and a sister, and his parents were Elias and Flora Call Disney. Disney was always an artistic child, and he would draw and paint pictures that he would sell to his friends and neighbors. Disney had an interesting school life. He went to…

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    animation industry, he is what many would call a cultural icon. Walt Disney was born in Chicago. As a young boy he took extra art classes, and eventually got a job as a commercial illustrator at the age of eighteen. In the early twenties, he and his brother, Roy O. Disney, established the Disney Bros. Studio , which would go on to be known as the Walt Disney Animation Studios. This studio became popular for the creation of many characters and intellectual properties, such as Mickey Mouse, that…

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    expect and he didn’t have a difficult childhood. Walt was the black sheep in his family only because he was fascinated with art and would sketch animals that he would see. (Bio.com). Not everyone in his family would consider him the black sheep. His brother Roy was his closed sibling ever since they were young. They were both very supportive of each other in everything. (Cole ,pg.15). His childhood was as happy as his personal adulthood life. His adulthood helped him with his happiness and…

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    higher-budget fare, eventually joining the second tier of Hollywood studios. On the other hand, Walt Disney created a short film named Alice’s Wonderland, then his firm bankrupted in the same year and Walt Disney has to moved to Hollywood to join his brother, Roy O. Disney. At the first of this comparison between these two companies, Disney failed, because Columbia Pictures has the charismatic leader, the great idea, which is a highly efficiency recycling policy that allows reusing of costly…

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    as his family. He took up an interest in drawing, which was a very creative way to bring his imaginations to life. He got his first job when he was eighteen years old as a commercial instructor, and when he reached his early twenties, he and his brother moved to California. Ironically, after living in California, he became one of rare celebrities who did not want to live in Hollywood, as many of the celebrities in his time were rapidly moving there. The major turning point in his life was…

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