Walt Disney

Walt Disney was born December 5th 1901, in Chicago Illinois. Disney signed up for the army, and dropped out of high school. The army rejected him because he was the age of 16, too young for the army. He went to France for a year, there he got a job as an ambulence driver. He moved to Kansas in 1919 to start his career as an artist. He got a job at Pesmen-Rubin art studio, there he met cartoonist Ubbe Iwerks. When their jobs terms were up, they decided to open up their own comercial company. In 1920, they opened the short lived company "Iwerks-Disney Commercial arts." Disney left the company to earn money at the Kansas City Film Ad Company. There he took up a new hobbie, animating.

Disney sceened his own cartoon in 1920 named Laugh-O-Grams at his local theater. Disney and his brother put their money together to make their own studio in Hollywood California. Margret Winkler liked Disneys work and asked him to do a series of animated shorts based on Alice's Wonderland. In 1928, Disney went to New York to ask for a higher fee for each short. Most of Disneys staff ended up working for Mintz. After Disney got a new staff he needed a new character, that's when he came up with Mickey Mouse. He also came up with Felix the Cat. Even though in 1930, all of his cartoon were in sound, they failed to get very much attention. In the early 1930's Mickey Mouses popularity skyrocketed.

Following the Mickey Mouse series, in 1929, he made a short animated series called Silly Symphonies. By 1932 Mickey Mouse was one of the most popular cartoon, but not his newer Siller Symphonies. Betty Boop also grew in popularity. He made Flowers and Trees which was originally in black and white, but then he made it in three strip technicolor. Flowers and Trees got Disney his first Academy Award. Disney later created the most popular cartoon short of all time, The Three Little Pigs. In 1934, Disney began his first full length film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He also started production on Popeye the Sailor. The critics dubbed Snow White the end of disneys career. Disney worked on Snow White from 1934-1937. Snow White was so popular that Disney made enough money to make a new studio in Burbank California. He is now one of the most known people in the world. His work is and was loved by all. Disney Died in 1966 in Burbank California at the age of 65.

-Kara