Personality Review

8/8/2019 Personality Review

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BY

A.VISHAKAN

PERSONALITY REVIEW


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W ALT ELIAS DISNEY

y Walter Elias Disney

December 5, 1901

(1901-12-05)Hermosa Chicago,

Illinois, U S


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yOccupationy F

ilm producer,Co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, formerly knownas Walt Disney Productions

yYearsactivey 19201966

ySpousey Lillian Bounds (19251966)

yChildreny Diane Marie Disney

Sharon Mae DisneyyParentsy Elias DisneyFlora Call Disney


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y Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film

producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor,

animator, entrepreneur, entertainer.

y Disney is famous for his influence in the field of

entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt

Disney Productions, Disney became one of the

best-known motion picture producers in the

world.y The corporation he co-founded, now known as

The Walt Disney Company, today has annual

revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.


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y Disney began his freshman year at McKinley High

School and began taking night courses at the

Chicago Art Institute. Disney became the cartoonist

for the school newspaper.

y His cartoons were very patriotic, focusing on World

War I. Disney dropped out of high school at the ageof sixteen to join the Army, but the army rejected him

because he was underage.


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y In January 1920, Disney and Iwerks formed a

short-lived company called, "Iwerks-Disney

Commercial Artists".

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However, following a rough start, Disney lefttemporarily to earn money at Kansas City Film Ad

Company, and was soon joined by Iwerks who

was not able to run the business alone. While

working for the Kansas City Film Ad Company,

where he made commercials based on cutout

animation, Disney took up an interest in the field

of animation, and decided to become an

animator.


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y He was allowed by the owner of the Ad Company, A.V.

Cauger, to borrow a camera from work, which he coulduse to experiment with at home.

y After reading a book by Edwin G. Lutz, called Animated

Cartoons: How They Are Made, Their Origin and

Development, he found cel animation to be much morepromising than the cutout animation he was doing for

Cauger.

y Walt eventually decided to open his own animation

business, and recruited a fellow co-worker at the Kansas

City Film Ad Company, Fred Harman, as his first

employee. Walt and Harman then secured a deal with

local theater ownerFrank L. Newman arguably the

most popular "showman" in the Kansas City area at the

time to screen their cartoons which they titled" - - "


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Disney's cartoons became widely popular in theKansas City area. Through their success, Disney

was able to acquire his own studio, also called

Laugh-O-Gram, and hire a vast number of additional

animators, including Fred Harman's brother Hugh

Harman, Rudolf Ising, and his close friend Ubbe

Iwerks. Unfortunately, with all his high employee

salaries unable to make up for studio profits, Walt

was unable to successfully manage money.

y As a result, the studio became loaded with debt andwound up bankrupt. Disney then set his sights on

establishing a studio in the movie industry's capital

city, Hollywood, California.


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y Disney and his brother,

Roy Disney pooled their

money to set up a cartoon

studio in Hollywood.

y Needing to find a

distributor for his new

Alice Comedies which

he started making while in

Kansas City, but never got

to distribute Disney

sent an unfinished print to

New York distributor

Margaret Winkler, who

promptly wrote back tohim.

y She was keen on a

distribution deal with

Disney for more live-

action/animated shorts


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y Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California,

on December 15, 1966. The following year,

construction began on Walt Disney World Resort

in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated

The Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.

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