Walt Disney
Born	Walter Elias Disney December 5, 1901(1901-12-05)[1] Chicago, Illinois
Died	December 15, 1966 (aged 65) Burbank, California
Occupation	Film producer, Co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, formerly known as Walt Disney Productions
Spouse(s)	Lillian Bounds (1925-1966)

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Events 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County California, United States. A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies. Lillian Marie Bounds ( February 15, 1899 – December 16, 1997) was the wife of Walt Disney from 1925 until his death in 1966 Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies. A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters (including those in feature films television series animated shorts and Video games) and An animator is an Artist who creates multiple images called frames and Key frames that form an illusion of movement called Animation when rapidly displayed An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a company enterprise, or Venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome Philanthropy is the act of donating money goods services time and/or effort to support a socially beneficial cause with a defined objective and with no financial or material Disney is notable as one of the most influential and innovative figures in the field of entertainment during the twentieth 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. Roy Oliver Disney ( June 24, 1893 &ndash December 20, 1971) was with his younger brother Walt Disney, co-founder of what is now The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U. S. $35 billion.

Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames Theme park is the generic term for a collection of rides and other Entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group He received fifty-nine Academy Award nominations and won twenty-six Oscars, including a record four in one year. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. ^[2] He holds the record for an individual with the most awards and the most nominations. He won seven Emmy Awards. Disney and his staff created a number of the world's most famous fictional characters, including the one many consider Disney's alter ego, Mickey Mouse. An alter ego ( Latin, "the other I" is a second self, a second Personality or Persona within a Person Mickey Mouse is a comic animal Cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, Japan, France, and China. Disneyland, marketed as the happiest place on Earth, is an American Theme park in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Walt Disney World Resort is the most visited and largest recreational resort in the world containing four Theme parks two Water parks twenty-three themed hotels

Disney died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, a few years prior to the opening of his Walt Disney World dream project in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Lung cancer is a Disease of uncontrolled Cell growth in tissues of the Lung. Events 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Walt Disney World Resort is the most visited and largest recreational resort in the world containing four Theme parks two Water parks twenty-three themed hotels Lake Buena Vista is a city in Orange County, Florida, United States.

Contents 1 1901–1937: The beginnings 1.1 Childhood 1.2 Teenage years 1.3 Hollywood 1.3.1 Alice Comedies 1.3.2 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit 1.3.3 Mickey Mouse 1.3.4 Silly Symphonies 1.4 First Academy Award 1.5 Children 2 1937–1941: The Golden Age of Animation 2.1 "Disney's Folly": Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 2.2 During World War II 2.3 Testimony before Congress 3 1955–1966: Theme parks and beyond 3.1 Carolwood Pacific Railroad 3.2 Planning Disneyland 3.3 Expanding into new areas 3.4 Early 1960s successes 3.5 Plans for Disney World and EPCOT 3.6 Death 4 1967–present: Legacy 4.1 Continuing the vision 4.2 The Disney entertainment empire 4.3 Disney Animation today 4.4 CalArts 5 Academy Awards 6 Other honors 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links

1901–1937: The beginnings

Childhood

Walt Disney was born to Elias Disney an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, who was of German-American descent. Elias Disney ( February 6, 1859 &ndash September 13, 1941) was the father of Walt Disney. Irish Canadians are immigrants and descendants of immigrants who origninated in Ireland. Flora Call Disney ( April 22, 1868 &ndash November 26, 1938) was the mother of Walt Disney and his brother Roy. German Americans ( German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States of Ethnic German ancestry ^[3] His father moved to the United States from Huron County, Ontario after his parents failed at farming there. Huron County Ontario is a Census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. ^[4] After Walt's birth, Elias along with his family moved to Marceline, Missouri. Marceline is a city in Chariton and Linn Counties in the US state of Missouri. ^[3] While in Marceline, Disney developed his love for drawing. One of their neighbours, a retired doctor named "Doc" Sherwood, paid him to draw pictures of Sherwood's horse, Rupert. He also developed his love for trains in Marceline, which owed its existence to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway which ran through town. The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often abbreviated as Santa Fe, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. Walt would put his ear to the tracks in anticipation of the coming train. ^[3] Then he would look for his uncle, engineer Michael Martin, running the train.

The Disneys remained in Marceline for four years,^[5] moving to Kansas City in 1910. There, Walt and his sister Ruth attended the Benton Grammar School where he met Walter Pfeiffer. The Pfeiffers were theatre aficionados, and introduced Walt to the world of vaudeville and motion pictures. Soon, Walt was spending more time at the Pfeiffers' than at home. ^[6]

Teenage years

In 1917, Elias acquired shares in the O-Zell jelly factory in Chicago and moved his family back there. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. In the fall, Disney began his freshman year at McKinley High School and began taking night courses at the Chicago Art Institute. McKinley High School is the commonly used name of several Secondary schools in the United States, including William McKinley High School The Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's premier Fine art museums ^[7] Disney became the cartoonist for the school newspaper. His cartoons were very patriotic, focusing on World War I. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Disney dropped out of high school at the age of sixteen to join the Army, but the army rejected him because he was underage. The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities.

After his rejection from the army, Walt and one of his friends decided to join the Red Cross. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an International humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers worldwide who stated Following his joining the The Red Cross, he was sent to France for a year, where he drove an ambulance.

He then moved to Kansas City to begin his artistic career. His brother Roy worked at a bank in the area and got a job for him through a friend at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio. Roy Oliver Disney ( June 24, 1893 &ndash December 20, 1971) was with his younger brother Walt Disney, co-founder of what is now At Pesmen-Rubin, Disney created ads for newspapers, magazines, and movie theaters. It was here that he met a cartoonist named Ubbe Iwerks. Ub Iwerks, ASC ( Ubbe Ert Iwwerks) ( 24 March 1901 &ndash 7 July 1971) was a two-time Academy Award winning Both of them became close friends and decided to start their own art business.

In January 1920, Disney and Iwerks formed a company called, "Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists". However, following a rough start, Iwerks left temporarily to earn money at Kansas City Film Ad Company. Disney followed suit after the business venture was taken over by his New York financial backers Winkler and Mintz.

Hollywood

Together with his brother, Disney pooled in money to set up his first Hollywood cartoon studio in his uncle's garage. ^[3] Disney sent an unfinished print to New York distributor Margaret Winkler, who promptly wrote back to him. Margaret J Winkler (or M J Winkler) was one of the key figures in silent animation history, having a crucial role to play in the histories of Max and She was keen on a distribution deal with Disney for more live-action/animated shorts based upon Alice's Wonderland.

Alice Comedies

Virginia Davis (the live-action star of Alice’s Wonderland) and her family were relocated at Disney's request from Kansas City to Hollywood, as were Iwerks and his family. Virginia Davis (-McGhee (born December 31, 1918 in Kansas City Missouri) is an American movie Actress. This was the beginning of the Disney Brothers' Studio. It was located on Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district, where the studio would remain until 1939. Silver Lake is a district east of Hollywood in the city of Los Angeles California. In 1925, Disney hired a young woman named Lillian Bounds to ink and paint celluloid. Lillian Marie Bounds ( February 15, 1899 – December 16, 1997) was the wife of Walt Disney from 1925 until his death in 1966 After a brief period of dating her, the two got married the same year.

The new series, Alice Comedies, was reasonably successful, and featured both Dawn O'Day and Margie Gay as Alice. The "Alice Comedies" are a series of Animated cartoons created by Walt Disney in the 1920s in which Dawn Evelyeen (Evelyn Paris ( April 17, 1918 &ndash July 4, 1993) known as Anne Shirley, was an Oscar -nominated Lois Hardwick also briefly assumed the role of Alice. By the time the series ended in 1927, the focus was more on the animated characters, in particular a cat named Julius who resembled Felix the Cat, rather than the live-action Alice. Felix the Cat is a cartoon character created in the silent-film era

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

By 1927, Charles B. Mintz had married Margaret Winkler and assumed control of her business, and ordered a new all-animated series to be put into production for distribution through Universal Pictures. Charles B Mintz ( November 5, 1889 – December 30, 1939) was an American Film producer and distributor who took control Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios) a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major Global American The new series, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, was an almost instant success, and the character, Oswald—drawn and created by Iwerks—became a popular figure. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is an Anthropomorphic Rabbit Animated cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for films The Disney studio expanded, and Walt hired back Harman, Ising, Maxwell, and Freleng from Kansas City.

In February 1928, Disney went to New York to negotiate a higher fee per short from Mintz. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Disney was shocked when Mintz announced that not only he wanted to reduce the fee he paid Disney per short but also that he had most of his main animators, including Harman, Ising, Maxwell, and Freleng (notably excepting Iwerks) under contract and would start his own studio if Disney did not accept the reduced production budgets. Universal, not Disney, owned the Oswald trademark, and could make the films without Disney. Disney declined Mintz's offer and lost most of his animation staff.

It took Disney's company 78 years to get back the rights to the Oswald character. The Walt Disney Company reacquired the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from NBC Universal in 2006. NBC Universal is a media and Entertainment company formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electric 's NBC with Vivendi Universal

Mickey Mouse

Main article: Mickey Mouse

After losing the rights to Oswald, Disney felt the need to develop a new character to replace him. Mickey Mouse is a comic animal Cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. He based the character on a mouse he had adopted as a pet while working in a Kansas City studio. ^[8] Ub Iwerks reworked on the sketches made by Disney so that it was easier to animate it. However, Mickey's voice and personality was provided by Disney. As many of the old animators have commented, "Ub designed Mickey's physical appearance, but Walt gave him his soul. "^[8] Besides Oswald and Mickey, a similar mouse-character is seen in Alice Comedies which featured a mouse named Ike the Mouse, and the first Flip the Frog cartoon called Fiddlesticks, which showed a Mickey Mouse-look alike playing fiddle. Flip the Frog is an animated cartoon character created by American cartoonist Ub Iwerks. The initial films were animated by Iwerks, his name was prominently featured on the title cards. The mouse was originally named "Mortimer", but later christened "Mickey Mouse" by Lillian Disney who thought that the name Mortimer did not fit. Mortimer later became the name of Mickey's rival for Minnie, who was taller than his renowned adversary and had a Brooklyn accent.

The first animated short with Mickey in it was titled, Plane Crazy, which was, like all of Disney's previous works, a silent film. Plane Crazy (first released on May 15, 1928) was the first Animated cartoon to feature Mickey Mouse After failing to find a distributor for Plane Crazy or its follow-up, The Gallopin' Gaucho, Disney created a Mickey cartoon with sound called Steamboat Willie. The Gallopin' Gaucho ( 1928) was the second film featuring Mickey Mouse to be produced following Plane Crazy A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image as opposed to a Silent film. Steamboat Willie ( 1928) is an Animated cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse released on November 18, 1928. A businessman named Pat Powers provided Disney with both distribution and Cinephone, a sound-synchronization process. Patrick Power can refer to the following persons Patrick Power, a Canadian politician Patrick Power (Australian, a former Deputy Senior Patrick Anthony Powers ( 8 October 1870 - 30 July 1948) was an Irish-American Businessman, involved in the Animation Steamboat Willie became a success, and Plane Crazy, The Galloping Gaucho, and all future Mickey cartoons were released with soundtracks. Disney himself provided the vocal effects for the earliest cartoons and performed as the voice of Mickey Mouse until 1946. Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters (including those in feature films television series animated shorts and Video games) and After the release of Steamboat Willie, Walt Disney would continue to successfully use sound in all of his future cartoons; soon, Mickey eclipsed Felix as the world's most popular cartoon. ^[8] By 1930, Felix, now in sound, had faded from the screen, as his sound cartoons failed to gain attention. ^[9] Mickey's popularity would now skyrocket in the early 1930's. ^[8]

Silly Symphonies

Following the footsteps of Mickey Mouse series, a series of musical shorts titled, Silly Symphonies was released in 1929. Silly Symphonies is a series of Animated Short subjects 75 in total produced by Walt Disney Productions from 1929 to 1939 The first of these was entitled The Skeleton Dance and was entirely drawn and animated by Iwerks, who was also responsible for drawing the majority of cartoons released by Disney in 1928 and 1929. The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 Silly Symphonies Animated Short subject produced and directed by Walt Disney and Although both series were successful, the Disney studio was not seeing its rightful share of profits from Pat Powers, and in 1930, Disney signed a new distribution deal with Columbia Pictures. }} Columbia Pictures Industries Inc is an American Film production and distribution company The original basis of the cartoons were musical novelty, and Carl Stalling wrote the score for the first Silly Symphony cartoons as well. ^[10]

Iwerks was soon lured by Powers into opening his own studio with an exclusive contract. Later, Carl Stalling would also leave Disney to join Iwerks' new studio. ^[11] Iwerks launched his Flip the Frog series with first voice cartoon in color, "Fiddlesticks," filmed in two-strip Technicolor. Flip the Frog is an animated cartoon character created by American cartoonist Ub Iwerks. Iwerks also created two other series of cartoons, the Willie Whopper and the Comicolor. Willie Whopper is an animated cartoon character created by American cartoonist Ub Iwerks. The ComiColor Cartoon series was a series of 25 Animated Short subjects produced by the Ub Iwerks studio from 1933 to 1936 In 1936, Iwerks shut his studio to work on various projects dealing with animation technology. Ub Iwerks, ASC ( Ubbe Ert Iwwerks) ( 24 March 1901 &ndash 7 July 1971) was a two-time Academy Award winning He would return to Disney in 1940 and, would go on to pioneer a number of film processes and specialized animation technologies in the studio's research and development department.

By 1932, Mickey Mouse had become quite a popular cinema character, but Silly Symphonies was not as successful. The same year also saw competition for Disney grow worse as Max Fleischer's flapper cartoon character, Betty Boop would gain more popularity among theater audiences. Max Fleischer ( July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was an important Austrian American pioneer in the development of the Betty Boop is an animated Cartoon character appearing in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films produced by ^[12] Fleischer was considered to be Disney's main rival in the 1930's,^[13] and was also the father of Richard Fleischer, whom Disney would later hire to direct his 1954 film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Richard O Fleischer ( December 8, 1916 – March 25, 2006) was an American Film director. 20000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 film starring Kirk Douglas as Ned Land James Mason as Captain Nemo, Paul Lukas Meanwhile, Columbia Pictures dropped the distribution of Disney cartoons and was replaced by United Artists. ^[14] In late 1932, Herbert Kalmus, who had just completed work on the first three-strip technicolor camera,^[15] approached Walt and convinced him to redo Flowers and Trees, which was originally done in black and white, with three-strip Technicolor. Herbert Thomas Kalmus (b 9 November 1881 in Chelsea Massachusetts; d Flowers and Trees is a 1932 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Burt Gillett, and released Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation ^[16] Flowers and Trees would go on to be a phenomenal success and would also win the first Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons for 1932. The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year After Flowers and Trees was released, all future Silly Symphony cartoons were done in color as well. Disney was also able to negotiate a two-year deal with Technicolor, giving him the sole right to use three-strip Technicolor,^[17][18] which would also eventually be extended to five years as well. ^[10] Through Silly Symphonies, Disney would also create his most successful cartoon short of all time, The Three Little Pigs, in 1933. Three Little Pigs is a Fairy tale featuring Talking animals Published versions of the story date back to the late 18th century but the story is thought ^[19] The cartoon ran in theaters for many months, and also featured the hit song that became the anthem of the Great Depression, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf". ^[20]

First Academy Award

In 1932, Disney received a special Academy Award for the creation of "Mickey Mouse", whose series was made into color in 1935 and soon launched spinoff series for supporting characters such as Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto; Pluto and Donald would immediately get their individual cartoons in 1937,^[21] and Goofy would get solo cartoons in 1939 as well. A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new Organization or Entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a Television series based on a pre-existing Donald Duck is a cartoon character from The Walt Disney Company. Goofy is an Animated cartoon character from Walt Disney 's Mickey Mouse universe. Pluto (formerly known as Pluto the Pup) is an Animated cartoon character made famous in a series of Disney short cartoons. ^[22] Of all of Mickey's partners, Donald Duck–who first teamed with Mickey in the 1934 cartoon, Orphan's Benefit–was arguably the most popular, and went on to become Disney's second most successful cartoon character of all time. Orphan's Benefit was a cartoon made by Walt Disney starring Mickey Mouse in 1934, in which Mickey and his friends put on a Talent show ^[23]

Children

Disney's first attempt at pregnancy ended up in Lilly having a miscarriage. When Lilly Disney became pregnant again, she gave birth to a daughter, Diane Marie Disney, on December 18, 1933. Diane Disney Miller (born Diane Marie Disney on, is the only biological child of Walt Disney and his wife Lillian Disney née Bounds. Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A few years later, the Disneys adopted Sharon Mae Disney, (born December 21, 1934) as their second child. The family of Elias Disney (son of Kepple Disney and Mary Richardson Elias Disney was born on February 6, 1859 in Huron County, Ontario Events 69 - The end of the Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius, Vespasian Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

1937–1941: The Golden Age of Animation

"Disney's Folly": Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

After the creation of two cartoon series, Disney soon began plans for a full-length feature in 1934. In 1935, opinion polls showed that another cartoon series, Popeye the Sailor, produced by Max Fleischer, was more popular than Mickey Mouse. Popeye the Sailor Man is a fictional hero famous for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous TV shows ^[24] Disney was, however, able to put Mickey back on top, and also increase Mickey's popularity further by colorizing him and partially redesigning him into what was considered to be his most appealing design up to this point in time. ^[8] When the film industry came to know about Disney's plans to produce an animated feature-length version of Snow White, they dubbed the project as "Disney's Folly" and were certain that the project would destroy the Disney studio. Snow White (in Low German Sneewittchen; in High German Schneeweißchen) is the title character of a Fairy tale known from many countries in Both Lillian and Roy tried to talk Disney out of the project, but he continued plans for the feature. He employed Chouinard Art Institute professor Don Graham to start a training operation for the studio staff, and used the Silly Symphonies as a platform for experiments in realistic human animation, distinctive character animation, special effects, and the use of specialized processes and apparatus such as the multiplane camera; Disney would first use this new technique in the 1937 Silly Symphonies short The Old Mill. The Chouinard Art Institute was a professional Art school founded in 1921 in Los Angeles California, by Nelbert Murphy Chouinard (1879-1969 The Old Mill is a 1937 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson, and released to theatres ^[25]

All of this development and training was used to elevate the quality of the studio so that it would be able to give the feature film, the quality Disney desired. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, as the feature was named, was in full production from 1934 until mid-1937, when the studio ran out of money. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American film based on the eponymous German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. To acquire the funding to complete Snow White, Disney had to show a rough cut of the motion picture to loan officers at the Bank of America, who gave the studio the money to finish the picture. Banc of America Securities Bank of America () is the largest bank by asset and second largest commercial Bank by deposits and Market capitalization in United The finished film premiered at the Carthay Circle Theater on December 21, 1937; at the conclusion of the film, the audience gave Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs a standing ovation. Events 69 - The end of the Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius, Vespasian Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Snow White, the first animated feature in English and Technicolor, was released in February 1938 under a new distribution deal with RKO Radio Pictures; RKO had previously been the distributor for Disney cartoons in 1936, after it closed down the Van Beuren Studios in exchange for distribution. ^[26] The film became the most successful motion picture of 1938 and earned over $8 million in its original theatrical release. The success of Snow White, (for which Disney received one full-size, and seven miniature Oscar statuettes) allowed Disney to build a new campus for the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, which opened for business on December 24, 1939; Snow White was not only the peak of Disney's success, but it also ushered into what was known as the Golden Age of Animation for Disney. The Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, United States, serve as the international headquarters Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County California, United States. Events 563 - The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by Earthquakes Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. ^[27][28] The feature animation staff, having just completed Pinocchio, continued work on Fantasia and Bambi, while the shorts staff continued work on the Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto cartoon series, ending the Silly Symphonies at this time. Pinocchio is the second Animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics. Fantasia is a 1940 Animated film produced by Walt Disney, and is the third film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics. BMP and Activin membrane bound inhibitor (BAMBI has a similar extracellular domain as type I receptors in the TGF beta signaling pathway. Animator Fred Moore had redesigned Mickey Mouse in the late 1930's, when Donald Duck began to gain more popularity among theater audiences than Mickey Mouse. ^[29]

During World War II

Pinocchio and Fantasia followed Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs into the movie theaters in 1940, but both were financial disappointments. The inexpensive Dumbo was planned as an income generator, but during production of the new film, most of the animation staff went on strike, permanently straining the relationship between Disney and his artists. Dumbo is a 1941 Animated feature Film produced by Walt Disney and first released on October 23 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. The bitter animators' strike of 1941 at Walt Disney Studios was a psychological turning point within the company

Shortly after the release of Dumbo in October 1941, the United States entered World War II. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The U.S. Army contracted most of the Disney studio's facilities and had the staff create training and instructional films for the military, home-front morale-boosting shorts such as Der Fuehrer's Face and the feature film Victory Through Air Power in 1943. The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. Der Fuehrer's Face is a 1943 Animated cartoon by the Walt Disney Studios, starring Donald Duck. Victory Through Air Power is a 1942 book by Alexander P de Seversky, and a 1943 Walt Disney However, the military films did not generate income, and the feature film Bambi underperformed when it was released in April 1942. Disney successfully re-issued Snow White in 1944, establishing a 7-year re-release tradition for Disney features.

The Disney studios also created inexpensive package films, containing collections of cartoon shorts, and issued them to theaters during this period. The most notable and successful of these were Saludos Amigos (1942), its sequel The Three Caballeros (1945), Fun and Fancy Free (1947), and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949). Saludos Amigos ( Alô Amigos in Portuguese is a 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The Three Caballeros is a 1944 Animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. Fun and Fancy Free (first released on September 27, 1947) is a Feature film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad is an Animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theaters on October 5, 1949 The latter had only two sections: the first based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, and the second based on The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " is a Short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent Washington Irving (April 3 1783 – November 28 1859 was an American Author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th The Wind in the Willows is a classic of Children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Kenneth Grahame ( March 8, 1859 – July 6, 1932) was a British Writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows During this period, Disney also ventured into full-length dramatic films that mixed live action and animated scenes, including Song of the South and So Dear to My Heart. Song of the South is a feature film produced by Walt Disney, released on November 12, 1946, by RKO Radio Pictures and based on the So Dear to My Heart is a Feature film produced by Walt Disney, released in Chicago on November 29 1948 and released After the war ended, Mickey's popularity would also fade as well. ^[30]

By the late 1940s, the studio had recovered enough to continue production on the full-length features, Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, which had been shelved during the war years, and began work on Cinderella, which became Disney's most successful film since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 Animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and originally premiered in London England on July 26 Peter Pan is an animated feature film produced by Walt Disney based on the play Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by Cinderella is a 1950 Animated feature produced by Walt Disney, and released to theaters on February 15, 1950 by RKO Radio The studio also began a series of live-action nature films, entitled True-Life Adventures, in 1948 with On Seal Island. Despite rebounding success through feature films, Disney's animation shorts were no longer as popular as they used to be, and people began to instead draw attention to Warner Bros and their animation star Bugs Bunny; by 1942, Warner Bros' Termite Terrace officially became the most popular animation studio. Clyde Rabbit (uncleMrs Bugs Bunny (wifePapa Bunny (fatherMama Bunny (motherRugs Bunny Warner Bros Cartoons Inc was the Animation division of Warner Bros ^[31] However, while Bugs Bunny's popularity rose in the 1940's, so did Donald Duck's;^[32] Donald would also replace Mickey Mouse as Disney's star character in 1949. ^[33]

Testimony before Congress

In 1947, during the early years of the Cold War,^[34] Disney testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he branded Herbert Sorrell, David Hilberman and William Pomerance, former animators and labor union organizers, as Communist agitators. Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the The House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC or HCUA 1938–1975 was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages hours and working conditions forming Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based All three men denied the allegations. Disney implicated the Screen Actors Guild as a Communist front, and charged that the 1941 strike was part of an organized Communist effort to gain influence in Hollywood. The Screen Actors Guild ( SAG) is an American labor union representing over 120000 Film and television principal performers and background However, no evidence has been discovered to support this.

1955–1966: Theme parks and beyond

Carolwood Pacific Railroad

Main article: Carolwood Pacific Railroad

During 1949, Disney and his family moved to a new home on a large piece of property in the Holmby Hills district of Los Angeles, California. The Carolwood Pacific Railroad was a Live steam Backyard railroad, built by the American Animated film Holmby Hills is an affluent neighborhood in western Los Angeles. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. With the help of his friends Ward and Betty Kimball, owners of their own backyard railroad, Disney developed blueprints and immediately set to work on creating a miniature live steam railroad for his backyard. Ward Walrath Kimball ( March 4, 1914 &ndash July 8, 2002) was an Academy Award -winning Animator for the Walt A backyard railroad is a privately owned outdoor railroad most often in miniature but large enough for one or several persons to ride on Live steam is Steam under pressure obtained by heating water in a Boiler. The name of the railroad, Carolwood Pacific Railroad, originated from the address of his home that was located on Carolwood Drive. The Carolwood Pacific Railroad was a Live steam Backyard railroad, built by the American Animated film The railroad's half-mile long layout included a 46-foot (14 m)-long trestle, loops, overpasses, gradients, an elevated dirt berm, and a 90-foot (27 m) tunnel underneath Mrs. Disney's flowerbed. He named the miniature working steam locomotive built by Roger E. Broggie of the Disney Studios Lilly Belle in his wife's honor. Roger E Broggie ( October 22 1908 - November 4 1991) was a creative American Mechanical engineer He had his attorney draw up right-of-way papers giving the railroad a permanent, legal easement through the garden areas, which his wife dutifully signed; However, there is no evidence of the documents ever recorded as a restriction on the property's title.

Planning Disneyland

On a business trip to Chicago in the late-1940s, Disney drew sketches of his ideas for an amusement park where he envisioned his employees spending time with their children. Theme park is the generic term for a collection of rides and other Entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group He got his idea for a children's theme park after visiting Children's Fairyland in Oakland, California. Children's Fairyland USA was the first Theme park in the United States created to cater to families with young children Oakland (ˈoʊklənd founded in 1852 is the eighth-largest city in the U This plan was originally meant for a plot located south of the Studio, across the street. The original ideas developed into a concept for a larger enterprise that was to become Disneyland. Disney spent five years of his life developing Disneyland and created a new subsidiary of his company, called WED Enterprises, to carry out the planning and production of the park. Walt Disney Imagineering was formed by entertainment mogul Walt Disney on December 16, 1952 as WED Enterprises (WED Walter Elias Disney to A small group of Disney studio employees joined the Disneyland development project as engineers and planners, and were dubbed Imagineers.

When describing one of his earliest plans to Herb Ryman (who created the first aerial drawing of Disneyland which was presented to the Bank of America while requesting for funds), Disney said, "Herbie, I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. Herbert Dickens Ryman ( June 28, 1910 &ndash February 10, 1989) was a Disney imagineer and fine art painter Banc of America Securities Bank of America () is the largest bank by asset and second largest commercial Bank by deposits and Market capitalization in United And it should be surrounded by a train. "^[35] Entertaining his daughters and their friends in his backyard and taking them for rides on his Carolwood Pacific Railroad had inspired Disney to include a railroad in the plans for Disneyland. The Carolwood Pacific Railroad was a Live steam Backyard railroad, built by the American Animated film

Expanding into new areas

As Walt Disney Productions began work on Disneyland, it also began expanding its other entertainment operations. In 1950, Treasure Island became the studio's first all-live-action feature, and was soon followed by 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (in CinemaScope, 1954), The Shaggy Dog (1959), and The Parent Trap (1961). Treasure Island is an adventure Novel by author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold" 20000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 film starring Kirk Douglas as Ned Land James Mason as Captain Nemo, Paul Lukas CinemaScope was a Widescreen movie format used from 1953 to 1967 The Shaggy Dog is a Black and white 1959 Walt Disney movie about Wilby Daniels a teenager who is transformed into The Parent Trap (1961 is a Walt Disney Productions Feature film starring Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith The Walt Disney Studio produced its first TV special, One Hour in Wonderland, in 1950. One Hour in Wonderland is a 1950 Television movie made by Disney. Disney began hosting a weekly anthology series on ABC named Disneyland after the park, where he showed clips of past Disney productions, gave tours of his studio, and familiarized the public with Disneyland as it was being constructed in Anaheim, California. The first incarnation of the Walt Disney anthology television series, commonly called The Wonderful World of Disney, premiered on ABC on October 27 The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. The first incarnation of the Walt Disney anthology television series, commonly called The Wonderful World of Disney, premiered on ABC on October 27 California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The show also featured a Davy Crockett miniseries, which started a craze among the American youth known as the Davy Crockett craze, in which millions of coonskin caps and other Crockett memorabilia were sold across the country. ^[36] In 1955, the studio's first daily television show, Mickey Mouse Club debuted, which would continue in many various incarnations into the 1990s.

As the studio expanded and diversified into other media, Disney devoted less of his attention to the animation department, entrusting most of its operations to his key animators, whom he dubbed the Nine Old Men. Disney's Nine Old Men were the core Animators (some of whom later became directors who created the Disney studio 's most famous works from Snow During Disney's lifetime, the animation department created the successful Lady and the Tramp (in CinemaScope, 1955), One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), Sleeping Beauty (in Super Technirama 70mm, 1959) and The Sword in the Stone (1963). Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 Animated feature film produced by Walt Disney, and originally released to theaters on June 22, 1955 by CinemaScope was a Widescreen movie format used from 1953 to 1967 One Hundred and One Dalmatians (often abbreviated as 101 Dalmatians) is the seventeenth Animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. Technirama is a screen process that was used by some film production houses as an alternative to CinemaScope. 70 mm film (or 65 mm film) is a wide high-resolution film gauge of superior quality to standard 35 mm motion picture film format. The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 Animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and it was originally released to the theaters on December

Production on the short cartoons had kept pace until 1956, when Disney shut down the shorts division. Special shorts projects would continue to be made for the rest of the studio's duration on an irregular basis. These productions were all distributed by Disney's new subsidiary, Buena Vista Distribution, which had assumed all distribution duties for Disney films from RKO by 1955. Also see general Walt Disney Studios or Buena Vista. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is a motion picture and television feature Disneyland, one of the world's first theme parks, finally opened on July 17, 1955, and was immediately successful. Disneyland, marketed as the happiest place on Earth, is an American Theme park in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Theme park is the generic term for a collection of rides and other Entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group Events 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Visitors from around the world came to visit Disneyland, which contained attractions based upon a number of successful Disney properties and films. After 1955, the show, Disneyland came to be known as Walt Disney Presents. The show transformed from black-and-white to color in 1961 and changed its name to Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, moving from ABC to NBC,^[37] and eventually evolving into its current form as The Wonderful World of Disney. The first incarnation of the Walt Disney anthology television series, commonly called The Wonderful World of Disney, premiered on ABC on October 27 It continued to air on NBC until 1981, when CBS picked it up. ^[38] Since then, it has aired on ABC, NBC, Hallmark Channel and Cartoon Network via separate broadcast rights deals.

During the mid-1950s, Disney produced a number of educational films on the space program in collaboration with NASA rocket designer Wernher von Braun: Man in Space and Man and the Moon in 1955, and Mars and Beyond in 1957. An educational film is a Film or movie whose primary purpose is to Educate. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23 1912 &ndash June 16 1977 a German rocket physicist and astronautics engineer became one of the leading figures in

Early 1960s successes

By the early 1960s, the Disney empire was a major success, and Walt Disney Productions had established itself as the world's leading producer of family entertainment. Robert Bernard Sherman (born December 19, 1925) (see also " Sherman Brothers " is an American Songwriter who specializes " There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow " is the theme song to two Disney attractions Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress at the Magic Kingdom of Walt Walt Disney was the Head of Pageantry for the 1960 Winter Olympics. The 1960 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VIII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter Multi-sport event which was celebrated between February After decades of pursuing, Disney finally procured the rights to P.L. Travers' books about a magical nanny. Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE ( 9 August 1899 &ndash 23 April 1996) was an Australian Novelist, Actress Mary Poppins, released in 1964, was the most successful Disney film of the 1960s and featured a memorable song score written by Disney favorites, the Sherman Brothers. Mary Poppins is a 1964 American Musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke and produced by The Sherman Brothers are Academy Award -winning American Songwriters who specialize in Musical films. The same year, Disney debuted a number of exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair, including Audio-Animatronic figures, all of which were later integrated into attractions at Disneyland and a new theme park project which was to be established on the East Coast. The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair was the third major World's Fair to be held in New York City The East Coast of the United States, also known as the "Eastern Seaboard" or "Atlantic Seaboard" refers to the easternmost coastal states in the central and northern

Plans for Disney World and EPCOT

Disney World was to include a larger, more elaborate version of Disneyland which was to be called the Magic Kingdom. It would also feature a number of golf courses and resort hotels. The heart of Disney World, however, was to be the Experimental Prototype City (or Community) of Tomorrow, or EPCOT for short. The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT was a concept developed by Walt Disney near the end of his lifetime EPCOT was designed to be an operational city where residents would live, work, and interact using advanced and experimental technology, while scientists would develop and test new technologies to improve human life and health.

Death

Disney's involvement in Disney World ended in late 1966; after many years of chain smoking cigarettes, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Chain smoking is the practice of lighting a new Cigarette for personal consumption immediately after one that is finished sometimes using the finished cigarette to light the Lung cancer is a Disease of uncontrolled Cell growth in tissues of the Lung. He was admitted to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center across the street from the Disney Studio, where his health began to deteriorate, causing him to suffer cardiac arrest. Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center is a Hospital in Burbank, California, USA. Just before he was hospitalized, Disney was scheduled to undergo a neck surgery for an old polo injury;^[39] Disney was a frequent polo player at The Riveria Club in Hollywood, California for many years. ^[40] On November 2, 1966, during pre-surgery X-rays, doctors at St. Events 1570 - A Tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1000 Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Joseph's Hospital in Los Angeles discovered that Disney had an enormous tumor on his left lung. ^[41] Five days later, Disney went back to hospital for surgery, but the tumor had spread to such great extent that doctors had to remove his entire left lung. ^[41] The doctors then told Disney that he only had six months to a year to live. ^[41] After several chemotherapy sessions, Disney and his wife spent a short amount of time in Palm Springs, California before returning home. Chemotherapy, in its most general sense refers to treatment of disease by chemicals that kill cells specifically those of micro-organisms or Cancer. Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, approximately 111 miles (177 km east of Los Angeles and 136 miles (225 km northeast of ^[39] On November 30, 1966, Disney collapsed in his home, but was revived by paramedics, and was taken back to the hospital, where he died^[39] on December 15, 1966 at 9:30 a. A paramedic is a medical professional usually a member of the emergency medical service, who primarily provides Pre-hospital advanced medical and Events 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. m. , ten days after his sixty-fifth birthday. He was cremated on December 17, 1966 and his ashes reside at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Events 546 - Gothic War (535–554: The Ostrogoths of King Totila Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately-owned Cemetery in Glendale, Los Angeles, in the United States. Glendale ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Roy O. Disney continued to carry out the Florida project, insisting that the name be changed to Walt Disney World in honor of his brother. Roy Oliver Disney ( June 24, 1893 &ndash December 20, 1971) was with his younger brother Walt Disney, co-founder of what is now Walt Disney World Resort is the most visited and largest recreational resort in the world containing four Theme parks two Water parks twenty-three themed hotels

Songwriter Robert B. Sherman said about the last time he saw Disney:

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He was up in the third floor of the animation building after a run-through of The Happiest Millionaire. Robert Bernard Sherman (born December 19, 1925) (see also " Sherman Brothers " is an American Songwriter who specializes The Happiest Millionaire is a 1967 Musical film, based upon the true story of Philadelphia millionaire Anthony J He usually held court in the hallway afterward for the people involved with the picture. And he started talking to them, telling them what he liked and what they should change, and then, when they were through, he turned to us and with a big smile, he said, 'Keep up the good work, boys. ' And he walked to his office. It was the last we ever saw of him. [42]

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Shortly after the death of Walt Disney, satirist Paul Krassner published The Disneyland Memorial Orgy, a cartoon illustration portraying the liberated behavior of the Disney characters. Paul Krassner (born April 9, 1932) was the founder editor and a frequent contributor to the Freethought magazine The Realist, first The Disneyland Memorial Orgy is a cartoon illustration created by Wally Wood for satirist Paul Krassner 's radical humor publication The Realist ^[43] A long-standing urban legend maintains that Disney was cryonically frozen, and his frozen corpse was stored underneath the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland. An urban legend or urban myth is a form of modern Folklore consisting of stories thought to be factual by those circulating them Cryonics is the low-temperature Preservation of Humans and other Animals that can no longer be sustained by contemporary Medicine until Pirates of the Caribbean is a multi-billion dollar Walt Disney franchise encompassing a theme park ride a series of films ^[44] However, this was discredited due to the fact that Disney was cremated, and the first known instance of Cryonic Freezing of a corpse (of Dr. James Bedford) occurred a month later in January. James Hiram Bedford ( 20 April 1893 - 12 January 1967) was a University of California psychology professor who had written several ^[44]

The final productions in which Disney had an active role were the animated feature, The Jungle Book and the live-action musical comedy The Happiest Millionaire, both released in 1967. The Jungle Book is a 1967 animated Feature Film, released on October 18 1967. The Happiest Millionaire is a 1967 Musical film, based upon the true story of Philadelphia millionaire Anthony J

1967–present: Legacy

Continuing the vision

After Walt Disney's death, Roy Disney returned from retirement to take full control of Walt Disney Productions and WED Enterprises. In October that year, their families met in front of Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom to officially open the Walt Disney World Resort. This is an article about the structure at the Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland.

After giving his dedication for Walt Disney World, he then asked Lillian Disney to join him. As the orchestra played "When You Wish Upon a Star", she stepped up to the podium accompanied by Mickey Mouse. " When You Wish upon a Star " is a popular song written by Ned Washington and Leigh Harline and introduced in the 1940 Walt Disney movie He then said, "Lilly, you knew all of Walt's ideas and hopes as well as anybody; what would Walt think of it [Walt Disney World]?". "I think Walt would have approved," she replied. ^[45] Roy died from a cerebral hemorrhage on December 20, 1971, the day he was due to open the Disneyland Christmas parade.

During the second phase of the "Walt Disney World" theme park, EPCOT was translated by Disney's successors into EPCOT Center, which opened in 1982. As it currently exists, EPCOT is essentially a living world's fair, different from the actual functional city that Disney had envisioned. Expo (short for "exposition" and also known as World Fair and World's Fair) is the name given to various large public exhibitions held since the In 1992, Walt Disney Imagineering took the step closer to Walt's vision and dedicated Celebration, Florida, a town built by the Walt Disney Company adjacent to Walt Disney World, that hearkens back to the spirit of EPCOT. Celebration Florida is a Census-designated place and an unincorporated master-planned community in Osceola County in the U Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the EPCOT was also originally intended to be devoid of Disney characters which initially limited the appeal of the park to young children but the company later changed this policy.

The Disney entertainment empire

Today, Walt Disney's animation/motion picture studios and theme parks have developed into a multi-billion dollar television, motion picture, vacation destination and media corporation that carry his name. The Walt Disney Company today owns, among other assets, five vacation resorts, eleven theme parks, two water parks, thirty-nine hotels, eight motion picture studios, six record labels, eleven cable television networks, and one terrestrial television network. As of 2007, the company has an annual revenue of over U. S. $35 billion. ^[46]

Disney Animation today

Traditional hand-drawn animation, with which Walt Disney started his company, no longer continues at the Walt Disney Feature Animation studio. Traditional animation, also referred to as classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation, is the oldest and historically the most popular Walt Disney Animation Studios (as Walt Disney Feature Animation is a key element of The Walt Disney Company, and the oldest existing Animation studio in the world After a stream of financially unsuccessful traditionally-animated features in the late-1990s and early 2000s, the two satellite studios in Paris and Orlando were closed, and the main studio in Burbank was converted to a computer animation production facility. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Orlando is a major City in central Florida, USA and is the County seat of Orange County Florida. Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County California, United States. In 2004, Disney released what was announced as their final "traditionally animated" feature film, Home on the Range. Home on the Range is the 44th animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on April However, since the 2006 acquisition of Pixar and the resulting rise of John Lasseter to Chief Creative Officer, that position has changed, and the upcoming 2009 film The Princess and the Frog will mark Disney's return to traditional 2-D animation. Pixar Animation Studios is a CGI animation production company based in Emeryville California. John Alan Lasseter (born January 12 1957 is an Academy Award -winning American Animator and the chief creative officer at Pixar and The Princess and the Frog will be a 2009 upcoming American musical feature film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and based upon the classic fairy tale

CalArts

In his later years, Disney devoted substantial time towards funding The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia California, a suburb of Los Angeles California. It was formed in 1961 through a merger of the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and the Chouinard Art Institute, which had helped in the training of the animation staff during the 1930s. The Chouinard Art Institute was a professional Art school founded in 1921 in Los Angeles California, by Nelbert Murphy Chouinard (1879-1969 When Disney died, one-fourth of his estate went towards CalArts, which helped in building its campus. In his will, Disney paved the way for creation of several charitable trusts which included one for the California Institute of the Arts and other for the Disney Foundation. In Common law, a will or testament is a document by which a person (the Testator) regulates the rights of others over his or her Property ^[47] He also donated 38 acres (Template:Convert/sqmi km²) of the Golden Oaks ranch in Valencia for the school to be built on. The acre is a unit of Area in a number of different systems including the imperial and U Valencia is a Planned community located in Los Angeles County California in the northwestern corner of the Santa Clarita Valley, adjacent to CalArts moved onto the Valencia campus in 1971.

In an early admissions bulletin, Disney explained:

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A hundred years ago, Wagner conceived of a perfect and all-embracing art, combining music, drama, painting, and the dance, but in his wildest imagination he had no hint what infinite possibilities were to become commonplace through the invention of recording, radio, cinema and television. There already have been geniuses combining the arts in the mass-communications media, and they have already given us powerful new art forms. The future holds bright promise for those who imaginations are trained to play on the vast orchestra of the art-in-combination. Such supermen will appear most certainly in those environments which provide contact with all the arts, but even those who devote themselves to a single phase of art will benefit from broadened horizons. [48]

”

Academy Awards

Walt Disney holds the records for number of Academy Award nominations (with fifty-nine) and number of awarded Oscars (twenty-six, below). Four of his Oscars were special awards, and one, his last, was granted posthumously.

• 1932: Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Flowers and Trees (1932)
• 1932: Honorary Award for: creation of Mickey Mouse. Flowers and Trees is a 1932 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Burt Gillett, and released Mickey Mouse is a comic animal Cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company.
• 1934: Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Three Little Pigs (1933)
• 1935: Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: The Tortoise and the Hare (1934)
• 1936: Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Three Orphan Kittens (1935)
• 1937: Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: The Country Cousin (1936)
• 1938: Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: The Old Mill (1937)
• 1939: Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Ferdinand the Bull (1938)
• 1938: Honorary Award for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938) The citation read: "For Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field" (the award was one statuette and seven miniature statuettes)^[2]
• 1940: Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Ugly Duckling(1939)
• 1941: Honorary Award for: Fantasia (1941), shared with: William E. Three Little Pigs is a Fairy tale featuring Talking animals Published versions of the story date back to the late 18th century but the story is thought The Tortoise and the Hare is a Fable attributed to Aesop. French poet Jean de La Fontaine adapted into the poem "le lièvre et la Fantasia is a 1940 Animated film produced by Walt Disney, and is the third film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics. Garity and J. N. A. Hawkins. The citation for the certificate of merit read: "For their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia"^[2]
• 1942: Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Lend a Paw (1941)
• 1943: Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Der Fuehrer's Face (1942)
• 1949: Best Short Subject, Two-reel for: Seal Island (1948)
• 1949: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
• 1951: Best Short Subject, Two-reel for: Beaver Valley (1950)
• 1952: Best Short Subject, Two-reel for: Nature's Half Acre (1951)
• 1953: Best Short Subject, Two-reel for: Water Birds (1952)
• 1954: Best Documentary, Features for: The Living Desert (1953)
• 1954: Best Documentary, Short Subjects for: The Alaskan Eskimo (1953)
• 1954: Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom (1953)
• 1954: Best Short Subject, Two-reel for: Bear Country (1953)
• 1955: Best Documentary, Features for: The Vanishing Prairie (1954)
• 1956: Best Documentary, Short Subjects for: Men Against the Arctic
• 1959: Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects for: Grand Canyon
• 1969: Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

Other honors

Walt Disney was the inaugural recipient of a star on the Anaheim walk of stars. The Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award is awarded periodically at the Academy Awards ceremonies to "Creative producers whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high The Anaheim Walk of Stars is a venue in Anaheim California which honors those who have made significant contributions to Anaheim's and Orange County's national and The star was awarded in honor of Disney's significant contributions to the city of Anaheim, California, specifically, Disneyland, which is now the Disneyland Resort. Disneyland, marketed as the happiest place on Earth, is an American Theme park in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt The Disneyland Resort is a recreational Resort complex The star is located at the pedestrian entrance to the Disneyland Resort on Harbor Boulevard.

Walt Disney received the Congressional Gold Medal on 24 May 1968 (P. Not to be confused with the Medal of Honor, sometimes called the "Congressional Medal of Honor" which is the highest military decoration of the United States Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. L. 90-316, 82 Stat. 130-131) and the Légion d'Honneur in France in 1935. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. ^[49] In 1935, Walt received a special medal from the League of Nations for creation of Mickey Mouse. ^[50] He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 14 September 1964. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is a decoration bestowed by the President of the United States and is along with the equivalent Congressional Gold Medal bestowed Events 81 - Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. ^[51] On 6 December 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Walt Disney into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts. Events 1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger ( German ˌaɐnɔlt aloʏs ˈʃvaɐtsənɛɡɐ born July 30 1947 is an Austrian American Bodybuilder, Actor Maria Owings Shriver ( born November 6 1955 is an award-winning American journalist a prolific author and First Lady of California. Conceived by First Lady Maria Shriver, the California Hall of Fame was established with The California Museum for History Women and the Arts to honor legendary individuals The California Museum for History Women and the Arts – home of the California Hall of Fame – is housed in the State Archives Building in Sacramento, one block

A minor planet 4017 Disneya discovered in 1980 by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina is named after him. Minor planet is a term used since the 19th century to describe objects such as Asteroids that are in Orbit around the Sun but are not Planets 4017 Disneya (1980 DL5 is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on February 21, 1980 by Karachkina L The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina (Людмила Георгіївна Карачкіна Людмила Георгиевна Карачкина is a Soviet Russian or Ukrainian ^[52]

See also

• Mickey Mouse Club

Notes

References

• Thomas, Bob (1994), Walt Disney: An American Original, New York: Hyperion, ISBN 0-7868-6027-8 

Further reading

• Barrier, Michael (1999). New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Hyperion is a general-interest book publishing division of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1991. Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-516729-5.
• Broggie, Michael (1997, 1998, 2005). Michael Broggie (born June 19, 1942) is a nationally-recognized authority on the life and legacy of Walt Disney Walt Disney's Railroad Story. Virginia Beach, Virginia. Donning Publishers. ISBN 1-56342-009-0
• Eliot, Marc (1993). Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince. Carol. ISBN 1-55972-174-X
• Mosley, Leonard. Disney's World: A Biography (1985, 2002). Chelsea, MI: Scarborough House. ISBN 0-8128-8514-7.
• Gabler, Neal. Neal Gabler is a professor journalist author and political commentator Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination (2006). New York, NY. Random House. ISBN 0-679-43822-X
• Schickel, Richard, and Dee, Ivan R. Richard Warren Schickel (born February 10, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an Author, Journalist, and documentary (1967, 1985, 1997). The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher. ISBN 1-56663-158-0.
• Sherman, Robert B. and Sherman, Richard M. (1998) "Walt's Time: From Before to Beyond" ISBN 0-9646059-3-7. Robert Bernard Sherman (born December 19, 1925) (see also " Sherman Brothers " is an American Songwriter who specializes
• Thomas, Bob (1991). Disney's Art of Animation: From Mickey Mouse to Beauty and the Beast. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 1-56282-899-1
• Watts, Steven, The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life, University of Missouri Press, 2001, ISBN 0826213790

External links

• Walt Disney at the INDUCKS
• Walt Disney at the Internet Movie Database
• Walt Disney at the TCM Movie Database
• "The Hollywood Blacklist" (May 12 1997). INDUCKS or Inducks (for International Network of Disney-Universe Comic Knowers and Sources) is a freely available database aiming to index all Disney comics Turner Classic Movies ( TCM) is a cable television channel featuring commercial -free classic movies mostly from the Turner Entertainment and Warner Talk of the Nation.   Discusses Walt Disney's attitude towards unions and communism.
• Walt Disney Family Museum
• 1985 audio interview with Leonard Mosley, author of Disney's World, a biography about Walt Disney by Don Swaim
• Neal Gabler, Inside Walt Disney
• Anaheim Walk of Stars. Don Swaim (born 1936 is an American journalist and broadcaster. Archived from the original on 2007-04-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 68 - Galba, Governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of
• Interview with Robert Stack About Walt Disney's Involvement in Polo
• Walt Disney Gravesite
• Disney's Fantastic Voyage

Persondata
NAME	Disney, Walter Elias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Producer, director, and animator
DATE OF BIRTH	December 5, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago, Illinois, United States
DATE OF DEATH	December 15, 1966
PLACE OF DEATH	Los Angeles, California, United States

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