1. The Walt Disney Company
By: Jessica Rabbit
PSY 103
Spring 2012

2. Walter Elias Disney
• Born in Chicago on December 5th 1901
• Died December 15th 1967 of lung
cancer
• Had 3 older brothers and 1 older
sister
• Took up acting in high school
• Started drawing in college

3. Walter Elias Disney
• Loved history
• Tried to enlist in the Army but was
too young-became an ambulance driver
for the Red Cross
• Left for Hollywood at age 22
• Met Lillian Bounds who became Mrs.
Walt Disney

4. Walter Elias Disney
• Rarely showed emotion-only interested
in better work, he became a
demanding tyrant
• He was a heavy smoker and drinker
• His wife Lillian gave him the name
“Mickey” for his mouse creation

5. The Walt Disney Company
• Founded on October 16th 1923
• Walt started with “Alice‟s
Wonderland” as his first cartoon
• Company was originally named Disney
Brother‟s Cartoons
• Roy Disney (Walt‟s older brother)
took care of the finances while Walt
did the drawing and creating

6. The Walt Disney Company
• Walt had a tendency to push financial
boundaries; especially with “Alice‟s
Wonderland”
• Walt created “Oswald the Lucky
Rabbit” which ended up being stolen
by M.J. Winkler who originally bought
the cartoon
• Consumer products started with a guy
wanting to put Mickey Mouse‟s face on
school supplies for children

7. The Walt Disney Company
• WWII cause the studios to lose
foreign markets
• From 1932 to 1942, a Disney Cartoon
won an Oscar every year
• Now the company owns TV shows,
publication companies, cruise lines,
resorts, amusement parks an many
other companies

8. The Extended Disney
• Disneyland opened in July 1955 in
California
• Walt Disney World opened in October
1971 in Florida
• EPCOT opened that same day
• Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983
• Euro Disneyland opened in 1992
• Disney Cruise Line

9. The Extended Disney
• 8 Disney Vacation Club resorts
• Adventures by Disney
• 11 theme parks
• Disney Music Group
• Walt Disney Records and Hollywood
Records

10. The Disney Affiliates
• Disney- ABC Television Group
• ESPN Inc.
• Walt Disney Internet Group
• Broadway Musicals-Disney on Ice

11. The Disney Affiliates
• Touchstone Pictures
• Hollywood Pictures
• Disney Channel
• TOONDisney

12. Disney Works
• “Laugh-O-Grams”
• Alice‟s Wonderland
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
• Mickey Mouse who was going to be
named Mortimer
• Flowers and Trees- first all-color film

13. Disney Works
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs-
first full length color film
• Man in Space- made 5 years before
the US started own space program
• Steamboat Willie- first cartoon with
sound
• Silly Symphonies-introduced
Technicolor
• Produced propaganda and training
films for the military during WWII

14. • “It‟s the principle thing I hope to leave
when I move on to greener pastures. If
I can help provide a place to develop the
talent of the future, I think I will have
accomplished something.” –Walt Disney
• “Disneyland would „never be completed…
as long as there is imagination left in
the world.”- Walt Disney
• “He brought us closer to the future,
while telling us of the past, it is certain,
that there will never be a such as great
a man, as Walt Disney.”
Disney Quotes

15. Works Cited
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