Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American animator, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He began his career creating animated shorts with characters like Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Alice. Disney's most famous creation was Mickey Mouse, introduced in 1928. Some of Disney's most well-known and acclaimed animated films include Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), which was the first full-length animated feature film, and Peter Pan (1953). Disney revolutionized the animation industry and had a massive impact on family entertainment through his animated films and theme parks. He is considered a pioneer of the American animation industry.

1. Walter Ellas ‘Walt Disney’
December 5th 1901 – December 15th
1966

2. Who was walt Disney?
Walter Elias “Walt” Disney was an American
Business magnate, cartoonist, filmmaker,
philanthropist and voice actor. He scrolled through
jobs throughout his life that were all involved in the
cartoon world. He began his success when him and
his team of animators (Ubbe Iwerks, Hugh Harman
and Rudolf Isling) created a studio ‘Laugh O Gram’.
However, he was not always successful because in
the past he had created a studio called ‘Laugh O
Grams’ which fell to debt due to the little profit
being made and the high wages of the animators.
What Influenced Disney’s Work
The reason Walt Disney decided he would like
to draw was because he wanted a place for
families to go and fun and be taken away from
life’s Fun Fact! stresses. He and his brother started it.
The funniest thing was is that his worst fear
was mice, how ironic being that a mouse made
him a millionaire.

3. Examples of his work
Alice Comedies -
Disney and Roy needed to find a distributor for Walt's new Alice Comedies, which he
had 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 to
him that she was keen on a distribution deal for more live-action/animated shorts
based upon ‘Alice's Wonderland’. Walt did the animation himself and directed the live-action
scenes, while Roy took on the unfamiliar role of cameraman, photographing
both the animation and the live action. The first of the new Alice Comedies, Alice’s Day
at Sea, was delivered on December 26, 1923, and the Disney Brothers studio received
their first earnings of $1,500.

4. Mickey Mouse –
After losing the rights to ‘Oswald the Lucky Rabbit’,
Disney felt the need to develop a new character to
replace him, which was based on a mouse he had
adopted as a pet while working in his Laugh-O-Gram
studio in Kansas City. Iwerks reworked the sketches
made by Disney to make the character easier to
animate, although Mickey's voice and personality
were provided by Disney himself until 1947. In the
words of one Disney employee, "Ub designed
Mickey's physical appearance, but Walt gave him his
soul."

5. ‘Snow White has it all, and it's a testament to
the original Walt Disney animators that the
traditional, hand-drawn animation can still
evoke so much terror’ – Common sense media
on the 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs
The detail is astonishing, right down to the
twinkles of fairy-dust that contrail behind
irascible fairy Tinkerbell and remain a fixture
on the Disney logo to this day – Empire on the
1953 classic Peter Pan
‘Winner of 60 awards for his
out standing animation and
live action plays ‘

6. Walt Disney has been Hailed as “The Father of animation” he has has a massive
impact on family entertainment and the holiday industry .Walt Disney was the first
to use the newest mass media vehicle moving pictures for short animated films,
and ended with television programs ,high tech full length animated films. Walt
Disney has had one of the greatest impacts on the development of animated
cartoons as he was one of the first pioneers of animation to synchronize sound
and music with his cartoons and was one of the first to advance in colour
animation.