Walter Disney was an American animator, film producer, entrepreneur and businessman who co-founded The Walt Disney Company. He created many beloved animated characters such as Mickey Mouse and is considered a pioneer in the animation industry. Some of his greatest achievements include Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the first full-length animated feature film, and Disneyland, the first Disney theme park which opened in 1955 and ushered in a new era of family entertainment. Disney passed away in 1966 but left behind a legacy and global entertainment company that continues to thrive today.

1. By Efrah Vistro

2. About Walter Elias Disney
December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966
American business magnate, cartoonist, filmmaker,
philanthropist, and voice actor
As a prominent figure within the American animation
industry and throughout the world, he is regarded as a
cultural icon
As a Hollywood business mogul, he and his brother Roy
O. Disney co-founded The Walt Disney Company.

3. As an animator and entrepreneur, Disney was particularly
noted as a filmmaker and a popular showman, as well as an
innovator in animation and theme park design
He and his staff created various fictional characters including
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. Disney himself was
the original voice for Mickey.
He died on December 15, 1966, from lung cancer in Burbank,
California. He left behind a vast legacy, including numerous
animated shorts and feature films produced during his lifetime;
the company, parks, and animation studio that bear his name;
and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).

4. Awards and nominations
He received four honorary Academy Awards
Won 22 Academy Awards from a total of 59 nominations
including a record of four in one year.
More awards and nominations than any other individual in
history.
Disney also won seven Emmy Awards

5. Early life
He lived most of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri,
where he began drawing, painting and selling pictures to
neighbors and family friends.
At age 16, during World War I, he lied about his age to join
the American Red Cross. He soon returned home, where
he won a scholarship to the Kansas City Art Institute.
There, he met a fellow animator, Ub Iwerks. The two soon
set up their own company.

6. Start of animation
When Disney returned from France in 1919, he moved
back to Kansas City to pursue a career as a newspaper
artist. His brother Roy got him a job at the Pesmen-Rubin
Art Studio, where he met cartoonist Ubbe Eert Iwwerks,
better known as Ub Iwerks. From there, Disney worked at
the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he made
commercials based on cutout animation. Around this time,
Disney began experimenting with a camera, doing hand-drawn
cell animation, and decided to open his own
animation business. From the ad company, he recruited
Fred Harman as his first employee.

7. Early cartoons
Walt and Harman made a deal with a local Kansas City
theater to screen their cartoons, which they called Laugh-
O-Grams.
The cartoons were hugely popular, and Disney was able
to acquire his own studio, upon which he bestowed the
same name
They did a series of seven-minute fairy tales that
combined both live action and animation, which they
called Alice in Cartoonland.

8. During bankruptcy and after
By 1923, however, the studio had become burdened with
debt, and Disney was forced to declare bankruptcy.
AFTER:
Disney and his brother, Roy, soon pooled their money and
moved to Hollywood. Iwerks also relocated to California,
and there the three began the Disney Brothers' Studio
Their first deal was with New York distributor Margaret
Winkler, to distribute their Alice cartoons
They also invented a character called Oswald the Lucky
Rabbit, and contracted the shorts at $1,500 each.

9. Start of Mickey mouse
In 1925, Disney hired an ink-and-paint artist named Lillian
Bounds. After a brief courtship, the couple married.
A few years later, Disney discovered that Winkler and her
husband, Charles Mintz, had stolen the rights to Oswald,
along with all of Disney’s animators, except for Iwerks.
Right away the Disney brothers, their wives and Iwerks
produced three cartoons featuring a new character Walt
had been developing called Mickey Mouse

10. The first animated shorts featuring Mickey were Plane
Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho, both silent films for
which they failed to find distribution.
When sound made its way into film, Disney created a
third, sound-and-music-equipped short called Steamboat
Willie.
With Walt as the voice of Mickey, the cartoon was an
instant sensation.

11. Characters
In 1929, Disney created Silly Symphonies, which featured
Mickey's newly created friends, including Minnie Mouse,
Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto.
One of the most popular cartoons, Flowers and Trees,
was the first to be produced in color and to win an Oscar.
In 1933, The Three Little Pigs and its title song "Who's
Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" became a theme for the
country in the midst of the Great Depression.

12. On December 21, 1937, Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film, premiered in Los
Angeles. It produced an unimaginable $1.499 million, in
spite of the Depression, and won a total of eight Oscars.
During the next five years, Walt Disney Studios
completed another string of full-length animated films,
Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi.

13. Walt Disney studios
In December 1939, a new campus for Walt Disney Studios
was opened in Burbank
A setback for the company occurred in 1941, however,
when there was a strike by Disney animators, many of
them resigned, and it would be years before the company
fully recovered.
During the mid-40s, Disney created "packaged features,"
groups of shorts strung together to run at feature length,
but by 1950, he was once again focusing on animated
features.

14. More characters
Cinderella was released in 1950
Alice in Wonderland in 1951
Peter Pan 1953
A live-action film called Treasure Island in 1950
Lady and the tramp in 1955
Sleeping beauty in 1959
101 Dalmatians in 1961

16. Snow white and
the seven dwarfs
production
The film premiered
at the Carthay Circle
theatre on 21st
December 1937
The first
animated
feature in
America
made in
Technicolor
The feature
went into full
production in
1934
The film
became the
most successful
motion picture
of 1938
Earned over $8
million on its initial
release, the
equivalent of
$134,033,100
today.

17. Media networks
Media Networks comprise a vast array of broadcast,
cable, radio, publishing and digital businesses across two
divisions-the Disney/ABC Television Group and ESPN Inc
In addition to content development and distribution
functions, the segment includes supporting headquarters,
communications, digital media, distribution, marketing,
research and sales groups.
The Disney/ABC Television Group is composed of The
Walt Disney Company’s global entertainment and news
television properties, owned television stations group, and
radio business

18. Subsidiaries
ABC Network
Pixar
Marvel entertainment
Disney XD
Dream works studios
Lucasfilm
Radio Disney
ESPN Inc.
Touchstone Pictures
Hollywood records

19. Company data as at 2013
Chairman and CEO: Bob Iger
Revenue: US$ 45.041 billion
Operating income: US$ 9.620 billion
Net income: US$ 6.136 billion
Total assets US$ 81.241 billion
Employees: 175,000

20. Box office
Sleeping beauty: Domestic: $51,600,000
Thor: The Dark World earned $206.4 million in North
America and $438.4 million in other markets for a
worldwide total of $644.8 million.
The Lion King earned $422,783,777 in North America and
an $564,700,000 in other territories for a worldwide total of
$987,483,777
Tangled earned $200,821,936 in North America, and
$390,973,000 in other countries, for a worldwide total of
$591,794,936

21. Parks and resorts
When Walt Disney opened Disneyland on July 17, 1955,
he created a unique destination built around storytelling
and immersive experiences, ushering in a new era of
family entertainment
11 theme parks and 44 resorts in North America, Europe
and Asia, with a sixth destination currently under
construction in Shanghai

22. Disney interactive
Disney Interactive is one of the world’s largest creators of
high-quality interactive entertainment across all current
and emerging digital media platforms
Products and content released and operated by Disney
Interactive include blockbuster mobile and console
games, online virtual worlds, and No. 1-ranked web
destinations Disney.com and the Moms and Family
network of websites.

23. My personal favourites
The Lion King (Movie)
Phineas and Ferb (TV show)
Wizards of Waverly place (TV show)
Sonny with a chance (TV show)
Club penguin (Game)
Disneyland Paris (Park & Resort)