the Walt Disney company

2. • December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966.
• American business magnate , cartoonist, film maker , philanthropist and voice actor.
• As an prominent figure within the American animation industry and throughout the
world ,where he is considered a national cultural icon.
• As an Hollywood business mogul, he and his brother Roy o Disney co-founded the Walt
Disney company.
• As an animator and entrepreneur, Disney was particularly noted as a filmmaker and a
popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and the theme parks design.
• He and his staff created various fictional characters including Mikey mouse, Donald duck
and goofy. Disney himself was the original voice for Mikey.
• In early November 1966, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and was treated with cobalt
therapy On November 30, he felt unwell and was taken by ambulance from his home
to St. joseph Hospital where, on December 15, 1966, ten days after his 65th birthday, he
died of circulatory collapse caused by the cancer.

3. • 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 nomination than any other individual in history.
• Disney also won seven Emmy awards.

4. • 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 1 , 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. Up lwerks. The two soon
set up their own company.

5. • When Disney returned from France in 1919, he moved back to Kansas
city to pursue a career as a news paper artist. Hs brother Roy got him
a job at a Pesmen-Rubin art studios, where he met cartoonist Ubbe
Eert lwwerks, better knowns as Ub lwerks. 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.

6. • 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 Cartoon land.

7. • By 1923, however, the studio had become burdened with debt, and
Disney was forced to declare bankruptcy.
• 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.

8. • 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

9. • 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.

10. • 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.
• 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.

11. • 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.

12. • 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

13. • 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.

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

15. • 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

16. • 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.

17. • 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.

18. • 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.

19. • The Lion King (Movie)
• Wizards of Waverly place (TV show
• ) Sonny with a chance (TV show)
• Club penguin (Game)
• Disneyland Paris (Park & Resort)