Walt Disney was born in Chicago in 1901 and showed an early interest in art. He pursued art in high school and enjoyed nature. During WWI, Disney served as an ambulance driver in France. After the war, he founded Walt Disney Studios and created successful animated shorts like Alice Comedies. Disney married Lillian Bounds in 1925 and they had two daughters. His studio produced the first animated feature film Snow White in 1937 and other classics like Pinocchio and Bambi. Disney opened Disneyland in 1955 and became a pioneer in television production. He also produced educational documentaries and oversaw the development of Walt Disney World in Florida.

2. CHILDHOOD
Walt Disney was born on December 5,1901 in Chicago,
Illinois, to his father Elias Disney and mother flora cell Disney.
Walt was one of the five children, for boys and a girl.
Walt had very early interests in art, he would often sell
drawings to neighbour to make extra money. He persued his
art career, by studying art and photography by going to
McKinley high school in Chicago.
Walt began to love and appreciate nature and wildlife, family
and community, which were a large part of agrarian living.
Through his father could be quite stern and often there was
little money, Walt was encouraged by his mother and older
brother, Roy to pursue his talents.

3. During the fall of 1918, Disney
attempted to enlist for military
service. Rejected because he
was under age, only sixteen
years old at the time. Instead,
Walt Disney the red cross and
was sent overseas to France,
Where he spent a year during
an ambulance and
chauffeuring red cross
officials, his ambulance was
covered from stem to stern,
not with stock camouflage,
but with Disney cartoons.

4. ‘Alice comedies’, Walt
became a recognized
Hollywood figure. On
July 13, 1925, Walt
married one of his first
employees, Lillian
bounds, in Lewiston,
Idaho. Later on they
would be blessed with
two daughters, Diane
and Sharon.

5. In 1932, the production entitled flowers
and trees (the first color cartoon) won Walt
the first of his studio’s academy awards. In
1937, he released the old mill, the first
short subject to utilize the multi-plane
camera technique.
On Dec 21,1937, snow white and the
seven dwarfs, the first full-length animated
musical features, premiered at the carthay
theater in Los angles.

6. The f ilm produced at t he unhear d
cost of $1,499,000 dur ing t he dept h
of t he depression, t he f ir m is st ill
considered one of t he gr eat f eat s
and imper ishable monument s of t he
mot ion pict ure indust ry. During t he
next f ive year s, Walt Disney st udio
complet ed ot her f ull-lengt h animat ed
classics such as Pinocchio, f ant asia ,
Dumbo, and Bambi.

7. Walt Disney's dream of a clean and
organised amusement park ,came true, as
Disney land park opened in 1955. Walt
also became a television pioneer, Disney
began television production in 1954, and
was among the first to present full-color
programming with his wonderful world of
color in 1961.

8. Walt Disney is a legend, a folk hero of
the 20th
century. His worldwide
popularity was based upon the ideals
which his name represents:
imagination, optimism, creation and
self-made success in the American
tradition. He brought as closer to the
future, while telling us of the past, it is
creation that there will never b such as
great a man, as Walt Disney.

9. Disney’s1945 feature, themusical thethree
caballeros, combined liveaction with the
cartoon animation, aprocessheused
successfully in such other featuresassong of
thesouth and thehighly acclaimed marry pop
pins, in all, morethan 100 featureswere
produced by hisstudio.

10. Walt’s inquisitive mind and keen
sense for education through
entertainments resulted in the
award-winning true life adventure
series through such films as the
living desert, the vanishing
prairie, the African Lion, and white
wildness, Disney brought fascinating
insights into the world of wild
animals and taught the importance of
conserving our nation’s outdoor
heritage.

11. Thus, Disney directed the purchases of 43 square
miles of virgin land-twice the size of Manhattan
island- in the center of the state of Florida. Here, he
master planned a whole new ‘Disney world’ of
entertainment to include a new amusement theme
park, motel- hotel resort vocation center, and his
experimental prototype community of tomorrow. After
more than seven years of master planning and
preparation, including 52 months of actual
construction, the Walt Disney world resort, including
the magic kingdom park, opened to the public as
scheduled on October 1, 1971. EPCOT center opened
October 1,1982, and on May 1,1989, the Disney-MGM
studios theme park opened.