Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American animator, film producer, entrepreneur and businessman. He is best known for co-founding Walt Disney Productions and creating many famous cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse. Some of his most well-known works include the Alice Comedies, Mickey Mouse, and classic animated films like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Peter Pan. Disney had a massive impact on family entertainment and helped advance the animation industry. He pioneered techniques like synchronizing sound and music with cartoons and was one of the early adopters of color animation.

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 stresses. He and his
brother started it.
Fun Fact!
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."
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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.