Walt Disney was born in 1901 in Chicago and showed an early interest in drawing and cartoons. He dropped out of high school to join the army but later worked for ad agencies creating commercials using animation. Disney founded his own studio and created iconic characters like Mickey Mouse. He pioneered full-length animated films with Snow White and built Disneyland theme park, laying the foundation for his entertainment empire. Disney revolutionized animation and family entertainment before passing away in 1966.

1. Digital Storyboard: Walt Disney
By: Taylor Habegger

2. Childhood
• Born December 5th 1901 in Chicago
• Began drawing, painting and selling pictures to
neighbors and family friends
• Attended McKinley high school
• Took drawing and photography classes
• Cartoonist for the school newspaper
• Took night classes at the Chicago Art Institute
• Dropped out of school and joined the army

3. Childhood Pictures

4. Early Cartoons
• First job at Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio
• Worked at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he made commercials
based on cutout animation
• Screen their cartoons, which they called Laugh-O-Grams
• Series of seven-minute fairy tales that combined both live action and
animation, which they called Alice in Cartoonland
• Began the Disney Brothers' Studio
• Invented a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
• Then created Mickey Mouse
• First animated shorts featuring Mickey were Plane Crazy and The Gallopin'
Gaucho
• Disney created a third, sound-and-music-equipped short called Steamboat
Willie. With Walt as the voice of Mickey

5. Early Cartoons Pictures

6. Movies
• On December 21, 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length
animated film
• won a total of eight Oscars
• Walt Disney Studios completed another string of full-length animated films,
Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi
• In December 1939, a new campus for Walt Disney Studios
• 1950, he was once again focusing on animated features. Cinderella was released in
1950, followed by Alice in Wonderland (1951), Peter Pan (1953), Lady in the Tramp
(1955), Sleeping Beauty (1959) and 101 Dalmatians (1961)
• In all, more than 100 features were produced by his studio.
• Disney's last major success that he produced himself was the motion picture Mary
Poppins, which mixed live action and animation.

7. Movie Pictures

8. Disneyland & Disney World
• Disney's $17 million Disneyland theme park opened in 1955
• a place where children and their families could explore, take
rides and meet the Disney characters
• Disney began plans for a new theme park and Experimental
Prototype Community of Tomorrow in Florida
• It was still under construction when, in 1966, Disney was
diagnosed with lung cancer
• Opened in 1971 under the name Walt Disney World
• The parks of Walt Disney are renowned throughout the world
for the thoroughness of detail, and their high standards

9. Parks Pictures

10. My Disney Experience
• Pictures I took from Disney World and some
videos I took as well.

11. Legacy
• Died on December 15, 1966, at the age of 65
• Disney was cremated, and his ashes interred
at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles,
California
• Created a dream for people of all ages

12. Legacy Pictures