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What child does not grow up to want to be a part of Disney in one way or another? Walt Disney Company opened its doors in 1923. In 1937 the very first fully animated cartoon was released, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. Disney Studios became an inspiration for many cartoonists, but none more than, John Lasseter. Lasseter dreamed of becoming part of the Walt Disney Company family. As a child he watched the 1963 film, “The Sword and the Stone”, and told his mother he wanted to draw for Disney. In high school Lasseter read “The Art of Animation” and discovered his passion and people could earn a living by drawing cartoons. He immediately started writing Disney Studios and let them know he was extremely interested in drawing cartoons for them. Disney Studio representatives told Lasseter to get a great art education. Lasseter attended the California Institute of Arts and enrolled in the Character Animation Program. During the summer he would get jobs with Disney which only made him more passionate about animation. In 1979, Lasseter finally joined the Disney family as an animator.
In the early 1980’s, computer graphics technology for animation was being introduced and Lasseter became captivated. Disney was not as captivated with it as Lasseter was, but Disney executives gave Lasseter and a colleague a chance to make a 30 second test film. Disney bumped the idea due to executives not liking Lasseter and talking negatively to the studio head about the pitch. Lasseter found out what had happened and knew the studio head had made up his mind before he even walked in. Not only the same day, but within minutes after the pitch, John Lasseter was fired from Disney by a superior who did not care for him and made it very obvio...
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Walt Disney started drawing at a very young age. When he was nine he sold paintings and drawings to his neighbors. He liked believing that the characters would come to life by making a flip book. When Disney was in high school he took animation classes, photography classes and drew animation for his high school paper. Walt was the kind of person who drove himself to make his dreams come true. He dropped out of school at sixteen and moved to Hollywood, California with his brother, Roy, and there they started their own animation company, Disney Brothers Studio, joined with Universal Studios. When the Disney’s moved to Hollywood they hired Fred Harman, Harman’s Brother, The Wrinkle family and Ubbe Iwerks. The comp...
It would be very hard to not have heard about Disney because he has released so many different kinds of animations, but during the 1950’s Disney began to become less involved in the animation department, entrusting most of its operations to his main animators, the Nine Old Men, although he was always at story meetings. Instead, he started concentrating on other things. On a business trip to Chicago in the late 1940s, Disney drew sketches of his ideas for an amusement park where he envisioned his employees spending time with their children. These ideas developed into a concept for a larger enterprise which was to become Disneyland. Disney spent five years of his life developing Disneyland and created a new company, called WED Enterprises, to carry out the planning and production of the park. In March 1952 Walt Disney got permission to build Disneyland. Construction work started in July 1954, and opened in July 1955; the opening ceremony was broadcast on ABC, which reached 70 million viewers.The park was designed as a series of themed lands, linked by the central Main Street, U.S.A a replica of the main street in his hometown of
A man named Walt Disney (Kurtti viii) founded Walt Disney Imagineering in 1952. It officially founded in 1986 during the making of Disneyland (Kurtti vii). The first ever Imagineer was Walt Disney the man who created Mickey Mouse, and a large variety of movies. (Kurtti 8) They make theme parks, hotels, water parks, props, and movies (Walt Disney Imagineering Careers).
...cartoons. Roy, Walt’s older brother and Walt moved to Los Angeles to set up the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. Here they made the "Alice Comedies" and "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit." In 1926 Walt changed his cartoon studio name from Disney Bros. to what we now know it as today, Walt Disney Studios. ( www. JustDisney.com NP) Things took off in November of 1928 when Mickey and Minnie Mouse made their debut in "Steamboat Willie." This movie is what made Mickey, Minnie and Walt Disney famous. Early on, Walt Disney was working so hard he was having some trouble sleeping, so he took some sleeping pills to help him sleep. His wife, Lilly was unable to wake him up one morning and she called the doctor who prescribed a long trip for rest and relaxation. (Ford NP) After Walt came back home well rested, he went right back to work. He began to work on the first Disney movie! Walt wanted each of the dwarfs in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” to be a distinct individual. The solution was to create names for them that would reflect their personalities. (Miller NP) "Snow White," which took three years to make, was released in 1937. This was the beginning to what we all know today as Disney movies.
In 1920, while working at an ad company called Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio in Kansas City, Walt discovered the great world of animation and submerged himself within it. While keeping his day job, he began making Laugh-O-Gram ad films and animation shorts with artist Ub Iwerks, whom he met working at the Art Studio. Laugh-O-grams Films soon went bankrupt, and Walt, moved to California with very little money in his pocket (Walter Elias Disney). Disney ran into a lot of road blocks and hard time, but that would not stop him. His dreams and imagination keep him
In 1923 when Walt Disney was only 22 his cartoon series failed in Kansas City. This followed with bankruptcy, leaving Walt Disney with only 40 dollars in his pocket. Walter thought that other people could animate better than him,
in the twenties when a man by the name of Walt "Elias" Disney (1901-66) a
Ever since Mickey Mouse was created in 1928, Disney has been at the forefront of the cartoon world. Every youngster has a favorite Disney character or movie. Over the years they have created some of the best movies of all time. However, Walt Disney hasn’t always been successful. He survived bankruptcy in 1922 and had to rethink how he was going to approach his life. I think it is safe to say the approach he took was the right one. One of his first productions was an animated short film Alice’s Wonderland, which turned into what we know as Alice in Wonderland. Mr. Disney’s first attempt at a feature-length animated film debuted in 1937 after three years of production. His masterpiece of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is one of his most awarded movies. Following World War II Disney Production was in a substantial amount of debt. They needed to come out with a new movie that would win over the public of America. They came out with just the right movie, Cinderella, in 1950. This was their biggest hit since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs some 15 years ago. Because of Cinderella Disney Productions stayed in business and could go on to produce many more heartwarming movies.
With a name like Walt Disney, it seems like you are expected to do great things and have your name known across America. From a young age, Walt Disney had an interest in all things animation. Growing up in a time where animation and TV was making its first appearances, Walt Disney wanted to be a part of the sensation. Striving and pushing forward with his natural talent of the creative arts and entertainment, Mr. Walt Disney became one of the most well-known entertainers that is mentioned all around the world. His great animation and artistic works but also with his world famous characters and popular theme parks, the first one, Disneyland, being built in Anaheim, California in 1955.
Disney and his brother, Roy, pooled their money together and moved to Hollywood to create the Disney Brother’s Studio. (“Walt Disney”) Earlier in life, Disney had created a cartoon in Kansas City about a little girl in a cartoon world, called Alice’s Wonderland. The team decided to use it as a “pilot” film to sell a series of these “Alice Comedies.” On October 16, 1923, a distributor in New York, M. J. Winker, contacted Walt to distribute the “Alice Comedies.” After that day, the Disney Company became the start of something magical and very successful. Originally known as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio because Walt and Roy were equal partners, the company name then changed to Walt Disney Studio, with the request of Roy. ("A History of the Walt Disney
He was inspired by Walt Disney to go into animating. He quoted, “When I was in high school, I read this book called ‘The Art of Animation’ by Bob Thomas. It’s all about Walt Disney and the making of Sleeping Beauty. I read this and it dawned on me-wait a minute, people do animation for a living?” (IMDB.com) Disney inspired Lasseter to become an animator and eventually join Pixar. Lasseter also quoted, “We make the kind of movies we want to see, we love to laugh, but I also believe in what Walt Disney said ‘for every laugh there should be a tear.’ I love movies that make me cry, because they’re tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards, how did they do that?” (IMDB.com) Disney inspired Lasseter to create, imagine, and innovate in his work and become the experienced animator he is
Walt returned home and was soon questioned by his father what his future plans would be. Walt replied with “I want to become an artist” (Cole 22). Walt, with extreme determination, tried to work as a cartoonist with Kansas City newspapers, but they thought Walt was not creative enough. Walt applied at the Pesmen-Rubin Commercial Art Studio in the Gray Advertising Building. Walt received his first job as an artist. “Disney did the drawings for his ca...
Almost as soon as the office became their studio Walt and Roy began bringing about their first series of films denominated: Alice’s Wonderland. Even though the brothers didn’t make much money the first year, they stayed confident, and Walt told his father, with his typical optimism, that he would “ make the name Disney famous around the world”. At first Walt produced much of the company’s animation, but he soon realized that there were other artists more talented than he. So he turned to directing the animators the studio hired. As Walt focused on the creative side of the company, Roy dealt with all the financial elements; trying to keep Walt - who hardly worried about money - to a budget. In 1940 two animated films brought in less money than they cost to make. Refusing to lay off any of some 1,000 employees, the small business that had been renamed Walt Disney Productions, became a public corporation selling it’s stock to the public. In 1952 WED Enterprises was established and began working on Walt’s latest idea: a theme park called Disneyland. Disneyland’s opening on July 17 in 1955, was less than p...
“It is a common misconception that the history of the Walt Disney studios begins with Steamboat Willie in 1928.” (Kaufman, p. 68). Contrary to this misconception there have been ninety plus