Walt Disney Contributions

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Walt Disney a man who won twenty-six Oscars and various other awards, due to his contributions as an American director, writer, illusionist, scriptwriter, showman, cartoonist, producer, conductor, and the co-founder of the company Walt Disney. He is still to this day one of the most famous people to live. Because he has affected millions of people's hearts ranging from young to old, through his creations. The Walt Disney Company today revenues about thirty-five billion U.S. dollars. He was only twenty-two years old when he started his professional career as an artist which lead him to become a great influencer. Today Walt Disney can also be called the quintessential American. “A dreamer” is something Walt Disney called himself, he …show more content…

Roy was Walt Disney’s main support. “Roy would find himself raising money and overcoming real-world obstacles to bring Walt’s imaginary worlds to life” (pg. 15). This showed that Walt Disney was already had people who supported him and were influenced by his creativity. Forth, in 1917, the family moved again to Chicago, where Walt Disney would publish his first creative piece of art in the school newspaper. This event caused his mother Elias to ask “Walt what he wanted to do, Walt replied that he wanted to become an artist” (pg. 22). Fifth, His job in Kansas City at Persem-rubin drawing advertisements and letterheads. Here he met Ub Iwerks. With whom he created many of his famous creative works such as “Newman Laugh-O-grams”, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella and many more(sight). sixth, after being bankrupt Walt Disney and his Brother Roy started the company Disney Brother’s studios. Walt Disney then started production for Alice’s Wonderland and after the release started production for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Both of this films were a hit in theaters. Seventh, after having troubles with his distributors Walt Disney started creating to save his company. On the train ride back

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