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Disney : A Dreaming Nonconformist

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Disney: A Dreaming Nonconformist
Society has a rule book, it lists how we should act and think and be. Some people decide to disregard the rule book and write their own. These people are daring, different, and sometimes even seen as impractical but often they leave a lasting impact on our lives. I know of many people who fit this description, but none more influential on our lives today than Walt Disney.
Walt Disney was a producer of motion-pictures and television shows. He was a showman and is famously known as a pioneer of animated films and the creator of “The Happiest Place on Earth,” Disneyland. Walt Disney did not conform to societies standards of film and entertainment, he strived for everything to be bigger and better and thus …show more content…

Walt also attended night classes at the Chicago Art Institute just before he dropped out at the age of 16 to join the army. He was rejected from the U.S Army for being underage and instead joined the Red Cross. Walt lived in France for a year working as an ambulance driver, until he moved back to the states in 1919 at the age of 18. Shortly after, Walt got his very first job as a draftsman, at a Kansas City art studio where he met other very talented animators and began his life as an entrepreneur of many kinds.
With his fellow artists in Kansas City Walt began his long endeavour into the art of production. Working with his brother Roy and a few others Walt worked his way to his dream, and in 1923 he was able to set up his studio in Hollywood where his first famous cartoons were produced. Walter and his partners had previously aired their cartoons dubbed Laugh-O-Grams which were wildly popular and after they created a series of seven-minute fairy tales that combined live action and animation. Out of their studio in Hollywood, also known as the “Disney Brothers’ Studio”, came incredible characters such as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit who was famously feuded over by the brothers and caused their famous split. Although the most beloved of all was the sensational Mickey Mouse. Up to this point in Walt’s career all of his work and other animations in the industry have one thing in common,

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