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Walter Elias: A Brief Life Of Walt Disney

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Walter Elias (Walt) Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. He was born into a middle class family, and was of five children. He grew up in Marceline, Missouri, and began art and drawing at a young age. Walt was a boy with big dreams. He loved drawing and animation. As Walt got older, he began to study art and drawing in High School. In addition to drawing, Disney loved to act a perform; his father,however, was stern and very unsupportive, so Walt was forced to perform against his father’s will. At age 16, during World War I, he faked his age to join the American Red Cross. He soon returned home, where he won a scholarship to the Kansas City Art Institute. There, he met a fellow animator. The two soon set up their own company. …show more content…

He was definitely more of a family man, and he spent time with them whenever he could. Walt had always drew and when he finally thought he had something, it was soon taken away from him. Oswald was Walt’s first creation, a rabbit, but instead of letting that demoralize him he started from point one all over again. Shortly into their marriage with the help of Lillian, Walt had created a new character a mouse: Mickey Mouse. Mickey was soon going to change the whole world. In 1928, Mickey's debut was in Steamboat Willie. This was a major hit with American families. Soon enough Walt began to produce more and more cartoons growing into movies. The company began to expand and it was going to change the world little by little. This was a biography on Walt Disney and how he made an impact on himself and other people’s lives too. Disney was one imaginative and creative person. Walt has two theme parks, Disneyland and DisneyWorld, which if you ever have a chance you could go there and learn a little bit more about Disney and ride rides. He was definitely was an important person when he picked up wounded soldiers in an ambulance during World War I. But to sum it up, Walt Disney is one creative man who had some big dreams that got

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