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The Walt Disney Company
By: Jessica Rabbit
PSY 103
Spring 2012
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Walter Elias Disney
• Born in Chicago on December 5th 1901
• Died December 15th 1967 of lung cancer
• Had 3 older brothers and 1 older sister
• Took up acting in high school
• Started drawing in college
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Walter Elias Disney
• Loved history
• Tried to enlist in the Army but was too young-became an ambulance driver for the Red Cross
• Left for Hollywood at age 22
• Met Lillian Bounds who became Mrs. Walt Disney
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Walter Elias Disney
• Rarely showed emotion-only interested in better work, he became a demanding tyrant
• He was a heavy smoker and drinker
• His wife Lillian gave him the name “Mickey” for his mouse creation
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The Walt Disney Company
• Founded on October 16th 1923
• Walt started with “Alice‟s Wonderland” as his first cartoon
• Company was originally named Disney Brother‟s Cartoons
• Roy Disney (Walt‟s older brother) took care of the finances while Walt did the drawing and creating
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The Walt Disney Company
• Walt had a tendency to push financial boundaries; especially with “Alice‟s Wonderland”
• Walt created “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit” which ended up being stolen by M.J. Winkler who originally bought the cartoon
• Consumer products started with a guy wanting to put Mickey Mouse‟s face on school supplies for children
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The Walt Disney Company
• WWII cause the studios to lose foreign markets
• From 1932 to 1942, a Disney Cartoon won an Oscar every year
• Now the company owns TV shows, publication companies, cruise lines, resorts, amusement parks an many other companies
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The Extended Disney
• Disneyland opened in July 1955 in California
• Walt Disney World opened in October 1971 in Florida
• EPCOT opened that same day
• Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983
• Euro Disneyland opened in 1992
• Disney Cruise Line
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The Extended Disney
• 8 Disney Vacation Club resorts
• Adventures by Disney
• 11 theme parks
• Disney Music Group
• Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records
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The Disney Affiliates
• Disney- ABC Television Group
• ESPN Inc.
• Walt Disney Internet Group
• Broadway Musicals-Disney on Ice
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The Disney Affiliates
• Touchstone Pictures
• Hollywood Pictures
• Disney Channel
• TOONDisney
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Disney Works
• “Laugh-O-Grams”
• Alice‟s Wonderland
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
• Mickey Mouse who was going to be named Mortimer
• Flowers and Trees- first all-color film
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Disney Works
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs-first full length color film
• Man in Space- made 5 years before the US started own space program
• Steamboat Willie- first cartoon with sound
• Silly Symphonies-introduced Technicolor
• Produced propaganda and training films for the military during WWII
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• “It‟s the principle thing I hope to leave when I move on to greener pastures. If I can help provide a place to develop the talent of the future, I think I will have accomplished something.” –Walt Disney
• “Disneyland would „never be completed… as long as there is imagination left in the world.”- Walt Disney
• “He brought us closer to the future, while telling us of the past, it is certain, that there will never be a such as great a man, as Walt Disney.”
Disney Quotes
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Works Cited
• "The Walt Disney Company." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Mar. 2012. Web. 10 Mar. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company>.
• "The Walt Disney Company and Affiliated Companies - Company History." The Walt Disney Company and Affiliated Companies. Web. 06 Mar. 2012. <http://corporate.disney.go.com/corporate/complete_history.html>.
• "The Walt Disney Company and Affiliated Companies - Company Overview." The Walt Disney Company and Affiliated Companies. Web. 06 Mar. 2012. <http://corporate.disney.go.com/corporate/overview.html>.
• "Walt Disney: Long Biography." Walt Disney. Web. 29 Feb. 2012. • Giroux, Henry A. The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of
Innocence. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. Print.• Pile, Robert B. Top Entrepreneurs and Their Businesses. Minneapolis:
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