Walter Ellas ‘Walt Disney’

December 5th 1901 – December 15th

1966

Who was walt Disney?

Walter Elias “Walt” Disney was an American Business magnate, cartoonist, filmmaker, philanthropist and voice actor. He scrolled through jobs throughout his life that were all involved in the cartoon world. He began his success when him and his team of animators (Ubbe Iwerks, Hugh Harman and Rudolf Isling) created a studio ‘Laugh O Gram’. However, he was not always successful because in the past he had created a studio called ‘Laugh O Grams’ which fell to debt due to the little profit being made and the high wages of the animators.

What Influenced Disney’s Work

The reason Walt Disney decided he would like to draw was because he wanted a place for families to go and fun and be taken away from life’s stresses. He and his brother started it. Fun Fact!

The funniest thing was is that his worst fear was mice, how ironic being that a mouse made him a millionaire.

Examples of his work

Alice Comedies -

Disney and Roy needed to find a distributor for Walt's new Alice Comedies, which he had started making while in Kansas City but never got to distribute. Disney sent an unfinished print to New York distributor Margaret Winkler, who promptly wrote back to him that she was keen on a distribution deal for more live-action/animated shorts based upon ‘Alice's Wonderland’. Walt did the animation himself and directed the live-action scenes, while Roy took on the unfamiliar role of cameraman, photographing both the animation and the live action. The first of the new Alice Comedies, Alice’s Day at Sea, was delivered on December 26, 1923, and the Disney Brothers studio received their first earnings of $1,500.

Mickey Mouse –

After losing the rights to ‘Oswald the Lucky Rabbit’, Disney felt the need to develop a new character to replace him, which was based on a mouse he had adopted as a pet while working in his Laugh-O-Gram studio in Kansas City. Iwerks reworked the sketches made by Disney to make the character easier to animate, although Mickey's voice and personality were provided by Disney himself until 1947. In the words of one Disney employee, "Ub designed Mickey's physical appearance, but Walt gave him his soul."

‘Snow White has it all, and it's a testament to the original Walt Disney animators that the traditional, hand-drawn animation can still evoke so much terror’ – Common sense media on the 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

The detail is astonishing, right down to the twinkles of fairy-dust that contrail behind irascible fairy Tinkerbell and remain a fixture on the Disney logo to this day – Empire on the 1953 classic Peter Pan

‘Winner of 60 awards for his out standing animation and live action plays ‘

Walt Disney has been Hailed as “The Father of animation” he has has a massive impact on family entertainment and the holiday industry .Walt Disney was the first to use the newest mass media vehicle moving pictures for short animated films, and ended with television programs ,high tech full length animated films. Walt Disney has had one of the greatest impacts on the development of animated cartoons as he was one of the first pioneers of animation to synchronize sound and music with his cartoons and was one of the first to advance in colour animation.