Walter Elias Disney

"If you can dream it, you can do it."-Walter

Elias Disney

SARI V S
MBA (TT)

About Walter Elias Disney

Childhood
Walter Elias Disney is the founder of Walt
Disney Co. ,Founded: 1923
Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in
Chicago's Hermosa community area.
His father Elias Charles Disney and
mother Flora Call Disney.
He has her younger sister Ruth and his
elder brothers are Herbert and Ray.

 On July 1, 1911, Elias purchased a

newspaper delivery route for The
Kansas City Star.
Roy and Walt were put to work
delivering the newspapers.
Teenage years
Disney began his freshman year at
McKinley High School and took night
courses at the Chicago Academy of
Fine Arts under the tutelage of artist

 He became the cartoonist for the school

newspaper, drawing patriotic topics on
World War I.
Disney and a friend joined the Red Cross.
He considered becoming an actor, but
decided to draw political caricatures or
comic strips for a newspaper.
Fortunately Walt got a temporary job at
the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio. Where he
created advertisements for newspapers,
magazines, and movie theaters.

Start of animation career: 192037

In January 1920, Disney and His friend
Iwerks formed a short-lived company
called "Iwerks-Disney Commercial
Artists".
Afterwards he decided to open his
own animation business.
Disney and his first employee
Harman then started creating
cartoons called Laugh-O-Grams. The
cartoons became widely popular in

Laugh-O-Gram Studio
He acquire his own studio, also called
Laugh-O-Gram on May 18, 1922.
Unfortunately Disney's studio
became loaded with debt and wound
up bankrupt.
Career in Hollywood and marriage
Disney and his brother Roy pooled
their money and set up a cartoon
studio in Hollywood .

 Virginia Davis, the live-action star

of Alice's Wonderland, and her family
relocated from Kansas City to
Hollywood at Disney's request, as did
Iwerks and his family. This was the
beginning of the Disney Brothers'
Studio.
In 1925 Disney hired a young
woman named Lillian Bounds to ink
and paint celluloid. After a brief
courtship, the pair married that same

 The main articles of Disney Brothers' Studio :

Alice Comedies
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Mickey Mouse (By 1932, although Mickey Mouse
had become a relatively popular cinema
character)
First Academy Award and subsequent spinoffs
On November 18, 1932, Disney received a
special Academy Award for the creation of
"Mickey Mouse".
The series, which switched to color in 1935,
soon launched spin-offs for supporting characters
such as Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto.

Family
His wife is Lillian
His daughter is Diane Marie Disney. Later,
the he adopted Sharon Mae Disney.
Diane married Ron Miller at the age of 20
and is known as Diane Disney Miller.
Diane and Ron Miller had seven children.
Sharon married Robert Brown on May 10,
1959,with whom she had one child . They
remained married until his death in
1967.Sharon married William Lund in
1969 and had two children with him, but
six years later they divorced.

Illness and death

He had several health problems. on
December 15, 1966, ten days after his 65th
birthday, Disney died of acute circulatory
collapse, caused by lung cancer.
Legacy(Continuing Disney projects)
After Walt Disney's death, Roy Disney take
full control of Walt Disney Productions and
WED Enterprises. In October 1971, the
families of Walt and Roy met in front of
Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom to
officially open the Walt Disney World
Resort.

Academy Awards
1932: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: Flowers and Trees
(1932)
1932: Honorary Award for creation of Mickey Mouse.
1939: Honorary Award for Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs(1937) The citation read, "For Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs, recognized as a significant screen
innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a
great new entertainment field." (The award, unique in
the history of the Oscars, is one large statuette and
seven miniature statuettes.)
1941: Honorary Award for Fantasia (1940), shared with:
William E.Garityand J.N.A. Hawkins. The citation for the
certificate of merit read, "For their outstanding
contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in
motion pictures through the production of Fantasia."

 1949: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award(Honorary

Award)
1951: Best Short Subject, Two-reel: In Beaver Valley
(1950)
1952: Best Short Subject, Two-reel: Nature's Half
Acre (1951)
1954: Best Documentary, Features: The Living
Desert (1953)
1954: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: Toot Whistle
Plunk and Boom (1953)
1959: Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects:
Grand Canyon (1958)
1969: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: Winnie the
Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968)

Walt Disney World is a tribute to

the philosophy and life of Walter
Elias Disney...and to the talents,
the dedication, and the loyalty of
the entire Disney organization
that made Walt Disney's dream
come true.