Walt Disney Documentary - Biography of the life of Walt Disney

[Music] walter elias wall disney was born on december 5th 1901 in chicago to a large family of an irish immigrant elias charles disney and flora cal disney who was of german and english descent his father elias charles disney was engaged in a small construction business but his family was stricken for finances in 1878 elias charles disney moved from huron county ontario canada to the united states during the gold rush seeking gold in california before settling down to farm with his parents near ellis kansas until 1884. elias charles disney and flora call got married on january 1 1888 in akron florida in 1890 they moved to chicago illinois a hometown of elias brother robert who financially supported elias for most of walter's childhood in 1906 elias and flora disney set off to marceline missouri where his elder brother roy had recently bought farmland elias struggled at work and when he came home he took out his anger on his children and wife walter disney had a younger sister ruth disney and elder brothers herbert disney ray disney roy o disney the latter would co-found the walt disney company together with walt disney his elder brothers herbert and ray ran away from home in 1906 because they had been fed up with the endless work and little money to spend in the fall of 1909 walt and his sister ruth enrolled at the new park school of marceline the disney family stayed in marceline for four years on november 28 1910 they had to sell their farm and in 1911 the family decided to move to kansas city following the example of many neighbors who were migrating across the america without the end in kansas city walt and ruth enrolled at the benton grammar school there he met walter pfeiffer who introduced walt vaudeville and motion pictures but to learn the art of drawing walt disney had only about a year and the first thing he did was to start to attend saturday courses at kansas city art institute on july 1 1911 his father acquired a newspaper delivery route for the kansas city star walt and roy were asked to distribute newspapers and advertisements of the father's firm they delivered the morning newspaper kansas city times to about 700 readers additionally they had to distribute the evening and sunday star to over 600 readers in any weather early morning or late at night walt disney ran from 27th street to 31st street and from prospect avenue to indiana avenue in his worn-out shoes hurrying to deliver the newspapers on time elias always took away all the money his son earned but walt did not complain and once finding a new subscriber he concealed the received money from his father additionally the boy bought newspapers directly in editorial and thus got his little income that he spent on favorite suites that were forbidden at home thus walter began his career as an entrepreneur in 1917 elias became a shareholder of ozell jelly factory in chicago therefore he moved his family back to the city in the fall of the same year walter disney started to attend mckinley high school as a freshman also he attended night courses at the chicago academy of fine arts under the guidance of louis frederick grell an american figure composition and portrait artist later he started drawing patriotic topics for the school newspaper on world war one in the fall of 1918. walter attempted to be enlisted in the army forces to participate in world war one following the example of his brother roy whom he admired much having been refused because of being underaged he volunteered for the red cross and was sent to france where he had been working for a year as an ambulance driver this car became a local landmark as it was decorated with an amusing cartoonish character of the future animator after returning home walt disney started working for his father's company ozell factory as an assistant and then as a night watchman the latter particularly suited him because it gave him an opportunity to study drawing to which he was drawn from an early age he notably succeeded in drawing of animal sketches he had even earned a nickel icon for one of his drawings at the age of seven the dream to become a professional artist prevailed and in 1919 walt relocated to kansas city to start his career as an artist however despite having the talent of a graphic designer he lacked some bitterness and anger that were so necessary to create satirical newspaper cartoons therefore an attempt to settle in the art department of a provincial newspaper in kansas city was not successful accumulating a little money from the video project and advertising photography for local newspapers disney decided to leave kansas city and move to hollywood california to set up a cartoon studio before setting off to hollywood walt finished working on the live-action animation alice's wonderland and took the final reel with himself in july 1923 he arrived in hollywood that had already become the center of the world cinema roy walt's brother was already in california the first days walt walked around pavilions and film sets from morning till night carefully studying the process of making movies he managed to make his real career here despite having 40 dollars in his pocket and only one shirt in his suitcase after several attempts walt disney was convinced of the futility of exploring the studios hoping to find a job if there is no work he said to himself i have to do something on my own walt and roy rent a small garage from their uncle robert disney walt invited virginia davis an american child actor who was already a live action star of alice's wonderland they hired two employees who ink and painted the celluloid walt rented a shabby shooting camera and installed it in the garage roy operated the camera and disney was responsible for animation on october 16 1923 walt disney and roy o disney founded disney brothers cartoon studio walt and roy were filming alice comedies and were looking for a distributor they managed to find one and signed a contract with margaret j winker a new york cartoon distributor and agreed to deliver 12 alice comedy series on december 26 1923 they produced the first comedy series alice's day at sea and received 1 500 for it walt enthusiastically started working on live action animation alice in wonderland in february 1924 they relocated to a new office located in a former real estate agency at 4651 kingswell avenue walt hired the first animator roland hamilton and invited his old friend abby iwerks and his family to relocate to california to join the disney bros cartoon studio his key focus became the film scenarios so he delegated primary responsibilities of animation to ubi eyeworks that was the end of walt's career as an animator in december 1924 walt disney hired hugh harmon and rudolf rudy carl icing walt personally hired an inker lillian bounds on july 13 1925 walt disney and lillian bounds got married soon virginia davis no longer played alice therefore they invited both don o'day and margie gay to play the role however the series alice comedies lost popularity and by 1927 ended the primary focus of the series was done more on the animated characters than on the live action alice that is why alice comedies lost their popularity among the audience the story of oswald the lucky rabbit was not smooth for walt disney in 1926 the walt disney studio received an order from a producer charles mintz to develop an animated character and all animated cartoon series for universal pictures ubi iwerks created and drew the oswald rabbit in total they produced 26 animated oswald rabbit's features the project was very successful it became quite popular and highly demanded however in february 1928 when walt disney flew to new york to discuss a higher fee to produce the oswald rabbit cartoon series charles mintz offered disney to cut expenses by 20 and propose to reduce the fee walt disney could not agree to such conditions and declined mince's requirement walt disney's hands were tied because the oswald rabbit trademark belonged to universal pictures and such animators as fris freling carmen maxwell hugh harmon and rudy icing were performing under the terms of the contracts signed with universal pictures declining to agree on reductions most of their animators were hired away except iwerks who later would help disney to create a new character mickey mouse that would become a triumph for walt disney and his studio after losing the rights to oswald the lucky rabbit walt disney was understandably disappointed in the spring of 1928 walt disney asked dub iwerks to develop a new character abby tried many sketches of animals including dogs cats a female cow a male horse a male frog however walt disney did not like none of the ideas mickey mouse inspired the team from a tame mouse that had been drawn by hugh harmon at lafo graham studio yet in 1925. therefore ub started working on improving the original sketches of mickey mouse it is interesting to know that the original name of the character was mortimer mouse before his wife lillian disney convinced him to change it to mickey mouse thus ub iworks animated mickey mouse and walt disney gave it a soul being the mickey's voice until 1947. on may 15 1928 the disney team first featured mickey mouse in a test screening of a short cartoon plane crazy however the audience was not impressed by the new character walt gave another try and featured the mickey in another short cartoon the gallop and gaucho unable to find a distributor the cartoon was not released either however walt disney did not give up and on november 18 1928 mickey appeared in steamboat willie a short animated film with sound code directed by walt disney and ub iworks this time walt managed to find a distributor pat powers an entrepreneur involved in the movie and animation industry became steamboat willie distributor and sold disney cinephone sound system that allowed to release steamboat willie with soundtracks that led walt disney to success furthermore the plane crazy the galloping gaucho were re-released with sound tracks and all subsequent mickey mouse animated cartoons were released with soundtracks as well followed in the footsteps of mickey mouse series a series of 75 animated short films called silly symphony had been released by walt disney team from 1929 to 1939. in 1930 columbia pictures agreed to distribute silly symphony series by 1932 mickey mouse had become a favorite cartoon character silly symphony also performed well but it just needed that extra added touch the same year disney noticed an increase of competition one of their main competitors was max fleischer a polish jewish american animator who created an animated character betty boo it was considered as the most famous sex symbols of animation on april 13 1931 columbia pictures suspended the distribution of walt disney's films and was replaced by united artists by the end of 1932 an american scientist and engineer herbert thomas kalmas completed his first three-strip technicolor camera he met with walt disney and proposed him to re-release the black and white flowers and trees through technicolor camera in 1932 the colored flowers and trees brought walt disney remarkable success and the first academy award oscar for best short subject cartoons after releasing flowers and trees illustrated in color all next silly symphony series were illustrated in color as well on may 27 1933 following the success of silly symphony disney released another animated short film the three little pigs directed by burke gillette the animated film was the hit for many months in theaters the walt disney productions invested 22 000 in it and grossed 250 000. it was the second animated short film that received academy award for best animated short film in 1934. in 1935 when disney production was rapidly growing he announced a competitive recruitment contest for artists the company received 6 000 applications and eliminated most candidates during the preview of their submitted drawings as a result of hard work walt disney managed to select 30 potential employees and only 10 of them were able to handle their duties at the studio since there were few animators with professional skills walt disney had to educate them himself the turning point that played a significant role not only in the animation industry but also in business was the creation of the world's first full-length animated cartoon call snow white and the seven dwarfs made in technicolor when roy disney estimated the expected cost of the film he shuddered with horror it was a half million dollar forecast this was almost double cost of the entire annual production of the studio walt and roy could not afford to shoot a full length film with live actors extras expedition and built scenery to obtain the funding they turned for help to loan officers to persuade them to believe in the success of snow white walt disney had to show them a rough draft of the motion picture lone officers believed in disney and after three years of work on the film it was finally released under the distribution agreement with rko radio pictures the total budget spend amounted to 1488 423 on december 21 1937 the animated musical fantasy film premiered at the carthage circle theater and the audience highly admired it snow white brought them a profit of 8 million dollars the resulting wealth was not accidental or unexpected walt disney had been working very hard to reach this goal he would have reached it one way or another maybe this would have required many years more however snow white and the seven dwarfs made walt disney a millionaire immediately walt disney earned a great fortune on film production but all financial matters were secondary for him whatever benefits they could bring most of his savings he put on the protection of his artistic interests he had no lust for money and he could have much more of it if he wanted to disney considered money as a working tool it would be wrong to say that disney struggled for some lofty artistic ideals however it was clear that he did not want to depend on anyone else the disney art can be regarded differently but he often put it above the desire to make money in 1940 the walt disney studios released full length features pinocchio an american animated musical fantasy film and continued to work on fantasia bambi peter penn the short's teammates were working on donald duck goofy mickey mouse and pluto animated short series when the united states entered world war ii most of the disney studios facilities were involved in cooperation with the us army and navy bureau of aeronautics the disney team was responsible for creating training and instruction motion pictures such as victory through air power aircraft carrier landing signals an animated propaganda short film der fuhrer's face featuring donald duck in a nightmare working at a factory in nazi germany in horrible conditions the latter one won the academy award for best animated short film on march 4 1943. in a post-war period the walt disney studio started working on cinderella that became the most popular full-length animated film since snow white and the seven dwarfs along with the complex real world an imaginary world of fairy tales were living in the walt disney's mind being tired of the long-term film production industry he found himself at the mercy of a new idea in building a theme park which he called disneyland the idea of disneyland came into walt disney's mind when he was attending griffith park in los angeles with his daughters diane and sharon to get inspiration he started to visit other play parks including tivoli gardens in denmark children's fairyland in the united states and efteling in the netherlands however the story of its creation from concept to realization was not easy investors were sympathetically sighing talking about hard times and advised walt to go somewhere to relax when disney was trying to make them interested in his new venture his brother roy did not support him either he believed that the project would not bring revenue in a desperate attempt to get funding for the project disney turned for help to the television industry although the industry of show business was considered almost a pariah at that time disney agreed to cooperate with the joint venture abc in exchange for the investments in the amount of five million dollars disney agreed to broadcast mickey mouse short film series on television walt disney purchased 160 acres of land in anaheim california the construction of disneyland started on july 16th 1954 with the total investment spend of 17 million dollars the opening day was held on sunday july 17 1955. since then everything went differently for abc as well as for walt disney company and the american public disneyland quickly became an american landmark as of 2014 16.77 million people visited disneyland in anaheim therefore another concept of the artist that seemed just a fantasy turned into a big business venture the walt disney company has four disneyland parks in california tokyo hong kong and paris and one walt disney world in ontario florida also the entertainment conglomerate has in its assets 320 disney stores located throughout the world hockey and baseball teams a number of newspapers and magazines and diversified television networks lillian's first pregnancy ended in miscarriage she became pregnant again and on december 18 1933 gave a birth to daughter diane marie disney later the parents adopted sharon may disney due to lillian's birth complications at the age of 20 diane married ron miller they had seven children christopher joanna tamara jennifer walter ronald and patrick the miller family founded a winery in california called silverado vineyards later diane disney miller became the co-founder of the walt disney family museum she died on november 19 2013. sharon may disney was born december 31 1936 in los angeles california on may 10 1959 she married robert brown their marriage lasted until robert's death in 1967. they had one child in 1969 sharon disney and william lund got married they had two children but in 1975 they got divorced walt disney not only had a strong creative will but also was an influential leader and organizer he paid great attention to recruitment and organization processes the working process of the disney studio was as perfect and accurate as his drawings and cartoons he always required from the animators and artists to work according to high professional standards however to hire a sufficient number of experts was tough all his life walt disney considered himself as a good manager however many workers were disgruntled by the system of management they believed that they had made a significant contribution to the filmmaking and demanded the recognition of copyrights while walt thought the original authorship belonged to the walt disney company the animators strike broke out at the studio the u.s department of state helped to defuse the situation by organizing a business trip for disney in south america the conflict gradually subsided but the question was not resolved until the end the path traversed by disney as the road in a length of 40 years during of which he became a major industrialist in the field of cinema and television here is what one might achieve endowed with talent perseverance imagination and determination walt disney made the general public love the animation we identify the emergence of his cartoon characters on the screen with the joy of life and for that he deserves the greatest glory walt disney died at 9 30 a.m on december 15 1966 when he was 65 the cause of death was acute circulatory collapse however the work he had started is continuing to live and grow steadily till now the revenue of the walt disney company in the fiscal year 2015 reached 52.46 billion dollars with its media networks parks and resorts studio entertainment consumer products and 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Length: 22min 30sec (1350 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 16 2020