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Walt Disney
Early Life Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5th, 1901 in the city of Chicago, Illinois. He was one of five children and lived most of his childhood in Marceline Missouri, where he found his passion for drawing and painting. He even began selling his artwork to neighbours and family friends. In 1911, his family moved to Kasnsas City where Disney became interested in trains. His uncle, a train engineer, gave him a summer job working on the railroad selling snack and newspapers. In Chicago Disney attended McKinely High School, there he took drawing and photography classes. At the early age of 16 Disney dropped out of high school and he faked his age to join the American Red Cross during World War 1. In 1919 he returned back to Chicago where he won a scholarship to the Kansas City Art Institute where he met the animator: Ub Iwerks. Disney began to experiment with a camera doing hand drawn cell animations and decided to home hi own animation business.

Failure In the early 1920's his company created an animated series called "Newman's Laugh-O-Grams" for the Newman theater chain. However after doing so the company soon went bankrupt. The two then set of to Hollywood in 1923 to try there luck again. There they started to work on a new series called "Alice Comedies". Through the financial support of Disney's brother the two produced hundreds fo Alice Comedies before loosing popularity.

Mickey Mouse In 1928 Disney discovered that the rights to his characters and several of his animators had been stoled away from him by M.J. Winkler and Charles Mintz. The only animator still at his side was Iwerks. While taking the train home Walt Started doodling on a piece of paper. The doodle was of a mouse named Mickey. Disney and Iwerks animated the cartoon and produced 3 Mickey Mouse Cartoons. The first two did not do very well, this is when Disney decided to add sound to the last one and it was an immediate success (Steamboat Willie - 1928).

Further Success Disney produced the first cartoon in color that went on be the first ever cartoon to win an oscar: Flowers and Trees (1932). In 1934, Disney began to work on a new idea: a cartoon that ran the length of a feature film. While continuing to produce cartoon shorts he began to produce more animated features. The first was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Despite the Depression it produced $1.499 million. After Snow White's success the following animated features followed: Pinocchio (1940), Dumbo (1941) and Bambi (1942), all successes. A strike in 1941 cause the company a brief set back. In the mid 1940's he attempted creating packaged features, which where groups of short packed together to run feature length. By 1950 Disney was back to creating animated features. These included: Cinderella (1950), Treasure Island (1950, Alice in Wonderland (1951, Peter Pan (1953), Lady and the Tramp (1955), Sleeping Beauty (1959 and 101 Dalmatians (1961). In total more than 100 featured were produced by the studio. On July 17th, 1955, a $17 million Disneyland theme park opened. It was meant to be a place where children and their parents go on rides and meet the familiar animated character in a clean and safe environment.

Death Due to chain smoking Disney developed lung cancer in 1966. He passed away shortly there after at the age of 65 on the 15th of December, 1966. His brother who had financially backed him for several years carried on his vision and built the Florida theme park, called "Walt Disney World", which premired in 1971. After this the theme park went global spreading to Tokyo, Paris and Hong Kong. Another location is scheduled to open in the spring of 2016 in Shanghai.