Walt disneys life accomplishments wiki

Walt Disney — was a film producer, media magnate and co-founder of the Walt Disney Company. He was an iconic figure in the Twentieth Century media and entertainment industry, helping to produce many films. With his staff, he created famous cartoon characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; his name was also used for the successful Disney Theme Parks.

During his lifetime, he received a record 59 Nominations for the Academy Awards, winning 22 Awards. Walt Disney was born on 5 December , in Chicago. He became the cartoonist for the school magazine. He was rejected for being underage, but he was later able to join in the Red Cross and in late was sent to France to drive an ambulance.

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In , he moved back to Kansas City where he got a series of jobs, before finding employment in his area of greatest interest — the film industry. It was working for the Kansas City Film Ad company that he gained the opportunity to begin working in the relatively new field of animation. Walt used his talent as a cartoonist to start his first work.

The success of his early cartoons enabled him to set up his own studio called Laugh-O-Gram. However, the popularity of his cartoons was not matched by his ability to run a profitable business. With high labour costs, the firm went bankrupt. After his first failure, he decided to move to Hollywood, California which was home to the growing film industry in America.

With his brother, Roy, Walt set up another company and sought to find a distributor for his new film — Alice Comedies — based on the adventures of Alice in Wonderland. He rejected an offer from Universal and went back to working on his own. It was at this point that he created the character — Mickey Mouse originally called Mortimer Mouse.