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INTRODUTION
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IN THIS REPORT WE WILL TALK ABOUT AN ICONIC CHARACTER FOR
THE American animation industry, MR. WALTER ELIAS DISNEY, BORN ON December 5,
1901, IN Hermosa, Chicago, Illinois, United States. The fourth of the five
children that Elias and Flora Disney had, his childhood was spent amid economic
hardships and under the severity of his father, a carpenter by profession, who
tried his luck in all kinds of businesses without ever managing to improve the
battered economy. of the. Eternally belittled by his father, Walt grew up very
close to his mother, a former teacher of German descent, and his brother Roy,
eight years older than him.
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BIOGRAPHY
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In 1909 his father became ill and the family had to move to Kansas City. There he would start working as a newspaper deliveryman, a job that he combined with his studies, in which he did not stand out. He preferred drawing and comics; The first ones he drew would appear in the newspaper of his high school in Chicago, where the family had moved again.
In 1918, young Walt tried to enlist in the army. As he was not old enough, he falsified his birth certificate and, pretending to have turned seventeen, he managed to be admitted as a Red Cross ambulance driver. However, by the time he finished his training, World War I had already ended and his job was reduced to transferring officers.
Walt Disney's dream was to become an artist, and to do so he moved to Kansas City. There he began working as an apprentice at the Pesmen-Rubin Commercial Art Studio agency, where he met Ubbe Iwerks, an American animator and special effects technician – who in the future would actively participate in the creation of Mickey Mouse. Their friendship led them to found a company, Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists, but the dream barely lasted a month since Disney preferred a secure job, so he went to work at Kansas City Film Ad, although he convinced his new bosses so that they would also hire Iwerks. Two years later, Disney believed that he had already acquired all the knowledge necessary to undertake a new project.
In 1924 he joined his friend Ubbe
Iwerks, which allowed Walt to pursue his passion: creating characters, scripts
and directing. On July 13, 1925, Disney married Lillian Bounds, a studio
employee, with whom he would have two daughters. After having to change
locations, because the previous one had become too small, the company was
renamed Walt Disney Studio, but suffered a setback when its main client was
left with the rights to a character created by them called "the rabbit."
Oswald."
That fatal episode forced Disney
to dispense with intermediaries between him and his creations. During a trip to
New York, Disney conceived his star character, whom he initially called
Mortimer, although at the suggestion of his wife he would end up being called
Mickey. Disney provided the original voice of Mickey between 1928 and 1947. As
was the case with the works of all great geniuses, there was a rumor that the
beloved mouse did not come from Walt's pencils, but no one was ever able to
prove it. Since then, Mickey became a symbol and even, according to an American
survey, the best-known character in the world. One of the most unknown
anecdotes is that Walt himself voiced Mickey in more than one hundred titles
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CONCLUSIONS
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Mr. Walter
elias disney was an iconic character in the industrial, you could say that the
character who took him and continues to name him even after his death is mickey
mouse, however he was not the only character or important project that he
carried out during his career, in in 1932, disney created the silly symphonies,
a series of short films where donald duck, pluto and goofy appear for the first
time. A year later, in the same series of shorts, "the three little
pigs" made their appearance, who were going to have an unexpected success
with the song who's afraid of the big bad wolf. This became a kind of anthem
for all those victims of the great depression that affected the united states.
In 1937, disney produced his first feature film, snow white and the seven
dwarfs. With this film, he showed that cartoons could be a genre in themselves.
In addition
to his film projects, since the 1940s, disney had in mind the construction of
an amusement park so that his employees and his families could have fun in
their free time. Over time, this rather modest project would grow until it
became what we know today as disneyland.
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