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Walt Disney was born on December 5th, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Disney was the fourth child in the family out of five. His father 's name was Elias Disney and his mother’s name was Flora Call Disney. His father was Canadian and his mother was from Ohio. Disney was raised on his uncle’s farm near Marceline, Missouri. He actually used many of the farm animals that he grew up with in his animated

Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Elias, was a carpenter when Walt was born. Eventually, Elias and his wife, Flora, saved up enough money to start a home building company together. Walter had four siblings: Roy, Herbert, Raymond, and Ruth (Russell 9). Because Ruth was younger than Walt, Walt waited until the age of seven to start school so that he could start at the same time as Ruth. Before he went to school, his mother, Flora, taught him how to read (Russell 10). Walt grew up on the Disney family farm and worked hard on the farm. He worked at the neighbor’s farm- raising corn, wheat, barley, cows, pigs, and chickens (Giltin 18). Later, Elias grew sick, and the Disney’s had to sell the farm. They moved to Kansas City (Russell 11). Throughout Walter’s schooling, he loved to be on stage- directing, producing, and being on stage (Russell 11). Many things inspired Walt Disney’s creativity: moving, roaming, playing in the farmyard, fishing, doodling in class, and editing the school newspaper are just a few

On December 5, 1901, Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney gave birth to a man who would eventually change our world by the creation of a little mouse. Walter Elias Disney, who was also known as “Walt,” was born in a small town in Chicago, Illinois, by a father who was an Irish-Canadian descent, and his mother who was a German- English descent. Walt was one out of five children, four brothers and a sister. Their names were Herbert Arthur Disney, Raymond Arnold Disney, Roy Oliver Disney, and Ruth Flora Disney. Walt was the oldest one out of the five. While he attended school, he was introduced to Walter Pfeiffer, who decided to show Walt vaudeville and the art of making movies. Walt decided to drop out of high school, at the age of sixteen, to join the army. He was rejected to join because he was too young of age. He and a friend decided to join the Red Cross, where Walt was an ambulance driver during World War II. In 1919, Walt moved to Kansas City to begin a career in art, and worked for the newspaper, as a newspaper artist. He met Ubbe Iwerks, and he and Disney soon made their own commercial company called, “Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists.”

Flora and Elias Disney had Walter on December 5, 1901 in Hermosa, IL, a suburb of Chicago. Flora was German-American whereas Elias was Irish-Canadian, so Walt comes from many different cultural backgrounds. He was the fourth boy and fourth oldest child of the family as Walt had four other siblings; Herbert, Raymond, Roy, and Ruth, respectively. Walt was actually named after Preacher Walter Parr after Elias and him were close and both mutually agreed to name their next born boy after the other man.

Disney’s life was full of many different actions to make it worth living. He was born on December 5,1901, in Chicago Illinois. Walt had other siblings, four boys and one girl. After his birth, the family moved to Marceline Missouri, he lived most of his childhood here. As he started to get older, his family moved

Walt Disney: How Did One Man Build A Lasting Empire By: Maggie Goodpaster When one thinks of Walt Disney, one often thinks of the beloved Mickey Mouse image. Now, many people also love Disney World theme parks, but the question is, "How did one man go from "Steamboat Willy" to a $60 billion dollar company?" Walt Disney began his vision with the creation of asmall cartoon studio, that produced several successful animated movies in the early and mid 20th Century, and then progressed to the construction of modern day, billion dollar theme parks, and finally concluded with the purchase of multi- billion dollar modern day movie studios.

Walt was born on December 5th, 1901 in Chicago ("Disney's Vision for America"). He was one of five other children that Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney had. Once Walt was born his family moved to a town in Missouri, where walt grew up ("Walt

Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. He had three brothers and one sister and his parents were Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney(Katherine and Richard Greene 7). He hired an assistant named Lillian Bounds and on July 13, 1925 they got married(45). On December 18, 1933 they had a little baby girl named Diane and on December 31, 1936 they adopted a baby girl named Sharon(76).

He had 4 siblings 3 boys one girl. One of the boys names is Roy and the girl’s name is Ruth. He once went to perform at the theater behind his father’s back. Walt Disney went to McKinley High School. He developed his artistic skills at Kansas City art institute and Chicago art institute.

Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Chicago, Illinois. His father was Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, who was a building contractor, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, was German-American, who was a public school teacher. Walt was one of five children, four boys and a girl. He lived most of his youth in Marceline, Missouri, where he began painting, drawing, and selling pictures to neighbors and family friends. In 1911, his family moved to Kansas City, where Walt acquired a love for trains. His uncle, Mike Martin, was a train engineer who worked the route between Fort Madison, Iowa and Marceline. Later, Walt would work a summer job selling snacks and newspapers to travelers at the railroad. (Grice, 2013)

Walter Elias “Walt” Disney was born the 5th of December 1901 in Hermosa, Illinois. His parents were Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian and Flora Call, a German-American. Elias worked as a building contractor and Flora as a teacher. His father was a very strict and religious man who was known to often physically abuse his children. He was a building contractor when Walter was born, but soon after took over a farm in Marceline Missouri. Disney was one of five children born to the couple, four boys and a girl. He was the creator of one of the best known motion picture production companies in the world, Walt Disney Productions, which he co-founded with his brother Roy. Walt Disney was a very innovative animator, creating the well known cartoon character Mickey Mouse. He also earned himself 22 Academy Awards during his lifetime and was the founder of Disneyland and walt Disney World.

After the success of Snow White, Disney tried to create realistic animation that lasted for some of Disney’s most classic movies. This era was called Disney Formalism. The beautiful drawings paired with interesting stories entertained children and adults while making the company well known and successful. With this new goal in mind and “In perusing and reaching the limits of hyperrealist animation, Disney became the most visible studio in American animation … Disney Formalist filmmaking … was established during a very brief period of Disney's early history with films [like] Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Bambi”

Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 and was the fourth child of Elias and Flora Disney. He was an extremely talented child, exhibiting tremendous creativity at such a young age. Walt began drawing pictures in the 1st grade and continued until the day he died. Another of his

Walt was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 5, 1901. He was the 4th born out of 5 children. Walt’s father; Elias, abused his children and was a very strict man. When Walt was nine years

Walt Elias Disney was born December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, but moved shortly after his birth to the Disney family farm in Marceline, Missouri and shortly after he moved to Kansas City. He was too young to remember Marceline, so he considered Kansas his home.He had three brothers and a sister who were raised by their parents Elias and Flora Disney. He grew up a regular kid; disliked school work and loved to play. Early in his life, Walt started drawing and would often draw rather than do his homework. He even sold cute, little sketches to the neighbors when he was seven years old.