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Mickey Mouse Research Paper

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Mickey Mouse, you know him, correct? Of course, you do he’s the face of Disneyland. But do you know that voice behind him? Let’s introduce Walt Disney, the man behind the smile. On December 5, 1901, he was born in Chicago, Illinois. He had 3 older brothers, Herbert, Raymond, and Roy. When he was 5 years old, his whole family moved to a farm in Missouri. This is where the magic started, when he was living there he was bizarre by all the animals. This is where all his ideas later on came from. What most people don’t know was that the Disney family was poor before Mickey Mouse was invented. As a result of this they didn’t have enough money to buy any kind of art supplies. However, Walt got a bit creative and started to draw on the side doors of the farm. When his father found out he got a beating, his father didn’t believe that he should be wasting his time messing around when he could be working. A couple of weeks later when his Aunt Margaret visited she saw that he had some kind of potential, so she got him some color pencils and art paper. …show more content…

During this time he became an illustrator’s apprentice, where he met a person who would always be with him, Mr.Ub Iwerks. Walt was still new to this whole business, so he really didn’t know how to promote films he did. Which made people steal from him at times. Furthermore, while all of this was happening his brother had just moved to California. Even throughout all of the struggle in 1923 he finally got the idea of making a short film for Alice in Wonderland. While in reality, his struggle in the industry was just

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