Walt Disney Is A Hero Of The Twentieth Century

Walt Disney is a house hold name to most families, he is the man who is known for creating one of the largest companies in the world (Disney). Though he almost didn’t have the chance to start this company. Starting with his love for art since he was born on 1901 in Chicago, IL. At the age of 16 Walt Disney became a Red Cross member driving an ambulance, and this is where he began drawings designs and cartoons in the ambulance. He then worked as a cartoonist in Kansas but that ended fairly quickly.

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.”

Walter Elias Disney was always seen as a very imaginative and outgoing person at any point in his life. Walt loved life and would make appearances at Disneyland all the time to make sure employees were being kind and courteous to the guests while managing to talk and ride rides with children that looked up to him. Never in his life would Walt give up on something, which made him very stubborn at times, but a good businessman with the guidance of his brother, Roy. All of these traits made Walt Disney into one of the greatest entrepreneurs the world has ever seen, and some say he even helped shape the 20th century.

Along with music and art, Disney's school taught such things as theater design, cinematography, sculpture, ceramics, and fashion design(www.tudlp.org Walt Disney Biography). Although many Americans have grand dreams very few follow through with them to the extent that Disney did. While in the midst of building his school Disney said "It's the principle thing that I hope to leave when I move on to greener pastures. If I can help to provide a place to develop the talents of the future, I think I will have accomplished something(www.tudlp.org Walt Disney Biography)." His need for the advancement of education shows that Walt Disney was not a common man. It shows that he was in fact a man with the makings of an American hero.

Walt Disney once said, “ You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” What Disney is trying to say is that you can dream anything you want to be or do, but it takes someone to make his/her dream a reality”(Brainy Quotes). What Disney is trying to say is that you can dream anything you want to be or do, but it takes hard work to make it a reality. Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois to his father Elias Disney and mother, Flora Disney. Disney was one of five children, four boys and, one girl. After Disney's birth, the Disney family moved to Missouri. Disney lived most of his childhood there. Disney had very early interests in art, he would

A lot of people just know Walt Disney as the guy who made Mickey Mouse, movies, and Disney World. All of that is true but he is much more than all of that. Walt was born on December 5,1901 in Chicago, Illinois (“Walt Disney”). His parents were Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney. He had 3 brothers and a sister. His spouse was Lillian Disney. They had two girls named Diane Disney and Sharon Disney (“Walt Disney”). His family moved to Missouri, and spent most of his boyhood on a farm near Marceline in Missouri. At age 16, he studied art in Chicago. In 1920, he joined the Kansas City Film Academy (“Walt Disney”). Walt Disney is an American hero because he is ambitious, talented, and creative.

“Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in the Hermosa section of Chicago, Illinois. His father was Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, was German-American.”(biography.com) In 1918, the United States joined World War 1. 25-year-old Brother Roy joined army, he told Walt about how great it is. So after that, Walt decided to join the war. After war ended, Walt go back to his hometown Chicago, and joined a company called “Pesmen Rubin Commercial Art Studio” to work and study how to make movie. “Walt discovered his first movie house on Marceline’s Main Street. There he saw a dramatic black-and-white recreation of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.”(justdisney.com)

Disney the fourth child of the five children, four boys and a girl, lived most of his childhood life in Marceline Missouri. He had an early interest in art and began drawing, painting to raise some extra cash by selling his work to neighbors and family friends. In 1911, Walt’s father had to sell their farm and relocate to Kansas State, where Disney and his brother contributed most of the work towards running Elias’s extensive newspaper route. The two boys (Walt and Roy) were dragged out of their beds every morning year around at 3:30 A.M. delivering newspapers, while their father kept all earnings. Walt’s uncle, Mike Martin, was a train engineer who worked the route between Fort Madison, Iowa and Marceline, thus Walt developed a love for trains and worked a summer job with the railroad, selling snacks and newspapers to travelers. He was a contributing cartoonist for McKinley High School in Chicago, where he took drawing and photography classes. In the evenings, he completed courses at the Chicago Art Institute. At age 16 he decided to drop out of school and join the army, but to underage was rejected. With the help of his mother he was able to forge his age and join the Red Cross, and was deployed to France for a year to drive an

Walt Disney went from a high school dropout at age 16, to a world famous film maker. When he was young he was very interesting in drawing pictures of different things around the farm. During World War I he helped many people by getting them help as an ambulance driver. After the war, he received many awards, he currently holds the record for the most academy awards and nominations. When he was little he would help on his family’s farm.

No matter what people said to him, Walt worked hard at what he loved to do, which was drawing. When he was little, Walt drew pictures, when he was not helping his dad with his paper route, and did not listen to any haters. As he got older and went to college, he made his first character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but soon lost rights over him. He did not let that stop him though, he shortened Oswald’s ears and made Mickey

Walter's childhood was cruel and his father was violent. In 1906, he moved to a farmhouse in Missouri with his family. Because of his father illness, the family moved again to a rented house until 1910 and then to Kansas City.

Walt Disney created his iconic character, Mickey Mouse, in the 1930s. The Mickey Mouse character is widely recognizable as an American icon, and provides the foundation, along with a host of other recognizable characters, for the Walt Disney empire. The Disneyland Theme Park opened in 1955 in California, while the Walt Disney World park opened in Florida in 1971 (Ferrell & Hirt, 2013). In 1983, the Walt Disney Company expanded beyond the United States, opening a park in Japan that would be followed in the coming decades by parks in France and China (Ferrell & Hirt, 2013).

Walt Disney had started making cartoon characters when he was about four years old. His passion is one of the reason he is like a hero to me. Anyone can be a hero if there brave, inspiring, and a leader. In my eyes Walt Disney shows bravery, and inspiration because he makes kids and adults happy by making theme parks and creating characters that makes people laugh and enjoy.

2. At age 22, Walt experienced bankruptcy after the failure of a cartoon series in Kansas City. He headed to Los Angeles with $40 in cash, and an imitation-leather suitcase containing only a shirt, two undershorts, two pairs of socks and some drawing materials. Feeling that others did animation better, his goal was to be an actor out in Hollywood. It never occurred.

Walt took classes at the Chicago Art Institute three nights a week. When summer finally rolled along, Walt worked for his father at the post office. Of course, even when working, Walt made drawings.When school started back up again, Walt was seventeen years old. He dropped out of school then to try and fight in the war. He got denied to fight because he was too young. So Walt lied about his age, and he got a job as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross. The Red Cross sent him to work in France, and of course in his free time, Walt drew cartoons. When he came back he didn’t want to work for his dad again, “I want to be an artist.”(Walt Disney) So he moved to Missouri, and when he finally found a job, it only lasted for six months. During those six months, Walt met a man named Ubbe Iwerks. The two men decided to go into business together. They wanted to make animations, or pictures that move. To make money to help make the animations, Walt and Ub made short films, which were about a minute long. Their first production was, “The Alice Comedies.” Walt wanted to make loner movies though which were about seven minutes long. He longed to make fairy tales. Walt and Ub finally came out with the production of Little Red Riding Hood. It took six months. Both men quit their day jobs, and opened a company called Laugh-O-Gram