Ub Iwerks

After Walt met Ub Iwerk they became good friends they started their own company together. The business wasn’t doing too well so it closed after a month. Walt got another job at Kansas City Slides he learned almost everything about animation there. Walt started another company on his own hired a few men including Ub Iwerks. Walt made a new cartoon and decided to make a real person voice the character, but it was never

when in 2006 the Walt Disney Company reacquired the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from NBC Universal. (Bellis, 3). Mickey was created as a replacement for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. In the spring of 1928, Disney asked Ub Iwerks to start drawing up new character ideas. Iwerks tried sketches of various animals, such as dogs and cats, but none of these appealed to Disney. A female cow and male horse were also rejected. They would later turn up as Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar. Walt Disney

trusty companion, Ub Iwerks. "Ok, Ub. First day. Let's get started!" I stated I happily worked with Universal Pictures for about 2 years and then I got the best idea in the entire world! "UB? GET IN HERE NOW!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. "What?! What did you do now?" retorted Ub. "Look at this sketch I made of this adorable little bunny," I said, showing him the sketch of a bunny with long black ears and blue shorts. "That looks great, Walt. But what are you going to call him?" Ub asked. "I was

all of the drawings himself so he recruited a few members, he then thought about how he’d pay his interns and they came to an agreement so that if Walt makes money out of this animation stuff he promised to share it with the interns. So, his friend Ub and a few other friends started up a company. They spent days making up jokes, goofing around with a movie camera, and drawing characters. Then one day, Walt was working on a film he called “Alice’s Wonderland”. It was about a real girl whose name is

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 got his first job as an artist, but it was against his father’s wishes. Walt started working and met a man by the name of Ub Iwerks. Both Walt and Ub got laid off from their jobs, so they decided to make their own company. They called it the Iwerks-Disney company, which changed to Laugh-O-Grams, which were stories from the news headline told in a funny way. Walt and Ub sold the Laugh-O-Grams to Newman’s Theatre, which was an important theatre. They made a new character called Oswald the Lucky

cartoons. Walt managed the creative parts of the business while Roy managed the financial end. They set up shop in their Uncle’s garage and got to work. Walt convinced Ub Iwerks to join him in the business by being one of his animators. Soon the trio got working, they borrowed a small amount of cash and began to think. Disney and Iwerks came up with a small rabbit named Oswald. Oswald The Rabbit was licensed to Universal Studio’s at $1500 episode. This helped launch their small business. The series

Walt Disney, a pioneer of the American animation industry, was not insulted by the phrase your imagination is “childlike” or “immature”. He turned these images, ideas, and childhood dreams in his head into reality, creating a multi-million dollar empire. Disney faced many struggles along his whole life journey, but did not give up. His heart and determination for animation led to an out-of-this-world theme parks along with highly successful films. Disney’s innovations have entertained many generations

Walt Disney “If you can dream it, you can do it” (Brainy). Walt Disney certainly was a dreamer, but he turned his dreams into a reality. Walt Disney was an inspiring man who “set the standard” of the cartoon-animation industry. He did not have an easy start in his early years of childhood, and he did not just keep ‘climbing the ladder’ in the cartoon industry, but his trials and hardships led to the many accomplishments attached to his name. His work not only affected those of his lifetime, but

There was a man that once created a wonderful, world famous mouse named Mickey. The creator of this mouse was Walt Disney. Walt Disney had a very adventurous, fun, creative mind. This creative mind of his brought Disney to a very high point in life. Thankfully he decided to share his wonderful ideas with the world. On December 5, 1901 Walt Disney was born Hermosa, Chicago Illinois . On October 16, 1923 Walt and his brother Roy Disney created a company called Disney Brothers Cartoon Studios