Ub Iwerks

He started at jobs all over just to learn more about animation and productions, through this process he met his soon to be close friend Ub Iwerks. Through working at different jobs and getting laid off at each of them Ub and Disney decided to leave, once Disney felt confident enough he started his own business, Laugh-O-Gram Films in 1922. Here he created one of his major accomplishments in his career, the Alice’s Wonderland,

family, “where developed a love of trains [with his uncle, Mike Martin](“bio” 1). He went to Mckinley High School and Chicago Art Institute, but “he dropped out the school” (“bio” 1). Disney created his first cartoon character with his ex-coworker Ub Iwerks, “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit”, but Disney didn't own it. (“bio” 1).Later, he came up with Mickey Mouse, which is well known as a symbol of The Walt Disney Company . Mickey Mouse ‘s “first silent cartoon” was “Plane Crazy”(Richards 1). Later, the film

there; Disney met Ubbe Eert Iwwerks-known as Ub Iwerks-a cartoonist who helped Disney launch his artistic career. When Disney and Ub Iwerks joined the Kansas City Film Ad Company, Disney’s focus shifted from newspaper ads to commercials based on cutout animation. During Disney’s time at the company, he became acquainted with cameras and hand drawn cell animations. His experience at the Film Ad Company prompted Disney to create his own ad company with Iwerks. Their first employee was Fred Harman, a cartoonist

his brother Roy O. Disney co-founded The Walt Disney Company. The creation of Mickey Mouse; it all started when Charles Mintz suggested an all-cartoon series, with a rabbit as the hero: “ Walt thought that was a fine idea and set to work with Ub Iwerks on a cartoon character with so much personality, be seemed to be almost human” (Disney 43). Oswald the Rabbit was becoming popular all around the country. But Charles Mintz had a plan that Walt knew nothing about. Charles was planning to offer Walt’s

You walk into the living room, and you hear the famous Disney music coming from the television that your child is placed in front of. You start to wonder where did your favorite Disney movies come from and how were they created? What was Walt Disney’s childhood like when he was younger that made him want to animate and put together cartoons and movies? Where did his career start off from and how did he get to such a place? But the important question, who took over after Walt Disney passed? These

Inspiring Many: The True Story of Walt Disney “Walt Disney was a dreamer, just a kid who never grew up,” (University Meghan’s Channel”). He took his dreams and made them real in his motion pictures, sharing them with kids and adults around the world. Walt would become the greatest and most powerful innovator in film. His filmmaking and entrepreneurial skills would make him a lasting figure. Born in Chicago December 5, 1901 (Langer), Walt had an incredible dream fulfilling life ahead of him. His parents

a business franchise. It was founded in 1923 as a cartoon studio in Kansas City and its mission is to “Make people happy”. The Walt Disney Company history started when Ub Iwerks and Walter Elias Disney, after being fired from their previous job as drawing board artists, decided to open their own studio, which they called the Iwerks Disney. Once the idea of opening the studio was finalized, Walt decided that he wanted to transform the animation industry. In spite of doing the traditional cut-out method

where he took drawing and photography classes and was a cartoonist for his school newspaper. In 1919, Disney tried to start a career as a newspaper artist in Kansas City (Walt Disney Biography). When he was in Kansas City, he met a cartoonist named Ub Iwerks. He began doing experiments with a camera by doing hand-drawn cel animations, and then he ended up opening his own animation business. Disney and his first employee Fred Harmen shot a series of cartoons called Laugh-O-Grams. They began a series of

Disney returned from France in 1919, he moved back to Kansas City to achieve his career as a newspaper artist. Soon, Walt 's brother, Roy, found him a job at the Pesmen Rubin Art Studio, and there he had a chance to meet up with the cartoonist, Ub Iwerks. Afterwards, Walter started working at the Kansas City Film Ad Company. He made commercials based on cutout animation while working there. During this time, Walter started experimenting with a camera and did hand drawn animation. His love for animation

His first studio was in Kansas. He made what he called laugh-o-grams ( www.biography.com) with Ub Iwerks. After a couple of months Walt went bankrupt. But that didn’t stop Disney he soon went to live in California to build a studio in California. After four years Roy and Walt Disney went bankrupt for the second time. Walt took a little brake and then