Who is Disney?

Walt Disney is a legend. His name is a symbol of dreams. He created the cartoon character Mickey Mouse, produced the first complete animated film in film history, and created the Disney theme. Park, formed a modern multimedia company, and his ideas changed the face of the world. Walt Disney is a hero of the 20th century.

Walt Disney created this classic cartoon image of Mickey Mouse in 1928 and is known as the father of Mickey Mouse.

The Walt Disney Company is currently the second largest media company in the world. It also operates a number of Disney theme parks around the world, with annual revenue of US$25 billion.

And all this is thanks to the company founder Walt Disney. In Disney's own words: "It all started with a mouse."

December 5 this year Today marks the 105th anniversary of the birth of Walt Disney, and his name will always be remembered.

Career: Father of Mickey Mouse

Walt Disney was born in Chicago, USA on December 5, 1901. His father was a Spanish immigrant. In 1906, Disney Sr. used all his family property to buy a small farm in Marceline, northeastern Kansas, and his family moved there ever since.

Talent:

Sold a painting in his childhood and determined to be a painter as a teenager

Walter was the fourth of five children in the family. Walter had nothing to play with, so he drew small farm animals on scratch paper. The mother discovered her son's talent for painting and bought him a picture album. Walter copied it all day long, and the more he painted, the better. Once, a doctor named Sherwood took a fancy to his painting and bought it for 5 cents. When he was 15 years old, Walter thought that he might become a painter in the future.

In 1918, the United States entered World War I. Walter was only 17 years old this year. He lied about his age by one year, joined the Red Cross, and became an ambulance driver.

Entrepreneurship:

The "ghost" who founded an animation company and fled with the money

After the war, Walter returned to Chicago. He went to apply for a job at a newspaper office, but he failed Rejected, he found a job at a movie advertising company paying $40 a week.

In 1922, Walter quit his job in an advertising company, raised $1,500 by himself, and founded a cartoon production company. Walter hired two salesmen to promote cartoons across the country. Unexpectedly, the two salesmen took the company's money and fled, leaving Walter in trouble and finally declared bankruptcy.

Start:

Go to California to jointly form an entertainment empire with his brother

In the summer of 1923, Disney came to Hollywood, California, and joined forces with his brother Roy. He used $3,200 to start a new business and established the "Disney Brothers Animation Production Company". This was the real beginning of today's Disney entertainment empire.

He and his brother Roy established Hebron Studios in July 1925. In 1926, Disney changed the name of "Disney Brothers Company" to "Walt Disney Company".

Peak:

The birth of Mickey Mouse made Disney famous.

In 1928, he created three cartoons with Mickey Mouse as the protagonist. Disney has extremely strict requirements on the quality of the film. The detailed movements in the film required 20,000 hand-painted frames, but Disney did it. The funds ran out and Disney sold his beloved sports car. He wanted to make the film perfect. By 1930, Mickey Mouse had become a household name around the world.

After Walter's right-hand assistant Yub was poached, he fell seriously ill and temporarily stopped the production of Mickey Mouse cartoons. In 1932, he revived and produced Disney's first color animated film with sound, "Flowers and Trees," which won an Oscar that year. Following this, Walter successively released a number of outstanding cartoons such as "The Three Little Pigs", "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "Pinocchio", "Bambi", and "Fantasia".

Challenges:

Slowdown in career after World War II The birth of Disneyland

After World War II, Walt Disney’s career began to slow down.

As in the film industry, Walter also became a pioneer in the television industry. He began making television films in 1954 and succeeded in achieving good visual color effects on television in 1961.

After the war, Walt's greatest contribution was the establishment of Disneyland in Los Angeles in 1995. He built a larger paradise in Florida in the eastern United States.

Died:

Died of cancer in his later years after a brilliant life

Walt Disney was very active in the last 6 years of his life. Unfazed by his lung cancer, he was eager to do more. In July 1966, Walt Disney and his wife spent their 41st wedding anniversary. He was full of children and grandchildren, enjoying the happiness that an old man should have. On December 15 of the same year, Walt Disney, who had just celebrated his 65th birthday, died of illness. He did not wait for the release of his 19th animated film "The Jungle Book", and he did not get to see the completion of Disney World in Florida.

Marriage: Pursuit of female subordinates

In 1925, his brother Roy got married, and Walter began to live alone. This made Disney, who was not in a hurry, no longer able to hold back. He took a fancy to Lillian Penders, a beautiful girl in his factory.

My wife is a female studio worker

Miss Lillian was born in a pioneer family. She graduated from Lewiston Business School in 1923 and then entered the Disney studio. She was told not to marry one of the Disney brothers because they were determined to be single. But Lillian discovered that Walter was a very attractive and individual young man. He always has a small beard to make himself look older, and he always wears a few shabby and ill-fitting clothes randomly. His status as the head of the same film studio is extremely inappropriate.

Disney began to pursue Lillian and often drove her home in his old Ford car. Shortly thereafter, on a night when Lillian was working alone, he walked into the drawing workshop and kissed her for the first time.

Help shine shoes on the wedding night

On July 13, 1925, they were married at her mother's house in Lewiston, Idaho. Their wedding night was spent on the express train from Lewiston to Seattle. Things did not go as Lillian had imagined, because the groom Walter suddenly suffered from toothache and could not stay with the bride all night. Instead, he went to help the sleeping car attendant polish the passengers' leather shoes. Walter explained to her that this would make her forget about the toothache.

Walter was told that he could not have children, which almost led him to commit suicide. But in the early summer of 1933, Lillian told him she was pregnant, which made him ecstatic. On December 18, 1933, they had a daughter, Diane Marie Disney.

Awards: Presidential Medal of Freedom

■ Word of mouth

“Walt Disney is the most prominent figure in painting since Leonardo da Vinci.”

——British political cartoonist David Rowe

“Disney is a creative genius who has brought joy to people all over the world, but if we only look at this aspect It is still not enough to judge his contribution... Disney may have made greater contributions to healing and comforting the human mind than any other psychiatrist in the world. ”

— — CBS commented on Disney

■ Awards

Disney has won many awards for his creative art form throughout his life. In 1939, Disney won the "Academy Award" from the American Film Institute. He has personally participated in the production of 600 films and animated short films, winning 29 Academy Awards and hundreds of other awards. In 1965, U.S. President Johnson awarded Disney the "Presidential Medal of Freedom" in recognition of his special contributions to world art.

Is he an illegitimate child?

According to a recent report by the British "Sunday Times", villagers in a remote Spanish village confirmed that Walt Disney was the result of a passionate affair between a doctor and an outstanding-looking washerwoman in the last century. product. Shortly after Walter was born, his mother sent him to Chicago, USA. In 1901, he was adopted by Elias Disney and baptized for the second time in June 1902. Since then, he has received a new name - Walt Elias Disney.

After Disney became famous, he conducted an investigation into his birth, but was unable to confirm his ancestry.

FBI Agent!

Walt Disney also had a dark side. He became a domestic agent for the FBI in October 1940. He made blacklists and persecuted those enlightened people, including Charlie Chaplin. Not immune either. Although the FBI has long confirmed Disney's whistleblower role, other records from that period have not yet been made public. In addition, the person who revealed this secret to the public was not the FBI itself, but an American writer named Mark Elliott. He confirmed in 1993 that Walt Disney was "Hollywood's Prince of Darkness."