History

Walt was born to

Flora and Elias
Disney on
December 5th
1901 in Chicago,
Illinois.  His full
name was Walter
Elias Disney after
the Reverend
Walter Parr.  
In 1910 he enrolled in the Benton Grammar School
while working as a newspaper delivery boy, later
attending the Kansas City Art Institute.
In 1918, at the
end of World
War One, Walt
forged his
parents
signature to
work in the Red
Cross
Ambulance
Corps in
France.  Upon
returning from
France, he
bought his first
movie camera.
Walt marries Lillian
Bonds on July 13, 1925.
In 1927, Walt produces
"Oswald the Lucky
Rabbit" cartoons for
Universal Pictures.  In
1928, he loses the
Oswald character and
creates "Steamboat
Willie" starring Mickey
Mouse~ the first
cartoon with fully
synchronized sound.
In 1932,  the first color
cartoon, "Flowers and
Trees" was made.  Walt
also received the first
Oscar awarded to an
animated cartoon for this.
When Walt Disney took a five-day train trip with his wife Lillian,
that he came up with the idea of a cartoon mouse named
Mortimer
His wife rejected the name of the mouse, and Disney ended up
changing it from Mortimer to Mickey
It is interesting to note that Mickey Mouse started out as an impish,
mischievous character that played a cow's teeth like a xylophone in
his first movie.
Today, Mickey Mouse
is normally dressed in
red shorts with two
buttons on the front,
large yellow shoes,
and his trademark
white gloves. He
sports a bulbous black
nose, and he has large
eyes. The only
similiarities he has to a
real mouse are his
large mouse ears, and
his long, skinny tail.
Other than those
features, Mickey
Mouse has his own
distinctive look.
As for Mickey Mouse, he still magically
lives on with his friends---Minnie Mouse,
Morty, Ferdie, Pluto, Donald Duck, Huey,
Dewey, Louie, Daisy Duck, Goofy, Maxie
Disney produced
the first feature-
length cartoon,
Snow White and
the Seven
Dwarfs ...
Walt Disney
World
In 1964, land is bought in
Orlando, Florida for the
Disney World theme park.
On November 30,
he went back to the
hospital. And on
December 15, he
died.
 The Walt Disney Company
today owns, among other
assets, five vacation
resorts, eleven theme
parks, two water parks,
thirty-nine hotels, eight
motion picture studios, six
record labels, eleven cable
television networks, and
one terrestrial television
network. As of 2007, the
company has an annual
revenue of over U.S. $35
billion.