Walt Disney Essay Research Paper Disney Productions

Walt Disney Essay, Research Paper

Disney Productions is one of the leading entertainment

businesses, bringing tremendous profits not to mention the

joy it brings many people. It has not always been this easy

for Disney however. It took the mind of one man to bring it

to what it is today, and that.s mans name is Walt Disney.

Walt Disney.s life was devoted to the arts and

entertainment almost from birth. However, Walt.s fortunes

and fame didn.t take form until his creation of Mickey

Mouse.

Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 and was the

fourth child of Elias and Flora Disney. He was an extremely

talented child, exhibiting tremendous creativity at such a

young age. Walt began drawing pictures in the 1st grade

and continued until the day he died. Another of his

exceptional talents was acting. Walt relished each

opportunity to perform on stage or in class. While in

elementary school "on Lincoln.s Birthday every year until

he graduated, Walt was hauled from class to class by the

principal to give the Gettysburg Address." (Fisher, 18)

Walt got bored with school however and dropped out at

the age of 16. He immediately got a job as a waiter on a

train line and kept this job until the U.S. entered the war.

Walt had a great desire to join the army, but was rejected

because he was to young. Since he still desired to have

some role in the war he became a volunteer with the Red

Cross. Within a week he was sent to the front and didn.t

return for one to two years. When Walt returned from he

war he told his father that he wanted to become an

animator, but his father did not approve. Walt ignored his

father.s advice and enrolled in art school.

Walt attended art school for several months in both

Missouri and Kansas City and then later found a job at an

advertising firm in Kansas. There he met a talented artist

named Ubbe Iwerks. Ubbe was a great animator and he

and Walt became good friends. Walt and Ubbe worked all

day for the advertising company, but at night they studied

the art of animation and experimented with ways to make

animation smoother by using light and a camera. Walt soon

quit his job at the advertising firm because he was not

satisfied with the work he was doing. He found a job in

Kansas City at a Film Ad Company. Walt was quickly

fired from this job and having nowhere else to go, he

returned home.

Walt and his brother Roy decided to form their own

business available jobs didn.t allow them the creative

freedom they deserved. They found a little place to set up

their own studio on Hyperion Ave. in Hollywood. If their

business were successful, it would be the first studio in the

city strictly for producing animation. Walt and Roy got their

studio up and moving within a few weeks and hired several

animators. They first produced a mini-series called Alice

that played in the previews of movie theatres, but they

knew it wouldn.t compare to Felix the Cat. Walt felt

something was missing at their studio and realized a need

for a master animator. Walt quickly called upon his old

friend, Ubbe Iwerks. Ubbe was convinced and headed

straight to Hollywood. With Walt creating stories, Ubbe

producing spectacular animation and Roy taking care of

finances they had a perfect formula.

Walt often worked late at night. "Mice gathered in my

wastebasket when I worked late at night. I lifted them out

and kept them in little cages on my desk. One of them was

my particular friend." (Disney qtd. in Fanning, 53) Walt first

drew the mouse up late at night and named it "Mortimer,"

but Roy was not fond of this name. However Walt was too

stubborn to change it. Roy talked to Walt.s wife, Lillian,

and she eventually got him to change it after days of

pleading. In fact, it was Lillian who ultimately named the

mouse "Mickey."

They first put Mickey in the short animation called, Plane

Crazy, named after Lindbergh.s flight across the world.

Immediately after that short feature Walt got the idea to

combine sound with the animation. This was extremely

difficult to do and it took Walt several attempts to find the

perfect composer. Since they were extremely low on

money Roy told Walt to forget sound for awhile and try

later, but Walt sound now. Steamboat Willie was their first

success and with sound on its side the film attracted many

audiences and Disney Productions had caught its first

break.

In 1932 Walt thought the addition of sound was great, but

with color it would be even better. Walt called Technicolor

and asked to acquire the exclusive rights to put the

Technicolor process into all of his films. Surprisingly

Technicolor accepted, but wanted a large fee fo

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