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Walt Disney

Is it possible that a man who spent his childhood drawing farm animals on his uncle's farm, would in later years be labeled a Rembrandt? Born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Ill., Walter Elias Disney the fourth of five children had a hard life growing up. His family moved around alot, until they finally settled on his uncle's farm in Missouri (one hundred miles north east from Kansas City). With the small amount of spare time he had, spent it drawing. He realized at a young age how much he enjoyed it. Because the presence of the animals on the farm influenced him, he would sit down with no formal schooling and draw animals such as pigs, ducks, dogs, and even mice. This was the ...

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another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody." Replied Disney when a little boy asked him about his job. "I guess that is what I do."
At the age of sixteen, Disney left school and briefly started studying at art schools in Chicago, Illinois and Kansas City, Missouri. By that time he really knew what he wanted to do after he was done with school. In 1923, at the age of twenty two, Walter began to produce animated motion pictures in Hollywood, in partnership with his brother Roy.
Did you ever wonder who was behind the creation of some of the most famous cartoon characters of all time? Disney takes the credit for all of them. In 1928, Steamboat Willie, produced by his own company, introduced his most popular and enduring cartoon character, Mickey Mouse for the first time. This film also used synchronized sound for the first time in an animated cartoon. Some other firsts Disney takes the credit for are the first cartoon in full color, the first whole animated ...

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