The Walt Disney Company

By: Jessica Rabbit

PSY 103

Spring 2012

Walter Elias Disney

• Born in Chicago on December 5th 1901

• Died December 15th 1967 of lung cancer

• Had 3 older brothers and 1 older sister

• Took up acting in high school

• Started drawing in college

Walter Elias Disney

• Loved history

• Tried to enlist in the Army but was too young-became an ambulance driver for the Red Cross

• Left for Hollywood at age 22

• Met Lillian Bounds who became Mrs. Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney

• Rarely showed emotion-only interested in better work, he became a demanding tyrant

• He was a heavy smoker and drinker

• His wife Lillian gave him the name “Mickey” for his mouse creation

The Walt Disney Company

• Founded on October 16th 1923

• Walt started with “Alice‟s Wonderland” as his first cartoon

• Company was originally named Disney Brother‟s Cartoons

• Roy Disney (Walt‟s older brother) took care of the finances while Walt did the drawing and creating

The Walt Disney Company

• Walt had a tendency to push financial boundaries; especially with “Alice‟s Wonderland”

• Walt created “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit” which ended up being stolen by M.J. Winkler who originally bought the cartoon

• Consumer products started with a guy wanting to put Mickey Mouse‟s face on school supplies for children

The Walt Disney Company

• WWII cause the studios to lose foreign markets

• From 1932 to 1942, a Disney Cartoon won an Oscar every year

• Now the company owns TV shows, publication companies, cruise lines, resorts, amusement parks an many other companies

The Extended Disney

• Disneyland opened in July 1955 in California

• Walt Disney World opened in October 1971 in Florida

• EPCOT opened that same day

• Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983

• Euro Disneyland opened in 1992

• Disney Cruise Line

The Extended Disney

• 8 Disney Vacation Club resorts

• Adventures by Disney

• 11 theme parks

• Disney Music Group

• Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records

The Disney Affiliates

• Disney- ABC Television Group

• ESPN Inc.

• Walt Disney Internet Group

• Broadway Musicals-Disney on Ice

The Disney Affiliates

• Touchstone Pictures

• Hollywood Pictures

• Disney Channel

• TOONDisney

Disney Works

• “Laugh-O-Grams”

• Alice‟s Wonderland

• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

• Mickey Mouse who was going to be named Mortimer

• Flowers and Trees- first all-color film

Disney Works

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs-first full length color film

• Man in Space- made 5 years before the US started own space program

• Steamboat Willie- first cartoon with sound

• Silly Symphonies-introduced Technicolor

• Produced propaganda and training films for the military during WWII

• “It‟s the principle thing I hope to leave when I move on to greener pastures. If I can help provide a place to develop the talent of the future, I think I will have accomplished something.” –Walt Disney

• “Disneyland would „never be completed… as long as there is imagination left in the world.”- Walt Disney

• “He brought us closer to the future, while telling us of the past, it is certain, that there will never be a such as great a man, as Walt Disney.”

Disney Quotes

Works Cited

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