https://padlet.com/00aledav88597/lgcqgq3kupb4 Made with charm en-us 2017-04-25 14:50:50 UTC 2025-11-02 20:29:23 UTC hello@padlet.com 00aledav88597 https://padlet.com/00aledav88597/lgcqgq3kupb4/wish/168129424 ¨Disney was one of five children, four boys and a girl. He lived most of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri, where he began drawing, painting and selling pictures to neighbors and family friends... Disney attended McKinley High School in Chicago, where he took drawing and photography classes and was a contributing cartoonist for the school paper.¨ 
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http://www.biography.com/people/walt-disney-9275533]]> 2017-04-25 14:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/00aledav88597/lgcqgq3kupb4/wish/168129424 00aledav88597 https://padlet.com/00aledav88597/lgcqgq3kupb4/wish/168130124 ¨When Disney returned from France in 1919, he moved back to Kansas City to pursue a career as a newspaper artist. His brother Roy got him a job at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio, where he met cartoonist Ubbe Eert Iwwerks, better known as Ub Iwerks. From there, Disney worked at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he made commercials based on cutout animation.¨]]> 2017-04-25 14:58:01 UTC https://padlet.com/00aledav88597/lgcqgq3kupb4/wish/168130124 00aledav88597 https://padlet.com/00aledav88597/lgcqgq3kupb4/wish/168130595 ¨Disney began experimenting with a camera, doing hand-drawn cel animation, and decided to open his own animation business. From the ad company, he recruited Fred Harman as his first employee. Walt and Harman made a deal with a local Kansas City theater to screen their cartoons, which they called Laugh-O-Grams. The cartoons were hugely popular, and Disney was able to acquire his own studio, upon which he bestowed the same name. Laugh-O-Gram hired a number of employees...¨]]> 2017-04-25 14:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/00aledav88597/lgcqgq3kupb4/wish/168130595 00aledav88597 https://padlet.com/00aledav88597/lgcqgq3kupb4/wish/168130782 ¨By 1923, however, the studio had become burdened with debt, and Disney was forced to declare bankruptcy.¨ 
biggest ally was his brother, Roy.]]> 2017-04-25 14:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/00aledav88597/lgcqgq3kupb4/wish/168130782 00aledav88597 https://padlet.com/00aledav88597/lgcqgq3kupb4/wish/168131195 ¨Disney and his brother Roy soon pooled their money and moved to Hollywood. Iwerks also relocated to California, and there the three began the Disney Brothers' Studio. Their first deal was with New York distributor Margaret Winkler, to distribute their Alice cartoons. They also invented a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and contracted the shorts at $1,500 each.¨]]> 2017-04-25 15:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/00aledav88597/lgcqgq3kupb4/wish/168131195 00aledav88597 https://padlet.com/00aledav88597/lgcqgq3kupb4/wish/168131605 "By the 1960s Disney had created a very diversified entertainment empire, built on cartoon themes, animal icons, nostalgic sentiment, and a high level of quality control. His imagination, highly-developed merchandising skills, and uncanny ability to tap into the fantasies of children of all ages ensured that his company would thrive long after his death from lung cancer in 1966."

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