Walt Disney

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Walt Disney

• By Lindsay Brumbaugh

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Life

• Born December 5, 1901. His mother was Flora Call
  Disney and his father was Elias Disney.
• Had four brothers and one sister.
• Disneys father was stern and hard on him but his
  mother and older brother always encouraged him to
  do what he what he believed in.
• Lived most of his childhood in Missouri.
• Died December 15, 1966 from lung cancer.

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Education

• Walt Disney attend McKinley High School, he
  dropped out after only one year though. He hoped
  to join the military but was to young to enlist.
  During Disneys year at high school he took night
  classes at the Chicago Art Institute. He was also
  the cartoonist for his school newspaper.

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Career

• Walt Disney started his first business,
  Laugh-O-Grams, in 1922. After only a year though,
  the film studio fell bankrupt.
• Disney decided to go to Hollywood to start over.
  There he created a group of videos called Alice
  Comedies.
• In 1932 Disney made the first colored cartoon.
  Flowers and Trees won him his first Academy
  Award.
• In 1937 he made a short film using a new camera
  technique.
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs came out in 1937.
  This was the first full-length animated musical
  feature. It produced over a million dollars.
• In 1955 Disney's dream came true. He opened up an
  amusement park.

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Awards/Movies

• Disney won his first award in 1934. He won a
  golden medal for an animation called Funny Little
  Bunnies.
• 1956- Disney won an Emmy for Disneyland.
• 1932- Disney won an Oscar for Flowers and Trees.
• Walt Disney has won 26 Academy Awards. This is
  the most won by one person.

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Sleeping Beauty
• Dumbo
• Bambi
• The Little Mermaid

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Movie Clip-Sleeping Beauty

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vE1HBD9K-JyY

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Bibliography

• Brad. Walt Disney. http//www.justdisney.com/wal
  t_disney/. (December 1, 2009.)
• Classic Disney. Complete Disney Animated List.
  http//homepage.usask.ca/jjs142/movielist.htm
  (December 1, 2009)
• Walt Disney Awards. http//www.imdb.com/name/nm0
  000370/awards. (December 1, 2009)
• Kassidy Emmerson. Ten interesting Facts about
  Walt Disney. http//www.associatedcontent.com/art
  icle/193489/10_interesting_facts_about_walt_disney
  .html?cat40.