Walt Disney

Tiffanni
Period 2
9/30/2011

THE JOURNEY OF THE MAKING OF MICKEY MOUSE

It all began when Walt Disney was very young in 1910 in Chicago. When he was about 7 years old, he sketched hundreds of drawings and asked his neighbors for their opinion, he loved drawing animals and cartoons. One of the neighbors said they were delighted with his drawings.

A couple years down the road, his cartoons finally took off. He went through a lot of jobs to figure out that he wanted to make cartoons. He had a job at a slid company and his boss had a old camera. He asked his boss if he could have it and his boss said “yes” he can. So then he took it home and started to make his videos. Then he put it in his garage and decided that once he got home every night, he would go into his garage and work on making a cartoon. When he was in there, there were two mice in the garage with him. When he was stumped, he would watch them scurry around. There was this one mouse that would take cheese out of Walt's hand. So then Walt named that mouse Mortimer Mouse, then decided it would be Mickey Mouse. He would work hard every night. Later he asked some people to help him. He would always say “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” He also would say something like, “I want people to graduate from there, really able to do things. I don’t want a lot of theorists. I want to have a school that turns out people that know all the facts of filming, I want them to be capable of doing anything needed to make a film-photograph it, direct it, design it, animate it, record it, whatever. That's what I want. Heck, 'Ive hired theorists, and they don't have any knowledge I can use. I want to have every one in that school come out capable of going in and doing a job. These dilettantes who come out with pseudo-knowledge, they give me a pain. I want it so if an actor is needed, they can get an actor right out of school. If a musician is needed, they can go to the music department and find a musicians who can compose music.” His first video on Mickey Mouse was one called Steam Boat Willie.

Walt Disney had an amazing adventure and didn't give up on making the cartoons. He would stay up all night every night in his garage making cartoons. But, in December 15, 1966, Walt Disney died. And this is what happened. On November 2 he went to the doctors and the doctors found a tumor in his lung. They got it out and then he stayed in the hospital for a while. On November 25, he spent that with his family. On November 30, he collapsed in his home. They took him to the doctor's, which was right across the street from the Disney studio. He spent his birthday in the hospital with his 2 daughters by his side. The Disney studio lights stayed on until Walt Disney would be released from the hospital. But he was never released from the hospital. Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, at 9:30 am died after his 65Th birthday. He might not have lived to see everything but he made a good remodel for every other little kid that has a dream to keep to it. That all grew into an amazing, creative, frustrating process to get what we call now Disneyland and Disney Channel.

WORK CITED

Krasniewicz, Louise, and Walt Disney. Walt Disney: A Biography. Santa Barbara, Ca: Greenwood, 2010.

Lavina A. Sigmund. Famous Industrialists. USA: Vail-Ballou Press, 1961. Print.

“Walt Disney Quotes”. Walt Disney. Web. 10/3/11. http://www.justDisney.com/walt_disney/quotes01.html#anchor40570