Walt Disney is now a household name and one of the largest corporations on the planet, but did you know that Walt Disney did not have an easy road to success? His story is one of perseverance and the success that can come when you never give up.
Early Life
Born in 1901, Walt Disney moved from Chicago to Missouri and then to Kansas City all before he was 9. His family was quite poor, so he and his three brothers all worked as paperboys and had little time for school.
Post-War
After the World War I, his brother helped him get a job at an Art studio where he made adverts for magazines and newspapers. It was here that he met Ubbe Iwerks. The pair decided to start their own company but it soon failed. Disney went to work at a company that made cartoon commercials and led him to fall in love with cartoon animation and film.
Walt made a series of cartoons called Laugh-O-Grams, which proved popular in Kansas so he started his own studio at 20 years old and hired his own animators. Yet this failed and in 1923, Walt moved to Hollywood. His time in Hollywood was no better for him. He made the Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but Alice was cancelled and Oswald was taken from him. It was on the train home to New York that he had the idea for Mickey Mouse. In 1928 he created Steamboat Willie with both Mickey and Minnie mouse in it. In 1937 his first animated picture, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released. He risked everything on the one movie, but it was so successful that within six months it had erased all the debt he had. This was the beginning of Disney, it was his passion of for film making and animation that kept him going and he still made time every Saturday to spend time with his daughters.
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