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Walter Elias “Walt” on 5 dicember,1901 in Hermosa, Illinois. Walt Disney was one of five children, four boys and a girl. His father was Elias Disney an Irish Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, was German American. Disney lived most of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri, where he began drawing, painting and selling pictures t neighbors and family friends. In 1911, his family moved to Kansas City, where Disney developed a love for trains. His uncle, Mike Martin, was a train engineer who worked the route between Fort Madison lowa and Marceline. Later, Disney would work a summer job with the railroad, selling snacks and newspaper to travelers. Disney attended McKinley High School in Chicago, where he took drawing and photography classed and was a contributing cartoonist for the school paper. When Disney was 16, he dropped out of school to join the Army but was rejected for being underage and decided he wanted to help fight in World War I. Since he was still too young to join the army, he dropped out of school and joined the Red Cross. He spent the next year driving ambulances for the Red Cross in France. He and his brother Roy co-founded Walt Disney Productions, which became one of the best-known motion picture production companies in the world. Disney was an innovative animator and created the cartoon character Mickey Mouse. He won 22 Academy Awards during his lifetime, and was the founder of theme parks Disneyland and Walt Disney World. It was still under construction when, in 1966, Disney was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died on December 15,1966, at the age 65

Mickey Mouse

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Mickey Mouse is a comic and cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, and developed by Floyd Gottfredson, one of the most famous cartoonists in the world. The character was born under the name Mortimer, which according to Walt Disney’s wife was horrible for a mouse; so Walt decided to change it to Mickey Mouse. His inspiration was a pet mouse who often went to his office. In 1928, Walt Disney lost the rights to his first hit character. So he created the first Mickey Mouse film. He then produced the second film where Minnie appears as the female lead of which he is in love. The character's film debut was on November 18, 1928 in the film Steamboat Willie; and this film was the third of six Disney films. Two years later he appeared in comics with the story of Mickey Mouse on the mysterious island. Walt Disney won an Oscar for this creation. Mickey is a mouse who wears red pants, large yellow shoes and white gloves. He usually has luck, when he is in the company of his best friends Donald and Goofy, the three often end the day by combining a disaster and all three are the cause. Many cartoons begin with Mickey and Minnie enjoying each other’s company until a villain kidnaps her and takes her away, so Mickey has to save her.

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The Walt Disney Company, known as Disney, is an american multinational corporation founded in 1923 by Walt Disney and his brother Roy, under the name of Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, later renamed The Walt Disney Studio in 1926, Walt Disney productions in 1929 and finally Walt Disney Company in 1986. Is headquartered in Burbank, California. In the thirties and forties it began to produce animated feature films. In the following years it entered in the tourism sector, with theme parks, including Disneyland inaugurated in 1955 and Walt Disney World Resort inaugurated in 1971. In the early 2000s there were financial problems with the sale of some subsidiaries. In 2017 the company announced plans to buy Rupert Murdoch’s empire. The agreement was approved by the antitrust division and in 2018 the acquisition became official thanks to the vote of the shareholders of both companies and was concluded in 2019. Subsequently, the launch of the Disney+ platform takes place in 2019 in the USA and in 2020 in the rest of the world.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and the first included in the Walt Disney Classics canon. It was relasead on December 21, 1937 at the Carthay Circle Theater in Hollywood. The film is an adaptation of the eponymous fairy tale published by the Brothers Grimm in 1812, a story deeply rooted in European traditions. In 1989, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" by the US Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Pinocchio is an American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions, based on the novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by the Italian writer Carlo Collodi. It is Disney's second animated feature film after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and was originally released by RKO Radio Pictures on February 23, 1940. This was the factory's first film released during World War II.

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Fantasia is an American animated musical anthology film produced and released by Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1940, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and production supervision by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen. It is the third Disney animated feature film consisting of eight animated segments with pieces of classical music directed by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Music critic and composer Deems Taylor serves as the film's emcee who introduces each segment in live action.