The beginning... Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse

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His full name was Walter Elias Disney. He was born in Chicago in 1901 but was raised with his three brothers and his sister in Marceline, Missouri. He already loved drawing when he was seven. While he was studying at McKinley HighSchool he started to take night courses at the Chicago Art Institute. After few months in the Red Cross during the 2nd World War, he decided to focus on his artistic career. He formed his first company with the cartoonist Ub Iwerks and created the famous character of Mickey Mouse and then his brother, Roy Disney, joined him to make the company grow and develop his cartoons. After a long series of cartoons with the mouse and his friends, his career peaked in the 30's after the release of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" his first animated feature in English and Tecnicolor. Many famous movies followed, which we will discuss later. His final idea was to create a theme park. He oversaw the construction of the first one in California, but died of a lung cancer in 1966 just before the opening of the bigger one in Florida. He is now known as the best motion picture producer of the century

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[...] Its success enabled the company to extend its empire all over the world. Disneyland parks in the world The first international theme park was located in Tokyo, Japan, and was named Tokyo Disney Resort. It opened in 1983. The second one opened in Paris in 1992 as Euro Disney Resort. It features two parks, seven hotels, a golf course and a shopping complex. In 2004, the net income of the resort was $1,520 billion. It is the first tourist destination in Europe to record 12.4 million visitors in a year. [...]

[...] In the beginning, Mickey had trousers with two large white buttons, and big shoes. In “Steamboat Willie”, Mickey was not a very friendly character and therefore, the audience was not very receptive of his character. So Disney changed him into a much more endearing character who gradually became more popular. When the films began to be sounded, Mickey was voiced by Disney himself for about 20 years. “Steamboat Willie” was the first cartoon with a soundtrack. When Disney became too caught up with work, he had to choose someone else for the dubbing. [...]

[...] Later, Walt Disney went on to design a lot of differently colored clothes for the cartoon character. With the modification of a rounded head and ears was born the Mickey Mouse that everybody knows and recognizes today. The most famous Disney movies With his new contract with Technicolor and to earn more money, Disney decided to create animated feature films. He was an innovator in the animation field. In 1937, the iconic film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was released. [...]

[...] So in 1928, Iwerks and Disney started to work on the character of Mickey Mouse. The company was then renamed “Walt Disney Productions”. While Iwerks worked on the drawing, Disney worked on the personality and the voice of the mouse even if his first films were silent ones. Under this final name, the company became a great empire. During the following years, Disney created his best cartoons and films. Due to his success, he formed four other subsidiaries to develop the theme parks as well as the regular broadcast of short features on TV and in cinemas. [...]

[...] The beginning of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse Walt Disney- his artistic career His full name is Walter Elias Disney. He was born in Chicago in 1901 and was raised with his three brothers and his sister in Marceline, Missouri. At the tender age of seven, he had discovered his love for drawing. While he was studying at McKinley High School, he started to take night courses at the Chicago Art Institute. After few months in the Red Cross during the Second World War, he decided to focus on his artistic career. [...]