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Trinh: Walt Disney is an American business magnate, animator, cartoonist, producer, director,
screenwriter, entrepreneur, and voice actor. Thanh-Nhi: As a hollywood Business magnate,
Disney and his brother of the Walt Disney Production become one of the best-known motion
picture production companies in the world. Trinh: As an animator and entrepreneur, Disney
was particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator
in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most
well-known fictional characters such as Mickey Mouse.
Thanh-Nhi: Walt Disney received four honorary Academy Award and won 22 Academy Awards from
a total of 59 nominations. Disney also won seven Emmy Award and gave his name to the
Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U.S., as well as the international
resorts like Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland
Audio: (do you want to build a snow man) Trinh:On December 5, 1901, Walt Disney was
born, and few years later his family moves to the farm in Marceline, Missouri. Then 1909,
They sell their farm, and rent home until a year later. After that Disney family moves
to Kansas city.
Thanh-Nhi: During his senior high school year, Walt works as a member of the American Ambulance
Corps in France, and Walt lied about his age to be accepted.
Trinh:In his early 20s, Walt meets Ub Iwwerks, together form Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists.
The small group survives for a month. Then Walt work for the Kansas City Slide Company.
Walt names the films "Laugh-O-grams." Thanh-Nhi: After 2 years, Walt quits the Film
Ad, then incorporates "Laugh-O-gram Films". Then, Walt resigns himself to bankruptcy,
and moves to Hollywood planning to become a director.
Trinh: On July 25, 1925 Walt meet Lillians Bound, his wife and marry her in Lewiston,
Idaho. A fews years later, Walt created Mickey Mouse, and Mickey Mouse became a nation sensation
a year after. Thanh-nhi: In 1937, Walt Disney's first animated
film Snow White and the seven dwarfs with the rating of 7.7/10 from 92,242 viewers.
Then 2 years later he wins an honorary Academy award with one full size oscar and seven mini
awards for snow white and the seven dwarfs. Trinh: After the success of Snow white and
the seven dwarfs, Disney releases Pinocchio and Fantasia. Fantasia is released with a
new technology. Neither film is commercially successful, and Walt Disney Studios issues
600,000 shares of common stock. Thanh-Nhi: During Disney career's year, he releases Bambi,
and its the most naturalistic animation film at that time. However, Bambi is not commercially
successful. Then Walt who has provided Mickey Mouse's voice for nearly 20 years, reassigns
the role for Fun and Fancy Free. Then the studio releases Song of the South, which become
commercial success. Trinh: Cinderella becomes Disney's first commercially
successful animated feature since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Then Disney releases
Treasure Island,which is first all live action movie.
Thanh-nhi: Disney also made contracts with ABC television to produce a one hour television
program in exchange for a $500,000 investment by ABC in Disneyland. In the first two months,
Disneyland receives over one million visitors. Trinh: In 1965, Walt Disney Studios purchases
land in Orlando,FL for the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, which also leads to
the creation of Walt Disney World. Then in 1966, Walt Disney died on December 15.