6. In 1918 he JOINED the
army, he was too young
then falsified his date of Walt drawing
birth.
With the army he
travelled to Europe, and
he drew in the ambulance
when he didn´t drive it .
When he returned to the
U.S.A Walt worked as an
illustrator in Kansas City.
7. With his friend Ubbe Iwerks, he founded Iwerks-
Disney Commercial Artist in 1920 but they had to
close it.
Two years later Walt created Laugh-O-Gram
Films, an animated short film company like
Cinderella or Cat with Boots. In 1923 Walt decided
to go to Hollywood with his latest film Alice's
Wonderland, because he didn´t have ANY money
WAL T UB IWERKS
In Hollywood he looked for a job but he didn´t
find it, so he sent “Alice´s Wonderland” to New
York, and a company hired him.
With Roy, the protagonist of Alice's
Wonderland and Iwerks they created Disney
Brother´s Studio, the beginning of The Walt
Disney Company.
8. In 1925 Disney Brother´s
Studio hired Lillian Bounds.
Soon they got married.
They had a son:
Diane Marie Disney
Three years later they
adopted a girl:
Sharon Mae Disney.
9. In 1927 the
company
created a new
character:
“Oswald the
lucky rabbit”
The short
films of
Oswald were
very popular.
10.
11.
12. Iwerks was tired of making the most of
the work and to be only Walt's
Iwerks
assistant, and he left the work.
But Iwerks drew 700 drawings each
and
day, and Walt had to hire a lot of Mickey
draftsmen.
At the end Iwerks decided to return with
him.
Ub Iwerks died in 1971 of a heart attack.
Disney won an Oscar for
“TREES AND FLOWERS”
from the Silly
Symphonies series and a
other Oscar for the
creation of Mickey
Mouse.
Walt Disney picking FLOWERS AND TREES
up their Oscars
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15. One of Walt's dreams was
to build an amusement
park called Disneyland.
He bought a lot of
land near Los Angeles that
measured 730,000 square
meters.
The construction began
on July 21,
1954 and opened on July
17, 1955.
16. He died of lung cancer on
December 15, 1966 when he was
65 years old.
AN urban legend told that Disney
was frozen before he died, but his
ashes HAS BEENN in the Forest
Lawn Cemetery FOR forty five
