Analysis and development of Walt Disney’s biography
Walter Elías Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, was a producer, librettist, director and presenter. He was the founder of The Walt Disney Company along with his brother Roy or. Disney, which is a company that is currently recognized worldwide mainly by its characteristic style of creating cartoon films.
In 1906 Disney’s parents;Elías Disney and Flora Call, transferred to the family formed by five children being Disney the room of their children to a farm in the vicinity of Marcelline, Missuri where Disney said that the years she lived on the farm were the happiest years of her life, because he was not age to help in the farm and with his sister Ruth spent most of the time playing and there arises the fondness for drawing and trains.
In 1909, Walt Disney’s father was forced to sell the farm, since he is ill with typhoid fever and despite having the support of his children, he had to sell the farm, the family moved to a house rented in Kansas City, where theFamilia organized to work by distributing newspapers and where Disney course at the Benton Grammar School School from 1910 until he graduated on June 8, 1911, was not an outstanding student and often fell asleep it was hard for him to concentrate and dreamed.
Disney’s father had the opportunity to be the owner of the O Zell Company dedicated to manufacturing carbonated drinks which was located in Chicago, the family moved to this city and Disney continued to help her family working and following her studies in McKinley High SchoolAnd at the Chicago Art Institute where he performed comics in the newspaper of the Institute, where the theme of his comics was of a political and patriot, focused on the First World War.
In 1918 it was about mourning in the army without success for being a minor, after that he learned that the Red Cross ambulance body admitted 17 -year -old boys and Disney falsified his birth certificate to enter,He was admitted and when he finished his training he was transferred to Europe, where Germany had signed a pact and the war was over. At this time Disney spent in France, where he handled the ambulance moving officers and his hobby was to fill said ambulance with drawings. At this time it also was that he acquired the habit of smoking and in 1919 I request the loss of the body and was returned to the United States.
Upon returning to the United States, he moved to Kansas City where he obtained a job at Pesemen-Rubin Art Studio, where Disney worked with Ubbe Iwwerks another company cartoonist and formed an alliance to create the company “iWerks-Disney Commercial Artists” which does notHe was very successful and had to close. DatIn 1992, Fundo Laugh O-Gram Films which performed animated short films based on popular fairy tales and children’s stories, this was where Alicia was born in Wonderland, she did not have much success in Kansas because she was half short,since your company did not have enough budget to do it.
I left all this behind and decided to try their luck in New York where Margaret Winkler showed great interest in Alicia in Wonderland and Disney contract to continue making films of this type, this was the origin of the future “The Walt Disney Company”, Since after having Alicia’s triumph, Oswaldo’s Rabbit Rone lost rights, which gave rise to the Looney Tunes, without giving up for this Disney failure chose to create a new character with the help of herFriend IWerks and Mickey Mouse was born here, so far short films were made without sound, but Mickey’s first appearance was not successful that Disney created a sound film and it was a great success.
The success after this was notable and a recognized brand was created, from then.
The beginning of World War II allowed Disney studies to collaborate with the Government, producing almost 70 hours of educational and military training films, after the war, the crisis and interest in animation arrived. In turn, anti -communist nervousness shook the foundations of the Hollywood industry. The repression of the "witch hunt" was a hard blow to the cinema at a crucial moment in which I had to deal with television competition. Given this new situation, Disney diversified its offer, oriented towards the production of real-image childrenMass communicator influential.
The real backdrop that justified this model was the political context of the Cold War. Based on the belief that, after World War II, the era of catastrophes had not yet ended, the United States and the Soviet Union faced an ideological battle that had its main weapon in propaganda. The constant threat of an external invasion and collective hysteria allowed to maintain a permanent war economy that supposed profitable dividends. However, society could only survive the arms race preparing for a global technological and scientific career, so that scientific education became a strategic priority for the population to accept contributing to the economic effort that that career supposed.
To provide adequate intellectual climate, a rapid and efficient scientific education was necessary, in which everyone could understand the latest advances, especially in the field of engineering and physics, turned into synonymous with power after Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, and the first Russian artificial satellite, the Sputnik. But the scientific literacy of a society in rapid scientific and technological change needed new instruments and new teaching methods. Of course, television was one of the most important open paths to bring scientific dissemination to the population. And in this context a figure stood out especially: Walt Disney (1901-1966).
Disney understood and knew how.
In 1950 he produced his first television program, One Hour in Wonderland, a special for Christmas Day. But his great success in the new medium would be directly related to his Disneyland macroproject. Disney had long been interested in another entertainment area, attractions parks. He wanted to develop a “family park” in which the visitor could move to his choice for five major worlds (Main Street, U.S.A.;Fantasyland;Tomorrowland, Frontierland and Adventureland), with attractions and animation spaces organized thematically. With the collaboration of actors who embodied the characters of the factory, the predisposed spectator became one more participant in the adventure, while felt at home, being part of the "American culture".
Interested in promoting its ambitious park, Disney joined the ABC television network and formed the Walt Disney Incorporated. In October 1954, the Disneyland TV Show program began to be broadcast, with the dissemination of the documentary The Disneyland Story through which millions of Americans began to dream of the new fantasy paradise. With such a well prepared launch, success was immediate.
In the economic context the international effect of American mass culture was accompanied by a business incursion that created millionaire income. Cultural activity was one more merchandise, an agent of development and promotion of behaviors to stimulate consumption models and express American social and technological modernity. That is, although promoted by private companies, the media were consolidated as a public service with an important objective: economic development, education and cultural promotion.
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