In 1901, on December 5th in Chicago, Illinois, Walter Elias Disney was born to Elias and Flora Disney. Even though he loved to draw, moving to a farm near Marceline, Montana in 1906 is probably what influenced his later creations. His first drawings were creations of farm animals. At the age of sixteen his family returned to Chicago where he attended McKinley High School. His real interests were at night when he took courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He enlisted in Military service during World War I, but was rejected because of his young age of sixteen. He then joined the Red Cross where he spent a year overseas driving an ambulance. The exterior of his ambulance was covered all over with his cartoon drawings.

After World War I, he returned to Kansas City, where he began his career as an advertising cartoonist. Here, in 1920 he created and marketed his first original animated cartoons. A few years later, he perfected a new method for combining live-action and

Disney directed the purchase of 43 square miles of virgin land twice the size of Manhattan Island-in the center of the state of Florida. Here, he master planned a whole new Disney world of entertainment to include a new amusement theme park, motel-hotel resort vacation center and his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. After more than seven years of master planning an preparation, including 52 months of actual construction, Walt Disney World opened to the public as scheduled on October 1, 1971. Epcot Center opened on October 1, 1982.

His cartoon creations and style of cel animation (cleaned-up images are traced onto a cel by a person known as and inker) were used by many cartoonists. To save time and money, many large studios use a photocopy process, rather than hand inking, to transfer lines from the drawn original to the acetate cel. Later a painter will apply vinyl paint colors onto the back of the cel. This cel animation later became the industry standard had changed the Cartoon Industry.

On December 21 of that same year, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", the first full-length animated musical feature, premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles. Produced at the unheard cost of $1,499,000 during the depths of the Depression, the film in still accounted as one of the great feats and imperishable monuments of the motion picture industry. During the next five years, Walt completed such other full-length animated classics as "Pinocchio," "Dumbo," and "Bambi."

Disneyland, launched in 1955 in a fabulous $17 million Magic Kingdom, soon increase its investment tenfold. By its third decade, more than 250 million people were entertained, including presidents, kings and queens and royalty from all over the globe.

In Kansas City, Missouri, Walt Disney met animator, Ub Iwerks and composer Carl Stalling, whom later became important to his future success. Unfortunately, the company that they had started soon went bankrupt.

In 1954, the Disney company launched a popular weekly television series called "Disneyland". The series ran under various other names, including "The Wonderful World of Disney" until 1990. This became the longest-running prime -time series in television network history.

In 1940, construction was completed on Disney's Burbank studio. The staff grew to more that 1,000 artists, animators, story men and technicians. During World War II, 94% of the Disney facilities were engaged in special government work, including the production of training and propaganda films for the armed services, as well as health films which are still shown throughout the world by the U. S. State Department. The remainder of his efforts were devoted to the production of comedy short subjects, deemed highly essential to civilian and military morale.

Mickey Mouse was created in November of 1928 as a good-natured mouse who often finds himself in difficult situations. Walt's talents were first used in a silent cartoon entitled "Plane Crazy" which starred Mickey Mouse. However, before the cartoon could be released,

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