'If you can dream it you can do it, remember that this all started with a mouse’. This phrase mythical to the great Disney gave in 1954, recalling the origins of the success of his company with the Mickey mouse in July, 1928, summed up the mentality of a man innovative, creative and with a desire of overcoming incredible: Walt Disney.
The creator and the historical referent of the story of the cartoon, who was also the producer, director and screenwriter, passed away December 15, 1966, now fifty years ago, in the american city of Burbank, but his figure and his legacy arrive until the day of today. Two of his creations, especially the above-mentioned Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and the empire that rose up, already have the label of immortal.
Walter Elias Disney was born in the american city of Chicago, Illinois, on December 5, 1901, and lived her childhood on a farm in Missouri since 1906. It was the fourth of the five children that had their parents. She, Flora Call, a teacher of the school and with ancestors the germans; and he, Elias Disney, a farmer from history irish.
The child Walt quickly showed an innate ability for drawing, but the things they weren’t well and had to abandon the farm and move to Kansas City, where the father, assisted by Walt and another of his sons, handing out newspapers for the Kansas City Star .
the school has not spent well because, given the effort that had to perform for work, fall asleep often and was always dreaming and drawing. From there, due to the work of his father, went with his family to Chicago, where the young man attended the Art Institute of Chicago.
AN ARTIST AND ENTREPRENEUR
His artistic gifts began to see when he did the cartoons of the institute in The Village Voice , doing cartoons and comics political and patriotic, with the First World War as the background.
Ended the war, was placed in a studio to create ads and met another artist of Dutch origin, Ubbe Ert Iwwerks, later known as Ub Iwerks, who soon decided to start a business.
Created the Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists, which did not work, but gave them to know in order to be hired by the Kansas City Film Ad, who worked with ads on the techniques of primitive animation for local theatres. That idea germinated in the artist who, two years later, he left the company to create Laugh-O-Gram Filmds, Inc., with which he made animated shorts based on popular stories.
'Ask yourself if what you’re doing today, take you where you want to go tomorrow,’ is another of the phrases attributed to him and that made when the finances weren’t going well and dissolved the company, after, yes, the short that mixed live action and animation entitled 'Alice”s Wonderland’.
it Was the moment that began what would become his great play, as he marched with a ticket-only trip to Hollywood. He went looking for work without success and came up with the idea of sending the short Alicia a distributor of new york, who he hired to produce more films of that type.
The entrepreneur Disney teamed up with her brother and his friend Iwerks and founded the Disney Brother’s Studio, where they did several comedy mixing animation and real actors, to feel, that with time, the drawn characters were more attractive to the public. Out of this came the first draft of the cat Felix, but after disagreements with the producers to new yorkers, Disney chooses to create another character.
the hand of Iwerks in 1928, appear in their stories for the character of Mickey Mouse, first with two versions silent but, to not have much success, Disney decided to create 'Steamboat Willie’, the first animated film soundtrack, putting the voice of the mouse the artist himself until 1947.
from here, and with their stories musical animated graphic 'Silly Symphonies’, begins its run of success, that he enthrones in 1932, when it gets an Oscar in Hollywood for best animated short film for 'Trees and flowers’ and, from here, begins the creation of the various characters with which we are presented.
In 1937, he began his famous series of animated films with snow White and the seven dwarfs, followed by Pinocchio , Bambi , Dumbo , Fantasia , Twenty thousand leagues under the sea submarine tour , The living desert, and an extensive production of titles that got more than 700 awards around the world, among them 29 Oscars and 4 Emmy’s.
Disney was also in possession of the Medal of Freedom of the united States and the French Legion of Honour, two of the most prestigious honours, and was invested as doctor honoris causa by the universities of Yale and Harvard.
THE INSPIRATIONAL JOURNEY THROUGH LATIN america
One of the curiosities that encases the life of Walt Disney is your enriching journey through Latin america. Ran 1941, when the creator and his team did a long tour for that part of the american continent sent by Franklin Roosevelt, as the ambassador of the country in a time prebélica.
As reported in an interview to Efe Theodore 'Ted’ Thomas, the director of the documentary Walt & The Group in which he describes this journey of the creator of animation, 'journey through Latin america was an artistic renewal for Walt Disney’.
'Ted’ who is the son of animator Frank Thomas, one of the closest collaborators of Disney, noted that the influence of this journey extends to titles as iconic as cinderella (1950), Alice in wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953).
'The trip had a great impact on Walt and all the artists who accompanied him, being perhaps the most prominent being the case of Mary Blair. During the time he spent in Latin america, the style and the color palette of Blair suffered a major transformation, acquiring many influences of nature and cultures in Latin america’, said Thomas.
The style and influence of Latin America in the Blair, one of the women leaders of the greatest trust of Disney, took it to be the main responsible for the graphical development of those three movies mentioned, according to Thomas.
however, they also created two titles directly inspired by the landscapes and peoples of this journey: Saludos Amigos (1942) and three caballeros (1944), set in different landscapes of Latin americans as the capital of Mexico, the Andes, and Rio de Janeiro.
And the heirs of the company have opted lately to integrate in his creations, the great diversity of the hispanic culture and the weight of his inheritance in the united States creating the first princess of Latin in its history.
FACTORY OF DREAMS AND DOLLARS
Another of the phrases that are attributed to Disney is: 'All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them’ and, since then, he managed, creating a true empire with a maximum that also came out of his lips when he said: 'I Learned that the hard is not to reach the top, but never stop rising’. And their heirs continue to do so.
To whom life gave them the helm of his company, the factory Disney, have met truly with the task of stay on top with all the products added by your world, that goes beyond the cartoons and movies. Walt Disney devised the cities of entertainment, where you can learn about other countries without having to leave the own.
In the present work in the world’s 18 amusement parks of the company, including: Disneyland Resort in California, Walt Disney Worls Resort in Florida, Tokyo Disney Resort in Japan, Disneyland Resort Paris, in Europe or Hong Kong Disneyland Resort in China. But they also have 39 hotels, 8 motion picture studios, 11 cable television channels and one terrestrial, among other products.
Their figures are dizzying and in the first nine months of the fiscal year 2016 The Walt Disney Company won 7.620 million dollars, 13% more than in the same period of the previous year.
The Disney group officially declared that it had a turnover in those nine months a total of 42.490 million usd, an increase of 9% compared with the same period of the year 2015.
Walt Disney as a man, his biographers describe him as a true genius that was always mystery and wisdom, with a great personality, sensitive, who always insisted on doing your work, your dreams, your way of life.
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