...world. Walt Disney was able to create a world in which fairytales and cartoons would be loved for decades. He was a creative genius. Walt Disney deserves to be honored because of all the joy he has brought so many of us. He started the company that brought us so many wonderful movies, TV shows, and amusement parks. He was the original voice of Mickey Mouse, perhaps the most successful cartoon character of all time. It’s hard to imagine that such great films such as Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Alice in Wonderland, Dumbo and Peter Pan were created by the man himself back in the 1930’s and 1940’s. He created Disneyland and Disneyworld, one of the world’s first theme parks, for children and adults to enjoy together. Walt Disney was born in Chicago on December 5th 1901 to Flora and Elias Disney. His family shortly moved to Marceline Missouri a few years later where he spent most of his childhood. Marceline is remembered to be the inspiration for Walt’s movie Lady and the Tramp and Main Street USA a theme land and first main entrance of almost every Disney Park. In his teen years Walt began to draw cartoons and shortly after joined the Red Cross as an ambulance driver. After the war Walt moved to Kansas City and started to draw cartoons again for a company called Laugh O Gram studio where his cartoons became hugely popular in the area. Though after becoming bankrupt he moved to Hollywood California where he and his brother started the Disney cartoon...
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...Walt Disney From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur,entertainer, international icon,[3] and philanthropist, well known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and had an annual revenue of approximately US$36 billion in the 2010 financial year.[4] Disney is 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 including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice. During his lifetime he received four honorary Academy Awards and won 22 Academy Awards from a total of 59 nominations, including a record four in one year,[5] giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history.[6] Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorttheme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland. The year after his December 15, 1966 death from lung cancer in Burbank, California, construction...
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...everything, Walter Elias Disney. Walt Disney was born December 5, 1901 in Chicago. He was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator. Today I’ll commensurate Walt Disney’s achievements throughout his life and how his memory still lives on with us today. (Transition: Walt Disney was an extraordinary man who has impacted everyone’s lives throughout the years.) Starting off Walt Disney’s career in the 1920s, he opened his own small company in the Kansas City area and called it, Laugh-O-Gram. His first major series was called Alice Comedies. These silent cartoons were produced from 1924-1927. The company eventually went bankrupt. (Transition: After his company went bankrupt, Walt then moved to Hollywood to start new) There he then created Mickey Mouse who is the best known creation of his. Mickey Mouse first appeared in “Steamboat Willie” on November 18, 1928 at the Colony Theater in NY. This was the world’s first synchronized sound cartoon. Walt Disney was originally going to name his masterpiece, Mortimer Mouse. His wife is the one who convinced him to use “Mickey”. According to his brother, Roy Disney, Mickey Mouse was Walt’s alter ego. Disney created many more well-known cartoons such as Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, and Daisy Duck. (Transition: Now that Walt Disney has created these cartoons, he takes the next step in his career) Walter and his brother Roy were co-founders of Walt Disney Productions; Walt became one of the...
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...The Walt Disney Company Financial Accounting Project Progress Report 2 8am M, W, Th Yuli Tang Wei Wang Tianda Xu Rui Zhang Profitability: In 2011, the profit margin of Walt Disney Company was 0.1176(11.76%). Due to the company’s huge net sales value, it shows a solid profit margin for a large company just as Walt Disney. In 2010, the profit margin was 0.1041(10.41%), which was 1.35% lower than 2011. The higher profits margin rate in 2011 indicates that the profit margin will increase in the future. Furthermore, the Walt Disney’s return on equity was 0.129(12.9%) in 2011, and the return on equity was 2.9% higher than the previous year, which showed that the Walt Disney keep steady profitability. Compared to its competitor DreamWorks Animation’s 0.123 profit margin, Walt Disney had lower profit margin that was 0.1041 (Appendix 2D). However, the ROE of DreamWorks Animation was 0.064(6.4%), which was much lower than Walt Disney (Appendix 1A&2A). Thus, Walt Disney made more profits than its competitor. The net income of Walt Disney in 2011 was $ 4,807,000,000, and it net sales was $40,893,000,000 (Appendix 1D). There are huge amount differences between net income and net sales. Because Walt Disney doesn’t have cost of good sold, the main reason is high cost and expense that was $ 33,112,000,000. In addition, income tax and interest expense were other factors determined the discrepancy. Liquidity and Capital Structure: As we know that a quick ratio can measure the...
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...The Walt Disney Co.: The Entertainment King Marta Aparici Hornero Business Strategy MG530 1. Why has Disney been successful for so long? Nowadays, the small animation studio which was created in 1923 by Walt and Roy Disney has been converted in one of the biggest Companies in the entertainment field. With a $30.000 million annual income. The Walt Disney Company manages eighteen theme parks, thirty-nine hotels, eight cinematographic studios, and eleven TV channels. Walt Disney pictures, the most important cinematographic studio, continues producing animated feature film, in a pretty fast pace. In May 2006, The Walt Disney Company acquired the animations studios Pixar. Although Pixar movies achieved a greater success, Walt Disney was the pioneer to animations in creating irreplaceable characters, which became extremely popular among children and adults. Its creativity was unreachable by anyone; they had a talent that nobody could approach. But not only Walt Disney was creative, also Roy Disney had a business talent, he handled money pretty good. Both of their skills and knowledge guided them to what the world wanted to see, to hear, to imagine at that time. Walt always wanted emphasized teamwork, communication, and cooperation. For example, when Walt learnt that his distributor owned the copyright of the Oswald franchise. Instead of fighting for it, and wasting time and money they decided to create a new character, Mickey Mouse. After creating him, to attract...
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...without the presence of Disney characters in it. Growing up in Chicago Illinois, Walter Elias Disney strived for greatness. His decision to move to California ultimately would engine his profession as the most well known cartoonist of all time. Soon after his big break with the featurette of “Alice Comedy” he began his production in Hollywood. Walter Disney revolutionized the idea of entertainment by creating Mickey Mouse, Disneyland land, and also establishing the California Institute of the Arts. [86] From silent films to weekly programs, Mickey Mouse has always been in our lives. According to Walt Disney: A Biography http://disney.go.com/vault/read/walt/index.html, Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 and was used in a silent film entitled “ Plane Crazy” but later made his debut in “Steamboat Willie” the worlds first fully synchronized sound cartoon. Now in days we always see fully synchronized cartoons and don’t really give much thought to it because its normal. Walt Disney’s drive to perfect animation was tireless and to his success he became the first to create a fully synchronized sound cartoon in the late twenties. As Walt Disney said “ I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing- that it was all started by a mouse.” The whole Disney empire was started by one character whom at first didn’t even talk . Mickey Mouse is even the iconic symbol for the wonderful Disney franchise. As a result Mickey Mouse was the engine that helped fuel Walt Disney’s success as an...
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...it’s Mr. Walt Disney, Familiar isn’t? Disneyland I guess, you know about the famous land in HongKong that is full of Disney characters. Mr. Disney born on December 5 1901 in Chicago, his family settled in a village. At 1909 Walt attended in New Park School of Marceline, Walt Completed the second grade at Kansas and at school he met Mr. Walter Pfeffer who came from family of the catre aficionados. After 2 years, Wakt start to had a job that is selling newspaper , for 6 years walt sells newspaper, he wake up at 4am in the morning until evening, he found the work exhausting and he often received bad grades.Most of time you can consider Mr. Walt as a businessman , in 1917 his family acquired shares in the O-Zell jelly factory. He began as freshman at Mckinley Highschool he became the cartoonist for the school newspaper , drawing patriotic topics on World War I, And with hope to join the army Mr. Walt drop out of Highschool at the age of sixteen but he was rejected for being underage , afterwards Mr. Walt and his Friend joined the Red Cross and Mr. Walt becomes an ambulance driver in France for almost a year. As he comeback in his hometown, he seek for a job, but Mr. Walt is always failed to had a job because most of employer rejected him, because of his lack of imagination. Be cause no one consider to hire him, he hope to be an atleast an actor but in the end he focus in making political caricature, but still no one want’s to hire him . Thanks to his brother Roy, Walt got a temporary...
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...Disney OutlineInformative OutlineThesis: My audience will learn a brief history of the Disney Company and their plans to take new directions in the future.Introduction: Briefly tell the audience a short history of Disney and the plans they have for their company and plans for future ventures.Attention Getter: Disney first started out making cartoons but later ventured into major films, radio, television programs and even vacation packages. Now, Disney has acquired new companies and will journey into the world of many multi-media platforms, mainly video-gaming. Let’s take a look to see where the company is going with their new plans moving into the future. I. First main point: The foundation for Disney began with Walt Disney in the 1920’s. A. Cartoons marked the beginning of the Disney Company. 1. Visual aid: Use a picture of Mickey Mouse as the very start to the Disney Company. 2. The success of cartoon shorts sparked construction of Disney Studios. B. The success of features and cartoons made possible the ideas to build a theme park centered on the world of Disney. 1. Visual aid: Use a picture of Disney’s theme park, Disneyworld. 2. Explain that after the success of theme parks, merchandising became another big part to the evolution of the company. 3. Visual aid: Use a picture that represents some of the merchandise that Disney produced. II. Second Main Point: Where the company is today and what they have done to keep moving forward to producing family-type...
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...MGT 488 The Walt Disney Company The company I choose is the Walt Disney Company. The Walt Disney Company is a worldwide entertainment company. They have five main businesses: Media Networks, Parks and Resorts, the Walt Disney Studios, Disney Consumer Products and the Disney Interactive. Among the five businesses, the best known is the products of its film studio. Nowadays, the Walt Disney Studios is one of the largest and best known studios in Hollywood. It also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network. All in all, it is a very successful well-known company in the world. For more than nine decades, the name Walt Disney has been preeminent in the field of family entertainment. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to today's global corporation, The Walt Disney Company continues to provide quality entertainment for every member of the family, across America and around the world. The Walt Disney Company is really a worldwide company. The Company has a 51% effective ownership interest in Disneyland Paris, a 5,510-acre development located in Marne-la-Val lee, approximately 20 miles east of Paris, France. The Company manages and has a 40% equity interest in Euro Disney S.C.A. The Company owns a 48% interest in Hong Kong Disneyland Resort through Hong Kong International Theme Parks Limited. As far as I know, the most successful park is the one in Los Angeles. The ones in China and Paris do not turn out...
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...Walt Disney University of Phoenix BCOM 230 Mr. Jaime Barmach 11/10/2014 Walt Disney The Walt Disney Company, better known as just Disney, is a family entertainment based organization created by Walt Disney himself to bring families together through the happiness of the characters that he had created. The Disney Company started out as a cartoon studio in the 1920’s and has continued to expand even to this day. The company first started with the creating of the show series of Alice Comedies and took off with Steamboat Willie, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon (The Walt Disney Company). Disney has a vast number of way for internal and external communications because Disney is the largest single-site employer so it has to have great communication techniques (Mouse Planet). Some of the internal communication methods are the internet, bulletin boards, communication centers, e-mail, and the most important “Disney’s Eyes and Ears”, an internal newsletter publication which helps to promote itself both internally and externally. The “Disney’s Eyes and Ears is a magazines that helps to inform the employees of all that is happening as well as the general public, it is the biggest publication that Disney has (Mouse Planet). Disney’s Eyes and Ears is a well- known publication that Disney made in order to help keep everyone well informed about all of the major things happening in Disney .As for other forms of externally communication things like the Internet, Disney Land, Disney Resort...
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...Walt Disney was born on December 5th 1901 in Hermosa, Illinois. Disney was one of 5 children, 4 boys and a girl. He grew up in Marceline, Missouri, where he started art work; painting and drawing. He was always surrounded by friends and family. He sold this art to neighbors and friends. At age 10 he moved, and was introduced to his love for trains and mechanics. Disney went to McKinley High School; he took many classes including drawing and photography classes. He was also a main cartoonist for the school paper. He also took courses at the Chicago Art Institute. Later in life he perused a cartoon artist career for a newspaper, but instead he got a job at a film company that made animated commercials, where he made animations out of cutouts. Walt Disney has contributed a lot to America. He made many inspirational Disney movies, and even made a theme park, and not just in America! He’s made thousands and thousands of jobs that helps society, but he’s also made society more fun. Dreaming is believing and believing is doing, he thought that to the world. Like I said believing is doing, he inspired me to follow my dreams, not just dream it but do it. He’s shown that anything is possible. H-Harness-He wanted to go into the Army, but declined because of his age, he decided to be an artist. U-Underestimate- He dropped out of high school, but after he wasn’t permitted to the Army he went to an Art School. N-Network- His first real job his brother set up, he animated for commercials...
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...Carranza Higa Project “Biography of a famous Character” “Walt Disney” Brianda Salas Gabriela Gonzalez Index: I- INTRODUCTION II- IMPORTANT EVENTS II.I- (CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) III- PERSONAL LEARNING III.I- Brianda Salas III.II- Gabriela Gonzalez IV- CONCLUSIONS IV.I- Brianda Salas IV.II- Gabriela Gonzalez V- Extras VI- Images INTRODUCTION Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American business magnate, animator, producer, director, screenwriter, and voice actor. A major figure within the American animation industry and throughout the world, he is regarded as an international icon, and philanthropist, well known for his influence and contributions to the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As a Hollywood business mogul, he, along with his brother Roy O. Disney, co-founded the Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and had annual revenue of approximately US$36 billion in the 2010 financial year. 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 including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice. During his lifetime...
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...------------------------------------------------- Study Case n°1 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- The Walt Disney Company ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- The Entertainment King 1. ------------------------------------------------- Problem Statement Disney Corporation, an 88 years old company appeared as one of the best innovative and creative entertainment company. Over the years, Disney has differentiated its products and its market segment. But, since 1995 the company has had trouble with a declining financial performance. This decline in profits will continue until Disney can return to their traditional creativity and innovations and try to recapture their original audience. By controlling cost, Disney drove away its creative talent. The new atmosphere at Disney is all about money, and it needs to be returned to a company based in creativity. 2. ------------------------------------------------- Analysis At the beginning, Disney was a company motivated by Creativity and innovative idea. They came in the market with original characters and innovative product like animated movie with soundtrack. The company was lead by its two creators. The first one, Walter Elias Disney was in charge of the creative and design part. His partner and brother Roy handled the money. At the beginning, the company was guide by creativity and innovation...
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...Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Hermosa, Illinois. He and his brother Roy co-founded Walt Disney Productions, which became one of the best-known motion-picture production companies in the world. Disney was an innovative animator and created the cartoon character Mickey Mouse. He won 22 Academy Awards during his lifetime, and was the founder of theme parks Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Early Life Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in the Hermosa section of Chicago, Illinois. His father was Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, was German-American. Disney was one of five children, four boys and a girl. He lived most of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri, where he began drawing, painting and selling pictures to neighbors and family friends. In 1911, his family moved to Kansas City, where Disney developed a love for trains. His uncle, Mike Martin, was a train engineer who worked the route between Fort Madison, Iowa, and Marceline. Later, Disney would work a summer job with the railroad, selling snacks and newspapers to travelers. Disney attended McKinley High School in Chicago, where he took drawing and photography classes and was a contributing cartoonist for the school paper. At night, he took courses at the Chicago Art Institute. When Disney was 16, he dropped out of school to join the army but was rejected for being underage. Instead, he joined the Red Cross and was sent to France for...
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...thinkerWalt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, IL but lived in Marceline, MO for most of his childhood. Walt would sell drawings when young to make money. He then went to McKinley High School in Chicago, IL and studied art and photography. Walt tried to enlist in the military in 1918 but was rejected. Joined the Red Cross where he spent a year in France as an ambulance driverdriving an ambulance decorated in his paintings of Mickey Mouse. Walt went to Hollywood to pursue a commercial arts career. Walts Alice Comedies were a big success by 1925. II.The many successes of Walt DisneyWalt Disney had a plethora of success, even after he died. The images and creative processes he created while alive still live strong even today. Some of his accomplishments and successes were:1932: Walt won his first Academy Award1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs debuted in Los Angeles during the depression. It became one of the biggest feats and unforgettable moments in the motion picture history. 1945: The Three Caballeros musical debuted and used the combination of real people with cartoons for the very first time. 1955: Walt Disney opened his first Disneyland Park. 1954: Walt began his television production. 1961: Walt was the first to have color on TV when he aired the show Wonderful World of Color. 1965: Walt had a great strategic vision and built the EPCOT center as a way to show others how to improve their quality of life. 1971: Because of Walts great...
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