Walt Disney - A very short biography

• Walt Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 5, 1901.
• He was one of five children (four boys and a girl)
• Walt was interested in drawing at an early age and sold his first sketches to neighbors when he was seven years old.
• He went to McKinley High School in Chicago and spend his time between drawing and photography.
• Walt attempted to enlist for military service in 1918 but he was rejected because he was only 16 years of age and.
• He joined the Red Cross and was sent overseas.
• After the war, Walt returned home, where he started his career as an advertising cartoonist.
• In 1920, he created his first original animated cartoons.
• In August 1923, Walt Disney left for Hollywood to his brother and they started working together.
• Walt married one of his employees, Lillian Bounds in 1925 and they had two daughters.
• Mickey Mouse was created in 1928.
• Construction of Disney's Burbank studio was completed in 1940, and the staff increased to more than 1,000 artists, animators, story men, and technicians.
• Disney began television production in 1954 and was among the first to present full-color programming in 1961.
• Disneyland launched in 1955.
• Walt Disney World opened to the public on October 1, 1971.
• Walt Disney dies on December 15, 1966.
• Lots of classic Disney films are made between all that.