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Walt Disney was born
In Chicago Illinois. He was the fourth born of Irish parents Elias and Flora (Call) Disney. Walt had 3 Older brothers and a younger sister, Herbert, Raymond, Ray and Ruth. -
Walts Early Years
While in Missouri Walt met Walter Pfeiffer whose family introduced him to motion pictures. years later he took Saturday courses in cartooning and later became the newspaper cartoonist at his high school. Walt drew political cartoons about the war and eventually joined it himself where he met the "founder" of McDonalds which he would later use for marketing. -
Early Career
Disney and friend Iwerks started their own cartoon advertisement business.
