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Walt Disney

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  • 1971 BCE

    Legacy

    Legacy
    After his brother's death, Roy carried on the plans to finish the Florida theme park, which opened in 1971 under the name Walt Disney World.
  • 1966 BCE

    Death

    Disney began plans for a new theme park and Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow in Florida. It was still under construction when, in 1966, Disney was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died on December 15, 1966, at the age of 65.
  • 1955 BCE

    Career Success

    Career Success
    on July 17, 1955, Disney's $17 million Disneyland theme park opened
  • 1939 BCE

    Career Success

    In December 1939, a new campus for Walt Disney Studios was opened in Burbank.
  • 1937 BCE

    Career Success

    Career Success
    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film, premiered in Los Angeles. It produced $1.499 million, in spite of the Depression, and won a total of eight Oscars. During the next five years, Walt Disney Studios completed another string of full-length animated films
  • 1929 BCE

    Career Success

    In 1929, Disney created Silly Symphonies, which included Mickey and friends Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto. His cartoon "Flowers and Trees", was the first to be produced in color and to win an Oscar In 1933, The Three Little Pigs and its theme song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" became a theme for the country in the midst of the Great Depression.
  • 1928 BCE

    Career Development

    Walt, on a train ride, develops Mickey Mouse and Iwerks creates a new cartoon, “Plane Crazy.” Audiences were in love with the mouse. “Steamboat Willie,” the third cartoon is created. Walt pursues New York film companies to record the cartoon with sound.
  • 1925 BCE

    Early Career

    Early Career
    Disney and his brothers Roy and Iwerks moved to Hollywood and there the three began the Disney Brothers' Studio. Their first deal was with New York distributor Margaret Winkler, to distribute their Alice cartoons. His shorts were sold for $1500 each and in 1925 he married.
  • 1923 BCE

    Early Career

    Walt made a deal with a local Kansas City theater to screen cartoons which they called "Laugh-O-Grams". These cartoons became wildly popular and Walt Disney soon produced "Alice In Cartoonland" By 1923, however, the studio acquired massive debt and Disney was forced to declare bankruptcy.
  • 1919 BCE

    Early Career

    Early Career
    In 1919 Disney moved back to Kansas City to pursue a career as a newspaper artist. His brother Roy got him a job at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio. Disney began experimenting with doing hand-drawn cel animation, and decided to open his own animation business.