FRIDAY FUNDAY.....DISNEY.


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Random blog day boo yah. As you should know Fridays is random blog day were we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the much beloved company Disney.

WALT DISNEY COMPANY

The Walt Disney company commonly known as Disney is an American diversified multinational multi-media entertainment conglomerate with its Headquarters at the Walt Disney studios complex in Burbank California. The company was formed on October 16th 1923 by Walt and Roy Disney but often operated as the Disney Brothers cartoon Studio, the Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before permanently and officially changing its name to the Walt Disney Company in 1986.

Disney evolved over the years and grew to include Walt Disney pictures, Walt Disney Animation studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th century fox, Fox 2000 pictures, Fox searchlight pictures and Blue sky pictures. When Walt Disney died in 1966 his brother Roy took over as Chairman and President of the company renaming Disney park as Walt Disney World in memory of his brother who brought so much joy to others. Roy died on December 20th 1971 due to a stroke leaving the Walt Disney Company under the control of Donn Tatum, Card Walker and Walt's son-in-law Ron Miller each of whom were trained by Walt and Roy personally.

Disney was and always has been a huge part of my life. As a child it was the various movies and TV shows I watched and which kept me fully absorbed in fantasy and engaged with the TV screen, fuelling both my imagination and creativity at the same time. These same movies and TV shows still have a hold as an adult alongside the shops, the parks and whole plethora of other things including the cruise ships and conspiracy theories. Disney has kept a special place in my heart. One of my (surprisingly) few dreams is to experience every Disney related park and cruise at least once in my life and own every Disney movie and Disney related items(I.E. Books, plates, cups etc). I know it's a strange dream to have but It's one I'll take with me to the grave even if I don't actually bring it to light. Either way it's a dream I happily have.

WALT DISNEY

Born Walter Elias Disney on December 5th 1901, the fourth son to Elias and Flora Disney. Walt grew up with his brothers and sister, moving to Marceline Missouri when he was four years old. Walt spent his spare time drawing having been paid to draw the horse of a retired Doctor in their neighbourhood, Walt developed his drawing by drawing the front page of his fathers Appeal to reason newspaper. Disney also developed a love of trains when the family lived near the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe railway lines. In 1911 the Disney's moved to Kansas City, Missouri were Walt and his brother Roy would get up at half four every morning to deliver the Times during this time Walt attended Saturday courses at the Kansas City Art Institute and took a correspondence course in Cartooning. In 1917, Elias bought stock in a Chicago jelly producer, the O-Zell Company, and moved back to the city with his family. Disney was enrolled in the McKinley high school and became the cartoonist fro the school newspaper. In 1918 Walt forged his birth certificate and joined the red cross during WW1 where he was an ambulance driver. Walt drew cartoons on the side of his ambulance for decoration and had some of his work published in the army newspaper Stars and Stripes. In 1919 Walt returned to the US and began work as an apprentice artist at the Pesman-Rubin Commercial art studio.

During the 1920's Walt started working on laugh-o-grams after being laid off from Pesman-Rubin and experimented at home between the cut-out method and cel animation. During this time Walt and Roy formed the Disney Brothers Company (eventually the Walt Disney Company) and created the Alice in wonderland series which were a combination of live action and cartoons. The Alice series was distributed by Margaret Winkler and eventually her husband Charles Mintz. Thanks to their strained relationship Walt moved on to creating Oswald the lucky rabbit which was lost on 1928 due to Walt declining Charles Mintz ultimatum of producing Oswald for less. In 1925 Walt married ink artist Lillian Bounds and they went on to have two Daughters Diane (1933) and Sharon (who was adopted in 1936) both girls were kept out of the press and the limelight as much as possible partially due to the Lindbergh Kidnapping.

From 1929 onwards Disney along with Iwerks form Rudolf Ising and Iwerks created Mickey Mouse (Originally Mortimer Mouse), who stared in several cartoon shorts including The Jazz singer and Steamboat Willie. Walt himself provided Mickeys voice until 1947 with one of his workers stating “Ub designed Mickeys physical appearance Walt gave him his soul”. These shorts led to the series Silly Symphonies which became Technicolor after Disney studios signed with Columbia Pictures. By the 1950's Walt was more interested in other ideas and movies such as the first live action movies (Robin Hood and his merrie men -1952 and Treasure Island – 1950) one such idea was Disneyland which first opened on July 18th 1955 with a press day on July 17th The park opened to 28,000 people attending even though half of those held counterfeit tickets. The Park continued to develop over the years both in size and ride/show quality as well as gaining and creating other parks around the world. To this day there are twelve Disney parks across the world.

Walt Disney died on December 15th 1966 after being diagnosed with Lung Cancer in November of that year. Disney had been a smoker since WW1, never used filtered cigarettes and had at one point used a pipe so it wasn't surprising he contracted lung cancer. Disney was cremated two days later and his ashes were interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial park at Glendale, California.

My opinion of Walt Disney is that he was both a genius of his time and ahead of his time, his creativity is legendary and not only being a hard worker but expected all of his workers to work hard and to the best of their abilities as well. I must admit that Walt Disney is one of my “Muses”/ creative Gods/inspiration whatever you wish to call it. I do hold him in high regard despite the fact we would have very explosive conversations if we were to ever have crossed paths.

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