Walt Disney, who made children’s childhood memorable with cartoon characters, turns 100, know its story

Many famous cartoon characters like Duck Tales, Mickey Mouse, Lion King, Ice Age have made the childhood of millions of children memorable. Disney cartoon characters are still famous in every corner of the world. Disney, the company that gave life to many memorable cartoon characters, has completed 100 years. Today Disney is one of the largest companies in the international entertainment industry, which was started by two real brothers ‘Walt and Roy’. Both of them established Ins Entertainment Company on October 16 in the year 1923 under the name of Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio.

Today, Disney, which has become a household name, did not get such a great response in the beginning. In the initial days, the company faced many crises and troubles. In the beginning, the situation was such that even the company’s cartoons could not be sold. But after May 1928, the fortunes of the company changed such that today it is included in the list of renowned companies and has completed its 100 years successfully. Disney’s first short film was Plane Crazy, which was screened in 1928. Let’s look at the beginnings of Disney and its famous and iconic characters. Let us tell you that in the year 1961, the then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru also visited Disneyland.

Walt Disney’s early life
Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago to Elias Disney, a Canadian-American construction worker and entrepreneur, and his wife, Flora Call, a school teacher. He was raised on a farm near Marceline, Missouri and in Kansas City. One of five siblings, Walt was interested in painting since childhood and sold his first paintings to neighbors when he was only seven years old. Studied cartooning through correspondence, and later while taking classes at McKinley High School in Chicago, he also took up photography.

When Walt was 16, Walt decided to join the military during World War I. Rejected for being too young, he joined the American Red Cross, where he was sent abroad. During this period, he continued driving ambulances in France and Germany. After the war, upon returning to Kansas City, Walt began a career as an advertising cartoonist. He created a series of animated cartoon sketches called “Laugh-O-Grams” and made a pilot film for a series of short fairy tales, combining live action and animation, called Alice in Cartoonland.

Hollywood and Mickey Mouse
His cartoons became quite famous. A New York film distributor defrauded Walt, forcing him to file for bankruptcy in 1923. It was then that he arrived in California to pursue a career as a cinematographer. However, his short films started getting success. This then led him to reopen a studio in Hollywood, establishing the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio with his brother Ray as his business partner. He was joined by artist Ube Iwerks, his former collaborator in Kansas, and the two developed the character of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, followed by the iconic and mischievous Mickey Mouse, who also starred in his first animated film for sound, Steamboat Willie , which proved to be an instant hit. Walt himself was the voice of Mickey until 1947, when he also created several other animal characters, including Donald Duck and the dogs Pluto and Goofy. After his first full-length animated musical, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in 1937, he also completed other full-length animated classics such as Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Bambi.

disney made war movies
Holding the record for most individual Oscar wins (22), while Walt aspired to keep Disney apolitical during World War II, the studio actively participated, producing military training films with its staff, various military units. Created logos and educational short films for.

Disneyland’s explosive start
Walt conceived the idea of ​​Disneyland during a visit to Griffith Park in Los Angeles with his daughters Diane and Sharon in the mid-1940s. While visiting amusement parks and carnivals, he envisioned a theme-based park for children and adults and in 1948 began work on “Mickey Mouse Park” as a small play park with boat rides and other themed areas. Started discussion. In the year 1952, a small group of artists and designers were tasked with bringing his dream to life. Funding was generated through the ABC network in exchange for creating and hosting a weekly one-hour television show, resulting in the creation of Disneyland TV. Covering an area of ​​160 acres, the park opened in California in 1955. Thousands of people turned up at the invitation-only inauguration ceremony with fake tickets. The park attracted millions of people over the coming weeks. Based in Walt’s hometown of Marceline, ride attractions included ‘Snow White’s Scary Adventures’ and ‘Jungle Cruise’ and train tracks winding around the complex, reflecting the founder’s love of trains.

Veterans saw the park
In its early years, the park was visited by many international dignitaries, including the King and Queen of Nepal and the Shah of Iran, and in 1961, the then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. A report in The New York Times published in November 1961 stated, “India’s Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in Los Angeles today and almost immediately began a three-hour tour of Disneyland. Nehru, who was here from New York for a two-day visit, was welcomed by Mayor Samuel W. Yorty, who said with a smile that he understood Nehru was making his first visit to Southern California to see Disneyland.