1. How Walt Disney Impacted the Animation Industry
By: Stephen Sandhop

2. What his early life was like
Walt Disney was born in the year 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. He first made money as a kid by drawing pictures for his neighbors. At ten years old he began attending Saturday classes at the Kansas City Art Institute. In high school he took night courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and became the cartoonist for his schools newspaper.

3. What he did before he got into animation
Walt got a job at the Presmen-Rubin Art Studio with the help of his brother Roy. He then met the cartoonist Ub Iwerks and the two started a commercial art company. Disney then found later work at the Kansas Film Ad Company where he first became interested in animation.

4. What he did when he worked in animation
In 1983, Walt and his brother moved to California and opened a Hollywood cartoon studio named Walt Disney Animation Studio. He and his brother made the Alice Comedies, the first of which gave the two brothers $1,500. After he lost the rights to a character named Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, he made the character we all know and love, Mickey Mouse. Walt himself was the voice of Mickey until Eventually, Mickey Mouse would be the worlds most popular cartoon character.

5. How he revolutionized the industry
Disney’s first full length film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” had made a major change to animation and entertainment. It was the most successful and profitable movie in 1939, making more than eight million. This, as many people call it, was the beginning of “The Golden Age of Animation”. Another movie of his, “Fantasia”, was the first to include stereophonic sound and animated images using storyboards.

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