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Walt Disney 927 DIS SJ- SO8 Rookie Biographies By Joanne Mattern SCHOLASTIC Meet Walt Disney Walt Disney wasafamous artist. He was the creator of Mickey Mouse. Walt drew many cartoons and made movies. He also created the theme parks...

Walt Disney 927 DIS SJ- SO8 Rookie Biographies By Joanne Mattern SCHOLASTIC Meet Walt Disney Walt Disney wasafamous artist. He was the creator of Mickey Mouse. Walt drew many cartoons and made movies. He also created the theme parks Disneyland and Walt Disney World. This photoshows Walt drawing ascene from Steamboat Wilie. 5  MAP KEY Illinois Wisconsin Michigan City where Lake Walt Disney was born Michigan Chicago Iowa Walt was born on December 5, 1901, in Chicago, Ilinois. He had three brothers and one sister. IIlinois Indiana Missouri Kentucky Walt was born in Ilinois. Tennessee Arkansas  Walt the paperboy at 10 years old. Asa boy, Walt wrote plays with his friends. They put on shows onstage. But more than anything. Walt loved to draw. He drew funny cartoons for his friends. FASTEACTI Walt worked hard, too. He got up at 3:30 in the morning to deliver newspapers. Then he went to school. Walt took night classes at an art school while he was in high school. The United States was at war at the time. Walt wanted to help. So he left school to drive an ambulance in the War. Walt drove an ambulance like this one. He added drawings to the sides of his ambulance. 11  After the war, Walt went back to his favorite activity: drawing cartoons. He and his brother Roy Roy Walt started their own animation studio. Walt invented characters like Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Donald Duck. Roy and Walt at Work at Disney Brothers Studio 12 13  V. A. Pubc S Lo. LIBRARY Sr ACCNSJ-508 Gurgaon Walt met his wife, Lillian, at the Scctor - 14, Disney Brothers Studio. She worked there. Walt and Lillian fell in love and were married in 1925. They later had two daughters, Diane and Sharon. This picture of Walt's family Was taken when Diane was 16 and Sharon was 13. 14  Willie scene from Steamboat A Mickey Mouse and Friends In1928. Walt made a short movie called Steamboat Willie. The star was Mickey Mouse. Steamboat Willie was the first cartoon to put Sound withpictures. It was ahit! GASTIACTI Walt used hisown voice to make Mickey Mouse talk. 17  Snow The movie poster for Dwarfs White and the Seven In 1937,Walt made his first full length movie. It was called Snow HIS FIRST eat DISNEYs inthe Mardou MULTIPLANT White and the Seven Dwarfs. FULL LENGTH FEATURE TKHNICOLOf PRODUCTION! Many people saw the film. Then andthe Seven Diwäts Walt made more popular movies: Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi. GASTEAGGTI Goumpy let Walt brought real deer into the studio for his artists to study when they drew the pictures for Bambi. 18 19  TVTime Walt also created television shows. Every week, families gathered in front of the TV to watch. Walt's first program showed Disney movies. WONDERFU! WORLD OF Walt's first television series was on shown TV for a long time. First it was color. inblack and white and then in 20 21  Walt with the original cast of The Mickey Mouse Club Another show Walt created was The Mickey Mouse Club. This show wason every day and starred a group of kids known as LONNIE "Mouseketeers." E ( CUBSY EASTGEAGT! The Mickey Mouse Club was on for many years and TV starred Mouseketeers.andBritney Spears,different Justin DAAENE Timberlake, Christina dll Mouseketeers when theyAguilera were were yOung. 22 23  Mickey Mouse with ayoung tan A Happy Place where Walt wanted to build a place 1955. families could have fun, In called he opened a theme park called DisneylandinCalifornia. Walt it"the happiest place on Earth." FASTTEACTI never Walt said Disneyland would be finished. He was always adding something new to the park. 24 25 Wat planned another theme park, in Florida. It was called Walt Disney World. Walt also kept on making movies. Mickey Mouse and his cartoon friends were famOus all Over the world. Fireworks light up the sky Over Cinderella Castle in Walt Disney 26 World. 21  Mickey and friends enjoy a ride at Disneyland. Walt died on December 15, 1966. But he lives on through the characters and parks that he created. His work continues to DIsneland make people happy. Timeline of Walt Disney's 1923 1937 1966 Liffe starts his own releases Snow White dies on movie studio December 15 and the Seven Dwarts 1901 1955 1971 releases1928 born on Walt Disney World 28 December 5 Steamboat Willie Disneyland opens in California opens in Florida 29  30 picturesDrawPractice Each YOU pictures and one From ofdrawing began things Gan each t WalMickey About Poem A of thought you your every in fantastic, Walt's Mouse Disney Walt imagine.family Be day imaginatióD fun up, to and to drew, get an Disneyland friends. creation good ArtiSt and Scctor 14, - Draw at LIBR ARY planned: V. it. 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