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Walter Disney
Disney World -
Every Child's Dream - (1901-1966)
- USA
- " Why should I run for Mayor when I'm already king?" (Walt Disney)
Key Work
- Tries to enlist for World War 1, at age 16, but is rejected.
- Creates his first original animated characters. Cartoons
- Creates Mickey Mouse.
- First feature-length musical animation, Snow White and the seven Dwarfs, premieres.
- Disney and over 1.000 staff occupy the Burbank Studios.
- Dumbo, and Fantasia follow up, Mary Poppins and wildlife features such as The Vanishing Prairie among its 100-plus films
- His studio won 48 Academy Awards and 7 Emmys among others
- Disneyland opens.
- Conceives Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (Epcot).
- Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida, with Epcot to follow in 1982.
- A Global homespun entertainment giant laced with fantastic imagination and traditional family values
Books & References:
- Byrne, Eleanor, and Martin McQuillan. Deconstructing Disney. London: Pluto Press, 1999.
- Giroux, Henry A. The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence (Culture and Education). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
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