Walt Disney’s Life Raine Eubank Mr.Schimmel 2009 Introduction • Walt was born December 5,1901. • He was a cartoonist.He created animated movies. • Also theme parks visited by millions of people every year. Walt’s Life • • • • He was born in Chicago. He moved to a farm in Missouri at 4. Then he moved to Kansas City. When they got there he was a paper boy. Walt’s Life • In 1918 he went to France to be an ambulance driver. • He went back Kansas city and became an artist. He got his own business and he was making Alice and Wonderland. Before he could finish is business went bankrupt. Walt’s Life • 1923 he went to California with his brother and started Disney Brother Studio. • He got married to Lillian Bounds on July 13, 1825. • Walt’s Life Then he made the character Mickey Mouse. Then he made the first long movie. That was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Walt’s Life He got an idea.Why could he not have his own theme park. Of that success he took his whole family on a cruse. He got very ill.His illness was lung cancer. Walt’s Death • He died December 15,1965. Sadly he did not get to see the opening of Disney World.But his brother was there. That was Walt Disney’s life and what he did. Citation/Soures • Who was Walt?Walt Disney.By Whiten Stewart. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Walt_disney_portrait.jpg