Did you ever wonder how Disney came to be? The big strong films that made it how it is today? The heartbreaking bombs that changed things up in the company? The great evolution it took to where it is now? Well this is a story of how Walt Disney anim...
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Ever since he was a child, Walter Elias Disney always knew that he had a passion for the arts. Born in Chicago, Illinois on December 5th, 1901, and raised in Missouri, Walt loved to draw whenever he could and always looked for ways to improve his skills. So much so that he even attended weekends and night courses on cartooning in between school time.
In 1920, Disney tried (and failed) to open his own company with a fellow artist he met at a contemporary art shop named Ub Iwerks. But after the attempt, he discovered a new form of art that would really bring his drawings to life called cel animation, which had a more believable feel to it than the cutout animation that was often used at the time. That was when Walt decided to try running his own studio again by producing a series of animated shorts called Newman's Laugh-O-Grams, named after the main place where they were shown, the Newman Theater in Kansas City, where they told modern versions of classic fairytales. In other words, Disney's first cartoons foreshadowed his entire legacy.
The Laugh-O-Grams turned out to be a hit, but not for long. This began a cycle where Walt would have a short-lived successful series, but once the show ran its course, he would start a new one and repeat the process, all while moving to Hollywood in 1923 after the end of the Laugh-O-Grams where on October 16th, he and his brother Roy O.
Disney opened a new company called the Disney Brothers Studio. The cycle began with Laugh-O-Grams, then there was the Alice Comedies, which featured a live-action girl in a cartoon world, then four years later came Walt's first cartoon star Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
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It was going well with Oswald, but then a year later in 1928, Walt got screwed over by his producer Charles Mintz by taking Oswald, which was owned by its distributor Universal Pictures, and most of his animators away from him after refusing a deal that would get him less pay. So while he was making the last batch of Oswald cartoons, Walt and a small group of devoted artists, including his old friend Ub Iwerks, secretly created a new cartoon character to replace the rabbit, and thus, Mickey Mouse was born
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