the presentation "interesting facts from the life of Walt Disney» Marina Glushakova
• Fact # 1 Walt Disney, although he was the youngest in the family, at school was involved in the work necessary to the survival of the family. Since the age of 8, Walt had to rise at 3: 30 every morning to post to the subscribers of the Kansas city newspaper and not be late to school.
• At 22, Walt Disney, having in its portfolio only to a few drawings, one finished cartoon and 40 dollars in his pocket, came to Hollywood. His brother, Roy Oliver Disney, who moved to California previously, it was 250 dollars and a lot of enthusiasm. They pooled their resources, borrowed another $ 500 and built a podium for cameras in the garage of his uncle.
• Walt Disney knew how not to give up, despite numerous setbacks. The first popular character of Walt Disney's "Oswald the lucky rabbit" invented and painted by Walt disney. However, a year later the rights to it to the brothers of Disney fraudulently selected producer. This setback did not cool the creative impulse of Walt Disney, who decided that ideas even more than enough, and in response created the character that became the most popular character in the history of animation — Mickey mouse.
• One day he saw in Paris showed instead two shorts involving Mickey mouse as many as eight, and decided to create the first ever animated feature. When brother Disney heard about this, he almost fainted, because many will need to invest money on a half hour animated picture? ! And how much effort must be spent to remove it? ! Most of the Studio staff reacted to this idea with skepticism. However, Walt insisted.
• The rst full-length animated film "Snow white and the seven dwarfs" lasted three years and cost insane for those times the sum $1, 499 million From ruin Disney saved only credit Bank of America, whose head, Amadeo Giannini, was a big fan of Mickey mouse. The result was worth the money. "Snow white" for a long time was the highest grossing film of all time (her record has blocked only "gone with the wind").