Happy Birthday Walt Disney!

Robin Hood · Post by **Robin Hood** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:51 am

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000370/

Escapay · Post by **Escapay** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:31 pm

Happy Birthday Walt!

To think, he'd be 104 today...

Escapay

Zoltack · Post by **Zoltack** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:34 pm

Happy Birthday Walt Disney!!!

Wow look at that filmography... almost 700 productions!!! Fewww... he must of liked being busy.

I think it's sad that he didn't get a chance to see Christmas that year.

Enchantress · Post by **Enchantress** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:23 pm

Happy 104th Birthday Walt! I'm suprised no one noticed this sooner.

musicradio77 · Post by **musicradio77** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:40 pm

On December 5, 1901, Walter Elias Disney was born to Elias and Flora Disney. He grew to show a great love for cartoons and animation. He also had a fondness for trains. His first success came with a girl named Virginia Davis, who became Disney's first big star. Following the Alice comedies, he found some luck in his second great hit, Oswald the lucky rabbit. In 1928, after losing the rights to Oswald, Walt met a third great character on the train ride home. This time, his life would change forever. On November 18, Mickey Mouse made his screen debut to critical acclaim in "Steamboat Willie". Mickey was a success.

Walt turned toward a new challenge. He wanted to make a feature length cartoon. He began work on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Some of Walt's critics called the project "Disney's folly". But Walt had the last laugh as audiences called for more of the long cartoons. In the film, Walt used the multiplane camera, a device which he invented, which added depth to the drawings. Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi followed. But then came the war.

As the country was plagued by war, the military took over the Walt Disney Studios as a strategic base. Animation for entertainment halted and the company began animation for training troops. Donald Duck even enlisted and went to war. When the fighting ceased, Disney once again turned his attention to the feature cartoons.

When the war ended, Disney found he had no money to support production of a full length cartoon. He took projects that had been started prior to the war, and put them together as "package features". Following the release of "Ichabod and Mr. Toad", Walt was once again ready to begin production of his next full length cartoon, "Cinderella". But Walt, like Cinderella, had been dreaming of something bigger and better.

Walt was tired of going to amusement parks with his girls where he would sit on the bench and wave as they passed by on the carousel. He felt that "there should be something built where the parents and the children could have fun together." But he found that acquiring the funds for such a project was next to impossible. Then, in 1955, he had an idea. He would advertise on television. This advertisement would be an hour long show on Sunday evenings where he would entertain the public and tell them the progress at Disneyland. The show would take the name of the place it was promoting, Disneyland. That same year, the Mickey Mouse Club premiered. On July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened with hosts Bob Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Art Linkletter, and Walt Disney. The public fell in love with this vacation spot. But this dreamer still had a few more tricks up his sleeve.

In 1964, Walt opened his bag of tricks and unleashed a masterpiece. Using every trick of the trade, Walt brought P. L. Travers' fantasy of "Mary Poppins" to the big screen with Julie Andrews as the practically perfect nanny. This film earned Julie Andrews the Best Actress of 1964 and made Walt ever more popular. Walt turned his attentions to the Sunshine State.

Plans began for Disney World in Florida. Walt began secretly buying land in the Florida swamp of Kissimmee. He planned to build a park similar to the one in California. In 1965, Walt discussed his plans for the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, a city of the future. But his plans would never be realized.

Walt's smoking habits caught up with him. At the start of 1966, he went to the hospital and they took out one of his lungs. On December 15, 1966, Walt lost his battle with lung cancer. He was 65.

Throughout his career, Walt brought to the world the multiplane camera, full length animated features, Disneyland, and Mickey Mouse. These creations earned him a total of 36 Academy Awards. This also earned him another award--the honor of a place in the Guiness Book of World Records for the most individual Academy Awards. Walt was primarily concerned with bringing joy and happiness to the world. He believed that if you wish and dream hard enough, anything is possible.

Happy Birthday, Walt. Thanks for the dreams.

Happy birthday my beloved fan.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:03 pm

Happy Birthday Walt!

I was looking through the imdb that robin hood listed and I was kind of digusted by this thread
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000370/boar ... d/30614721
He even spelled "perverted" wrong... I hate threads like that...

Robin Hood · Post by **Robin Hood** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:15 pm

Alan wrote:I was looking through the imdb that robin hood listed and I was kind of digusted by this thread
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000370/boar ... d/30614721
He even spelled "perverted" wrong... I hate threads like that...

I know! The guy who wrote that is so dumb!

chaychay102royal · Post by **chaychay102royal** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:15 pm

Happy birthday Walt! 104 years old...

GhostHost · Post by **GhostHost** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:22 pm

Happy Birthday

Kenai · Post by **Kenai** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:26 pm

Happy Birthday Mr. Walt Disney. Thank you for all the films and dreams you've given us all, from theme parks to merchandising to just plain magic. Happy B-day!

Escapay · Post by **Escapay** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:56 pm

Robin Hood wrote:
Alan wrote:I was looking through the imdb that robin hood listed and I was kind of digusted by this thread
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000370/boar ... d/30614721
He even spelled "perverted" wrong... I hate threads like that...
I know! The guy who wrote that is so dumb!

That's imdb for ya.

Escapay

Zoltack · Post by **Zoltack** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:59 pm

Robin Hood wrote:
Alan wrote:I was looking through the imdb that robin hood listed and I was kind of digusted by this thread
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000370/boar ... d/30614721
He even spelled "perverted" wrong... I hate threads like that...
I know! The guy who wrote that is so dumb!

That's why I don't like imdb that much because I bet the people who run that site are only 12 years old.

disneydaze · Post by **disneydaze** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:30 am

Happy Birthday Walt Disney

Thanks for many many years of Magic,Fun and Heart

Magic of Mickey

Loomis · Post by **Loomis** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:59 am

Thanks for being the subject of a lifelong obsession, Walt.

It's pretty amazing that so long after his death, there are so many fans of Disney products. I mean, Warner and Universal don't have dedicated fan followings - WB cartoons might, but very few people buy EVERYTHING Warner puts out. I would daresay there are some Disney fans who buy almost everything with the Disney brand on it.

I think that says something about what the Disney name means to lots of people.

I should write a thesis...

creid · Post by **creid** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:08 am

Happy Birthday Uncle Walt. Too bad he did not make it longer to see Disney expand the way it did.

CR

musicradio77 · Post by **musicradio77** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:57 pm

According to Ray Pointer who posted on GAC Forums:

Walt Disney was a phenomenon of his time. He, like everyone else from his era was a man a accomlishment with a limited education. He had not gone past the 10th grade, yet he accomplished more than those with college educations.

I've often wondered the same thing posed in the question above. The answer is that Disney wouldn't have been considered qualified by today's standards. His drawing abilitity would not have passed for the most part. And since a great deal of emphasis is placed on drawing over storytelling and producing ability, Disney would not have been considered for employment in the industry today. There was a story of him being fired after a week working for Jam Handy's Diamond Productions in Chicago in the early 1920s because he couldn't draw well enough. Then he went to Kansas City, and I guess we all know the rest of the story.

As for the suburban legend about Walt Disney's body being held in a frozen state beneath Disneyland, it's simply that-- LEGEND, MYTH. The death certificate confirms that he was cremated, and his urn is at Forrest Lawn Cemetary.

MickeyMousePal · Post by **MickeyMousePal** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:10 am

Happy Birthday Walt Disney

TheSequelOfDisney · Post by **TheSequelOfDisney** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:45 am

I'm surprised no one had posted this yet. Happy birthday to a great animator, voice actor, producer, creater of Mickey.......... it goes on forever. Only if he was alive to see this day. Anyway, if you were alive happy 105th Birthday! Wow, he's getting old.

Jasmine1022 · Post by **Jasmine1022** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:24 am

TheSequelofDisney wrote:Wow, he's getting old.

and everyone still loves him like he was born yesterday. an amazing, amazing man. HERE'S TO WALT! *drinks champagne and smiles because she's only 17

"

Mason_Ireton · Post by **Mason_Ireton** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:05 am

Walt, you've given us new hopes and inspirations from your achivements...though you had some trouble in the magic kingdom, you didn't lost the ability to dazzle us with the plans.

Here's a lil vid. that I made dedicated to Walt Disney,

Walt's Dream: 32 Academy Award winner, Walt Disney, brought us special dreams, enchanting characters and left us a very dear place for his passion of animation, this film is for Walt Disney.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x6Y9hnX-ak

write back please

sign Mason

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