In 1940, construction was completed on the Burbank Studio, and Disney's staff swelled to more than 1,000 artists, animators, story men, and technicians. Although, because of World War II 94 percent of the Disney facilities were engaged in special government work, including the production of training and propaganda films for the armed services, as well as health films which are still shown through-out the world by the U.S. State Department. The remainder of his efforts was devoted to the production of comedy short subjects, deemed highly essential to civilian and military morale (A., Brad).

Willie was their first success and with sound on its side the film attracted many audiences and Disney Productions had caught its first break (Schickel).

On July 13, 1925, Walt married one of his first employees, Lillian Bounds, in Lewiston, Idaho. Later on they would be blessed with two daughters, Diane and Sharon (A., Brad). "Mice gathered in my wastebasket when I worked late at night. I lifted them out and kept them in little cages on my desk. One of them was my particular friend." Said

Disney. Walt first drew the mouse up late at night and named it "Mortimer,” but Roy was not fond of this name. However Walt was too stubborn to change it. Roy talked to Walt’s wife, Lillian, and she eventually got him to change it after days of pleading. In fact, it was Lillian who ultimately named the mouse "Mickey” (Mosely).

start a commercial-art business together, called Iwerks-Disney. He wanted to improve upon the clumsy means of animation used at Kansas City Film Ad. He read books about animation and discovered how the leading New York animators worked. Then he started making his own cartoons (“Walt’s Story: Episode One”). After work, Walt stayed up late into the night working on animation. At the time, Kansas City theaters rented cartoons from East Coast animators. Walt decided he could compete with them by creating his own with a local twist. He successfully sold the idea to the Newman Theater and began making his own Newman Laugh-O-grams. Typically, he priced them too low and made no money. But he was in the cartoon business (Reese).

content was solved, and though he enjoyed being a hero to the culturally conservative, he was free to focus on what had always mattered most to him, which was not old pieties but new technologies (Schickel).

As a fabulous $17-million magic kingdom, soon had increased its investment tenfold, and by the beginning of its second quarter-century, had entertained more than 200 million people, including presidents, kings and queens, and royalty from all over the globe. (A., Brad)

Walt Disney transformed the entertainment industry, into what we know today. He pioneered the fields of animation, and found new ways to teach, and educate (A, Brad). Before leaving home at 16 to join the Red Cross Ambulance Corps during World War I, Walt discovered that he could escape his dad's, as well as life’s meanness in art classes. In the service he kept drawing, and when he was mustered out, he set up a shop as a commercial artist in Kansas City, Mo. There he discovered animation, a new field, wide open to an ambitious young man determined to escape his father's sorry fate (Schickel).

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