... and family helped him become the genius he was. Walt Disney was a cartoonist and master of motion picture animation. He made the world fall in love with a large-eared mouse, a scheming duck, and dozens of other animal characters. As his career progressed he turned the making of full length animated films into an art form. Walt Disney lived on the edge of ... City, he discovered the world of professional entertainment. It was movies that made the biggest impression on him. He and his friends would act in school. They would do short acting based on Charlie Chaplin's film characters. He en...

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... Seven Dwarfs" success, then came Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi. But the big main films of the forties and fifties in his Burbank studio was Fantasia, Bambi, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan (2). Movies weren't enough for Walt; he wanted to do a lot more for the people and 1children, ... like giant teacups, waterfalls, a river, and flying elephants (1). Disney needed the land to be the perfect spot. The land had to be in the Los Angeles metropolitan vicinity, be accessible by freeways, and affordable (1). What the specialists found was a 160 acre orange grove near t...

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... Warner Bros. or other companies released successful animated movies that compare to Disney's. Correspondingly, none of those movies can accomplish the amount of emotion in Disney's classics. Although, beautifully done films like DreamWorks The Prince of Egypt and Jones's How the Grinch Stole Christmas can rise to Disney classic ... , being friendly, and loving others are the basic themes of all Disney productions. (Nardo, 2000, p.53) Fight scenes are righteous and characters can never make it to second base. With Disney, children don't try to be super power ninjas who kick everything the...

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