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98. Walt Disney
2013-09-06
Millions of people have seen Disney films and television programs. Millions more have visited the company`s major entertainment parks. Probably no other company has pleased so many children.
Walter Elias Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1901. At the age of sixteen, Disney began to study art in Chicago.
In 1923, Walt Disney moved to Hollywood, California. He wanted to be a movie producer or director. But he failed to find a job. So he decided to make animated movies.
Disney opened his first movie company in the back of an office. He believed that cartoon movies could be as popular as movies made with actors. To do this, he decided he needed a cartoon hero. Help for his idea came from an unexpected place.
Disney worked with Ub Iwerks, another young artist. They often saw mice running in and out of the old building where they worked. So they drew a cartoon mouse. It was not exactly like a real mouse. For one thing, it stood on two legs like a human. It had big eyes and ears. And it wore white gloves on its hands.
The artists called him "Mickey." Mickey Mouse appeared in hundreds of cartoons during the years that followed. He became known all over the world.