Walt Disney Accomplishments
Walt Disney’s unconventional life experiences ultimately led to his varied and unique form of creativity. Walt was born on December 5, 1901, in Chicago to an Irish immigrant family. He was the fourth son of Elias and Flora Call Disney (Thomas 23). Unlike normal sibling rivalry, his older brother, Roy, actually loved Walt so much that he brought him toys with his own money. This unusually brotherly nurturing encouraged the development of Walt’s self-confidence with even Roy’s attachment and support of his younger brother lasting Walt’s whole. Roy’s later banking skills would even help Walt set up and financially run the Disney Animation Studio and Company (Thomas 24). As the Disney family grew, Al Capone and the Mafia of the 1920s soon made
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Although there are clear distinctions between our life experiences and art, I still aspire to match his greatness. Of these distinctions and one of the most noticeable ones is that Walt was over six feet tall, and I am clearly not close to his stature at my height of 5’0”. In addition, it is stated that he could “draw at lightning speed”, which is a skill I am working extremely hard to gain (Thomas 58). However, I like to imagine that in two aspects Walt Disney and myself are similar. First, like Disney, creativity has been a descriptive term used for my talent by many people. I would be thrilled if I would be recognized to have even a fraction of Walt’s type of creativity. Secondly, although Walt was known to have “language that wasn’t polished,” he was considered a fantastic storyteller (Thomas 58). While I have been told I have a gift for telling interesting stories “in my own way,” sometimes I think I struggle to get my points across due to the scrabbling effects of my dyslexia. Walt also encountered may struggles throughout his career. Even though his animated classic, Fantasia, was funded by the Bank of America and loved by movie critics in the 1940s, the public would not pay the ticket price to take their kids to see it. Some parents even complained that the devil character was too frightening for their children, so the film was not as successful as Disney had hoped (Thomas 162). Clearly, even though
Although there are clear distinctions between our life experiences and art, I still aspire to match his greatness. Of these distinctions and one of the most noticeable ones is that Walt was over six feet tall, and I am clearly not close to his stature at my height of 5’0”. In addition, it is stated that he could “draw at lightning speed”, which is a skill I am working extremely hard to gain (Thomas 58). However, I like to imagine that in two aspects Walt Disney and myself are similar. First, like Disney, creativity has been a descriptive term used for my talent by many people. I would be thrilled if I would be recognized to have even a fraction of Walt’s type of creativity. Secondly, although Walt was known to have “language that wasn’t polished,” he was considered a fantastic storyteller (Thomas 58). While I have been told I have a gift for telling interesting stories “in my own way,” sometimes I think I struggle to get my points across due to the scrabbling effects of my dyslexia. Walt also encountered may struggles throughout his career. Even though his animated classic, Fantasia, was funded by the Bank of America and loved by movie critics in the 1940s, the public would not pay the ticket price to take their kids to see it. Some parents even complained that the devil character was too frightening for their children, so the film was not as successful as Disney had hoped (Thomas 162). Clearly, even though