Who Is Walt Disney's The Three Little Pigs

Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901, to Elias and Flora Disney in Chicago, Illinois. When Walt was four years old, his family moved to Marceline, Missouri, where he and his younger sister Ruth would attend school in 1909, Walt’s first schooling. His family stayed in Marceline for four more years before selling their farm and moving to Kansas City, Missouri. In 1917, the Disneys moved back to Chicago after Elias secured shares in a jelly factory there. That fall, Walt attended McKinley High School and enrolled in night classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Walt became a cartoonist for the school’s newspaper with patriotic cartoons about World War I. However, when Walt was just 16 years old he dropped out of high school to go into the army, but was rejected because he was underage. Consequently, Walt joined the Red Cross and went to France in 1918, becoming an ambulance driver. In 1919, he moved back to Kansas City to begin his art career. Walt tried to find a job there, as an actor, artist, or ambulance driver, but no one hired him. He then got help from his older brother Roy who was working at a bank. Roy landed Walt a temporary job through one of his bank coworkers at
This short was The Three Little Pigs. It had a very strong story and was emotionally gripping. After The Three Little Pigs, Walt got the idea to create a story department to develop better stories for the shorts. The song, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” from the Three Little Pigs became a sort of anthem for the Great Depression. On November 18, 1932, Walt received a special academy award for the creation of Mickey Mouse. In 1935, the Mickey Mouse series switched to color including the spinoffs for Goofy, Pluto, and Donald Duck. Donald’s first appearance was in 1934, in Orphan’s Benefit. Donald soon became a viewer favorite, and the second most popular character Disney ever