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  Elias Disney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elias Disney (February 6, 1859September 13, 1941) was the father of Walt Disney.
Elias was born in the rural village of Bluevale, Ontario, Canada, to Kepple Disney and Mary Richardson.
Walter Elias Disney, born on December 5, 1901 and better known as Walt Disney.
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 Walt Disney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois to Elias Disney and the former Flora Call.
The same year, Disney debuted a number of exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair, including Audio-Animatronic figures, all of which later were integrated into attractions at Disneyland and a new theme park project, to be established on the east coast, which Disney had been planning since Disneyland opened.
Disney devoted substantial time in his later years funding The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), which was formed in 1961 through a merger of the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and the Chouinard Art Institute, which had helped in the training of the animation staff during the 1930s.
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 Elias Disney -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Elias Disney (February 6, 1859– September 13, 1941) was the father of (United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966)) Walt Disney.
Elias was born in (A prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada) Ontario, (A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada) Canada, to Kepple Disney and Mary Richardson.
Elias moved to (A state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes) California with his father in 1878 in hopes of finding gold.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/el/elias_disney.htm   (502 words)

  
 TheWaltDisneyStory
Disney's 1945 feature, the musical "The Three Caballeros," combined live action with the cartoon medium, a process he used successfully in other features such as "Song of the South" and the highly acclaimed "Mary Poppins." In all, 81 features were released by the studio during his lifetime.
Walt Disney conceived the new school as a place where all the performing and creative arts would be taught under one roof in a "community of the arts" as a completely new approach to professional arts training.
Walt Disney is a legend, a folk hero of the 20th century.
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 Walter Elias Disney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Walter Elias Disney, who founded Disneyland and Walt Disney World, was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 5, 1901.
Disney's 1945 feature, the musical "The Three Caballeros" combined live action with the cartoon medium, a process he used successfully in such other features as "Song of the South" and the highly acclaimed "Mary Poppins." In all, over 100 features have been produced by his studio.
Thus, Disney directed the purchase of 43 square miles of virgin land - twice the size of Manhattan Island - in the center of the state of Florida.
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 Walt Disney
Elias' ill health and the economic pressures of raising five children got the better of him in 1910, when the farm was sold and the family moved to Kansas, where Elias tried many ventures, some involving his elder sons, who would soon run away to find their fortune elsewhere.
Disney was not the first to animate cartoons: the mechanism had been established as long ago as the late 19th century, and had been used extensively since then, mainly as a commercial tool to boost the content of feature films.
Disney had the additional insight to realise that the sound, now played on separate equipment, had to be recorded onto the film itself if any kind of convincing result was to be guaranteed.
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 Walter Elias Disney
Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, the fourth of five children.
Disney was a reserved and private man devoted to his family, wife Lillian Bounds Disney, and his two daughters, Sharon and Diane.
Disney himself was the voice behind Mickey Mouse, who he originally named Mortimer.
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 Walt Disney Biography
Disney, was already in California, with an immense amount of sympathy and encouragement, and $250.
During 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 throughout the world by the U.S. State Department.
Thus, Disney directed the purchase of 43 square miles of virgin land -- twice the size of Manhattan Island -- in the center of the state of Florida.
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 Walt Disney: A Biography
During a 43-year Hollywood career that spanned the development of the motion picture medium as a modern American art, Walter Elias Disney, a modern Aesop, established himself and his product as a genuine part of Americana.
A pioneer and innovator and the possessor of one of the most fertile imaginations the world has ever known, Walt Disney, along with members of his staff, received more than 950 honors and citations from every nation in the world, including 48 Academy Awards® and seven Emmys® in his lifetime.
The creator of Mickey Mouse and founder of the Disneyland® and Walt Disney World® Theme Parks was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 5, 1901.
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 Walt Disney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Walter Elias Disney, Walt Disney was born in Chicago in 1901 (Abinder, 1973, p.23).
Disney followed that success with 'Pinocchio' (1940), a story about wooden puppet that is transformed into a real boy, and 'Fantasia' (1940), an ambitious film that combined animation with classical music.
Disney also continued to produce popular motion pictures in the 1950s and 1960s, including '20.000 leagues under the sea' (1954), 'The shaggy dog' (1959), 'one hundred and one Dalmatians' (1961), and 'The Jungle book' (1967) (Thomas, 1976).
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 Disney TimeLine
In Chicago, Illinois, Roy Oliver ("Roy Disney") is born to Elias and Flora Disney.
Walter Elias ("Walt Disney") is born at 1249 Tripp Avenue, in Chicago, Illinois, to parents Elias and Flora Disney.
Walt attends "Walt Disney Day" in his childhood hometown of Marceline, where he dedicates a public swimming pool that is part of a ten-acre park named in his honor.
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 Ed Black's Cartoon Flashback
Elias hadn't been paying his sons, saying room and board was suffcient reward for delivering his papers.
Elias felt this was money well spent because it kept his son occupied (as if delivering papers morning and night seven days a week did not!), never dreaming it would result in a career.
Elias looked for work as a carpenter and just couldn't understand Walt's fascination with film cartoons, but he did charge him five dollars a month rent for use of the garage.
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 Walter Elias Disney
Walter Elias Disney, the son of Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney, was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 5, 1901.
Disney joined his brother Roy in Hollywood, California, in 1923 and together they established The Disney Brothers Studio.
Disney opened the popular Disney World theme park in Florida in 1971 as an amusement park and resort.
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 Walt Disney - The Man Behind The Mouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois to Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney.
Walt continued to bring Disney cartoons to the world, and soon he was coming into the home of Americans with a weekly television series presented by ABC in 1954.
Roy O. Disney, however, was not able to keep his promise to his wife, as he joined his younger brother in death on December 20, 1971.
users2.ev1.net /~disneyelvis/Disney/WDW/WalterEDisney.htm   (1110 words)

  
 The Walt Disney Story
Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in a suburb of Chicago.
The Disney Home in Marceline, IL Walt's first attempt at art was one day when he and his sister, Ruth, were left home alone.
Elias Disney bought a distributorship for the morning Times and the Star newspapers.
www.angelfire.com /nj/MMania/walt.html   (475 words)

  
 Computerized Films
Everyone in Hollywood was calling it "Disney's Folly", but Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was anything but, winning critical raves, the adoration of the public, and one big and seven little special Oscars for Walt.
Which also in that year was the last time a Disney film would have Walt's actual plans and thoughts into the film and it was "The Jungle Book" Disney's 19th animated film.
Walt Disney is now into Legend and for years after we're gone, people will still continue to talk about Waltor as if he would still be alive.
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 Elias Disney biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Elias was born in Ontario, Canada, to Kepple Disney II and Mary Richardson.
Instead, Kepple was convinced by an agent of the Union Pacific Railroad to buy 200 acres (800,000 mandsup2) of land near Ellis, Kansas.
The family sold the farm in 1909 and lived in a rented house till 1910, when they moved to Kansas City, Missouri.
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 Walt Disney @ Filmbug UK
Walter Elias Disney was an American animated film producer and the creator of an American-based theme park called Disneyland and the billion-dollar Walt Disney corporation.
Walt Disney was born in Chicago to Elias Disney and Flora Call.
Returning to Walt's new project, Disney claimed that it was the blowing of a train's whistle that inspired him to create Mickey Mouse.
www.filmbug.co.uk /db/3551   (2702 words)

  
 The Walt Disney Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At that time, Walt Disney gathered together what were originally animators and writers for his movies and cartoons, and presented them with the challenge of creating a theme park where people could walk in and feel like they were part of a movie or cartoon themselves.
Disney's intention was to build a theme park that would be attractive for the East Coast as Disneyland had become for the West Coast.
As a world-renowned amusement park and family entertainment venue, Disney and the parks that surround have become a dream for the young, and a reminder of youth and energy for the older population.
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 Walter Elias Disney (walt disney)
Walt Disney is known worldwide for his unique cartooning skills.
Walt Disney was born Walter Elias Disney on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois.
Back in the days that Snow White was created, the nation was in the depression and Disney had invested 2 million dollars into the production of the feature.
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 Walter Elias Disney
Walter Elias Disney, also called Walt Disney, was born at the turn of the century, 1901.
Disney felt that Mickey Mouse was becoming too much of an idol and that Mickey was too-trusting and over-optimistic to be an interesting cartoon character.
Daredevil Walt Disney was not only the first to use sound and a separate cartoon for each movement, but he also was the first with many other things.
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 Walt Disney Biography | Walter Elias Disney Bio | Cartoon | Disney World | Movie | Mickey Mouse | Pluto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He created one of the largest amusement parks in the world and brought many of our favorite fairy tales to life.
Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois.
After the war, Walt Disney headed to Hollywood with his drawing materials and $40.
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 CuddlyFuddly.info - Walter Elias Disney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Walt Disney was born Walter Elias Disney on December 5, 1901 in Chicago...
Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois to Elias Disney andamp; Flora Call Disney.
Walter Elias Disney, the son of Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney, was born in...
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 Encyclopedia: Elias Disney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Walt Disney Walter Elias Walt Disney (December 5, 1901 –; December 15, 1966), was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator.
June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining.
December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
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 A Tribute to Walter Elias Disney
And judging by the way it’s behaving, in spite of all Disney tried to tell it about laughter, love, children, puppies, and sunrises, the century hardly deserved him.
There can’t be many adults in the allegedly civilized parts of the globe who did not inhabit Disney’s mind and imagination for at least for a few hours and feel better for the visitation.
But what Disney seemed to know was that while there is very little grown-up in every child, there is a lot of child in every grown-up.
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 ipedia.com: Elias Disney Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Elias Disney was the father of Walt Disney.
Elias Disney (February 6, 1859 - September 13, 1941) was the father of Walt Disney.
Instead, Kepple was convinced by an agent of the Union Pacific Railroad to buy 200 acres (800,000 m²) of land near Ellis, Kansas.
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 Disney Dreamer - Walt Disney History
Walt Disney held deep personal beliefs and spoke openly to the author of "Faith is a Star" in 1963 about prayer and church and belief in God.
Walt moved to the rural area north of Marceline by train from Chicago when Walt Disney was almost five years old.
The Disney's sold the farm and moved to Kansas City in 1911.
www.disneydreamer.com /walt/history.htm   (399 words)

  
 Walt Disney Biography
During 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.
Disney's 1945 feature, the musical The Three Caballeros, combined live action with the cartoon medium, a process he used successfully in such other features as Song of the South and the highly acclaimed Mary Poppins.
Thus, Disney directed the purchase of 43 square miles of virgin land--twice the size of Manhattan Island--in the center of the state of Florida.
www.wdwmagic.com /walt.htm   (1450 words)

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