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(Chicago, 1901 - Los Angeles, 1966) Cartoonist and film producer, pioneer
of animated film, the main creator of the classic stage of animation and
founder of the corporation that bears his name.
Walt Disney
In 1918, the young Walt tried to enlist in the army. As was not old enough,
he faked his birth certificate and, pretending to have met seventeen,
managed to be admitted as an ambulance driver for the Red
Cross. However, when he finished his training, the war was over and his
work was reduced to transfer officers.
Back to the United States, he settled in Kansas City and got a job as a
publicist in the Pesemen-Rubin Art Studio, where he formed a friendship
with artist key Ubbe Iwerks. Both the company founded in 1920 Iwerks-
Disney Commercial Artists, which was a failure. They had to work again
employed in the Kansas City Film Ad, company you would place your first
contact with rudimentary animation techniques of the time, whose
possibilities fascinated immediately to Disney.
Aunque nacido en Chicago, pasó los años más felices de su infancia en una
granja cerca de Marceline (Missouri), hasta que en 1909 su padre enfermó
y la familia hubo de trasladarse a Kansas City. Allí empezaría a trabajar de
repartidor de periódicos, labor que compaginaba con sus estudios, en los
que no destacaba. Prefería el dibujo y las historietas; las primeras que
trazó aparecerían en el periódico de su instituto en Chicago, adonde la
familia se había trasladado nuevamente.
Walt Disney