1

Crónica

GA3-240202501-AA1-EV03

Aprendiz

Gustavo Adolfo Porras Polo

Ficha

2721340

Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje

Gestión Agroempresarial

Instructor

Javier Rolando Vega Saldaña

15 agosto de 2023
 2

Chronicle

For the development of this evidence, we will take as an example the life
of an iconic character of the twentieth century, Mr. Walter Elias Disney was
born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. The fourth of five children born
to Elias and Flora Disney, his childhood was spent amid economic hardships
and under the severity of his father, a carpenter by profession, who tried his
luck in all kinds of businesses without ever managing to improve his battered
economy. Eternally despised by his father, Walt grew up very close to his
mother, a former teacher of German descent, and his brother Roy, eight years
older than him.

In 1906, Elias Disney decided to start a new life on a farm near the small
town of Marceline, Missouri, where Walt discovered nature and animals. It was
also then that his interest in drawing was born, which he shared with his
younger sister, Ruth.

His dream was to become an artist for the Kansas City Star, the
newspaper he had delivered as a child, but he found work as an apprentice at
an advertising agency, the Pesmen-Rubin Commercial Art Studio. With a salary
of $50 a month, in that job he met Ub Iwerks, a young man his own age and
exceptionally gifted at drawing, with whom he became friends.

In 1923, Disney emigrated to Hollywood. The booming film industry had

turned Hollywood into a land of promise. Disney believed that with his
experience as a cameraman he would get work as a director, but no studio
 3

wanted his services, so he decided to set up his own company again with his
brother Roy as a partner. On October 16, 1923, the Disney Brothers Studio
signed its first important contract, but still insufficient to face its financial
difficulties. Already then, Walt showed what would later become a constant in
his company: that he was capable of resorting to any stratagem to get the
business ahead. In 1924, Ubbe Iwerks joined them and Walt was able to stop
working as an animator to devote himself to the area for which he had always
been most qualified: the creation of characters and plots and directing.

Mr. Walt's lucky break came on November 18 of that year, when the
animated short film he wrote himself was released. It was the debut of the
mythical character Mickey Mouse, who had already abandoned his first name.
Disney provided the original voice of Mickey from 1928 to 1947.

As it happened to the works of all great geniuses, there was a rumor that
the endearing mouse did not come from Walt's pencils, but no one could ever
prove it. Since then, Mickey became a symbol, even, according to an American
survey, the best-known character in the world. One of the most unknown
anecdotes is that Walt himself lent his voice to Mickey in more than a hundred
titles.