Question

Q2 . Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: (10Marks)

1. Walter Elias “Walt” Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Hermosa, Illinois. He lived

most of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri, where he began drawing, painting and selling

pictures to neighbours and family friends. Disney attended McKinley High School in

Chicago, where he took drawing and photography classes and was a contributing cartoonist

for the school paper. At night, he took courses at the Chicago Art Institute.

2. When Disney was 16, he dropped out of school to join the army but was rejected for being

underage. Instead, he joined the Red Cross and was sent to France for a year to drive an

ambulance. When Disney returned from France in 1919, he moved back to Kansas City to

pursue a career as a newspaper artist. His brother Roy got him a job at the Pesmen-Rubin Art

Studio, where he met cartoonist Ubbe Eert Iwwerks, better known as Ub Iwerks. From there,

Disney worked at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he made commercials based on

cutout animation. Around this time, Disney began experimenting with a camera, doing handdrawn cel animation, and decided to open his own animation business. From the ad company,

he recruited Fred Harman as his fi rst employee.

3. Walt and Harman made a deal with a local Kansas City theater to screen their cartoons,

which they called Laugh-O-Grams. The cartoons were hugely popular, and Disney was able

to acquire his own studio, upon which he bestowed the same name. Laugh-O-Gram hired a

number of employees, including Harman‟s brother Hugh and Iwerks. They did a series of

seven-minute fairy tales that combined both live action and animation, which they called

Alice in Cartoon land. By 1923, however, the studio had become burdened with debt, and

Disney was forced to declare bankruptcy.

4. Disney and his brother, Roy, soon pooled their money and moved to Hollywood. Iwerks

also relocated to California, and there the three began the Disney Brothers‟ Studio. Their fi rst

deal was with New York distributor Margaret Winkler, to distribute their Alice cartoons.

They also invented a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and contracted the shorts at

$1,500 each.


1.Find out the word from the passage which means same as: ‘cartoon’ [para3]

2.Find out the word from the passage which means same as: „wholesaler’[para4]
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Answer 1

Answers to the questions in the passage

Explanation:

1. The word from the passage which means the same as 'cartoon' from paragraph 3 is 'animation'. Animation is the process in which movement or action is added to an image to create the illusion of motion.In the given passage about Walt Disney, the author mentions the seven-minute fairy tales that combined both live-action and animation called Alice in cartoon land. Here cartoon refers to animation.
2. The word from the passage which means the same as 'wholesaler' is 'distributor'.A Distributor is a person or an agent who supplies the goods to the retailers. In the given passage, the first distributor for the Disney brother's studio was a New York-based distributor named Margaret Winkler, to distribute their Alice cartoons.