The story of Diesneyland illustrates Walt's vision.it also illustrates stubborns determination.The story illustrates it better then anything else. Walt's vision and determination were to realize an idea. Walt believed in that idea. join the sentence and make One meaningful sentences
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UNFORGETTABLE WALT DISNEY
-Roy Disney
My brother Walt is no more, yet his influence lingers like a living presence over the studio where he turned out the cartoons, nature films and feature movies that made him known and loved around the world. Even now, as I walk around the studio crew, I half expect to encounter that tall, country-boy figure, head bowed in thought about some new project. Walt was so much the driving force behind all we did, from making movies. to building Disneyland, that people. constantly mention his name as if he were still alive. Every time we show a new picture, or open a new feature at Disneyland, someone is bound to say, "I wonder how Walt would like it? And when this happens, I personally realize that it was something he himself had planned. For my imaginative, industrious brother left enough projects in progress to
keep the rest of us busy for many, many years. Walt was a complex man. To the writers, producers and animators who worked with him, he was a genius who had an extraordinary ability to add an extra stroke of imagination to any story or idea. To the millions of people who watched his TV show, he was a warm, kindly personality, bringing i fun and pleasure into their homes. To the bankers who financed us, I'm sure he seemed like a wild man, hell-bent for bankruptcy. To me, he was my amazing kid brother, full of impractical dreams that he made come true.
The apple orchard and weeping willows stand green and beautiful at our old farm, where Walt sketched his first animals. I recall how Walt and I would snuggle together in bed. and hear the haunting whistle of a locomotive passing in the night. Our Uncle Mike was an
Unforgettable Walt Disney
engineer, and he'd blow his whistle-one long and two shorts - just for us. Walt never lost his love for trains. Years later, an old fashioned train was one of the first attractions at Disneyland..
As far back as I can remember, Walt was drawing. The first money he ever made was a nickel for a sketch of a neighbour's horse. He studied cartooning in Chicago, and then started a little animated cartoon company in Kansas City that flopped. I was in Los Angeles when Walt, just 21, decided to try his luck in Hollywood. I met him at the station. He was carrying a cheap suitcase that contained all of his belongings. We borrowed $500 from an uncle, and Walt started a cartoon series called Alice in Cartoonland. It was tough going. Walt did all the animation. and I cranked the old-fashioned camera. The Alice cartoons didn't make much of a splash, so Walt started a new series called Oswald the Rabbit. Oswald did better but when Walt went to our New York distributor for more money he ran into trouble.
"What kind of a deal did you make, kid?" I asked.
"We haven't got a deal," Walt admitted. "The distributor copyrighted Oswald and he's taking over the series himself." Strangely, Walt did not seem downhearted. "We're going to start a new series," he enthused. "It's about a mouse. And this time
The rest is a history. Walt's mouse, Mickey, celebrated his 40th birthday in 1968, and al happy 40th it was. A quarter of a billion people saw a Disney movie in 1968, 100 million watched a Disney TV show, nearly at billion read a Disney book or magazine and almost ten million visited Disneyland. And Mickey, as Walt used to say, started it all.
Mickey was only the first successful product of Walt's matchless imagination and ability to make his dreams become reality. It was an ability he could turn on for any occasion, large or small. Once, when my son Roy Edward had the measles, Walt came and told him the story of Pinocchio, which he was making at the time. When Walt told a story, it was a virtuoso performance. His eyes riveted his listener, his moustache twitched. expressively, his eyebrows rose and fell, and his hands moved with the grace of a musical conductor. Young Roy was so wide-eyed at Walt's graphic telling of the fairy tale that he forgot all about his measles. Later, when he saw the finished picture, he was strangely disappointed. "It didn't seem as exciting as when Uncle Walt told it," he said.
Like many people who work to create humour, Walt took it very seriously. He would often sit gloomily through the funniest cartoon, concentrating on some way to improve it. Walt valued the opinions of those working with him, but the final judgement