Walter Elias Disney, a 20th Century motion picture producer who founded the company by the same name, well known as the creator and first voice of Mickey Mouse
The Walt Disney Company, an entertainment company founded by brothers Walt and Roy Disney, well known for producing animated films, performing stage musicals and operating theme parks
a US film producer who is famous for making cartoon films for children, and for inventing some of the best-known cartoon characters, including Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. His cartoon films include Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Fantasia. His company continues to make popular films, especially for children (1901-66). Disney, Walt. born Dec. 5, 1901, Chicago, Ill., U.S. died Dec. 15, 1966, Los Angeles, Calif. U.S. animator and entertainment executive. In the 1920s he joined with his brother Roy and his friend Ub Iwerks (1901-71) to establish an animation studio. Together they created Mickey Mouse, the cheerful rodent customarily drawn by Iwerks, with Disney providing the voice that starred in the first animated film with sound, Steamboat Willie (1928). The brothers formed Walt Disney Productions (later the Disney Co.) in 1929. Mickey Mouse's instant popularity led them to invent other characters such as Donald Duck, Pluto, and Goofy and to make several short cartoon films, including The Three Little Pigs (1933). Their first full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), was followed by classics such as Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940), and Cinderella (1950). A perfectionist, an innovator, and a skilled businessman, Walt Disney maintained tight control over the company in both creative and business aspects. He oversaw the company's expansion into live-action films, television programming, theme parks, and mass merchandising. By his death in 1966, Disney had transformed the family entertainment industry and influenced more than one generation of American children
{i} (1901-1966, born Walter Elias Disney), Unites States cartoonist and film producer and maker, pioneer in the field of animated cartoons, founder of Disneyland
born Aug. 25, 1913, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. died Oct. 18, 1973, Los Angeles, Calif. U.S. cartoonist. From 1935 he produced animation drawings for Walt Disney Productions, and in the 1940s he worked as a commercial artist in New York. His best-known character, the opossum Pogo, first appeared in a comic book 1943. In 1948 Pogo began to be published as a daily comic strip in the New York Star, and it was soon appearing in many other newspapers. Skillfully drawn, with witty and literate text, it featured Pogo and his winning animal friends in Okefenokee Swamp, characters Kelly often used to satirize prominent political figures
a US writer who wrote poetry about the beauty of nature and the value of freedom. He is one of the greatest and most influential US poets, and his best-known work is Leaves of Grass (1819-92). born May 31, 1819, West Hills, Long Island, N.Y., U.S. died March 26, 1892, Camden, N.J. U.S. poet, journalist, and essayist. Whitman lived in Brooklyn as a boy and left school at age
He went on to hold a great variety of jobs, including writing and editing for periodicals. His revolutionary poetry dealt with extremely private experiences (including sexuality) while celebrating the collective experience of an idealized democratic American life. His Leaves of Grass (1st ed., 1855), revised and much expanded in successive editions that incorporated his subsequent poetry, was too frank and unconventional to win wide acceptance in its day, but it was hailed by figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and exerted a strong influence on American and foreign literature. Written without rhyme or traditional metre, poems such as "I Sing the Body Electric" and "Song of Myself" assert the beauty of the human body, physical health, and sexuality; later editions included "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," and the elegies on Abraham Lincoln "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman served as a volunteer in Washington hospitals during the Civil War. The prose Democratic Vistas (1871) and Specimen Days & Collect (1882-83) drew on his wartime experiences and subsequent reflections. His powerful influence in the 20th century can be seen in the work of poets as diverse as Pablo Neruda, Fernando Pessoa, and Allen Ginsberg