Walt Disney company history is Walt Disney’s venture into animation began in 1919 returned to the United State from France. Disney settled in Kansas City, Missouri, and found work as an animator for Pesman Art Studio. The company to found Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists in 1920. Company produced short animated advertisements for local movie theaters then left his job again in 1922 to found Laugh-O-Grams, where he employed Iwerks and three other to animators to produce short animates cartoons. Laugh-O-Grams was able to sell its short cartoons to local Kansas City Movie theaters, but its costs far to exceeded its revenues, forcing Disney to declare bankruptcy in 1923. Disney has only enough cash to purchase a one way ticket to Hollywood, …show more content…
Disney brought Ub Iwerks from Kansas city to Hollywood to work with Disney brothers Studio(later to be names Walt Disney Productions) to produce the Alice comedies series that would number 50-plus films by the series end in 1927. Disney followed the Alice Comedies series with a new animated cartoon for Universal Studios. After Disney’s Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons quickly became a hit, Universal terminates Disney Brother Studio and hired most of Disney’s animators to continue producing the cartoon. In 1928, Disney and Iwerks created Mickey Mouse to replaced Oswald as the feature character in Walt Disney Studio. Mickey Mouse’s popularity exploded over the next few decades with a Mickey Mouse club begin created in 1929 and new accompanying such as Gloofy and Donald Duck. Disney’s series of failures in the animated film industry and became know as the mascot of Disney studios, Walt Disney product and The Walt Disney company or as I can say the success of The Walt Disney company was Mickey Mouse and the successful animated feature films such as Snow White, Peter Pan and