Why Is Walt Disney Successful

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Walt Disney was an American motion picture and television producer and showman born in Hermosa Chicago, IL on Dec5, 1901. Disney went to McKinley High School for only one year then dropped out at the age of 16, he was hoping to join the army, but was rejected because of his age. Walt’s brother Roy was a big influence to him especially when he helped him succeed in the Disney Company. His first real job was for Pesman-Rubin commercial art studio designing letterhead and advertisements where he made $50 a month. Walt created Mickey Mouse in 1928 and created a cartoon called Steamboat Willie which then led to the name Mickey Mouse becoming a national sensation. In 1937 “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” the first feature length animated film was