For a young Walt Disney, Marceline, Missouri provided the setting for an idyllic childhood.
Walt Disney was aware of the gap between himself and the persona he had created for public consumption.
Walt Disney had to come up with something "new and clever in animated cartoons" to save his Laugh-O-grams company.
The premiere of Steamboat Willie blows audiences away with its innovative use of sound. Mickey Mouse soon becomes a phenomenon.
Walt Disney gathered his animators and studio staff together and told them of his newest idea.
In its first year, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs grossed $8 million.
What Walt Disney was proposing for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs had never been done before.
Walt Disney's Bambi was released in August of 1942 and stood out as the most ambitious feature-length film in the history of the studio.
Walt Disney insisted the staff call him "Walt," and brought in experts from prestigious art schools to teach classes to his animators.
On May 19, 1941, nearly half of Walt Disney's art department walked out to protest the studio.
Walt Disney gathered a small group of artists to develop his next big idea: an amusement park called Disneyland.
Plans for Disneyland's 160-acre building site called for 5,000 cubic yards of concrete and one million square feet of asphalt pathways.
