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🔊 Walt Disney (1901-1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and a world-famous creator of cartoons. He was born in Chicago. In 1910 the family moved to Kansas City where he spent his school years. At the age of sixteen he left school. During World War I he was a driver and a member of the American Red Cross Ambulance Force in France.

🔊 Walt returned to the USA from Europe and began working with the company that produced short cartoons. They became fairly successful and popular in the local Kansas City area. But soon the company understood that the money they put into the films never returned and Walt decided to move to Hollywood, California.

🔊 There with his brother Roy Walt Disney organized the Disney Brothers Studio which later became the Walt Disney Studio and in 1927 the new series of cartoons Oswald, the Lucky Rabbit appeared.

🔊 That was a real success but under the contract the studio could make Oswald cartoons without Disney as the rabbit character belonged to the Studio, not to Walt Disney.

🔊 So Disney had to develop a new cartoon star. He himself and his friends began work on a new mouse character to take Oswald’s place. Basically it looked like Oswald, but with round instead of long ears. The mouse’s original name was Mortimer but later Walt’s wife Lillian offered to call him Mickey Mouse. The first Mickey Mouse films were silent but then Walt Disney himself performed as the voice of this character until 1947. Mickey and his friend Minnie are still among the best-loved cartoon characters everywhere in the world.