Analysis: The Walt Disney Monopoly

Walt grew up in a relatively poor family that moved frequently: from Chicago to Marceline to Kansas City and back to Chicago. According to Dow and Noce, Walt began his artistic career drawing pictures for the school newspaper when his family returned to Chicago in 1917. Eventually, Walt formed Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists, which failed shortly after its creation. Walt then created Laugh-O-Gram Films, which went bankrupt a year later. That same year, Walt and Roy Disney created the Disney Brothers Studio, later renamed Walt Disney Studios, where they produced a series of animated shorts and introduced

In 1919, Walt Disney and his colleague Ub Iwerks who was one of the earliest creators of Mickey Mouse hit it off immediately and founded the Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists in Kansas City. Walt was with a strong sense of responsibility, quick thinking while Ub was quite skillful as a painter, so they made good for deficiency. It kept the two youths busy for a

Disney was so happy cause his brother got him a job in the pesmen Rubin art studio when Walt met cartoonist Ub Lwwerks. From that moment Walt worked at Kansas City film AD company where Walt made commercials on cartoons. At this time Walt Disney stared to experience with a camera and to make had draw cartoons to start his own animation business, Walt decided through this time. Walt Disney he recruited Fred Harman to as his first employee. Walt and Fred made a deal and that deal was with the local Kansas city theater that theater was call Laugh O Grams.

He was a stern man who took “corrective” beatings to his five children. o His mother, Flora Disney, soothed the children with nightly readings of fairy tales. o Walt Disney and his older brother Roy worked the farm with their father. In his free time, Walt sketched the farm animals. o He ever worked as a newspaper delivery man, school’s art editor and commercial artist.

The evidence of his humanitarianism was shown for the public to see when he rescued Chinese children from the gunfire near the settlement he was in whilst ordering the construction of barricades to keep the people safe. Another example of his hospitality was when Germany declared war on France. The American Consul General had asked for his help to get stranded tourists from The United States back home to America. After helping more than 120,000 people get back to America, he was asked to feed Belgium which at that point was overrun by Germany’s army. Just after the United States had entered the war, President Woodrow Wilson assigned Hoover as the head of the Food Administration where he reduced the intake of food used by the Allies and didn’t have to shorten the amount of food people were getting in America but still kept the Allies fed.

Disney pursues vertical integration by increasing its distribution channels for its products in house. This allows Disney to not only have control over the entire product my beginning to end consumer, but it also allows for Disney to increase its profits by cutting costs. An example of this in the case is that Disney creates its own content in-house for its channels like ABC. When Disney first acquired ABC, ABC had deals with Dreamworks, which was a rival company created by a former Disney employee, to finance jointly the cost of developing new TV shows. For Disney, this deal made no sense for them once they purchased ABC because Disney has their own production studio.

Walt Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 5, 1901.Walt was one of five children, he had three brothers and a sister. Growing up Walt lived in Marceline, Missouri with his family. While he lived in Missouri he began his artistic journey. Walt began drawing and painting pictures and then would sell them to neighbors. When Walt was around the age of 10 he and his family moved to Kansas City.

In Kansas he made a cartoon called Alice and Wonderland. He wanted to “Use it as a pilot film to sell a series of these Alice Comedies to a distributor.” (Disney-History). Then, he realized he wanted to move on to a bigger dream and further on it and do all-cartoon and not just stop at Alice cartoons. He made a new cartoon called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Once production was set the people he was working with went behind his back, signed a contract without him and tried taking it from him, (Disney-History).

In real life, the commander in chief reassigned the three flag raisers from the Department of War to the Department of the Treasury to joining celebrities to help raise money for the war. The three flag raisers helping with the war bonds drive are shown as accurate depiction. In real life, Doc Bradley, Ira Hayes and Rene Gagnon meets President Truman. When President Truman saw Joe Rosenthal’s picture of the flag raisers, he immediately sensed how to use it to generate money for war bonds drive. However he did not know who hoisted the flag.

He attended McKinley High School and at his high school he took classes in drawing and photography, and also drew cartoons for the school paper. However, at 16 years old, Walt Disney dropped out of high school to join the army, but was rejected because he was too young. Because of this he joined the Red Cross, and was sent to France for a year to drive and ambulance. In 1919 he came back from France to Kansas City to try to become a newspaper artist. He began to take some courses on art at the CHicago Institute at night.