Walt Disney Never Give Up

Walt Disney once said, “If you can dream it, you can do it.” This quote gives the message that anything is possible. Don’t give up or sell yourself short if people say otherwise. Walt Disney followed this beautifully because he never gave up when he failed, and he did very out-of-the-box things for his time. Walt Disney is important to history because of his hard-working beginning, his ability to not give up, his creativeness, and his long lasting impact on the world.

Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois to Elias Disney and Flora Call (Slayman). He had three older brothers-- Herbert (born 1888), Raymond (born 1889), and Roy (born 1893) -- and a younger sister, Ruth (born 1903) (Slayman).

Disney went to Benton

Through this studio, Disney produced the Alice in Cartoonland series and the Oswald the Rabbit (1927) series (“Hutchinson’s Biography Database”). Unfortunately, according to a Walt Disney biography, “Oswald was a great success, but the Disneys lost the rights in a contractual spat with Oswald 's distributor, a slick New Yorker who privately referred to them as "the bumpkins” (Harmon).

To make up for the lost, the Mickey Mouse cartoon “Steamboat Willie” (1928) had its own musical soundtrack (Brackin). This was an amazing revelation because all cartoons were silent at the time (Brackin). Walt Disney also produced the first cartoon in color, “Flowers and Trees” (1931), and received the first Academy Award for a cartoon (Brackin).

During 1930, Disney had a nervous breakdown due to stress, and, after Mickey became a star and Disney’s wife announced her pregnancy, he became severely distressed (Harmon). According to a biography, Disney was “always a heavy drinker, he began imbibing more, smoking three packs a day, sleeping much less, and washing his hands compulsively” (Harmon). But when Disney’s daughter, Diane Marie Disney, arrived, he surprised his wife and daughter with a brand new house