Walt Disney's Pro-American Films

Walter “Walt” Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago. Disney’s parents are Flora Call and Elias Disney. Disney spent most of his childhood on a farm in Marceline, Missouri and later on moved back to Chicago to study art because from a young age he had always had an interest in it. With his artistic abilities, he created many safe, family environments and other interesting sources. Walt Disney, who is known for his life’s work of creating family oriented parks and activities around the world, is one of the most influential leaders of all time and these factors have made him a very prosperous, famous man (Boman 1).
At the young age of sixteen, Disney moved to Chicago to study art. He acquired a job drawing cartoon animation and
Disney’s films benefited the government in generating pro-American war propaganda in an effort to increase support for the war. More than ninety percent of Disney’s employees were dedicated to the production of these educational films; he also made films for each branch of the United States military. Throughout World War II, Disney studio manufactured four hundred thousand feet of educational war films, which is equivalent to sixty-eight hours of film. Disney designed insignia that appeared on planes, trucks, flight jackets, and other military equipment (Boman 1).
Treasure Island, which was produced on June 29, 1950, was Disney’s first movie with live actors. Soon after his movie Davy Crockett came out in 1955, and Mary Poppins in 1964. Mary Poppins and Davy Crockett were very successful in both theaters and with live actors. In 1954, Walt lunched a television series featuring some of the studios creations. He also began to produce True-Life Adventures, a series of short films showing unseen natural settings; also, he released The Living Desert in 1953, which was the first full-length nature film (Boman
Disney World consists of Magic Kingdom, EPCOT Center, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom, each of these is their own individual park. Each one of the individual parks has its own underground tunnel system that consists of hallways, offices, and parking garages that allow the workers to enter and exist without the visitors seeing them. Disney World averaged ten thousand visitors per day since it first opened in 1971 today that number has amplified to fifty thousand visitors per day. Walt Disney World employs close to sixty thousand cast members making it one of the largest employers in the United States, Walt Disney’s Costume Department is the largest in the world, holding over 1.2 million pieces of clothing. Disney World has several ways of transportation buses, a monorail that has logged enough miles to make thirty round trips to the moon, and a ferry that carries people back and forth to Magic Kingdom (Case 2 and