...creations also have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In total, 7/15 animated characters on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are infact Disney’s. Walt even received the nation’s highest civilian award, The Medal of Freedom, from President Lyndon B. Johnson. Even though many of Disney’s achievements cannot be given in awards, he is also credited with shaping the world of entertainment into what it is today. He is also responsible for creating “The Happiest Place on Earth” and being huge parts of countless children’s childhoods all over the world. In 1926, Universal Pictures was looking for a new creative Rabbit series. Walt, of course always looking...
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...was a man named Walt Disney: a loving son, husband, brother, and most of all “Dad” to his two sweet baby girls. Above everything in his life, family always came first. With a strong family bond and home life full of harmony and love, Walt Disney challenged himself to dream, explore, and create many things throughout his career. In an article written by Scott Whitelaw, Scott states, “I have a deep admiration for Walt Disney and loved his approach and method of accomplishing his goals and dreams. He dared to dream big but learned to be daring a little bit at a time. He started with small goals. First, he built a studio in Kansas City, Missouri, then a bigger one in Hollywood, then a massive studio in Burbank, California, then a theme park in Anaheim and then an entire city in Florida. Walt learned to set his goals one step at a time using his imagination focused toward the future and having fun along the way.” (Whitelaw, 2014) So, in the following paragraphs, Walt Disney can be portrayed to achieving many of his goals in life....
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...Walter Elias Disney was one of the world’s biggest entrepreneurs. He is considered the father of animation because he made Cartoon animals move on a screen. Still to this day people watch his movies and shows. One of his biggest creations (Mickey Mouse) is still part of many cultures and people’s lives. Now, Walter’s company has expanded from his shows, movies, and his theme parks, to also owning one of the biggest cruise lines in the world. Walt Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 15, 1901 and he lived there for a while (Johnson). He was one of five children four boys and one girl (News). His father was a strictly religious man who used to physically abuse his children (Biography). He moved from Chicago to a farm in Marceline,...
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...love to meet Walter Disney, a creative, optimistic, and imaginative dreamer, because of his astonishing talent and successful life, his optimism and love for animation and creativity, and finally all the hard work and dreams put into his very own glorious Disneyland. This essay will better explain the reasons why I long to meet this talented man and may even have you yearning to meet him too. I think it would be amazing to meet Walt Disney, because of his terribly successful life and miraculous talent. This skilled man has won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Academy Honorary Award, Congressional Gold Medal, and the Grammy Trustees Award. This may seem like quite a few awards for one man to achieve in one lifetime, but believe me this isn't even half of Disney’s prizes. Disney had lots of talent and was most definitely not one to hide it. When he was only a small boy he was already selling his attention-stealing drawings to his neighbors who were baffled at the thought of a young boy being the artist of such imaginative pictures. Another thing Walter...
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...Earlier this past week, two different people were arrested on the same day for trying to sneak a concealed gun into a Walt Disney World theme park in Orlando, Florida. The events transpired Monday October 24, at the parks EPCOT and Animal Kingdom. The first incident at EPCOT, involved a 61-year-old man named Michael Langston of Louisiana, who was randomly selected to pass through a metal detector. Once selected, Langston informed a Disney security officer that he had a loaded concealed weapon on his person. The second incident occurred a little later that same day at Animal Kingdom, where 23-year-old woman, Baleigh Turner had a loaded handgun in her backpack that Disney security found at their bag check station just outside of the entrance...
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...Walter Elias Disney was a man who wanted to bring happiness to adults and children through his creations and movies. Walt installed his creations in the hearts and minds of children all over America. Walt was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois (Lane). His father, Elias Disney, stressed hard work and perfection from his children at an early age. He and his family moved several times throughout his childhood. The family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri. There, he went to school and, more importantly, discovered his talent for drawing. One of his favorite activities was to sketch the farm animals (Slayman). He stayed in Marceline until 1911 when the family moved again to Kansas City. His father ran a paper route and hired his sons, Walter and Roy, as delivery boys. The paper route traumatized Walt, however. He...
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...market positioning of his product amid those of major film corporations, Disney focused on family entertainment. Live-action films took historical and often patriotic subjects in Johnny Tremain (1957), Old Yeller (1957), Tonka (1958), The Swiss Family Robinson (1960), and Polyanna (1960). The Shaggy Dog (1959) began a series of low-budget comedies such as The Absent Minded Professor (1961) and Son of Flubber (1963) that became mainstays of the company's production. Popular fantasies like Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) and Babes in Toyland (1961) led to the blockbuster Mary Poppins (1964). Animation continued in Peter Pan (1953), Lady and the Tramp (1955), Sleeping Beauty (1959), One Hundred...
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...Walter Elias also but also know as “Walt” Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in a small town called Hermosa Illinois. He and his brother were the people that co-founded the movie productions “Walt Disney Productions” which will later become one of the most well known animated motion picture production ever known. Walter is one of the five children that his dad named Elias Disney which was a Irish-Canadian and his mother whose name was Flora call Disney who was a German-American. Walter lived most of his childhood in a small town called Marceline Missouri and that was where he started to make a career in his hometown by drawing and making his own art and selling them to his family and his friends. And then in 1911 Disney moved from Marceline...
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...For several decades, Walt Disney has been a popular series of films among families. Ever since the release of Snow White in 1937, Disney princesses have captured the hearts of children everywhere and have been role models for them. Throughout the films, each princess has had their own story and their own obstacles to overcome, though some of these obstacles weren’t overcome by themselves. In earlier movies, it was necessary for their prince charming to rescue them. From damsel in distress to independence, the women of Disney have changed as a result of United States History. When Disney came out with its first full length movie, Snow White, it didn’t intend on having princesses as being a commercial entity. This wasn’t truly an idea until...
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...Two brothers founded The Walt Disney brand in 1923. The names of these two brothers are Walter Elias Disney, and Roy Disney. Walter was the younger of the two and by the time he was sixteen years old he had a passport with the wrong birth date on it, making him older than he actually was. He used this passport to serve in the Red Cross during World War I. Walter and Roy had their parts to starting Disney. While Walter was known as the “creative force” in the business, Roy was more the financial man. He provided funding for his brother Walter in order to get Walt Disney started. The first project that saw some success was “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.” Oswald debuted in 1927, but roughly a year after the distributors of Walt Disney underhanded Walter and took the Oswald franchise away from Walter by hiring away most of Disney’s animators. Once Walter found out about what had happened and realized he could not do anything to get Oswald back, he tried to alter the Oswald image a little bit. Once he changed some of the details to the original Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, he ended up having what we now know as Mickey Mouse. The next big hurdle for Walt Disney took place during the time of World War II. During this period of time, Disney got through the financial struggle that the war had placed on the country by making cartoons for the...
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...these movies have something in common (aside from a female protagonist) and that's Disney. Disney has created many other childhood classics, including Monsters Inc., Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White; if you're a born and raised american, it’s nearly guaranteed you’ve seen, if not grown up with, these films. Disney is a great empire now, with its own theme parks and resorts and cruises, but it started out just one man, Walt Disney, and a love of animation. Walt Disney possessed his love of animation from a young age, and after coming back from working overseas for the Red Cross in 1919 he moved back to Kansas City in pursuit of a career as a newspaper artist. His brother Roy got...
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...discussion, a member requested the Research and Library Services Division to provide information on the financial arrangements relating to Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland. As such, the purpose of this fact sheet is to provide the Panel with information on these three theme parks in terms of their ownership and the financial arrangements for the construction project. 1.2 This fact sheet originally intended to study the operational statistics of the three theme parks. According to the Tourism Commission of Hong Kong1, both the Government and the Walt Disney Company (Walt Disney) are bound by the confidentiality provision under the current agreement not to disclose any commercially sensitive information of Hong Kong Disneyland, including the gain or loss from the operation of the theme park. Against this, this fact sheet only lists the key operational statistics of Tokyo Disneyland and Disneyland Paris for comparison. 1 See Tourism Commission (2009). page 1 Research and Library Services Division Legislative Council Secretariat FS30/08-09 2. Tokyo Disneyland Overview 2.1 Tokyo Disneyland opened on 15 April 1983 at a cost of US$1.4 billion (HK$10.9 billion)2. It is located on a reclaimed site about 10 km from downtown Tokyo. Tokyo Disneyland is privately owned by Oriental Land, a land-reclamation company in partnership with Mitsui Real Estate and the Keisei Railway Company. 2.2 Talks between Walt Disney and Oriental Land started in the...
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...SHANGHAI DISNEY: MILESTONE JOINT VENTURE Rita Lemoine Southern New Hampshire University Abstract This paper examines the significant collaborative efforts of both a U.S. multi-national corporation, The Walt Disney Company and its foreign socialistic counterpart, the Shanghai Shendi Group, Ltd. negotiation of an Equity International Joint Venture agreement. The paper will disclose the joint venture agreement, the financial structure, and funding arrangements for the construction of the Shanghai Disney Resort. Then a SWOT analysis will demonstrate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that could affect The Disney Company’s operations in China according to current economic, political, and legal policies regarding foreign joint ventures. Finally, an assessment of the cultural differences between the two companies in the form of managerial and leadership styles that could hinder the success of this joint venture. Keywords: Equity International Joint Venture, SWOT analysis, Cultural Dimensions SUMMARY OF THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY The Walt Disney Company, the leading producer of family entertainment for the past nine decades, beginning in October 16, 1923 when Walter Elias Disney “signed a contract with M.J. Winkler to produce” a series of cartoons, the early stages of The Disney Brothers Studios, founded by Walter Elias and Roy O. Disney. (Retrieved from “http://thewaltdisneycompany.com/about-disney/disney-history/1920-01-01--1929-12-31”). The...
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...The Walt Disney Company is the world's largest media conglomerate. Disney’s assets extend into movies, television, publishing, and theme parks. The Disney/ABC Television Group includes the ABC television network and 10 broadcast stations, as well as a portfolio of cable networks including ABC Family, Disney Channel, and they own eighty percent of ESPN. Walt Disney Studios produces films through Walt Disney Pictures, Disney Animation, and Pixar, and its Marvel Entertainment is a film producer and top comic book publisher. In addition, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts operate the company's popular theme parks including Walt Disney World and Disneyland. The primary environmental challenges that Disney faces as they strive towards improving their corporate sustainability practices are as follows: 1) The theme parks and movie studios create a great deal of waste. 2) The affiliate companies that private label for Disney are manufacturers that faces common environmental challenges in way of air pollution, waste, and natural resource conservation. Disney has a great deal of influence and indirect responsibility for the sustainability practices of business partners within their supply chain (which will be referred to as “affiliates” throughout this report). 3) Disney’s target market is the youth throughout the world. The Walt Disney Company takes accountability for educating and inspiring environmental awareness and responsibility within their impressionable consumers. Considering...
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...differences, dimensions and attitudes have began to take place and different scientists and observers started coming out with their own set of discoveries and observations (McGregor, 2004). The main reason behind cultural difference and dimensions started when workers of different countries started working together on unified projects and conflicts started arising between the people of different races and culture (Kotler, 2008). Keeping in view of such situations, Dutch Sociologist Gerard Hofstede came up with a study named as Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions in which he laid stress upon five aspects naming Power Distance Index, Individualism, Masculinity, Uncertainty avoidance index and Long term Orientation. The case study in this paper focuses more towards the cultural difference between employees of Disneyland that are located in different countries. Using Hofstede’s 4 culture dimension, highlighting main cultural differences between United States and France: Disneyland is an American Idea of a theme park which serves as a recreational place for children and families. This theme park originally started from Anaheim, California (United States) and later on after receiving massive response from visitors all around the globe, the directors of the company started off with opening similar type of theme parks with the same name of Disneyland in Orlando (US), Tokyo (Japan) and at Marne-la-Vallee (France). Although Disneyland did not find much difficulties in starting off their...
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