Steamboat Music, Silly Symphonies, and Fantasias of Sound
Steamboat Music, Silly Symphonies, and Fantasias of Sound We keep moving
forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we re curious, and
curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney With one man and a mouse,
the history of the film, animation, and soundtrack world was changed forever. Co
founder of Walt DisneyProductions, now known as The Walt Disney Company, Walt
Disney changed the game of the movie industry with his animated films, ushering in
a new era of feature animations. Not only were his animations original, but they were
innovative. Disney constantly pushed himself to find new ways to advance the
medium through which he transmitted his ideas. Starting simply with comics in his
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In 1919, Walt moved back to Kansas City to try to find work as an actor or a
newspaper artist. His brother, Roy, found him a job at Pesmen Rubin Art Studios,
where Walt met Ubbe Iwerks. The two of them would create advertisements for
movie theaters, magazines, and newspapers. When the Pesmen Rubin Art Studios
expired, Disney and Iwerks formed their own company, and were introduced to cut
out animation by a colleague, Fred Harman. When Disney soon learned about cel
animation and saw how much more promising it would be than cut out animation,
the three men created what they called Laugh O Grams, and screen Disney s
cartoons at the most popular showman s movie theater in Kansas City. Ending up
bankrupt, Walt and his brother, Roy, decided to move to the industry s capital city,
Hollywood, California, in order to set up their own movie studio on Hyperion
Avenue, as Disney Brothers Studio. Here they produced their Alice Comedies
series, based off of Alice s Adventures in Wonderland, and had them distributed by
Margaret Winkler. In 1925, Disney hired a new ink and paint artist, a young woman
named Lillian Bounds, whom Walt would soon marry. By 1927, the successful series
focused more on the animated characters than on the live action Alice herself, and
Charles Mintz, Winkler s husband, was now the distributor. Mintz ordered the
Disney brothers to produce a new series for Universal Pictures, who had found
success