Walter Elias “Walt” Disney is the co-founder of the well-known Walt Disney Productions. He was born December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. He was one of five children of Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney Walter attended McKinley High, where he took drawing and photography lessons and was a cartoonist for the school newspaper. Additionally, he took courses at the Chicago Art Institute. At the age of 16 he dropped out of school to join the army but was under age, which convinced him to join the Red Cross and he was sent to France. When Disney returned from France, he pursued a career as a newspaper artist. Disney worked at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he made commercials based on cut-out animation. He started experimenting with a camera, making hand-drawn animations and decided to open his own animation business. His first cartoon was Laugh-o-Grams, but in 1923 Disney filed for bankruptcy. Subsequently, Disney and his brother moved to Hollywood and founded the Disney Brothers' Studio. They also invented a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and in 1925 Walt Disney developed the famous character of Mickey Mouse. The same year he married ink and paint artist Lillian Bound. In 1929, Disney created Silly Symphonies, which featured Mickey Mouse's friends, starring Minnie Mouse. In late 1937, Disney's first feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was released and made $1.499 million and won a total of eight Oscars. In all, his studio produced more than 100 feature films. In 1939, a new campus for the Walt Disney Studios opened in Burbank. In 1955, Disney's theme park, Disneyland, opened. Walt Disney received 22 Oscars and four honorary Oscars. In addition to 59 Oscar nominations, a minor planet n...... center of paper...... fantastic." Quantum Workplace Five leadership lessons from Walt Disney's comments. http://www.quantumworkplace.com / five-leadership-lessons-from-walt-disney/ (accessed December 21, 2013).2. “Walter Elias Disney” http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/197528 (accessed December 21 2013). .3. Walt Disney Biography. " The Sursusing Financial Failures of Walt Disney. http://www.byrdseed.com/the-surspiring-financial-failures-of-walt-disney/ (accessed December 21, 2013).5. "Capodagli, B. and L. Jackson. 1999. The Disney Way: Leveraging Disney's Management Secrets in Your Company. McGraw-Hill.." What are Disney's Management Secrets?. http://maaw.info/ArticleSummaries/ArtSumCapodagliJackson99.htm (accessed December 21, 2013).