Once upon a time in a faraway land, where all things are beautiful, all creatures big and small, there lies a young boy born to be one of the successful legends of world class entertainment of all time. His name was Walter Elias Disney. Born on December 5, 1901 to Flora and Elias, Walt Disney, as he is now traditionally known, successfully managed his life full of "tricks-and-treats." From beginning to end, he didn't stop to attain and continue the fulfillment of his dream of becoming an animator. Walt Disney isn't the one who easily gives up. As the stock market crashed in 1929, his company augmented through the highest, though two of his closest friends turned him down, as they have been told that he is a failure. An Academy Award multi-winner, actor, animator, producer, entertainer, entrepreneur, screenwriter, director, voice actor, international icon, and philanthropist, Walter Disney became one of the most successful, most influential, and most famous man in the world.

During his childhood, he and his family moved many times. First, from Chicago, where Walt was born; next stop was in a farm in Marceline, Missouri, where all his interest in art and animation began. The Disneys remained in Marceline for four years before moving to Kansas City in 1911. There, he started his education with her younger sister Ruth at Benton Grammar School. Walt's and Ruth's teachers didn't see the kids' potential on learning, and they have always not appreciated their work. But despite that, he met a best friend, Walter Pfeiffer. Walt began spending more time with Walter in the Pfeiffers' house than in their house. And during this time, they were consented by their parents to attend Saturday courses at Kansas City Art Institute, wherein they learned to act, perform, and do different tricks in front of audience. Some of these acts were by Charlie Chaplin, his long-time favorite.

It might be very surprising that Disney had never completed high school. He studied at McKinley High School in Chicago for two years that time. He dropped out of school at the age of 16 (year 1917), sign up for the Red Cross, and was sent to France. He didn't think much of high school anymore after one year in France. Instead, the word "work" came to his mind. Roy, his brother who worked at First National Bank of Kansas City, helped him get a job as an art or even a truck driver, which he did while in France. Roy then gets him into Pemen-Rubin Art Studio through a bank colleague. When his contract expired, Walt created a company, with his friend Ubbe Iwwerks, called "Iwwerks-Disney." However, the company short-lived and they both went to Kansas City Film Ad Company. On those years, he had spent working in Kansas City Film Ad Company on daytimes, and with Laugh-O-Grams, at night. This then led to his interest in animation.

As news began to report in a day on of October 1922, the studio and the studio's economy began to fall down, might as well be the other studios in the United States. Walter Disney was extremely crestfallen on this, so he eyed on establishing a studio in Hollywood with his brother Roy, who was sent in a Los Angeles hospital that time due to tuberculosis. His daydreams had commenced to rise. To be an animator, entrepreneur, and make a lot of money-all of that, belonged to his goals. They rented an apartment and set up a studio in there and called their company "Disney Brothers' Studio" in 1923.

To start with, he hired two of his closest friends, Ub Iwerks (simplified name of Ubbe Iwwerks), and Carl Stalling. Then, he made his first deal with M. J. Winkler, who was adored and interested in the Alice cartoons. But years have passed and Charlie Mintz had taken over the deal. He tricked Walt into business and persuaded him to work with him. Oswald had been kidnapped, as it was owned by Universal Studios, not by Disney. One more betrayal came to life. Of the most business things that could happen, Pat Powers, the very malevolent friend of his, had turned down against him, as he concluded that he cannot sell Silly Symphonies' "The Skeleton Dance," and that his friends, Walt's very closest friends who had worked for him for a long time, Ub and Carl, had agreed to work with Pat. Fortunately, the two had eventually started to work with Disney again.

If you do not know, the actual birth of Mickey Mouse took place in secret. After the "kidnapping" of Oswald, Ub created and suggested the mouse as their new work. When Mickey Mouse's first show "Plane Crazy" was first previewed before a Hollywood audience in May 1928, the six-minute cartoon received criticisms, as well as laughs, cheers, and applauses. This has been the beginning of their success.

After the Great War were the roaring twenties. And the roaring twenties was not that fun for Disney, as you have read. It was, still, a war for him. However, Walt tried the best he can as he could see a future in his works. He used his imagination very vividly and his visual arts sharply, descriptively, and uniquely. Couple of months later, by the beginning of 1931, Walt Disney Production had formed. Struggles to make the business, succeed, and take fame nationwide, did not get to him until 1939, when he faded the Disney Brothers' Studio out and start a business with the Columbia Pictures. And there, he made a trademark that made him known all over the country: "Walt Disney."

However, he only stayed there for a short time. Walt had been given again the opportunity to create a world-class animation, and it was his idea. He believed that this would take him not only in the country, but in the whole world. This was making the first colored animated film. First in entertainment history, he also developed the first film to beat out with sound. This marked the "golden age of animation."

He continued filming, animating, acting, and directing. Over sixty nominations and awards had been awarded to him, including honorary awards for the creation of Mickey Mouse, the first full-colored animation film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and for Fantasia. On 1959, he opened the first Disneyland in California, which was followed by the first Disney World in Orlando, Florida on 1971.

Walter Disney then died in 1966, of lung cancer, though he has never smoked. This death of Disney has been widely viewed as one of the loneliest death of the century, following John F. Kennedy's. Disney's world of imagination had produced not just wild success, but also a youth full of creativity, wisdom, courage, hope, and imagination. As Disney have remarked in the opening of the first Disneyland in 1959, "Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past...and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America...with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world."

Disney had inspired all of us, created an imaginary world that would prepare us to the future, and brought us exciting adventures to relish forever. Just wish upon a star.