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photo courtesy of Walt Disney World
Walt Disney was born in Chicago on Dec. 5, 1901. His motion picture milestones were many, beginning with the "birth" of Mickey Mouse in a 1928 short titled "Steamboat Willie," which included synchronized sound on film for the first time in an animated motion picture. He pioneered animation as a form for feature-length motion pictures with the creation of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and turned animation into a cinematic symphonic concert through "Fantasia." He pioneered creation of the multi-plane camera, which recently earned him a place in the Inventors Hall of Fame.
Disney's landmark family-entertainment ventures also included classic television programming such as "The Mickey Mouse Club," "Davy Crockett" and "The Wonderful World of Disney," which continues today. With the opening of Disneyland in California in the 1950s, Disney began a theme park empire that now spans the globe. Through animated films, live-action features, television, theme parks and even Broadway, his legacy of imagination and entertainment lives on.
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