8. [BIO] - Walt Disney 8 - one idea for success (walt disney ),

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• 1919 Walt returns to the US, moves to Kansas City and gets a job at the PesmenRRubin 
• Commercial Art Studio for $50 a month. 
• 1920 Walt meets Ub Iwerks and forms IwerksRDisney Commercial Artists. The company 
• fails after one month. 
•  Walt and Iwerks get jobs with the Kansas City Slide Company 
• (later KC Film Ad Company) and discover animation.  
• While keeping his day job, Walt creates Newman LaughRORgrams, which produces advertising and topical shorts and story cartoons.  
• 1922 Walt incorporates LaughRORgram Films, Inc. with $15,000 from backers.    
• 1923 LaughRORgram goes bankrupt. 
•  Walt moves to Hollywood to become a director.  
• 1923 With his brother Roy, he establishes the Disney Brothers Studio when he lands a 
• contract for the “Alice Comedies,” a series in which a young girl filmed in live action 
• interacts with animated characters.    
• 1924 Walt hires animators, including Iwerks, ceases animating, and focuses on story 
• development and direction.  
• 1924  Lillian Bounds, Walt’s future wife, starts work at the Studios as an inker.  
• 1925 Walt and Lillian get married.    
• 1926  Walt and Roy rename the studio Walt Disney Studios and move it to a new building 
• on Hyperion Avenue.  The birthplace of some of Disney’s greatest films, it later 
• becomes known as the Hyperion studio.  
• 1927 Film distributor Charles Mintz contracts Walt Disney Studios to create a new series 
• of animation films based on an undeveloped character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.  As 
• the distributor for the cartoons, Mintz owns rights to it.
•   When the series succeeds and Walt asks for a larger budget, 
• Mintz asserts trademark rights and tries to take over Walt Disney Studios.  
• Walt abandons the character to Mintz.  
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• 1928 Walt creates Mickey Mouse.  He joins the vanguard of the talkingRpicture revolution 
• when he produces Steamboat(Willie, an innovative cartoon that synchronizes sound 
• and animation.  During the next year, Mickey becomes a national sensation.  
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• 1929 Walt launches “Silly Symphonies,” a series of cartoons that combine music and 
• animation.  
• 1930 Roy and Walt Disney license MickeyRrelated merchandising.  
• 1931 Membership in the Mickey Mouse Club passes one million people.    
• 1932 Walt acquires exclusive use of threeRstrip Technicolor for cartoons and incorporates