Walt DisneyBy :Nieve Reischl

“If you can dream it, you can do it. Always

remember that this whole thing was started

with a dream and a mouse.”

-Walt Disney

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was born December 5, 1901 and died

December 15, 1966. He was an American entrepreneur,

animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the

American animation industry, he introduced several developments

in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, Disney holds

the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual,

having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was presented

with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy

Award. Born in Chicago, Disney developed an early interest in

drawing. He took art classes as a boy and got a job as a

commercial illustrator at the age of 18. He moved to California

in the early 1920s and set up the Disney Brothers Studio with

his brother Roy. Walt developed the character Mickey Mouse in

1928, his first highly popular success. In the 1950s, Disney

expanded into the amusement park industry, and in 1955 he

opened Disneyland. To fund the project he diversified into

television programs, such as Walt Disney's Disneyland and The

Mickey Mouse Club. Disney is one of the most famous theme

parks in the world, creating the illusion you are living in an

utopian world other than just visiting a theme park. Disney

was a heavy smoker throughout his life, and died of lung

cancer in December 1966 before the park was completed. I

decided to do my project on the historical figure Walt Disney

because it really interests me the concept that Disney was

trying to create an alternative world to the reality of

what was going on in the world including World war 11.

“Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim

constantly focused on the future.”

“That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.”

“For every laugh, there should be a tear.”

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

“If you can dream it, you can do it.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”

“Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness

of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses.

But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me.”

“Most things are good, and there are strongest

things;

but there are evil things too, and you are not

doing a child a favor

by trying to shield him from reality.

The important thing is to teach a child that good

can always triumph over evil.”

(Walt Disney)

In this poem i decided to research some of

Walt Disney’s most famous quotes and put

them in an order of a poem. I did this

because Walt Disney had a lot of wisdom

and he shared much of it with the world.

He shared it through his movies and clips

throughout this career. The theme of this

poem is living life free and full of

laughter like Walt Disney did. He always

wanted to see the good in the world and

kind of like the moto in one of his popular

movies Peter Pan “Never grow up”. I

wanted to portray the lightness and

playfulness that Walt tried to portray

in a lot of his movies and in his world

famous theme park Walt Disney World.

There’s a war going on We hear it on the news We see it over seas We live it in the streets See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil they say What if the the evil is all around us? We must see it What is the evil is spoken to us? We must hear it What if the evil is in us? We must speak it This world This world going up in flames Live free or die But i don’t feel too free no more I don’t see peace I don’t see justice I don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.

There’s a World that you can goGo be freeFeel PeaceFeel Justice Feel the lightThe perfect world Standing aloneSurrounded by a warSurrounded by hatred and corruptionThis world is magic Not a worry in your mindI promise youNot a bad thought in your headThis world is somewhere safe Free from evilIt all started with a dreamA dream of laughter and funA dream of love and family A dream of a world without warCome and be freeFree of the real world and what it has become.

I decided to do a two sided poem for my

second poem because throughout my

research i found out that a lot of Walt

Disney’s movies were written and produced

during the time of World War 11. There

was a lot of hate and evil going on in the

world at that time. So half of the poem is

what is going on in the real world and the

other side is the world that Walt Disney

wanted to create for people to go to and

escape from reality. Somewhere fun and

full of love and family. Walt wanted his

movies to bring happiness and an

alternative to what was really going on in

the world.

Ode to children

This place

I present to you

is for all of you children

You children of war

Of hate

Of fear

This place is to bring smiles to your face

and never go away

even when you rest your eyes to sleep.

I hope this place brings love into your heart

Brings you hope

Brings you laughter

I have created this place for you

For you to come and not have fear

To come and rest your heads in peace

My dream is to bring fun into this world

I want you to know

Anything can happen if you just believe

It all starts with a dream

I decided to write an Ode to

children as my last poem because

Walt Disney created DisneyLand/

Disneyworld for people to come

and have fun and live magically.

The audience that was targeted

when it came to the amusement

park and his movies were

children. A lot of Walt’s work

was inspired by the mind and

imagination of children.

Disneyland and world was a place

created for the youth and family

to come and make memories that

last forever and never grow up.

Works cited

https://www.mouseketrips.com/7-photos-you-must-take-at-disney-world/

https://ohmy.disney.com/insider/2013/10/16/happy-anniversary-disney/

https://giphy.com/search/walt-disney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney