{"id":1048,"date":"2009-07-22T03:58:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T10:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disneyexperience.com\/news\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2019-10-20T11:55:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T18:55:43","slug":"beginnings-walt-disneys-early-years-1901-1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.disneyexperience.com\/news\/beginnings-walt-disneys-early-years-1901-1923\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginnings: Walt Disney&#8217;s Early Years (1901-1923)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the first official sneak peek of some of the things you will see at the Walt Disney Family Museum. This was several days late due to a spelling error in my email address.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"postImage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.disneyexperience.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wdfmuseum_0000.jpg\" rel=\"p1048\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.disneyexperience.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wdfmuseum_0000-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walt Disney was born in Chicago in 1901. In 1906, his family moved to a Missouri farm, where he had an idyllic early childhood and first learned to draw. The farm failed, and in 1911 his family moved to Kansas City, where he rose at 3:30 am to deliver newspapers on his father\u2019s paper route and fell in love with vaudeville and movies. In 1917, the family moved to Chicago, where Walt created cartoons for his high school yearbook, took classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and tried to enlist in the U.S. Army. Rejected for being underage, he joined the American Ambulance Corps and arrived in France as World War I ended. When Disney returned to the United States, he settled in Kansas City and got a job at a commercial art studio. In 1920, while working at an ad company, Walt discovered the fantastical world of animation and immersed himself in the young medium. While keeping his day job, he began making Laugh-O-gram ad reels and animation shorts with artist Ub Iwerks. Laugh-O-grams Films soon went bankrupt, and Walt, at age 21 moved to California.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"postImage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.disneyexperience.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wdfmuseum_0002.jpg\" rel=\"p1048\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.disneyexperience.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wdfmuseum_0002-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walt\u2019s early drawings and mementos from his childhood, as well as cameras similar to those he used in Kansas City, will be highlighted in the Museum\u2019s first gallery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"postImage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.disneyexperience.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wdfmuseum_0001.jpg\" rel=\"p1048\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.disneyexperience.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wdfmuseum_0001-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"InfoBox Disclosure\">Both the post author and this website have not received any compensation for writing this post. Both the post author and this website have no material connection to the third-party brands, products, or services that have been mentioned. This is being disclosed in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s 16 CFR, Part 255: \u201cGuides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the first official sneak peek of some of the things you will see at the Walt Disney Family Museum. 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