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Walter Elias Disney, also known as Walt Disney, was born in 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. He spent much of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri where he began drawing and selling pictures. After high school, Disney wanted to join the army but was too young, so he joined the Red Cross and drove an ambulance in France for a year. When he returned to the US, Disney pursued a career in animation and worked at the Kansas City Film Ad Company. There, he made commercials using cutout animation and recruited Fred Harman as his first employee. Disney then moved to Hollywood with his brother Roy and friend Ub Iwerks where they began the Disney Brothers Studio and created the character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

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Walter Elias Disney, also known as Walt Disney, was born in 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. He spent much of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri where he began drawing and selling pictures. After high school, Disney wanted to join the army but was too young, so he joined the Red Cross and drove an ambulance in France for a year. When he returned to the US, Disney pursued a career in animation and worked at the Kansas City Film Ad Company. There, he made commercials using cutout animation and recruited Fred Harman as his first employee. Disney then moved to Hollywood with his brother Roy and friend Ub Iwerks where they began the Disney Brothers Studio and created the character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

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9 form Reading Name, Surname ____________Date __________1 semester

• Read the magazine article below. Six sentences have been removed from it.
Choose from the sentences A-F the one which best fits each gap. There are two
extra sentences which you do not need to use.
Walter Elias Disney, also known as Walt Disney, was born on December 5, 1901,
in the Hermosa section of Chicago, Illinois. His father was Elias Disney, an Irish-
Canadian and his mother, Flora Call Disney, was German-American. Disney was
one of five children, four boys and a girl.
1 _______B He lived most of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri, where
he began drawing, painting and selling pictures to neighbors and family
friends.
. In 1911, his family moved to Kansas City where Disney developed a love for
trains. His uncle, Mike Martin, was a train engineer. Later, Disney worked a
summer job with the railroad, selling snacks and newspapers to travelers.
Disney attended McKinley High School in Chicago where he took drawing and
photography classes and was a contributing cartoonist for the school paper. At
night, he took courses at the Chicago Art Institute. When Disney was 16, he
dropped out of school to join the Army but wasn’t let for being underage. 2
_________D Instead, he joined the Red Cross and was sent to France for a
year to drive an ambulance.
.
When Disney returned from France in 1919, he moved back to Kansas City to
pursue a career as a newspaper artist. His brother Roy got him a job at the Penmen-
Rubin Art Studio where he met cartoonist Ubbe Eert Iwerks, better known as Ub
Iwerks. From there, Disney worked at the Kansas City Film Ad Company where he
made commercials based on cutout animation. 3 _____E The first animated
shorts featuring Mickey were Plane Crazy and The Gallopin Gaucho, both
silent films for which they failed to find distribution.
.
From the Ad Company, he recruited Fred Harman as his first employee.
Disney and his brother Roy soon pooled their money and moved to Hollywood.
Ub Iwerks also relocated to California and there the three began the Disney
Brother’s Studio. They invented a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. In
1925, Disney hired an ink-and-paint artist Lillian Bounds. After a brief courtship,
the couple married. Right away the Disney brothers, their wives and Iwerks
produced three cartoons featuring a new character Walt had been developing
called Mickey Mouse. 4 ______A Around this time, Disney began
experimenting with a camera, doing hand-drawn cel animation and decided to
open his own animation business.
. When sound made its way into film, Disney created a third sound-and-music-
equipped short called Steamboat Willie. With Walt as the voice of Mickey, the
cartoon was an instant sensation.
A Around this time, Disney began experimenting with a camera, doing hand-
drawn cel animation and decided to open his own animation business.
B He lived most of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri, where he began
drawing, painting and selling pictures to neighbors and family friends.
C In a very short time, the park had increased its investment tenfold and was
entertaining tourists from all around the world.
D Instead, he joined the Red Cross and was sent to France for a year to drive an
ambulance.
E The first animated shorts featuring Mickey were Plane Crazy and The
Gallopin Gaucho, both silent films for which they failed to find distribution.
F Disney was also among the first to use television as an entertainment
medium.
1____, 2____, 3____, 4____.

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