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Walt Disney is the person who created the magical world of dreams for children. His heroes became legends, whereas he had changed the whole concept of film industry. According to some researchers he was the one who turned animation into true art. W. Disney was born in Chicago on December 5, 1901. However, he didn’t stay long in the “Windy City”. When he was five, his family moved to Missouri.
The future film director’s family was rather poor. As a child he used to work as a paperboy. At his teenage years he worked as a driver in the army. When he returned home he took up art as the main interest. As he always had a talent in drawing he managed to get a job at the advertising studio as an artist. At first, he created exclusive video advertising content. He was especially good at creating short sketches.
He soon fell in love with this new art form and started working day and night, experimenting with colors and techniques. These experiments led him to the world of hand-drawn animation. He had lots of creative plans, for example, together with his work buddy he set up a small studio. However, it soon went bankrupt due to poor finances and lack of proper experience. W. Disney was quite upset after this failure.
He gradually saved some amount of money, went to Los Angeles and together with his older brother set up the prominent Walt Disney Company, which at first functioned as a small animation studio. The first animated cartoon was released in 1924. It was “Alice’s Day at Sea”. The cartoon was followed by the whole series of other motion pictures about Lewis Carroll’s famous character Alice in Wonderland. This series didn’t have much success, but showed the publicity Disney’s distinct style.
The first successful picture was created together with his old friend Ub Iwerks. It was the cartoon about the Lucky Rabbit Oswald, which became very popular among American children. The next popular hero that Disney came up with was Mickey Mouse. This character is still used in films, advertising and various child campaigns. For creating this iconic character Walt received his first Oscar.
As the time passed, Disney’s empire became a real embodiment of cartoon art. Apart from creating colorful and exciting cartoons for kids, the film director had once decided to build a huge theme park, known as the “Disneyland” and found in many parts of our planet. He soon became a very rich man. Unfortunately, he died rather early at the age of 65. Walt suffered from excessive smoking which led to lung cancer.
After this Walt Disney Company decided to permanently exclude all cigarette images and smoking itself from the cartoons. During his lifetime the Walt was married only once and his marriage lasted till his last days. Together with Lillian Bounds they had two lovely daughters.
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Уолт Дисней родился 5 декабря 1901 года. Дисней стал одним из самых известных продюсеров мультфильмов в мире. Он особенно знаменит как кинопродюсер и популярный шоумен, а также как новатор в мультипликации и проектировании тематических парков.
Дисней известен своим вкладом в сферу развлечений в 20 веке. Первый успех пришел к нему благодаря серии «Освальд – счастливый кролик», которая была создана студией Диснея для Чарльза Минца из «Юниверсал Студиоз». Когда Дисней попросил большего бюджета для его популярных серий об Освальде, Минц отказал, и Диснею пришлось уйти. Позже Дисней и его брат Рой. О. Дисней начали с нуля и совместно основали «Уолт Дисней Продакшнз», в настоящее время известную как «Компания Уолта Диснея». Сегодня эта компания имеет ежегодный доход, приблизительно, 35 миллиардов долларов США. Этот успех пришел, в основном, благодаря ряду наиболее известных в мире вымышленных персонажей, созданных им и его штатом, включая Микки Мауса, – персонажа, которого первоначально озвучил сам Дисней.
Дисней получил 26 наград «Оскар» из 59 номинаций, включая рекордные четыре за один год. Он получил больше наград и номинаций, чем любой другой человек. В его честь также названы тематические парки Диснейленд и Всемирный курорт Уолта Диснея в Соединенных Штатах, а также международные курорты (Диснейленды) в Японии, Франции и Китае.
Дисней умер от рака легких в городе Бербанк, штат Калифорния, 15 декабря 1966 года. На следующий год началось строительство Всемирного курорта Уолта Диснея во Флориде. Его брат Рой Дисней открыл «Волшебное королевство» 1 октября 1971 года.
Walt Disney
Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901. Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. He is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design.
Disney won 26 Academy Awards out of 59 nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He is also the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, as well as the international resorts in Japan, France, and China.
Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated The Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.
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Walt Disney
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Walt Disney, in full Walter Elias Disney, (born December 5, 1901, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died December 15, 1966, Los Angeles, California), American motion-picture and television producer and showman, famous as a pioneer of animated cartoon films and as the creator of such cartoon characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. He also planned and built Disneyland, a huge amusement park that opened near Los Angeles in 1955, and before his death he had begun building a second such park, Walt Disney World, near Orlando, Florida. The Disney Company he founded has become one of the world’s largest entertainment conglomerates.
Early life
Walter Elias Disney was the fourth son of Elias Disney, a peripatetic carpenter, farmer, and building contractor, and his wife, Flora Call, who had been a public school teacher. When Walt was little more than an infant, the family moved to a farm near Marceline, Missouri, a typical small Midwestern town, which is said to have furnished the inspiration and model for the Main Street, U.S.A., of Disneyland. There Walt began his schooling and first showed a taste and aptitude for drawing and painting with crayons and watercolours.
His restless father soon abandoned his efforts at farming and moved the family to Kansas City, Missouri, where he bought a morning newspaper route and compelled his young sons to assist him in delivering papers. Walt later said that many of the habits and compulsions of his adult life stemmed from the disciplines and discomforts of helping his father with the paper route. In Kansas City the young Walt began to study cartooning with a correspondence school and later took classes at the Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design.
In 1917 the Disneys moved back to Chicago, and Walt entered McKinley High School, where he took photographs, made drawings for the school paper, and studied cartooning on the side, for he was hopeful of eventually achieving a job as a newspaper cartoonist. His progress was interrupted by World War I, in which he participated as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross in France and Germany.
Returning to Kansas City in 1919, he found occasional employment as a draftsman and inker in commercial art studios, where he met Ub Iwerks, a young artist whose talents contributed greatly to Walt’s early success.
First animated cartoons
Dissatisfied with their progress, Disney and Iwerks started a small studio of their own in 1922 and acquired a secondhand movie camera with which they made one and two-minute animated advertising films for distribution to local movie theatres. They also did a series of animated cartoon sketches called Laugh-O-grams and the pilot film for a series of seven-minute fairy tales that combined both live action and animation, Alice in Cartoonland. A New York film distributor cheated the young producers, and Disney was forced to file for bankruptcy in 1923. He moved to California to pursue a career as a cinematographer, but the surprise success of the first Alice film compelled Disney and his brother Roy—a lifelong business partner—to reopen shop in Hollywood.
The following year Disney started a new series called Silly Symphonies with a picture entitled The Skeleton Dance, in which a skeleton rises from the graveyard and does a grotesque, clattering dance set to music based on classical themes. Original and briskly syncopated, the film ensured popular acclaim for the series, but, with costs mounting because of the more complicated drawing and technical work, Disney’s operation was continually in peril.
The growing popularity of Mickey Mouse and his girlfriend, Minnie, however, attested to the public’s taste for the fantasy of little creatures with the speech, skills, and personality traits of human beings. (Disney himself provided the voice for Mickey until 1947.) This popularity led to the invention of other animal characters, such as Donald Duck and the dogs Pluto and Goofy. In 1933 Disney produced a short, The Three Little Pigs, which arrived in the midst of the Great Depression and took the country by storm. Its treatment of the fairy tale of the little pig who works hard and builds his house of brick against the huffing and puffing of a threatening wolf suited the need for fortitude in the face of economic disaster, and its song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”was a happy taunting of adversity. It was in this period of economic hard times in the early 1930s that Disney fully endeared himself and his cartoons to audiences all over the world, and his operation began making money in spite of the Depression.
Disney had by that time gathered a staff of creative young people, who were headed by Iwerks. Colour was introduced in the Academy Award-winning Silly Symphonies film Flowers and Trees (1932), while other animal characters came and went in films such as The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934) and The Tortoise and the Hare (1935). Roy franchised tie-in sales with the cartoons of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck—watches, dolls, shirts, and tops—and reaped more wealth for the company.
Feature-length cartoons
Walt Disney was never one to rest or stand still. He had long thought of producing feature-length animated films in addition to the shorts. In 1934 he began work on a version of the classic fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), a project that required great organization and coordination of studio talent and a task for which Disney possessed a unique capacity. While he actively engaged in all phases of creation in his films, he functioned chiefly as coordinator and final decision maker rather than as designer and artist. Snow White was widely acclaimed by critics and audiences alike as an amusing and sentimental romance. By animating substantially human figures in the characters of Snow White, the Prince, and the Wicked Queen and by forming caricatures of human figures in the seven dwarfs, Disney departed from the scope and techniques of the shorts and thus proved animation’s effectiveness as a vehicle for feature-length stories.
While Disney continued to do short films presenting the anthropomorphic characters of his little animals, he was henceforth to develop a wide variety of full-length entertainment films, such as Pinocchio (1940), Dumbo (1941), and Bambi (1942). Disney also produced a totally unusual and exciting film—his multisegmented and stylized Fantasia (1940), in which cartoon figures and colour patterns were animated to the music of Igor Stravinsky, Paul Dukas, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and others. In 1940 Disney moved his company into a new studio in Burbank, California, abandoning the old plant it had occupied in the early days of growth.
Major films and television productions
A strike by Disney animators in 1941 was a major setback for the company. Many top animators resigned, and it would be many years before the company produced animated features that lived up to the quality of its early 1940s classics. Disney’s foray into films for the federal government during World War II helped the studio perfect methods of combining live-action and animation; the studio’s commercial films using this hybrid technique include The Reluctant Dragon (1941), Saludos Amigos (1942), The Three Caballeros (1945), Make Mine Music (1946), and Song of the South (1946).
The Disney studio by that time was established as a big-business enterprise and began to produce a variety of entertainment films. One popular series, called True-Life Adventures, featured nature-based motion pictures such as Seal Island (1948), Beaver Valley (1950), and The Living Desert (1953). The Disney studio also began making full-length animation romances, such as Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951), and Peter Pan (1953), and produced low-budget, live-action films, including The Absent-Minded Professor (1961).
The Disney studio was among the first to foresee the potential of television as a popular entertainment medium and to produce programs directly for it. The Zorro and Davy Crockett series were very popular with children, and a weekly showcase (known by several titles, including Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color) became a Sunday night fixture. The Mickey Mouse Club, a variety show featuring a cast of teenage performers known as the Mouseketeers, was also successful. The climax of Disney’s career as a producer, however, came with his release in 1964 of the motion picture Mary Poppins, which won worldwide popularity.
Disneyland
In the early 1950s Disney had initiated plans for a huge amusement park to be built near Los Angeles. When Disneyland opened in 1955, much of Disney’s disposition toward nostalgic sentiment and fantasy was evident in its design and construction. It soon became a mecca for tourists from around the world. A second Disney park, Walt Disney World, near Orlando, Florida, which was under construction at the time of his death, opened in 1971.
Legacy
Disney’s imagination and energy, his whimsical humour, and his gift for being attuned to the vagaries of popular taste inspired him to develop well-loved amusements for “children of all ages” throughout the world. Although some criticized his frequently saccharine subject matter and accused him of creating a virtual stylistic monopoly in American animation that discouraged experimentation, there is no denying his pathbreaking accomplishments. His achievement as a creator of entertainment for an almost unlimited public and as a highly ingenious merchandiser of his wares can rightly be compared to the most successful industrialists in history.
Walt Disney A Short Biography
(a condensed version of the Long Biography)
Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago Illinois, to his father Elias Disney, and mother Flora Call Disney. Walt was one of five children, four boys and a girl.
After Walt’s birth, the Disney family moved to Marceline Missouri, Walt lived most of his childhood here.
Walt had very early interests in art, he would often sell drawings to neighbors to make extra money. He pursued his art career, by studying art and photography by going to McKinley High School in Chicago.
Walt began to love, and appreciate nature and wildlife, and family and community, which were a large part of agrarian living. Though his father could be quite stern, and often there was little money, Walt was encouraged by his mother, and older brother, Roy to pursue his talents.
During the fall of 1918, Disney attempted to enlist for military service. Rejected because he was under age, only sixteen years old at the time. Instead, Walt joined the Red Cross and was sent overseas to France, where he spent a year driving an ambulance and chauffeuring Red Cross officials. His ambulance was covered from stem to stern, not with stock camouflage, but with Disney cartoons.
Once Walt returned from France, he began to pursue a career in commercial art. He started a small company called Laugh-O-Grams, which eventually fell bankrupt. With his suitcase, and twenty dollars, Walt headed to Hollywood to start anew.
Walt Disney in his office
In 1932, the production entitled Flowers and Trees(the first color cartoon) won Walt the first of his studio’s Academy Awards. In 1937, he released The Old Mill, the first short subject to utilize the multi-plane camera technique.
Walt Disney, on his daily rounds through Disneyland
Walt Disney’s dream of a clean, and organized amusement park, came true, as Disneyland Park opened in 1955. Walt also became a television pioneer, Disney began television production in 1954, and was among the first to present full-color programming with his Wonderful World of Color in 1961.
Walt Disney is a legend; a folk hero of the 20th century. His worldwide popularity was based upon the ideals which his name represents: imagination, optimism, creation, and self-made success in the American tradition. He brought us closer to the future, while telling us of the past, it is certain, that there will never be such as great a man, as Walt Disney.
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You’ve just read an interview with Slava Polunin who is generally recognized as one of the greatest living clowns. He is one of those rare artists who have climbed to the top of their chosen profession. This is how the newspaper «The Irish Times» has described this world famous mime actor. One of his most successful productions has
been the «Snow Show» which began in 1996 in Britain. A well known Russian artist and fashion designer Mikhail Shemyakin made some fantastic costumes for Slava’s «Snow Show».
The «Snow- Show» can transform adults into wide-eyed children.
Slava was born in a small place in Central Russia. As a boy, he was fond of playing snowballs and making tunnels under the snow. In his «Snow Show» Slava realized the fantasy of his childish games as a mime actor.
Mime traditionally means acting without words. Mime artists believe that they can communicate without language — speak with their bodies, Slava Polunin believes that you can do a show without words but if it needs a word, it’s better to put one in.
The «PIay-Makers group», founded by Slava Polunin, is known all over Russia and the world. They have travelled through more than 20 countries. Over 25 years they have made unbelievable progress and have become a national attraction. Their theatrical characters are known to everyone in Russia,
At the moment Slava is about to start work on some new productions working with clowns from Britain and Russia, Polunin’s show is constantly changing. Each show is so different from another that «If you watch the show once a year, you will see that each time, it’s a new one,» says Slava Polunin.
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1. Как вы думаете, Уолт Дисней, мать Тереза и Слава Folunin были успешными людьми? Почему?
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3. Узнали ли вы что-нибудь из текста? Что?
Walt Disney
Уолт Дисней, знаменитый американский продюсер, сделал несколько миров самый волшебный фильмов. Дети и gmwn окна наблюдал его фильмов о смешных Дональд Дак, Микки Маус смелый, красивый Белоснежка, маленький Бэмби и прекрасной Мэри Поппинс. Диснеевских мультфильмов и фильмов, полной приключений и веселья.
Талантливый бизнесмен, он также создал Диснейленд, волшебный парк, где детей и их родителей развлекали персонажи Диснея.
Уолт Дисней родился в 1901 году. В детстве юный Уолт потратили много времени на ферме, где он научился изучать природу и животных. Он не был хорошим учеником в школе, потому что он всегда
найти вещи, которые интересуют его больше, чем школы, такие как дом кино и рисование. Его семья не была богатой и Уолтом трудились помогать отцу.
После Первой мировой войны лежат удалось создать свою собственную кинокомпанию. Он арендовал старую камеру и гараж. Он стал владельцем небольшой мастерской. Он любил мультфильмы и был полон идей. У него было четкое представление о том, что он хотел.
Фильмы Диснея мультфильм стал популярным во всем мире.
Disney Studios продолжает производство фильмов после смерти Уолта в 1966 году. Там, где американские фильмы показаны, под названием «Disney» по-прежнему привлекает толпы.
Мать Тереза
Мать Тереза родилась в 1910 году в Албании. Ее настоящее имя Агнес. Она была младшей из троих детей. Ее отец был хорошим бизнесменом и семья была комфортной жизни. Ее родители были очень религиозны. Мать Агнес учила своих детей молиться и любить и помогать другим людям. Они часто давали еду и деньги для бедных. Это были первые уроки доброты для маленькой Агнес.
Когда Агнес было только девять лет, ее отец умер. Семья стала бедной. Но позже ее мать открыла магазин, и бизнес сделали хорошо. Это был второй урок в жизни, от своей матери: в трудные минуты жизни нужно пробовать, пробовать и попробуйте снова.
В 1928 году Агнес оставил семью, чтобы стать монахиней. Она выбрала новое имя для себя-Тереза. Сестра Тереза отправился в Индию, чтобы учить бедных детей. Позже она стала помогать бедным. Она ухаживала за людей, которые никто не заботиться. Она усердно. Она была уверена, что она будет успешной. Она считает, что «все люди созданы равными». В 1948 году она и ее ученики создали Миссионеры милосердия (Благотворительная миссия).
