"Donald Duck came into being in 1934 to fit a voice which had interested me a couple of years before. He first appeared a bit in our "The Wise Little Hen" and proceeded to steal the picture. He squawked and strutted his way into production until he was practically the star of the film. He was a character we simply couldn't keep down. And the public took him to heart completely after his second picture appearance in "Orphan's Benefit". His towering rages, his impotence in the face of obstacles, his protests in the face of injustice, as he sees it, even though he brings disaster on himself - have kept him an audience favourite from that day to this".
Born on 5th December 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. At age 16, he quid school but later joined art schools for a brief amount of time in Chicago and Kansas City. In 1923, Walt partnered with his brother Roy, to produce animated motion pictures in Hollywood. "Steamboat Willie" (1928) was Disneys first produced cartoon by his own company. It was also the first time that synchronised sound appeared in a cartoon. It featured the ever famous Mickey Mouse, who was also starring in another cartoon "Plane Crazy" earlier that year. Disneys first feature-length animated film was "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs" in 1937. Disney not only made cartoons, but television series, as well as documentaries. "Pinocchio" (1940), "Fantasia" (1941) and "Bambi" (1942) soon followed. Walt Disneys works led to the opening of Disneyland in Anaheim, California, in 1955 and to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, in 1971, and Disneyland Paris in 1990.