Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5th1901, in Chicago, Illinois. Walt is the fourth of 5 children. Elias and Flora Disney were their parents. His childhood was marked by economic hardship, his dad always changing from one job to another. He spent his childhood on a farm, in a village in Missouri. There, he lived surrounded by nature and animals. His mom would read classic tales to him and that's when his interest in drawing started to grow inside him. In 1909 his dad got sick, and the whole family had to move to Kansas City. During that time, Walt was selling newspapers and occasionally making some money with his caricatures. He enrolled in the Kansas City Art Institute, where he learned his first notions about drawing techniques. It was then, during those teenage years when he ...
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