Walt Disney is a special part of world cinema history.
During these days, the studio holds many activities to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Walt Disney Company.
Walt Disney was an American, born in 1901 and grew up on a farm in Missouri, initially living by selling paintings, but later turning to animation. With only 40 USD in hand, Walt Disney went to Hollywood and founded the Walt Disney Company specializing in the production of animated films. A century later, this company became a world-famous brand with a value of billions of USD and Walt Disney's films became indispensable to world cinema. The cartoon characters in Walt Disney's films such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck... have become familiar to many generations of people on earth, becoming childhood memories of children and interesting entertainment experiences for adults in many places around the world. Films such as The Tale of the Deep Forest, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Alice in Wonderland ... helped Walt Disney pioneer in animating novels into an animated world. Walt Disney's films have gradually become an identity of American cinema and culture.
In terms of business, the Walt Disney Company has had many ups and downs over the past century, sometimes seemingly collapsing completely but then recovering and developing brilliantly again. Many of Walt Disney's products have won prestigious awards. Until Walt Disney's death in 1966 from lung cancer, Walt Disney's films won 26 Oscars - the most prestigious award in American cinema. In 1955, Walt Disney simulated the fairy tale world shown in animated films and the characters who were residents of that world into the real world of people in Disney Parks, initially only in the United States, later built in many other places around the world. Walt Disney also modernized and changed with the pace of time: Digital transformation, virtual worlds and making films with real actors, not just animated films.
Over the past 100 years, Walt Disney's films have become famous around the world and represent America like Coca Cola or Pepsi do in the world outside of America. But Walt Disney has also been criticized and criticized for some films with images, dialogue, and implications about racism and skin color discrimination, promoting violence or social class discrimination.
The history of the Walt Disney Company and Walt Disney's films reflect the history of the development of the film industry in the United States, and is also a part of the history of American and world cinema. Walt Disney was born when world cinema in general and American cinema in particular were still taking their first steps in the process of formation and development in terms of ideological content as well as cinematic art, technology and film techniques. Walt Disney was a pioneer, so he conquered all other film companies in the world of animated cinema.
The world in general has changed fundamentally in the past 100 years and so has the world of cinema. Walt Disney remains a strong monument even though many other monuments of cinema have been built. Competition in cinema has become increasingly fierce and uncompromising. Walt Disney has been challenged in every aspect of the world of cinema. The achievements and values of cinema in particular and culture in general that Walt Disney has achieved in the past 100 years are highly appreciated by the world.
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