Who Was Walt Disney

Animation, as practiced by Walt Disney and his contemporaries, is a filmmaking technique that uses multiple still images in succession to create the illusion of a moving picture. This process is labor intensive, often requiring hundreds of thousands of individual images to create a feature-length film. After Walt’s passing, the animation industry continued to grow and incorporate new technologies. Now, most animation is done on  computers, using three-dimensional models.

The Great Depression was a period of global economic devastation between 1929 and the late 1930s. The Great Depression began on Thursday, October 24, 1929, when the stock market crashed, forcing many companies to close and many banks to declare bankruptcy.

Without these companies, people lost their jobs, and without banks, people could not retrieve their savings. As many as 25% of Americans were suddenly unemployed. Walt’s studio not only survived this disaster but also thrived, in part because struggling Americans sought escape in the entertainment that Disney offered.

World War I was an international conflict that involved countries all across the globe. It was primarily fought between two factions: the Allies and the Central Powers. The main countries of the Allies included France, the British Empire, Italy, Russia, and, later, the United States.