He might of saw something on TV that made him want to animate. or he just wanted to be creative. i think what made him want to animate is Japanese people. the started first so he might wanted to try too. thank for asking. next time ask a good a reasonable question.
Nope. Animation had been around for a long time before Walt Disney started doing it. In flipbooks, for example.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hercules
His Aunt Margaret.
The amount of people he inspired to do animation
Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark was Walt Disney's inspiration after he and his wife visited it in 1951.
the tale of the w.grimm y.grimm.
So many people loved Disney and the Walt Disney Company had enough money to make and pay for actress and actors and for their own channel.
Osamu Tezuka is referred to as The Father of Anime, due to his creative method to draw frames of pictures and animate them. He is considered the Japanese version of Walt Disney.
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The Jungle Book .
The spanish castle in Segovia; Alcázar was the castle that inspired Walt Disney for the Cinderella's castle.