With Red Cross Ambulance Corps in France just after Armistice

Hired as commercial artist in Kansas; met Ub Iwerks

Joined Kansas City Film Ad Company, making cartoon commericals for local businesses

Incorporated first studio, Laugh-O-Gram Films; subsequently went bankrupt

Moved to Hollywood; the Disney Brothers Studio founded when Walt contracted with M J Winkler to deliver a series of six shorts titled "The Alice Comedies", combining live-action with animation; had made first "Alice" short while still in Kansas City; creditors allowed him to keep one copy of the film to use as a sample when he moved to California; three-and-a-half years later at series end, the once wanna-be filmmaker had his own studio and staff

Invited Ub Iwerks to join him in California

Introduced a new series, "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit"; distributor Charles Mintz assume control of the character

Introduced animated mouse in short "Plane Crazy"

Made first synchronized sound cartoon, "Steamboat Willie"; introduced Minnie and Mickey Mouse; provided the voice for Mickey until his death

The Disney Brothers partnership replaced by four companies: Walt Disney Prods. Ltd.; Walt Disney Enterprises; Liled Realty and Investment Company; and the Disney Film Recording Company

Ub Iwerks suddenly departed the company

Brother Roy signed first contract for licensing, granting the George Borgfeldt Company of New York the right to manufacture and sell "figures and toys of various materials, embodying design of comic mice known as Mickey and Minnie Mouse . . .; Disney received 2.5 percent royalty on items selling for 50 cents or less, 5 percent for more expensive products

Pluto made his cartoon debut in "The Chain Gang"

Received honorary Oscar for the creation of Mickey Mouse

Goofy introduced in the cartoon short "Mickey's Revue"

Made first full-Technicolor film, "Flowers and Trees", from the "Silly Symphony" series; first cartoon to win an Oscar

Hired Don Graham from Los Angeles' Chouinard Art School to conduct night classes for his animators; eventually hired him full-time

First Mickey Mouse watch sold by Ingersoll

First globally successful story, "The Three Little Pigs" (from "Silly Symphony" series)

Donald Duck made initial appearance in "The Wise Little Hen" (from "Silly Symphony" series)

Production begun on first full-length animated feature, "Snow White"

"The Old Mill" short introduced the use of Disney's $70,000 multiplane camera, facilitating panning shots, creating greater depth of image and enabling more elaborate effects to be incorporated

Release of first US full-length animated film, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"; production costs exceeded $1.5 million

Walt Disney Prods. absorbed the three other Disney corporations created in 1929

Purchased 51 acres of land for what eventually became Buena Vista Studios

Iwerks returns to work for Disney

An outgrowth of the "Silly Symphony" series. the feature-length "Fantasia" combined classical melodies with top-of-the-line animation and received a special certificate at the 1941 Academy Awards for its revolutionary Fantasound (early stereo)

Ub Iwerks returned to Disney

"Pinocchio" won two Oscars, one for score and one for song ("When You Wish Upon a Star")

On May 28, 1941, approximately 500 employees picketed the studio; the Disney strike seriously changed the atmosphere of the studio and affected the work produced there in years to come

Special treat of "Dumbo", the "Pink Elephants on Parade" surrealistic sequence, depicting Dumbo's psychedelic visions after swallowing a basinful of champagne

Released "Bambi", pushing the envelope (for him) by killing off Bambi's mother; five years in development, it was last feature to emerge unscathed by the problems of the strike or the war

Made films for US Armed Forces

"The Three Cabelleros", for the first time since the "Alice" series, extensively combined live-action and animation

Produced "True Life Adventure" series, Disney's first live-action films

Iwerks' further developments in the marriage of live-action and animation for "Song of the South" would not be topped for nearly 20 years

First new feature cartoon in the "classic" tradition, "Cinderella"

First live-action feature, "Treasure Island"

Ventured into TV with Christmas night variety special, "One Hour in Wonderland" (NBC), promoting Disney's animated feature "Alice in Wonderland"

Established Disneyland, Inc., a company with the mandate to create a theme park in Southern California

Founded Walter Elias Disney (WED) Enterprises

Roy O Disney formed Buena Vista Distribution Company

Hosted the various incarnations of the TV series "Walt Disney" (e.g., "Disneyland", "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color"), appearing first on ABC and moving to NBC in 1961; the (to date) longest-running primetime series would ultimately air under six different titles and have a run on CBS as well after Disney's death; first major Hollywood studio to create TV programming

Phased out his short-subjects unit, laying off some employees and reassigning others to work on the "Disneyland" TV series; continued to produce extra-length shorts on an unpredictable schedule through the early 1960s

"The Mickey Mouse Club" debuted on TV

Disneyland Amusement Park opened in Anaheim, California

First animated feature filmed in Cinemascope, "Lady and the Tramp"

Most lavish and expensive ($6 million) animated feature to that date, "Sleeping Beauty"; second and last feature in wide-screen format

First feature to solely use Xerox processs for transferring animator's drawings to cels, "One Hundred and One Dalmatians"

Formed California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) through merger of Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Chouinard Art Institute

Released animation epic, "The Sword and the Stone", based on T. H. White's version of the Arthurian legend

Robert Stevenson's "Mary Poppins" offered a then state-of-the-art blending of live-action and animation on its way to 13 Academy Award nominations; film won five statues, including Best Actress for Julie Andrews, the first Disney player to win an Oscar

"The Jungle Book", the last animated feature supervised by Disney, released

Last credit as producer, "Blackbeard's Ghost", directed by Stevenson

First feature-length animated film completed without Walt Disney, "The Aristocats"

Walt Disney World (Orlando. Florida) opened in October; it was the largest private building project in the world up to that time; Disney had initiated project, supervising every aspect in its development prior to his death; brother Roy took over, dedicating it in his brother's name two months before his death in December