He set sail for France in November but when he came, the fighting was over. He left school at the age of sixteen and became a volunteer ambulance driver in The Red Cross during World War I after he changed his birth certificate to show his year of birth as 1900 in order to be able to enlist in The Red Cross. During this time, Disney also enrolled in classes at the Chicago Art Institute. Disney was nine years old at the time.Īccording to the Kansas City Public School District records, Disney began attending the Benton Grammar School in 1911, and graduated on June 8, 1917. The family sold the farm in 1909 and lived in a rented house until 1910 when they moved to Kansas City. In 1906, his family moved to a farm near Marceline, Missouri. He was named after his father's close friend, Walter Parr, a minister at St. Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Chicago, Illinois to Elias Disney and Flora Call. 3.1 Disney's Folly: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.2.2 Alice Comedies: Contract and new California studio.
