WALT DISNEY
沃爾特-迪斯尼
Walt Disney,the great filmmaker,was born in Chicago in 1901.Disney's
偉大的制片家沃爾特-迪斯尼于1901年出生于芝加哥.迪
greatest wish was to be a famous artist.When he was a young man,he
斯尼最大的愿望就是成為著名的藝術(shù)家.年輕的時候,他
went to a newspaper office in Kansas Cityswhereshe was living.He had some
去過一家報(bào)社.報(bào)社就在堪薩斯城,他當(dāng)時居住在那里.他有幾個
friends who worked in the office there.He took along some of his pictures in
朋友就在那家報(bào)社工作.他帶去一些自己的畫,
the hope of getting a job there.However,He had no luck.They looked at his
希望能在那兒找到工作.然而,他運(yùn)氣不佳.他們看了他的畫,
pictures and said,“Sorry,young man.We don't think there is anything of interest
說道：“對不起,年輕人,我們認(rèn)為你的畫里沒有什么
in your pictures.”
有趣的東西.”
Disney's friends tried to encourage him.“Don't worry,Walt.We like
迪斯尼的朋友盡力鼓勵他：“別犯愁,沃爾特.我們喜歡
your pictures.They're very good.We're sure youll be wellknown as an artist
你的畫.它們很好嘛.我們深信,你不久就會成為知名
before long.”
的藝術(shù)家.
Disney did not lose heart.He continued to draw lots of pictures.His family
迪斯尼沒有灰心,他繼續(xù)畫了許多畫.他們
was poor and he used to sit in the family garage and draw pictures there.
家很窮,他就常坐在自家的車庫里作畫.
One day a mouse camesintosthe garage and played on the floor.Disney stopped
有一天,一只老鼠來到這個車庫,在地上嬉鬧.迪斯尼停止
drawing and watched the mouse.The mouse came towards him,so he gave the
繪畫,注視著它.老鼠朝他跳過去,他就給
mouse a piece of bread.Then the mouse came and sat on his desk.Day after
老鼠一片面包.于是老鼠跳過來伏在他的畫桌上.每天
day the mouse came back and was given more bread.In this way over several
老鼠都回來,得到更多的面包.就這樣一連好些天,
days the artist and his mouse became good friends.
藝術(shù)家和他的老鼠便成了好朋友.
Some years later,Disney moved to the west coast of the USA.He tried to
幾年后,迪斯尼搬到美國西海岸去了.他試圖找一份
get work as an artist,but still he was unsuccessful.One day he remembered
工作,做一個藝術(shù)家,但是他仍然沒有成功.有一天他想起了
the mouse that used to come out in his father's garage.He picked up his pencil
那只老鼠,那只常常到他父親車庫里來的老鼠.他拿起筆
and started to draw.Day after day he experimented and drew different pictures
就畫了起來.他一天一天地嘗試著,畫了好些不同的畫,
of the mouse that he had known.At last he was pleased with one of his
畫的就是他所熟悉的那只老鼠.最后他很滿意其中的
pictures of the mouse.He called it Mickey Mouse.
一幅畫,他就稱其中的那只老鼠為“米老鼠”.
Disney's success as a cartoonmaker had begun.He soon drew other cartoon
作為動畫片制片家,迪斯尼開始取得成功.不久后,他又畫了一
characters like Donald Duck and during the 1920s and the 1930s he made
些卡通人物,像唐老鴨之類.在20世紀(jì)20年代到30年代期間,
scores of cartoons about them.These cartoons were all short ones.Before the
他制作了許多關(guān)于它們的動畫片.這些動畫片都是短片.在電視
days of television,they used to be shown in cinemas all over the country before
問世之前,全國各地的電影院先放動畫片,
the main film was shown.Later Walt Disney made longer films.All of them
然后才放主片.后來,沃爾特-迪斯尼做了些較長的片子.它們
were liked very much by children.Disney died in 1966.But the studios which
都很受孩子們的歡迎.迪斯尼于1966年去世,但是他創(chuàng)辦的電
he started are still busy today,producing more and more interesting films.
影制片廠至今仍然很繁忙,還在生產(chǎn)越來越多的有趣的影片.