A girl, Alice in Wonderland, is the origin of everything. The shorts of this little girl, mixing real images and cartoons, were the first works of the brothers Roy and Walt Disneythat just today 100 years ago they founded Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio.

Raised on a farm surrounded by animals who marked his style, and advertising cartoonist, Walt Disney He would end up creating a key character in popular culture in 1928: Mickey Mouse. The first time we saw him was as captain of the ship in the short ‘Steamboat Willie’.

About ten years later he would release ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs‘, a film in which few trusted: they told him that no one would pay to see a feature-length cartoon film. That feat earned him worldwide recognition and recognition from the Academy, which gave him this honorary Oscar with seven little ones. There he began his love affair with classic stories, which he adapted to his own style, always softening the cruel tone of the stories, ‘Cinderella’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’ or even ‘Bambi’.

After the outbreak of the World War IIthe study would be dedicated to produce anti-fascist propaganda shorts with which to encourage Americans to buy war bonds. Furthermore, in 1941 he faced a historic strike.

Ten years later, in the early 1950s, he would achieve another milestone: open your first amusement parka dream that I had desired for more than 20 years.

Absolute admirer of Dalíwith whom he worked on several projects – such as the short ‘Destino’ or an adaptation of ‘Don Quixote de la Mancha’ – Walt Disney won 26 Oscars (he is the person with the most statuettes) and his death in 1966 only increased his legacy.

Although its popularity has suffered ups and downs, such as box office crisis of the 70s and 80s which ended with the premiere of ‘The Little Mermaid’, the company has known how to adapt to the times, for example, turning its much-criticized damsels in distress into women who, like Moana or Elsa, do not need to be rescued.