Magnetta was seen flying through the night sky until she turned her head right to look at the audience as she stopped and levitated in the air.

"Oh, hello everyone." Magnetta said with a smile as she waved her hand at the audience.

"My name is Magnetta, but you may know me as Ruby Hawkins." Magnetta said as she put her hand on her chest.

"Since you're here, I might as well tell you some exciting news." Magnetta said.

"Today is Disney's 100th Anniversary." Magnetta said with a smile.

"WHAA-HOO!" Magnetta cheered with her eyes closed, her head up, and her fists up in the air.

"Can you believe it? One hundred years." Magnetta said with a smile as she lowered her arms and looked at the audience.

"You see, Walt Disney Animation Studios was founded on October 16th, 1923 by one man who had a big imagination and was a kid at heart. And that man was none other than..." Magnetta explained as she held her hand to the ground with her hand glowing white.

Suddenly, a picture frame floated toward her and was surrounded in a white magnetic aura as Magnetta grabbed it with her hand and the picture frame stopped glowing white.

"...Walt Disney." Magnetta said with a smile as she held the picture in front of the audience, revealing a picture of Walt Disney in the picture frame.

"He's the man responsible for all those Disney movies and shows that everyone has grown up watching. He was even the one responsible for creating Disneyland in 1955, the Happiest Place on Earth." Magnetta explained as she pointed her finger at the picture of Walt Disney while looking at the picture before she put the picture away.

"If you ask him how this all happened, Walt Disney would always say this..." Magnetta said as she held out a tape recorder and pressed a button.

"I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing, that it all started with a mouse." Walt Disney's voice said through the tape.

Magnetta pushed another button to stop the recording as she put the tape recorder away.

"And that's true. You see, Walt Disney grew up on a farm for five years with his family back in the 1900s. He lived with a poor family as his father was extremely strict. Art was Walt's way to escape as he would sit under a tree and draw. He would basically sketch anything around him, it was his happy place. And that's when he started drawing the famous mouse that started it all." Magnetta explained.

"And that...was Mickey Mouse." Magnetta said as she held up a photo of Mickey Mouse before she put it away.

"Mickey Mouse started in the Roaring 20s with Steamboat Willie in 1928. Until the Great Depression hit in 1929 when many people lost their jobs. It was said that Mickey was what got America out of the Depression as lots of kids would often go to the movie theater to watch Mickey Mouse cartoons. If you haven't noticed, Mickey's earliest cartoons are based on Walt's memories as a farm boy. Walt was a curious kid who never grew up, a guy who was intrepid, and someone who never let anything stand in his way. While that was him, it was also Mickey Mouse. He poured himself into Mickey and he embodied Walt Disney himself. This means that you can't separate the two. It was like Walt Disney was a part of Mickey Mouse. Since then, Mickey has become popular around America. And that's not all, Mickey Mouse started streaming around the world and everybody loved him, even Adolf Hitler loved Mickey Mouse including Mussolini and Hirohito." Magnetta explained.

"Then, in the 1930s, Walt decided to do a movie based on one of the Brothers Grimm fairytale stories, Snow White. However, it was a huge risk for the studio since it was their first feature-length movie, and no one could tell if it would end up being good or bad. But Walt was willing to take that risk as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released in 1937. Turns out, it became a huge success and was called, 'The Greatest Animated Film of All Time.'" Magnetta continued as she showed the audience a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs poster.

"It seemed to be a great time for Disney and the studio." Magnetta said with a smile as she put the poster away.

"But then, World War II started. You see, Walt did a good job of showing what was going on in the real world, but he also revealed stuff that was racism. When America joined the war, Mickey was banned in Europe since Mickey symbolized independence, liberty, and freedom. America is Mickey, especially since he was created in America. Walt was a patriot and supported whatever the government and the military wanted as he created shorts for the military. When he released Dumbo in 1941, he revealed a reference to World War II when the ending of the movie revealed a newspaper that said 'Dumbombers for Defense.' Basically, airplanes that looked like Dumbo for the Allied Forces to use against the Central Powers. Also, early Disney movies like Dumbo and Pinocchio revealed characters drinking alcohol and smoking since no one knew how dangerous smoking was back then." Magnetta explained sadly.

"In the 1950s, he released Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Sleeping Beauty. Lady and the Tramp revealed how pets were being treated at the pound and shows that dogs really do have feelings." Magnetta said.

"Disney was going really well as the years went by. But all that changed in the late 1960s." Magnetta said.

"You see, Walt Disney has been a heavy smoker since World War I, so it was no surprise that most of his early movies had characters smoking since he used to smoke too. He didn't use cigarettes with filters and he smoked a pipe as a young man. In November 1966, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Then, he fell ill and was taken to the hospital on November 30th." Magnetta said.

"He died on December 15, 1966. He was only 65 years old when he died." Magnetta said sadly as she looked down.

"Nobody had any idea he was ill. No one saw it coming. After he died, his wife said that it was hard for her to watch or even listen to Mickey Mouse because there was so much of Walt in him. After his death, the studio didn't know what to do with Mickey. They honestly thought about closing the lid on him." Magnetta said sadly as she looked at the audience.

"However, Mickey Mouse was still alive outside of the studio. There was no escape from him. There's no one in the whole world who doesn't know who Mickey Mouse is." Magnetta said with a small smile.

"Eventually, they got back to making more Disney movies. They released The Jungle Book a year after Walt's death, the Aristocats in 1970, The Fox and the Hound in 1981, and Oliver and Company in 1988." Magnetta explained.

"Then, the studio began an era called the Disney Renaissance Era as it had movies that were mostly musical adaptations of well-known stories, similar to the movies that were made during the Walt Disney era from the 1930s to the 1960s. It let Disney's animated movies become a huge success, which made more profits than most of the Disney movies of previous eras. It lasted from 1989 to 1999 from The Little Mermaid to Tarzan. It also featured Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, and Mulan." Magnetta continued as she showed the audience a poster with all 10 Disney Renaissance movies before lowering her hands and putting it away.

"Then, in the 21st century, they started to release sequels like Aladdin II: Return of Jafar, The Lion King II, Pocahontas II, The Fox and the Hound II, Mulan II, and The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea. However, most of these sequels weren't very popular. But thankfully, they made some good movies like Bolt, The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Lilo and Stich, Wreck-it-Ralph, Big Hero 6, Frozen, Moana, and Zootopia." Magnetta explained.

"Disney has sure come a long way since the 1920s. He has shown magic, imagination, and that dreams can come true. In fact, some of his movies involve characters wishing on a star like Pinocchio, Peter Pan, and The Princess and the Frog." Magnetta said with a smile.

"His movies have surely made us build great lasting memories of our childhood as we have watched them when we were kids. I know I have as I watched a lot of Disney movies when I was a toddler. Not to mention Dwayne after he created Jafar and Ursula back at the mall." Magnetta said.

"Remember kids to always let your imagination run free and let your creativity guide you to amazing things, just like Walt Disney did." Magnetta said with a smile as she looked at the audience.

"When you wish upon a star, your dreams will come true." Magnetta said to the audience with a smile as she flew high into the air and toward the North Star.

She flew closer and closer before she disappeared as a spark appeared in the middle of the star before it disappeared and the screen turned black.

What do you think? I thought it would be a good idea to publish something to honor Disney's 100th Anniversary. I've watched a lot of Disney movies during my childhood, most of them were movies of the Disney Renaissance: The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1994), and Tarzan (1999). I've also watched Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, and Mulan. I've also watched The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Frozen, Tinkerbell (2008-The Legend of the Neverbeast), Zootopia, Moana, Bolt (2008), Chicken Little (2005), Lilo and Stich, Moana, The Emperor's New Groove, Kronk's New Groove, Peter Pan: Return to Neverland, Frozen II, The Fox and the Hound II, Mulan II, The Lion King II, The Jungle Book 2, Tarzan II, Tarzan and Jane, Cinderella II, Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, and The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning. I even watched The Fox and the Hound, Pinocchio (1940), Peter Pan (1953), Dumbo (1941), Lady and the Tramp (1955), Bambi (1942), The Sword in the Stone (1963), Cinderella (1950), Sleeping Beauty (1959), The Aristocats (1970), and Oliver and Company. My great-grandparents were born in the 1920s while my grandparents were born in 1950. In fact, my grandpa was there when Disneyland was being built, back when it used to be an orange grove. He and my grandma were only 5 years old when Disneyland first opened. I'm a huge Disney fan and have watched a lot of Disney movies and shows since I was a toddler. I also just watched Once Upon A Studio and it was amazing to see all of my favorite characters from those Disney movies I have watched in my childhood. I would like to say thank you to Walt Disney for starting this company that created all of those movies I enjoyed watching during my childhood.

Some of the information I got in this chapter was from Wikipedia about Walt Disney and some videos about Disney and Mickey Mouse. Please Review.