Walt Disney Sun Dec 17 2000 at 0:46:42 Walt Disney, the man who would one day lead the world in film animation and children's entertainment, was born on December 5, 1901, in Chicago, Illinois. After delivering newspapers while a schoolboy, Walt enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute at the age of 14. At 16 he volunteered his time to the Red Cross as an ambulance driver in France during World War I. Upon his return to America, he began working at a commercial art studio in Kansas City. It was here that he met Ub Iwerks, another young and promising artist, who was to become his lifelong partner. They joined the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where they produced animated commericals. They later turned out a series of satirical cartoons which they sold to a local theater under the name of "Laugh-O-Grams."