Kansas City, Missouri

===Walt Disney===
In 1911, [[Elias Disney]] moved [[Disney family|his family]] from [[Marceline, Missouri|Marceline]] to Kansas City. They lived in a new home at 3028 Bellefontaine with a garage he built, in which [[Walt Disney]] made his first [[animation]].<ref name="dnr.mo.gov">{{cite web|title=Disney, Walt, House and Garage|url=http://www.dnr.mo.gov/shpo/nps-nr/78001654.pdf|work=dnr.mo.gov|access-date=March 3, 2015|archive-date=January 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160117034639/http://dnr.mo.gov/shpo/nps-nr/78001654.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1919, Walt returned from France where he had served as a [[List of ambulance drivers during World War I|Red Cross ambulance driver]] in [[World War I]]. He started the first animation company in Kansas City, [[Laugh-O-Gram Studio]], in which he designed [[Mickey Mouse]]. When the company went bankrupt, Walt Disney moved to [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] and started [[The Walt Disney Company]] on October 16, 1923.