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...major power in the entertainment world. The Disney lot today is the busiest in Hollywood, and one of the most shrewdly managed. Its production is cautiously diversified. "Eighty percent of it, right now, is television," says Disney, "but we'll soon be back in balance." Two major cartoon features-a story about dogs called Lady and the Tramp, which is scheduled for July release, and a version of Sleeping Beauty -are on the drawing boards, as well as six short cartoons...
...animals, says a friend, Walt is related to nature and to the mother warmth of the earth. Out of this earthiness, Walt feels, there sprout whatever seeds of creativity he has. "I'm an earthy guy, all right," he says. Some of Disney's detractors disagree. The cartoon animals bear almost no relation to real animals. Nature in them is not idealized; she is at best played for pratfalls and at worst she is simpered over and over-sanitized. Indeed, the man whom all the world knows as Mother Nature's right-hand man has hardly ever...
...earned and headed for Hollywood. Brother Roy, who had just been released from a TB sanatorium in Arizona, met him there, and they set up shop in the $5-a-month corner of a Hollywood real-estate office. In the next four years the Disney studios produced 24 cartoons in a series called Alice in Cartoonland and 52 more about Oswald the Rabbit. At first, each cartoon took eight people one month to make, and sold for only $750, "with the result," says Walt, "that there was many a week when Roy and I ate one square meal...
Mickey Is Born. After an argument with his financial backer in 1927, Walt was out of business. On a train trip, he thought and thought about a new cartoon character to market. Cats, dogs, cows, horses, pigs, chickens, ducks, apes, elephants and even dinosaurs-they had all been used before. And then, as the train clacked along somewhere between Toluca, Ill. and La Junta, Colo., Walt suddenly remembered Mortimer...
When the train rolled into Los Angeles, the first sketch of the historic rodent was tucked safely in Walt's pocket, and the roughs of his first cartoon, Plane Crazy, were drawn. Plane Crazy, however, was not the first to reach the public. Sound came roaring in just then, and silent pictures silently expired. Walt rushed to New York, recorded sound track for a new Mickey Mouse cartoon called Steamboat Willie, and released it in Manhattan. "It's a wow!" cried one critic after another, and the public came piling in. Man was about to be conquered...