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Disney, Inc. "It was always my ambition to own a swell camera," says Walt Disney, "and now, godammit, I got one. I get a kick just watching the boys operate it, and remembering how I used to have to make 'em out of baling wire." The baling wire period in Walt Disney's life lasted from 1901 to 1930. In 1901 Walt was born in Chicago. His father, Elias, was a contractor, who now lives quietly with Walt's mother in Oregon and hears from his famous son about twice a year. The family moved...
Back in Chicago at 16 he studied cartooning in night courses at the Academy of Fine Arts. Walt drifted to Kansas after the War. He sketched cows and plows for farm journals, then set up for himself as a commercial artist. In 1920 he was working for a film slide company, and his ani mated cartoon career was launched with a series based on Kansas City topicalities. The film cost him 30? a foot, sold to three theatres. The average Mickey Mouse or Silly Symphony costs somewhere between $50 and $75 a foot; Snow White, over $200. Walt...
...Walt Disney wears the Hollywood uniform: lounge coats, open-throated shirts, fancy sweaters. His thick, dark brown hair, which dips to a widow's peak slightly less emphatic than Robert Taylor's, has a long top lock which Disney wraps around his finger while he talks. At a loss for words, he often resorts to pantomime. He works until six or seven o'clock every night, in busy times works round the clock. He drives his Packard roadster home to dinner, plays with his baby daughters, Diane Marie and Sharon Mae, and goes to bed. Hollywood hotspots...
...business-the nepotist corporate structure which is another Hollywood characteristic. But neither the corporate structure, nor Mr. Disney's indefatigability, nor the 75 animators, nor the $75,000 camera, nor the $800,000 plant, nor the $2,000,000 gross explain the great Quality X in Walt Disney, Inc., the thing which in the past decade has sent thousands of feet of wonderful little animals and fairybook people dancing out into the world-people and animals whose appeal is so profound and so pervasive that they are loved by literally everybody everywhere...
Perhaps no one is less analytical, or cares less, about Walt Disney's Quality X than Walt Disney himself. He was actually puzzled when pundits discovered social significance in Three Little Pigs. "It was just another story to us," he says, "and we were in there gagging it just like any other picture. After we heard all the shouting, we sat back and tried to analyze what made it good. Then we tried consciously to put some social meaning into The Golden Touch. It ended with King Midas surrounded by his gold, hollering for a hamburger...