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...point, Walt himself might agree. He admits that he likes children and animals better than grown-up people. "Some of the most fascinating people I have ever met," he once said, "are animals." He has, understandably, a special feeling for mice. No mousetraps are permitted in his home, and once, when he heard one of his animators call Mickey Mouse a four-letter word, he fired the man on the spot...
Simpers & Innocence. Like many who came up the hard way, Walt is a hard man to work for. "Walt puts up this mild front," says his brother Roy, "but underneath it there's drive, drive, drive." He runs a one-man studio. "When you work here," an employee punned, "you're all Walt in." The studio atmosphere, says a former executive, is one of "compulsory democracy." The lowliest ink-girl calls Walt by his first name. "If we didn't," says one employee, "we'd get fired." Says another: "If you contradict...
...Disney magic, says Salvador Dali, who once worked with Walt for three months, is "innocence in action. He has the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. He still looks at the world with uncontaminated wonder, and with all living things he has a terrific sympathy. It was the most natural thing in the world for him to imagine that mice and squirrels might have feelings just like...
Through his feeling for 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...
...Mouse in School. Walter Elias Disney was born on Dec. 5, 1901 on the North Side of Chicago, the fourth of five children. His father was a small building contractor who argued Debs Socialism all week and on Sunday played fiddle in St. Paul's Congregational Church. When Walt was about six, the family moved to a farm in Marceline, Mo. There, on the day when an old man down the road gave him a dollar for drawing a picture of a horse, Walt decided that he wanted to be "an artist." A few years later, father Disney bought...