![]() ![]() Disney declined, and it resulted in his contract for the Oswald series to not be renewed. Mintz' final deal was for Walt and Roy become his employees. Mintz announced that not only did he want to reduce the fee he paid Disney per short, but that he had most of his main animators, including Harman, Ising, Maxwell, and Freleng under contract. In the following month, Disney went to New York to negotiate a higher fee per short from Mintz. George Winkler, one of the Winkler heads, had been talking with the animators during pick-up runs of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons. In January 1928, Iwerks warned Walt that several of the animators at his studio were signing contracts with Winkler Pictures. Disney had Iwerks design a rabbit character, and when Universal approved the design, their publicity department named it Oswald. In January 1927, Mintz told Disney to create a cartoon character they could sell to Universal Pictures - Universal wanted to re-enter the cartoon business and needed a character of its own. By the time the series ended in 1927, the focus was more on the animated characters, in particular, a cat named Julius who recalled Felix the Cat, rather than the live-action Alice. Lois Hardwick also briefly assumed the role. The Alice Comedies were reasonably successful and featured both Dawn O'Day and Margie Gay as Alice after Virginia Davis' parents pulled her out of the series because of a pay cut. One of the studio's employees, Lillian Bounds, became Walt Disney's wife they married on July 13, 1925. By 1926, the Disney Brothers Studio had its name changed to Walt Disney Studio the name Walt Disney Productions would be adopted in 1929. Virginia Davis, the live-action star of Alice's Wonderland, was sequestered from Kansas, as was Ub Iwerks. Winkler and her fiancé Charles Mintz (via Winkler Pictures). Roy later invited Walt to move to Hollywood, California, and Disney earned enough money for a one-way train ticket to California, leaving his staff behind, but taking the finished reel of Alice's Wonderland with him.Īlice Comedies: Contract and new California studioĭisney set up shop with his brother Roy, started the Disney Brothers Studio in their Uncle Robert's garage, and got a distribution deal with New York City states-rights distributors Margaret J. Two of Disney's brothers, Roy Oliver Disney and Raymond Arnold Disney, were employed as bank tellers in the First National Bank in downtown Kansas City during this time when Walt was developing his Laugh-O-grams, Inc. ![]() After creating one last short, the live-action/animation Alice's Wonderland, the studio declared bankruptcy in July 1923. The shorts were popular in the local Kansas City area, but their costs exceeded their returns. Among his employees were Iwerks, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, Carman Maxwell, and Friz Freleng. In 1921, Disney started Laugh-O-grams, Inc., which produced short cartoons based on popular fairytales and children's stories. The company faltered and Disney and Iwerks soon gained employment at the Kansas City Film Ad Corporation, working on primitive animated advertisements for local movie houses. He stayed in France until 1919.ġ920-1936: Early years in animation Kansas City animation studiosĭisney returned to the USA, moved to Kansas City and, with Ub Iwerks, formed a company called "Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists" in January 1920. He set sail for France in November but when he came, the fighting was over. He left school at the age of sixteen and became a volunteer ambulance driver in The Red Cross during World War I after he changed his birth certificate to show his year of birth as 1900 in order to be able to enlist in The Red Cross. During this time, Disney also enrolled in classes at the Chicago Art Institute. Disney was nine years old at the time.Īccording to the Kansas City Public School District records, Disney began attending the Benton Grammar School in 1911, and graduated on June 8, 1917. The family sold the farm in 1909 and lived in a rented house until 1910 when they moved to Kansas City. ![]() In 1906, his family moved to a farm near Marceline, Missouri. He was named after his father's close friend, Walter Parr, a minister at St. Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Chicago, Illinois to Elias Disney and Flora Call. 3.1 Disney's Folly: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.2.2 Alice Comedies: Contract and new California studio. ![]()
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