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Early Beginnings
A Creative Voice:
Walt’s love for drawing began at an early age. So naturally, when he entered high school, he joined the staff of the student publication, The Voice. Creatively, he found his own voice by illustrating short stories, drawing cartoons about campus happenings, and taking pictures as a staff photographer.
Laugh-O-gram Films:
Walt was only 20 years old when he launched his first animation studio. Young and inexperienced, he entered into a bad business deal that led his small company into bankruptcy just 18 months later. Walt considered it “a good, hard failure”—a lesson he took to heart and carried with him to Hollywood.
Garage Experiments:
Working for the Kansas City Film Ad Company, Walt felt boxed in with the firm’s bland animation approach. So he borrowed a stop-motion camera from his boss and started testing out ideas. Using the camera tricks he devised, Walt created Newman Laugh-O-grams, a series of animated ads and gags.
Joining the War Effort:
Still a year too young to join the armed forces but eager to enlist, Walt concocted a plan. He had his unsuspecting mother sign a written affidavit verifying his birthdate, December 5, 1901. “She’d just no more than turned her back. Then I picked up the pen and from the [number] one, I made it zero.” At the stroke of a pen, he was 17 and off to France.
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