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Walt Disney, 1901-1966
Walt Disney launched his long moviemaking career in 1928 with the animated Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie. It was an instant success and led to many other cartoon shorts. Moreover, it also paved the way for Disney's groundbreaking feature-length cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the first of his many animated classics that eventually included Bambi (1942) and Cinderella (1950). By the 1950s, Disney's name was known to virtually every child in America. At the end of his life he had won more Academy Awards than any other filmmaker.
This photograph of Disney with two of his famous cartoon characters, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, was the work of Edward Steichen, who at the time was chief photographer for Vanity Fair. When the picture appeared in the magazine, it carried a caption that referred to Mickey as "the first and last of the red-hot rodents."
Edward Steichen, 1933 |