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"I came to Hollywood and arrived here in August 1923 with forty dollars in my pocket and a coat and a pair of trousers that didn't match. And one half of my suitcase had my shirts and underwear and things and the other half had my drawing materials. I was a little discouraged with cartoons at that time. I thought I was getting into it too late. In other words, I thought the cartoon business was established in such a way that there was no chance to break into it. So I tried to get a job in Hollywood, working in the picture business so I could learn it. I would have liked to have been a director, [but] before I knew it I had my drawing board out. I started back at the cartoons and I was able to secure a contract for twelve of these short films." -- Walt
"He was always worried, but always enthusiastic. Tomorrow was always gonna answer all his problems." -- Roy
Arriving in Hollywood and finding no openings in the major movie studios, Walt continued to pursue his idea for the Alice Comedies. Soon he had sold the series to a national distributor, and he and his brother Roy established their new animation studio. The Alice Comedies were a modest success and led to the creation of a new character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit -- and then, at the end of the 1920s, the event that would prove to be the turning point for the Walt Disney Studio: the birth of Mickey Mouse. |