Walt Disney
Walt Disney (1901–1966) was an American animator, film producer, and entrepreneur who co-founded the Disney Brothers Studio with his brother Roy in 1923. He is best known for creating Mickey Mouse with Ub Iwerks in 1928, pioneering animated feature films, and building Disneyland. He holds the record for the most Academy Awards won by an individual, with 22 Oscars. The company he founded, now the Walt Disney Company, became one of the world's largest entertainment conglomerates.
“The Slide Co. has so much work at this point in time... they say, hey, you guys seem talented. We don't want to just contract with you. Why don't you come work here full time?”
Source→“In the first Iwerks and Disney partnership and Walt Disney's first business, he was not the main name on the door. At least he was not the first one.”
Source→“Somewhere in Marceline, in prepubescent Walt's mind, a connection is forged between these two great forces, art and commerce. And that would go on to drive not only the rest of his life, but the company, the studio, the movies made change America.”
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